We've come a long way since then. Mark your calendar now and plan to attend the fall symposium, to help keep the momentum alive. Details on the time and location will be provided in a bulletin to the membership. As has been stated in these pages previously, it is quite clear that to successfully shepherd the geologists' licensure bill through the legislative process, it will be necessary to retain the services of a lobbying organization. As of this writing, we are finalizing our review of the strategic and financial details contained in these proposals.
Contractual offerings vary from an hourly fee to annual retainer or combinations of the two.
It is our intention to have a lobbyist on board and working for us by mid-September. This will allow significant time for research and preparation for the 1998 legislative session which runs from January through July. As we previously reported, the draft licensing bill was submitted to the legislature in March. After some reformatting and general editing, it was submitted to the Assembly's Higher Education Committee. No action was taken on the bill during the legislative session.