RTO Legislative Activity - APRO's Legislative Conference

APRO’s 2011 Dave Egan Legislative Conference

Attendees to APRO's 2011 Dave Egan Legislative Conference will enjoy springtime in Washington. Rental dealers, employees and industry vendors will be on Capitol Hill May 2-4, 2011, to visit with and educate congressional members about rent-to-own's contribution to the economy and to their customers. 

Attendance to APRO's Legislative Conference is imperative to continue the record-breaking support for rent-to-own's future. The face-to-face meetings in Congressional offices with members and staff who directly handle rent-to-own legislation have been the key to generating support and movement of the industry supported federal legislation - The Consumer Rental Purchase Agreement Act. Currently, H.R. 1744 enjoys the most co-sponsors in rent-to-own's legislative history with 126 co-sponsors. S. 738 has 19 co-sponsors. The majority of these co-sponsors are a direct result of personal time and relationships built by industry members while on Capitol Hill during APRO's  Legislative Conference.

Attendance has also been key to preventing detrimental legislation that has jeopardized rent-to-own's existence for the past decades. President Barak Obama and Congressional leaders have and will continue to address sweeping consumer regulations that could have enormous impact on the RTO business. Attendance to APRO's legislative conference is imperative to ensure rent-to-own's future.

After 17 years of representing the rent-to-own industry before the U.S. Congress, APRO's annual legislative conference is the legislative event of the year. APRO's Legislative Conference is where hundreds of rent-to-own dealers, employees and vendors unite on Capitol Hill to tell the rent-to-own story.

For more information about the APRO Legislative Conference, contact Jeannie Hutchison at 800/204-2776, ext. 108.