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Report of the MCAA Legislative Committee

Words: Lance McCauley

MAC PAC

The MCAA had an extremely successful MAC PAC event at last years annual meeting, the best we have had to date. The PAC raised nearly $50,000. We plan to have another very successful event this year.

Political Education Fund

The committee has had a very successful year so far raising funds for the political education fund. We had a very successful golf outing at mid-year that benefited the PEC. In addition, proceeds from this year’s South 40 event will benefit the PEC. These events should put us on pace to do very well for our PEC in 2017-18.

MCAA Issues

The MCAA has all of our current position papers on the MCAA web-site which can be found at www.masoncontractors.org/positions. Look under legislative and you will find the position papers. An issue which will remain at the forefront is employee misclassification. The MCAA will move to further define and seek enforcement of this rule. The MCAA will look to focus efforts on Workforce Development, Regulatory Reform and Infrastructure Spending in 2018. We are excited to see where the new Administration and Congress have taken us to date and where they will take us in the year ahead. We also will be monitoring and providing input on tax reform issues. Lastly, the committee will be pushing the continued building of relationships with our representatives in order to build our influence in DC.

Silica

The MCAA is still a part of a construction coalition suing the Department of Labor over the new silica rule and expect a ruling on the case in 2018. In addition, the MCAA is working with our coalition to revise and define the rule with OSHA. Negotiations have been ongoing for at least a year to further clarify and define the rule. There is still a lobbying effort being made to push for changes to the rule.

The MCAA’s silica train the trainer course has been very successful in 2017. We have trained well over 1000 trainers at this point and see the class being extended well into 2018 as the rule continues implementation.
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