State-By-State Legislative & Regulatory Construction Industry Priorities in 2025
Re-Published With Permission From Construction News and ReviewALASKA
- Support Construction Curriculum (elementary through post-secondary and vocational)
- Address Alaska’s Declining Population Challenges
- Advocate for Sustainable State Budget (prioritize backlog of deferred maintenance projects)
- Oppose Phoenix’s Proposed Heat Mitigation Ordinance (redundant)
- Oppose Prevailing Wage Ordinances (Phoenix and Tucson)
- Support Statewide Transportation Improvement Program FY 2025-2028
- Advocate Against State Executive Order Prohibiting Sale of Internal Combustion Engines by 2035
- Supporting Financing and Procurement Contract Support (to Increase Design-Bid-Build and Public Private Partnership Authorization)
- Opposing OSHA Walkaround Rule
- Advocating for Carpenters’ Efforts to Combat Wage Theft
- Supporting State SB 106 (Protects Construction Firms from Litigious Building Owners)
- Supporting Statewide Effort to Put Shop Classes Back in High School Curriculum
- Advocating for State to Establish Minimum Density Criteria (Land Use)
- Supporting Retainage Reform/Payment Protection (To Prevent GC from Being Able to Withhold from a Subcontractor More than the Amount in Dispute)
- Advocating for Downtown Redevelopment (Georgia Downtown Renaissance Fund)
- Advocating for State Funding/Initiatives to Build 50,000 Housing Units in Hawaii County (Kailua-Kona) by Close of 2025
- Support State’s Largest-Ever Investment in School Facilities Your Respected Industry Voice JULY 2024 11 ($2 billion over next 10 years)
- Support $200 Million to Improve More than 900 Substandard Local Bridges
- Federal Transportation Funding
- Increasing Funding to Local Governments for Road Improvement/Maintenance
- Diversion of State Road Funds (Lobbying Against)
- Increasing State Career & Technical Education Funding
- $3.1 Billion State Budget Deficit
- Support $4.5 Billion State & Federal Funding for Highway Right-of-Way Construction
- Advocating for Increased Career & Technical Education Funding under the Perkins Act
- Opposing State Remodel Tax (1 of 3 U.S. States That Has This)
- Supporting Statewide PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy Financing)
- Support BR III to Restore & Redevelop Mississippi Riverfront in Baton Rouge
- Advocate for $4.74 Billion (state & federal funds) for 2,672 Infrastructure Projects through 2026
- Support Reconstruction of Route 1 Sections Statewide
- Advocate for Funding Solutions (keeping gas tax as major funding source)
- Support Sustainable Sitework Practices for 2025 and Beyond
- Advocate for Increased Safety in Marking & Mapping Underground Utilities
- Support Funding Proposal to Repair/Rehabilitate 87 percent of State Highway Lanes that are Substandard
- Advocate for Electricity Lines and Broadband Connections Statewide
- Advocate for Increase in State Gas Tax
- Prioritize Large Investments in Broadband
- Added Capacity of Interstate 70
- Advocating for Safer, More Efficient Excavation
- Supporting Safer, Simpler St. Louis to Create Uniform Building Code
- Advocating Increased Funding (For Tuition, Books) for Construction Industry Students
- Working to Protect Missouri Historic Preservation Tax Credit
- Supporting Retainage Reform/Payment Protection (To Prevent GC from Being Able to Withhold from a Subcontractor More than the Amount in Dispute)
- Support Efforts to Combat Construction Fraud
- Advocate for $5.6 Billion of Construction Projects via the New Jersey Dept. of Environmental Protection
- Support Nearly $4.2 Billion in Aviation, Tunnels, Bridges, Terminals and Ports
- Workplace Safety – Heat Standard Compliance (OSHA)
- Workforce Development – Legislative Appropriations for Training & Development
- Combatting Climate Change – The Green Amendment
- Economic Development Initiatives – Site Readiness Legislation
- Legal Environment – ThirdParty Litigation Financing
- Navigating Labor Requirements – Paid Family & Medical Leave Proposals
- Changing Industry Perceptions – Enhancing Legislative Engagement
- Advocacy Against Bill to Amend Labor Law (Would Classify Certain Offsite Prefab Work as Public Work for Purpose of Paying Prevailing Wage)
- Acknowledge Ongoing Inflationary Pressures on NYSDOT Capital Plan (Seeking $800 Million More for Core Projects)
- Adopt a Formal 20-Year Needs, Multimodal Assessment Process for NYSDOT
- Oppose All Staged Accidents on Construction Sites (Fraud)
- Oppose State Scaffold Law – Holds Employers/Property Owners Fully Liable for Jobsite Falls (NY is Only State in U.S. Without a Comparative Negligence Standard)
- Supporting Statewide Anti-Indemnification by Requiring Each Party to Take Responsibility for Their Own Negligence
- Supporting Infrastructure, Public Transportation, Roads, Facilities Construction (in preparation for the 2034 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Games in Salt Lake City)
- Advocating Against Further Deterioration of State Gas Tax
- Supporting Efforts to Streamline Strategies for Growing Apprenticeship Program Candidates
- Opposing any Labor Proposal that Affords Striking Workers Access to Unemployment Insurance Payments