Federal
•Any Future stimulus funds include significant vertical construction projects. Vertical has been included
•Support continuation of Davis-Bacon in any new federal infrastructure program. Included
•Oppose federal “right-to-work.” No action
Watch: Multiemployer benefit fund reform implementation Has been implemented
Missouri
•The LMC supports reasonable and effective economic development incentives. While the LMC supports ensuring that tax credits and other incentives are cost effective, we want to preserve those tax credits crucial to economic development such as the historic tax credit, tax increment financing and enact an angel tax credit and data center incentives. Historic tax credit improvements passed House, on Senate Perfection Calendar, no final vote; sales tax exemption for expansion of KC nuclear parts complex passed; programs for small businesses passed
•The LMC opposes legislation to impose “right-to-work.” No action
•The LMC supports maintaining and increasing Medicaid eligibility and adequate provide reimbursement.
Implemented
•The LMC supports state funding for a comprehensive transportation plan. Underway
•The LMC supports Prevailing Wage. No changes
•The LMC supports development of a statutory framework for public employee collective bargaining in Missouri to reduce uncertainty for workers and for public employers. Bill to make it public employee bargaining more difficult passed House Committee
•The LMC opposes legislation that discriminates against transgendered persons. Discriminatory bills passed both houses but not reconciled
•The LMC opposes legislation that prohibits employers from requiring workers to be vaccinated (except for
religious and health exemptions). No action
•The LMC opposes changes in unemployment compensation contained in SB 745 and companion House bills that
reduce benefits based on the statewide unemployment rate 745 No Senate vote
•The LMC supports state of Missouri matching funding for the Health Sciences Development District. Approved
•The LMC supports extension of the Federal Reimbursement Allowance for Medicaid Passed
•The LMC supports data-supported initiatives to make the community safer such as Blairs’ Law Passed
•The LMC supports measures to improve access to affordable, quality child care and early childhood education House passed child tax credit, did not pass Senate
•The LMC supports reductions in sales taxes on items essential to workers and families No action
Watch: Unemployment Insurance, Workers Compensation, Utility Rates & Energy Capacity, Education/Kansas City
School District, Prompt Pay and Retainage on Construction Projects, Initiative Petition Process Changes. IP passed
both houses in different forms, no final vote; Education bill passed expanding charter schools and increasing
teacher pay, bills expanding STEM and extending externship programs passed House but no Senate vote; Budget includes funds for many KC-area projects
Kansas
•The LMC supports reasonable and effective economic development incentives. STAR bonds changed passed
•The LMC supports continued funding for the comprehensive transportation plan. Funding retained
•The LMC opposes immigration reform proposals that would put the burden of I-9 verification on contractors for
subcontractors. Verification responsibility should fall only on the direct employer of those workers. No action
•The LMC supports reinstatement of a local option for prevailing wage in Kansas. No axtion
•The LMC supports maintaining and increasing Medicaid eligibility and adequate provider reimbursement.
Medicaid expansion failed
•The LMC opposes legislation that discriminates against transgendered persons. Bills passed, vetoed by Governor
•The LMC opposes legislation that prohibits employers from requiring workers to be vaccinated (except for
religious and health exemptions. No action
•The LMC supports measures to improve access to affordable, quality child care and early childhood education Child care tax credit passed
•The LMC supports reductions in sales taxes on items essential to workers and families) Tax cut bills vetoed, will be considered in a special session
Local
•The LMC opposes elimination of the Kansas City, Mo. city earnings tax until an alternative is in place No action
•The LMC supports prevailing wage on projects with economic development incentives. Passed on new projects
•The LMC Supports Jackson County Question 1 on Truman Sports Complex tax extenstion. Failed
Watch: Possible Kansas City, Mo., Public Safety Sales Tax increase; Energy Codes Energy codes may be revised;
state bill banning local eviction moratoriums passed, but restrictions on local energy codes did not get a final vote