NC & SC Legislatures
AGC’s top goal in both North and South Carolina continues to be helping to raise badly needed funding for the infrastructure crisis in both states for transportation, building, and water and sewer needs. Carolinas AGC monitors hundreds of bills each year in the legislatures in both states and we are closely involved with dozens of bills that affect your business.
In North Carolina: CAGC in the 2008 short session of the N.C. General Assembly educated lawmakers about the crisis and how construction could jump start the economy, helping to result in legislators approving about $1.5 billion for wide-ranging construction needs as well as limiting the annual diversion of highway funding to the general fund. CAGC lobbyists Berry Jenkins and Dave Simpson also helped get legislation through to crack down on job-site vandalism, defeat proposed collective bargaining legislation sought by unions, and continued to be involved in improving legislation sought by trial lawyers and unreasonable environmental supporters. In 2009 in North Carolina, look for CAGC to continue to lead efforts in what could be a multi-billion-dollar statewide bond referendum in November.
In South Carolina: your CAGC staff lobbyists Leslie Hope and Sammy Hendrix worked with legislators to give back $1 billion in tax cuts over the last two years through income, property and grocery taxes, SCDOT, and Workers’ Compensation reforms. We also worked to help craft legislation to cut down on copper theft, to offer incentives for installing fire sprinklers in businesses rather than mandating the installation, and on road funding plans that could provide billions to fix roads and bridges in South Carolina. In 2009, the push for road funding will continue along with legislation that will make further legal and workers compensation reforms.
CAGC Legislative Reports
in addition to  weekly government relations reports, your lobbyists also summarize each legislative session.
NC General Assembly
SC Legislature
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