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2024 AGC & HCSS Highway Work Zone Safety Survey
May 23, 2024
  Sixty-four percent of highway contractors report that motor vehicles had crashed into their construction work zones during the past year, putting motorists and workers at risk, according to the results of a new highway work zone study conducted by the Associated General Contractors of… Read More

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Two-Year Budget Deal Passes House, Moves to Senate
Yesterday, the House of Representatives approved by a vote of 266-167, the  Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, a two-year budget deal that will help avert automatic, across-the-board budget cuts in fiscal years 2016 and 2017 through raising government spending levels by about $80 billion annually… Read More
February 4, 2016
OSHA Civil Penalties Increase under Budget Act
The Bipartisan Budget Act removes a statutory exemption from penalties under certain statutes, including the Occupational Safety & Health Act, from inflation for civil penalties. Unlike other similar civil penalties in federal law, the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)… Read More
February 4, 2016
ACA’s Auto-Enrollment Provision Repealed in Budget Act
An AGC-supported provision within the Bipartisan Budget Act repeals the mandatory auto-enrollment of employees in employer-provided health care coverage. The provision originated in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and forced employers with more than 200 full-time employees to automatically enroll a… Read More
February 4, 2016
Transportation Bill Heads to the House Floor Next Week
Extension Through Nov. 20 This week saw significant progress in moving a multi-year highway & transit bill.  Following passage of the Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2015 (STRRA) in the Transportation & Infrastructure Committee last week, the full House is… Read More
February 4, 2016
Congress Gears Up to Consider Career and Technical Education Legislation
This week there was movement in both the House and the Senate towards reauthorizing the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act. The Act is a federal program that distributes more than $1 billion each year to the states to support career and technical education (CTE). The bill was last… Read More
February 4, 2016
House Elects a New Speaker
On Thursday, the House of Representatives elected Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) as the 54th Speaker to replace retiring Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio). During his swearing-in ceremony, Speaker Ryan stated, “Let’s be frank: The House is broken. We are not solving problems. We are adding to them. And I… Read More
February 4, 2016
AGC Responds to OSHA’s Attempt to Overrule Court Decision
On Oct. 28, 2016, AGC submitted comments as part of the Coalition for Workplace Safety in response to the Occupation Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) “Clarification of an Employers Continuing Obligation to Make and Maintain Accurate Records of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses” proposed… Read More
February 4, 2016
AGC Opposes NAVFAC- and GSA-Mandated PLAs
Recently, AGC sent letters opposing the possible use of a project labor agreement (PLA) mandate posted by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southwest (NAVFAC) and the General Services Administration Mid-Atlantic Region (GSA). The letters address the possible use of mandatory PLAs involving… Read More
February 4, 2016
AGC Needs Your Help Targeting Members on Hours of Service Relief
Visit AGC’s Action Center at www.agc.org/TakeAction One of the numerous issues AGC is working on in the highway & transit bill is to provide some relief from hours of service restrictions on construction industry drivers.  For the past 20 years, current law has provided a limited… Read More
February 4, 2016
House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee Schedules Mark Up
House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) announced Wednesday that the committee is scheduled to take up transportation legislation on Thursday, Oct. 22. No details on the proposed measure were released, but the draft bill is expected to be made available tomorrow to… Read More
February 4, 2016

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