Legislation

Fri October 20, 2017

New York's Scaffold Law Could Needlessly Add $300M to the Cost of the Gateway Rail Tunnel Project

Common Good, the nonpartisan reform coalition, released Oct. 17 an analysis of New York's obsolete, 19th-century Scaffold Law, which finds that it could add $300 million needlessly to the cost of the Gateway Rail Tunnel Project....

Toben Shel-The Associated Press - Tue September 26, 2017

State Has Mixed Feelings About Upheld 'Roadless Rule'

A federal court upheld a rule limiting road construction and logging on national forestland around the country. KTOO.org reported Alaska conservation groups like the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, which opposes expanded logging in the Tongass National Forest, celebrated the ruling Sept....

Emily Buenzle - Mon August 28, 2017

With No Federal Infrastructure Spending Plan, Construction Stocks Drop

Construction stocks are losing money as President Trump's $1 trillion infrastructure spending plans could be pushed back to 2018. Although Trump promised to get the money early is his first year as president, he has now said that he will try to get a bill through Congress at the end of this year, but Bloomberg Markets reported that 2018 is looking more likely....

Emily Buenzle - Fri August 25, 2017

Trump Approves Construction of War on Terror Memorial

President Trump recently signed a bill approving the construction of a Global War on Terror memorial to honor those who sacrificed their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001, Stars and Stripes reported....

Wed August 09, 2017

Connecticut State Rep. Announces $1T National Infrastructure Proposal

On Aug. 8, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) announced the America Wins Act, a $1 trillion proposal to rebuild the nation's crumbling infrastructure and to create millions of jobs for the middle class over the next decade....

Kyle Horan - Thu August 03, 2017

New Tennessee Bill Requires Construction Sites to Post Hours

A new bill in Nashville, Tenn.'s Metro Council is aimed at allowing people living near work sites to know when the works starts, ends and where to complain about a problem. It would require work sites to post hours of operation as well as the phone numbers to the construction company and the Metro Codes Department....

Thu July 27, 2017

Washington State Lawmakers Fail to Pass $4B Construction Budget

Washington State lawmakers adjourned their third overtime session July 19 without passing a new construction budget, the Associated Press reported. Initially, legislative leaders stated that they planned to adjourn earlier in the day after negotiations broke down earlier in the week over a water rights bill, tied to the passage of the two-year capital budget that would have spent more than $4 billion on projects statewide, according to the Associated Press....

Fri July 14, 2017

Senate Bill Would Protect Highway Workers in Construction Zones

The Pennsylvania Senate approved a joint legislative proposal introduced by Sens. David G. Argall and Judy Schwank which aims to curtail the number of accidents and fatalities on state highways due to reckless driving and speeding....

Matthew Daly - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tue February 16, 2016

House Hopes to Remedy VA Construction Debacles

(AP) The House on Feb. 9 approved a bill to increase oversight and management of large construction projects at the Department of Veterans Affairs after a new VA hospital outside Denver tripled original cost estimates....