Committee
Purpose
The purpose of this Committee is to provide strategic direction and oversight for ACEC’s overall advocacy program, and to provide the chairs of our advocacy committees and representatives from the Coalitions with a forum to carry out this role.
2024-25 Goals
- Oversee the effective implementation of the ACEC 2024-2025 legislative agenda.
- Create a “Risk Register” to help identify and track key priorities going forward and threats/obstacles to achieving ACEC’s advocacy goals.
- Work with the Administration and the Congress on implementation of the IIJA and other infrastructure initiatives recently signed into law, secure passage of a new FAA reauthorization bill and WRDA legislation, as well as the appropriations bills for critical infrastructure accounts and other priority programs.
- Secure passage of legislation to waive the 5-year amortization requirement for the R&D tax credit.
- Develop and carry out a strategy to protect key elements of the 2017, such as the 20% tax deduction for passthrough firms, as well as proactive tax policies to support key industry priorities.
- Provide support to the Workforce Committee, including the development and execution of a workforce agenda that includes immigration reforms, STEM education initiatives, better contract terms to attract and keep talent, and other elements.
- Identify and promote adoption of regulatory reform measures to benefit the engineering industry.
- Support the communications department to develop initiatives that build the profile of ACEC and support the organization’s advocacy agenda.
- Carry out an effective international agenda to expand market opportunities abroad.
- As part of ACEC’s Energy Committee, develop and carry out an agenda that addresses industrial and private client markets.
- Achieve PAC fundraising goals and maintain the $1 million fundraising pace; expand the number of PAC donors and new firms donating to the PAC; continue to build out ACEC’s IE Committee.
- Review ACEC Congressional Scorecard for 2023-2024 to ensure that it reflects the key issues affecting the industry and develop a scorecard for Committee approval in the 2024 congressional session.