To end our busy day inside the State Capitol, we visited with State Representatives Charlie Meier, Terry, Bryant, and Dave Severin, in Charlie’s office. After the long and successful day, everyone headed to the HBAI Lobby Day Reception. State Senator Paul Schimpf stopped by and listened to our concerns about bill HB382 that prohibits home rule municipalities from collecting a real estate transfer tax on homes for which an impact fee has been assessed and collected. While enjoying the reception, we conversed about bill HB504 that mandates a restrictive scheduling policy that arbitrarily imposes a “one-size-fits” all scheduling mandate on all industries that reduces flexibility for employees. Restrictive scheduling ignores the business location and makes it impossible for employees and employers to adapt to change. We expressed our opposition to this bill. To end the reception we had a group discussion with State Representative Natalie Finnie, our Effingham members and HBA member Kyle Finnie (Rosecreek Lumber), caught up with us for the group picture. BIG ABOUT BOND! We discussed bill HB4531, regarding reversal of Authority for Public Construction Bonds removing the option of Cash Bonds was defeated with 62 NO votes, 45 YES votes and 4 not voting. ALL of our local Republican & Democrat Representatives voted in opposition to this bill because of our efforts at Lobby Day! 6
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