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Last week, two pesticide-related bills supported by NALP and other industry stakeholders sailed through the House Agriculture Committee.Ā The committee passed both bills by voice vote in the first 10 minutes of the Committee meeting, and provided renewed hope that Congress will take much needed action to help ease the current regulatory burdens related to […]
Every year, there is a frenetic level of state legislative activity, and most of it occurs between January and June. This is because a vast majority of state legislatures are part time in nature. Amazingly, despite the relatively short time that they are in session, our nationās state legislators introduce over 150,000 bills annually, and […]
NALP continues to aggressively advocate for the need to address significant problems in the H-2B guest worker program. We understand the crucial need that H-2B serves for many of our members who rely on a dependable seasonal workforce. In January, NALP staff met with over a dozen legislative offices to discuss H-2B and the immediate […]
In December, members of NALPās Public Affairs Advisory Council met on Capitol Hill to finalize the associationās 2017 Public Policy Agenda, which was created from input provided from NALP members at large. The Council also drafted new position statements on a variety of industry issues which will allowĀ professionals and staff to speak in a unified […]
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released their new Certification of Pesticide Applicator rules to the public.The regulation sets the minimum standards for the application of restricted use pesticides in all 50 states.Ā However, nothing prevents states from adopting regulations that are more restrictive than the Federal guidelines.Ā As a result, there is significant variance in […]
Louisiana State University is Currently in First Place in the NALP-PAC Challenge! This football season, weāre providing NALP members with an opportunity to not only advance the interests of landscape professionalsĀ but to support their school of choice with our Alumni Challenge, a head-to-head competition to see which schoolsā alumni and fans can raise the most […]
Laurie Flannigan, of DCLRS, NALP’s government relations firm, boils down the potential impact of the election on our advocacy efforts on behalf of the industry.Ā As you are most certainly aware, as a result of the Nov. 8 election, Donald Trump will be Americaās 45thĀ President and Republicans have retained control of both the House and […]
On October 17, 2016, the Department of Labor Wage & Hour Division (DOL) in partnership with the Small Business Office of Advocacy presented a webinar entitled, āPreparing for the Overtime Final Rule.ā DOL provided a briefing and a Questions & Answers session regarding the agencyās final rule that makes changes to the Fair Labor Standards […]
This Fall, we’re providing NALP members with an opportunity to not only advance the interests of landscape professionalsĀ but to support their school of choice in a football season long head-to-head competition to see which schoolsā alumni and fans can raise the most for NALP-PAC, the National Association of Landscape Professionalās Political Action Committee. As a […]
As a member of the Partnership to Protect Workplace Opportunity, NALP is working with a broad coalition of organizations and other business interest entities to seek a more common sense way to implement the Department of LaborāsĀ (DOL) new overtime rules. Recently, we joined with over 400 other stakeholders to send a letter to Congress […]
