CapitolWest Public Policy Group

Our Current Clients and Issues:

Ada County Highway District

• Transportation and local government issues. Taxes, Bonds, Public Transit.

Associated Logging Contractors of Idaho (ALC)

• Forest resources issues. Trucks: Fuel taxes, Weight, and Safety. Labor: Insurance and Taxes.

Mountain View Hospital

• Maintain existing laws regulating the construction and operation of new hospitals. Oppose Certiicate of Need (CON) regulations.

Idaho Prior Appropriation Doctrine Association (IPADA)

• Water issues: Article 15, section 3 of the Constitution - prior appropriation doctrine.

Swisher International

• Smokeless tobacco issues: Maintain existing Idaho law - ad valorem taxation policy.

Waste Management (WM)

• Environmental stewardship, State tipping fees, and transportation issues: taxes.

Prefix

• Invasive Species issues.

The Pointe

• Deveolopment, Transportation, and related issues.

Western Legislative Forestry Task Force (WLFTF)

We are the executive directors and provide office and staff support in Boise for this organization that is comprised of legislators from five states and two Canadian Provinces. The Task Force deals with:

• Forestry and renewable resource issues in the West
• Healthy forest initiative
• Fire prevention and control issues
• Environmental impact proposals
• Jobs

Wine Institute

• Taxes
• Liquor laws
• Franchise policies
• Interstate and intrastate distributorship shipment of wines.