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	<title>GCAP &#124; General Contractors Association of Pennsylvania</title>
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		<title>Brief summary of how the recent PA budget effects GCAP issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brief summary of how the recent PA budget effects GCAP issues.]]></description>
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		<title>Mandate Waivers Not Renewed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, the legislature did not act to extend the Education Empowerment Act which included the Mandate Waivers Program. Under the Mandate Waivers initiative, school districts were able to seek relief from Pennsylvania’s archaic Separations Act. Even though the program expired on June 30th, GCAP will keep working with its education and industry partners to find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HB 400 Still in Committee</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GCAP is also monitoring work by the Senate Labor and Industry on HB 400. This legislation is intended to help the Commonwealth identify those bad actors who intentionally misclassify workers as independent contractors to avoid paying taxes, insurance costs and payroll deductions or to hire illegal aliens.]]></description>
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		<title>Progress Continues on SB 601</title>
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		<comments>http://generalcontractorsofpa.org/2010/07/progress-continues-on-sb-601/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SB 601 – legislation authored by Sen. Pat Browne (R-Lehigh) – will protect contractors from being taxed twice for the same work via a business privilege tax. GCAP continues to work on the bill which would prevent double taxation on companies when they have their permanent base of operations in one municipality and a temporary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commonwealth to Invest $600 Million in Capital Improvement Projects</title>
		<link>http://generalcontractorsofpa.org/2010/07/commonwealth-to-invest-600-million-in-capital-improvement-projects/</link>
		<comments>http://generalcontractorsofpa.org/2010/07/commonwealth-to-invest-600-million-in-capital-improvement-projects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Also of “budget” importance to Pennsylvania construction was the agreement to invest $600 million in capital construction and renovation projects through the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Projects program (RACP). As a result of legislation passed in conjunction with budget, funding will be made available for dozens of shovel-ready projects across the Commonwealth as well as future [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Budget Wrap &#8211; well, almost…</title>
		<link>http://generalcontractorsofpa.org/2010/07/budget-wrap-well-almost%e2%80%a6/</link>
		<comments>http://generalcontractorsofpa.org/2010/07/budget-wrap-well-almost%e2%80%a6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For most of the late spring and early summer, the most pressing issue in Harrisburg was passage of an “on-time” state spending plan for Fiscal Year 2010-11. While not without some last minute twists and turns, the Pennsylvania General Assembly presented HB 2279 (the Commonwealth’s 2010-11 General Fund budget) to the Governor on June 30th. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GCAP Meets with Governor’s Office to Argue Against Same Old PLA for SCI Graterford</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 16:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regional Director Walter Palmer, along with GBCA counsel and staff met with the Governor’s Secretary of Legislative Affairs, Colleen Kopp to discuss why GCAP opposes the Commonwealth crafting a PLA for SCI Graterford without having the contractors’ group at the table. Palmer discussed with the Kopp the ways in which GCAP could assist the Commonwealth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GCAP Outlines Success of Single Prime Bidding at A.W. Beattie Career Center</title>
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		<comments>http://generalcontractorsofpa.org/2010/05/gcap-outlines-success-of-single-prime-bidding-at-aw-beattie-career-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 16:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a follow-up to testimony provided before the Senate Education Committee, GCAP sent a letter to the Committee reiterating the extremely positive impact a mandate waiver from the Separations Act continues to have on a major construction project at the A.W. Career Center near Pittsburgh. GCAP confirmed for the Committee that not only did Uhl [...]]]></description>
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		<title>York Rep introduces legislation to extend Mandate Waivers WITHOUT new bidding requirements</title>
		<link>http://generalcontractorsofpa.org/2010/05/york-rep-introduces-legislation-to-extend-mandate-waivers-without-new-bidding-requirements/</link>
		<comments>http://generalcontractorsofpa.org/2010/05/york-rep-introduces-legislation-to-extend-mandate-waivers-without-new-bidding-requirements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 16:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Ron Miller (R-York) has introduced HB 2499 which would extend the Mandate Waivers program without imposing the requirement that a school district bid a project both single prime and multi-prime before receiving a waiver. GCAP is pleased that Rep. Miller is spearheading this legislation and will continue to work with him on it. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House Bill 400 on Hold</title>
		<link>http://generalcontractorsofpa.org/2010/04/house-bill-400-on-hold/</link>
		<comments>http://generalcontractorsofpa.org/2010/04/house-bill-400-on-hold/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent letter by Governor Rendell’s Secretary of Legislative Affairs to the Chairs of the Senate Labor and Industry Committee has put House Bill 400 (Construction Workplace Fraud Act) on hold – at least temporarily.  While the Governor supports efforts to protect workers and employers from those skirt the law when it comes to classifying [...]]]></description>
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