The Kansas Contractors Association has developed a proactive legislative program with specific goals and action plans to protect and promote the heavy, highway and utility construction industry.

Three registered lobbyists on staff monitor hundreds of pieces of legislation during each session, and staff attends interim committee meetings and makes legislator visitations during the break between sessions.

KCA lobbyists are your eyes and ears at the Statehouse, and they also represent the industry on matters before local units of government, and state agencies regulating the industry.

The association was at the forefront of the passage of the 1989 and 1999 Kansas Comprehensive Highway and Transportation Programs, the largest public works program in the state's history at the time they were approved by the state legislature. Other recent legislative success stories, which involved the association, include:  the passage of a measure requiring a public hearing before city and county governments can enter the paving business; the passage of water stream regulation requiring higher standards for clean water; the passage of the Bid Omission law; doubling the fines in construction work zones; and consistent efforts to retain the funds in the highway  and transportation programs.

The KCA Legislative Committee calls upon constituent members to offer testimony before legislative committees, to give the construction company perspective on how a bill would affect its operation.

Each year the association holds a Legislative Luncheon during the session for legislators and staff, an informal meeting for members to invite and mix with their representatives and senators.