Top 15 Issues for Legislatures in 2020

• Abortion
• Climate
  • infrastructure hardening
  • Funding to mitigateclimate-related problems
• Criminal Justice Reform
  • “ban the box” laws and policies that stop job application forms that ask for a yes or no answer about a prior criminal record
• Election Security
  • stop the hackers
• Health Care
  • rural hospital closures
  • pharmaceutical costs/opioid crisis
• Highway Funding
  • gas taxes. repeal of EV credits. how do we pay for underfunded road maintenance?
• Housing
  • Pre-emption by states to limit what a city can do or dictate policy
• Immigration
  • no federal action, means states are clamoring
• Net Neutrality
  • 34 states have introduced net neutrality bills after Trump FCC repeal of net neutrality
• Pensions
  • funding rations, funding ratios, funding ratios
• Pre-emption
  •  block local governments from having single-family zoning regulations in place
  • Zoning regulations impact short term rentals and multifamily housing
• Quelling Recession Fears
  • Whether to spend down state savings accounts
• Redistricting
  • Bonjour, Census
• Vaping
  • 200 municipalities have banned flavored e-cigarettes
• Workforce
  • Minimum Wages
  • Defining Gig Workers as Employees/Independent Contractors

Governing | The Biggest Issues to Watch in 2020