Mission Statement:

To promote and enhance a positive business climate for manufacturing and related industries that operate within Arizona.

Guiding Principles:

Ensure Arizona provides a globally competitive environment for the manufacturing sector of the economy that promotes innovation and further investments in research and development by:

• Supporting a taxation system that promotes capital investment and research and development activities, and that keeps manufacturing jobs in Arizona.
• Ensuring energy policies respect Arizona's unique environmental factors, infrastructure, and market conditions, and foster reliable and affordable energy supplies.
• Advocating policies that reduce the cost of employer provided health care and pension plans to prevent rising costs that force quality jobs overseas.
• Ensuring the tort litigation system is fair to manufacturers and does not unnecessarily drive up costs.
• Creating a cost-effective and predictable regulatory environment that facilitates business operations and keeps compliance costs manageable.
• Improving employer access to highly skilled employees by supporting strong accountability measures, innovative management techniques, enhanced academic rigor, and efficient use of resources to improve education throughout Arizona.

Budget and Government Reform Committee's Principles:

1. Support a transparent state budgeting process that is fiscally responsible and maintains dedicated funds for their intended purposes.
2. Ensure one-time budget surplus funds are not used to create new or expanded, on-going government programs.
3. Support a responsive and stable state government that allows the free-market to maximize economic activity throughout the state.
4. Support an election system with a clear citizen initiative process and a fair and transparent campaign finance.

Education & Workforce Development Committee's Principles:

1. Expand employer access to a qualified workforce.
2. Improve education at the Pre-K, K-12, and post-secondary levels so students have the skills necessary for success in the global economy.
3. Develop a school financing system and educational structure that improves learning outcomes in a financially responsible manner.
4. Ensure that the educational system is accountable for student learning and expenditures of taxpayer funds.
5. Support measures that increase competition in the K-12 education marketplace in a way that improves student achievement.
6. Promote lifelong learning, continuing/adult education, and workforce training.

Environment Committee's Principles:

1. Advocate for environmental policies that respond to Arizona's unique needs based on sound science and clear statutory authority, while respecting the rights of the regulated community and not placing undue burden on business.
2. Support the prioritization by federal, state, and local agencies of environmental regulation that is based on sound science and the principles of risk identification, reduction, and management.
3. Oppose new or expanded environmental regulation that is duplicative or inconsistent with existing federal or state regulation or is not cost-effective in achieving the environmental goal.
4. Support environmental regulatory agencies that implement and oversee environmental laws and regulations in a fair, reasonable, and consistent manner.
5. Ensure agency compliance with existing regulatory reform requirements, and support additional regulatory reform policies that provide for full and consistent application of the law and agency accountability.

Health Care Committee's Principles:

1. Ensure statewide access to high quality health care.
2. Develop solutions to reduce the large number of uninsured Arizonans.
3. Decrease government cost-shifting and the incidence of uncompensated and under-compensated care.
4. Champion increased access to complete and accurate information to aid in purchasing and delivery decisions.
5. Support the usage of technology throughout the health care industry.
6. Advocate for a cost-effective and equitable litigation system that encourages medical professionals to practice in Arizona.

Legal, Regulatory, and Financial Services Committee's Principles:

1. Arizona's legal system for settling disputes should be fair and responsive to the needs of civil litigants. Appropriate checks and balances should be assured in the process adopting court rules.
2. The same principles of reasonable and constitutional checks and balances that apply to Arizona's branches of government should apply to state regulatory agencies, including the Arizona Corporation Commission. Regulatory accountability and transparency should help lawmakers and regulators balance the benefits and costs of regulations while protecting the rights of the regulated.
3. The financial services industry should be allowed maximum flexibility to develop innovative products and practices within the marketplace.

Small Business Committee's Guiding Principles:

1. Create a tax climate that makes Arizona a cost-effective and competitive place to run a small business.
2. Minimize regulations so it is easier to start and run a business in Arizona.
3. Support policies that enable small businesses to provide competitive benefits to employees.
4. Ensure that Arizona's educational and workforce development systems prepare workers with the skills employers require.
5. Assure the development of modern infrastructure that keeps pace with population growth and facilitates commerce.

Taxation Committee's Guiding Principles:

Support a taxation system that is globally competitive, fair, consistent, and equitable and that provides revenue on the broadest possible basis at the lowest possible tax rates. The taxation system should encourage capital investment in economic vitality, and improve the quality of life for all Arizonans. To that end, the taxation system should:

• Reduce disparities that unfairly single out business or other non-residential property for disproportionate taxation;
• Reduce income tax rates for business and individuals in order to generate more economic growth and compete with other state and nations; and
• Reduce disparities in the transaction privilege tax system, thereby reducing unnecessary compliance issues and regulations for businesses.

Technology and Economic Development Committee's Guiding Principles:

• Enhance Arizona's global competitiveness as a business location.
• Retain and strengthen the state's existing industries with an emphasis on technology oriented sectors.
• Encourage economic diversification and the growth of emerging sectors such as biotechnology.
• Promote broad awareness of Arizona's economic performance and the importance of key technology sectors to the state's future economic success.
• Position Arizona employers to compete in the global economy by ensuring ready access to a skilled workforce, modern infrastructure, capital, consistent and predictable state budgetary, tax, and regulatory processes, and world-class research and development.

Transportation, Energy, and Infrastructure Committee's Guiding Principles:

1. Assure the development, funding, and implementation of a multi-modal transportation system to support Arizona's growing population and economy.
2. Promote the development and availability of affordable, reliable, secure, safe, and environmentally responsible energy generation and distribution.
3. Advance the development of and access to modern and dependable technology infrastructure.

Water and Natural Resources Committee's Guiding Principles:

1. Highlight the importance of Arizona's water resources to industry, the economy, and the ecology of the state in light of recent years of drought and increasing demand.
2. Promote a vibrant and growing economy while maintaining good stewardship of our water, State Trust Lands, forests, minerals, wildlife, and other natural resources, including vigilant defense of Arizona's rights in the Colorado River.

Workplace and Insurance Committee's Guiding Principles:

1. Maintain and further develop a competitive labor environment that is adaptable to the needs of employers, respectful of the rights of employees, allows employers, to establish their own workplace policies, and enhances the state's economy.
2. Support immigration laws that improve employer access to legal workers, restructure the federal foreign worker system, curtail identity theft, crack down on the cash economy, enable businesses to hire and easily verify workers, and reimburse Arizona's state, county, and local governments and private enterprises for bearing disproportionate financial responsibility for the current federal immigration system.
3. Ensure an affordable, stable, and high quality insurance system.