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Government Relations and Advocacy

ACCA advocates for policies that support contractors and their customers, ensuring a skilled workforce, technology choice, and sensible regulations that promote quality installation and energy efficiency.

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ACCA's 2025-26 Policy Priorities

Thanks to over 1,100 comments and votes from contractors like you, ACCA's Government Relations Committee has identified five priority issues and 12 specific solutions ripe for federal action in the 119th congress. Please join us in this fight to improve the quality of contractors' lives and the professionalism of the HVACR industry.
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Workforce: Level the playing field for skilled trades

The HVACR industry's critical labor shortage remains contractors' top policy concern. Federal incentives must better support career and technical education alongside traditional university paths.

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Protect fuel and technology choice

Contractors help consumers balance comfort, safety, efficiency, and affordability, but regulators increasingly ban technologies and mandate costly modifications. Policymakers must preserve consumer choice and contractor expertise.

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Promote energy efficiency through Quality Installation

Efficiency incentives should reward quality installation over equipment ratings. With 90% of systems having installation faults that cost 30-50% efficiency, smart tools and ACCA's QI certificates enable policymakers to incentivize realized efficiency.

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Minimize disruption from refrigerant transitions

Contractors and their customers are currently suffering through a chaotic and costly transition to mildly flammable A2L refrigerants and some states are rushing the next transition to highly flammable A3 refrigerants. Congress and EPA should act to provide market certainty and minimize future disruptions.

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State policy: celebrating innovation, countering threats

With new leadership in Washington, many battles over environmental regulations and labor law are shifting to the states. It is not ACCA’s intent to promote a uniform state policy agenda nationwide, but rather to serve as a hub for Allied Contracting Organizations and others to exchange policy solutions and advocacy tactics.

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