Advocacy in Action: CLCA Delivers Message in State Capitol
The California Landscape Contractors Association’s advocacy efforts were in full swing April 29-30 for the 2025 CLCA Legislative Action Conference.
Big thanks to our participants who traveled to our state capitol in Sacramento to advocate for our industry. Face-to-face conversations with members of the state Senate and Assembly and their staff are the most impactful way to get CLCA’s message across to those making decisions. The practice of legislators meeting with constituents to discuss issues of concern is one-on-one lobbying at its finest — lobbying at the grassroots level.
Topics included proposed laws impacting CLCA members as employers, landscape water usage, drought preparation, fire prevention, electric equipment mandates with accompanying funding to assist with transitioning to electric equipment, and more. Not only are these meetings interesting, but they are also very effective!
California’s landscape contractors have one of the widest scopes of work of all the states that license landscape contractors. Why? Because of the consistent advocacy work by CLCA’s members, volunteer leaders, staff, and legislative advocate.
In each two-year legislative session over 2,500 bills are introduced for consideration. We read them, flag them and track them as we continue our advocacy for landscape contractors. You can see those bills here.
We are thankful for the CLCA member companies who supported their employees’ interest and effort to be a part of this important event. Their participation was crucial to helping propel our advocacy efforts in 2025.
CLCA on the floor of the California State Assembly. Left to right: Guillaume Lemoine; Legislative Director Megan Rios; President Lindsay Ono and Executive Director Sandra Giarde, CAE.
Face-to-face conversations with members of the state Senate and Assembly and their staff are the most impactful way to get CLCA’s message across to those making decisions.
CLCA members and CLCA’s Legislative Advocate meet with California State Senator Suzette Valladares, R-Santa Clarita.
Back row, L-R: Lou Penning, CLCA President Lindsay Ono and CLCA Legislative Advocate Tom Sheehy. Front row, L-R: CLCA Legislative Director Megan Rios, California State Senator Suzette Valladares and Guillaume Lemoine.
