NPCA Member Newsletter January 6, 2017

In This Issue

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

Kenneth D. Henkens- Obituary

SENATE ADVANCES BUDGET RESOLUTION TO REPEAL OBAMACARE

HOUSE PASSES "MIDNIGHT RULES" AND "REINS" BILLS

HAPPENINGS IN THE NEBRASKA LEGISLATURE THIS WEEK

DECEMBER 2016 PMAA SMALL BUSINESS COMMITTEE (SBC) PAC CONTRIBUTIONS

PMAA SBC PAC - OFF TO A GREAT START

FEDERATED INSURANCE SPONSORED WEBINAR

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IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

February 24-25	PACEshow
May 17-19	PMAA Washington Conference & Day on the HIll, click here for info
June 3	GLW Scholarship Golf Outing-York, NE
August 2-3	NPCA Convention & Golf Outing- Lincoln, NE
October 16-17	PMAA Fall Meeting at NACS

Kenneth D. Henkens- Obituary

NPCA is saddened to share the loss of Kenneth D. Henkens (Dec 29, 1929 - Dec 30, 2016). He began a 40-year career with Standard Oil of Indiana in May of 1950. After many promotions and family moves, he enjoyed his job as a Regional District Manager in Omaha, supervising jobbers and dealers in South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska. He served on the South Dakota and the Omaha Oil Men's Club during the 1970s and 1980s, serving as President for both organizations. Ken was involved in his community.

Click here for full obituary

SENATE ADVANCES BUDGET RESOLUTION TO REPEAL OBAMACARE

On Wednesday, the Senate voted mostly along party lines to take the first official step toward repealing President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law. The 51-48 vote was a procedural motion to start debate on a budget resolution that Republicans hope will result in overhauling Obamacare, and came shortly after President Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Mike Pence visited Capitol Hill to rally their respective parties on the issue.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was the only senator to break with his party, joining Democrats in opposing the motion. Sen. Paul did not support the bill because it doesn't balance the underlying budget.

The Senate will now begin 50 hours of debate on the budget measure, which sets up a repeal of much of Obamacare through a separate budget reconciliation bill. Debate on this budget resolution is expected to last several days, after which there will be a "vote-a-rama," when an open-ended number of amendments to the budget resolution will get votes, creating an opportunity for Democrats to further delay the process.

The budget resolution is the first step of two in a process to repeal Obamacare. It instructs Congressional committees to introduce a budget reconciliation bill, which will include language repealing major parts of the law.

HOUSE PASSES "MIDNIGHT RULES" AND "REINS" BILLS

Also on Wednesday, Republicans in the House began the work of overturning the Obama administration's "midnight regulations," which are the regulations issued late within the last year of a President's term. The House first passed the "Midnight Rules Relief Act" by a vote of 238-164, which allows Congress to repeal multiple executive-branch regulations at once; the president must also sign any bill which repeals regulations in this way.

Yesterday, the House followed up by again passing the Regulations from the "Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act," which requires congressional approval for regulations that are expected to have an economic impact of at least $100 million per year.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) plans to introduce a companion bill to the "Midnight Rules Relief Act" in the Senate very soon; however it will face an uphill battle to get the 60 votes necessary to pass. With a 52-48 slim GOP majority, 8 democrats would need to side with the GOP to pass the midnight regulations rule.

HAPPENINGS IN THE NEBRASKA LEGISLATURE THIS WEEK

The 105th Nebraska Legislature, 1st Regular Session commenced on Wednesday of this week marking the beginning of this year's 90-day session. The scheduled date for Sine Die is June 2, 2017.

As with the beginning of every long session a new Speaker was selected. Senator Jim Scheer of Norfolk was elected by his peers to lead the Legislature the next two years.

With the election of Speaker, new committee chairs were elected by the body and committee members appointed through the caucuses. Below is a listing of the Legislature's Standing Committees and their respect chairs and member composition.

2017 LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES AND THE DAYS AND LOCATIONS WHEN AND WHERE THEY MEET

For more information on the Legislatures Committees go to: 2017 Committee List

Committee on Committees Final Report - Standing Committees - Updated 1/5/17

Agriculture (8)

Rm. 2102 - Tuesday

Brasch (C), Albrecht, Blood, Chambers, Halloran, Harr, Krist, Lowe

Appropriations (9)

Rm. 1524 - Monday & Tuesday

Rm. 1003 - Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday

Stinner (C), Bolz, Hilkemann, Kintner, Kuehn, McDonnell, Vargas, Watermeier, Wishart

Banking, Commerce and Insurance (8)

Rm. 1507 - Monday & Tuesday

Lindstrom (C), Baker, Brewer, Craighead, Kolterman, McCollister, Schumacher, Williams

Business and Labor (7)

Rm. 2102 - Monday

Albrecht (C), Chambers, Crawford, Halloran, Hansen, Howard, Lowe

Education (8)

Rm. 1525 - Monday & Tuesday

Groene (C), Ebke, Erdman, Kolowski, Linehan, Morfeld, Pansing Brooks, Walz

General Affairs (8)

Rm. 1510 - Monday

Larson (C), Blood, Brasch, Harr, Krist, Quick, Riepe, Wayne

Government, Military and Veterans Affairs (8)

Rm. 1507 - Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday

Murante (C),Blood, Brewer, Briese, Craighead, Hilgers, Lowe, Wayne

Health and Human Services (7)

Rm. 1510 - Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday

Riepe (C), Crawford, Erdman, Howard, Kolterman, Linehan, Williams

Judiciary (8)

Rm. 1113 - Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday

Ebke (C), Baker, Chambers, Halloran, Hansen, Krist, Morfeld, Pansing Brooks

Natural Resources (8)

Rm. 1525 - Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday

Hughes (C), Albrecht, Bostelman, Geist, Kolowski, McCollister, Quick, Walz

Nebraska Retirement Systems (6)

Rm. 1525 - At call of Chair

Kolterman (C), Bolz, Groene, Kolowski, Lindstrom, Stinner

Revenue (8)

Rm. 1524 - Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday

Smith (C), Brasch, Friesen, Groene, Harr, Larson, Lindstrom, Schumacher

Transportation and Telecommunications (8)

Rm. 1113 - Monday & Tuesday

Friesen (C), Bostelman, Briese, Geist, Hilgers, Hughes, Murante, Smith

Urban Affairs (7)

Rm. 1510 - Tuesday

Wayne (C), Crawford, Hansen, Howard, Larson, Quick, Riepe

Select Committees

Committee on Committees (13)

Craighead (C)

District 1: District 2: District 3:

Kolterman Harr Erdman

Morfeld Hilkemann Friesen

Pansing Brooks Howard Groene

Schumacher Smith (VC) Kuehn

Enrollment and Review (1)

Wishart (C)

Reference (9)

Watermeier (C), Kuehn (VC), Bolz, Chambers, Crawford, Hughes, Larson, McCollister,

Scheer, Stinner (nonvoting ex officio)

Rules (6)

Hilgers (C), Harr, Krist, Kuehn, Schumacher, Scheer (ex officio)

With the recent election and term limits the 2017 Legislature is made up of 17 new lawmakers. The breakdown of the legislature as a whole is: 7 senators returning for their final two years in office do to term limits ( two - 4yr terms), 17 additional returning senators that were elected in 2014 and thus have two years' experience under their belts, 6 incumbents that were up for reelection but are not returning to Lincoln because they we not reelected, making a total of 17 newly elected senators. Said another way, we have 43 (70%) of the 49 legislators with 2 or less years of experience.

With party affiliations for 2017 at 15 - Democrats, 32 - Republicans, 1- Independent, and 1- Libertarian, it will take two non-Democrats to join forces to successfully mount a filibuster and one non-Republican to join forces to end a filibuster, as it takes 33 votes to stop a filibuster and with the 15 Democrats and two others there would only be 32 votes to stop a filibuster, one short. On the other hand, if all 32 Republicans stuck together and gained one vote they could successfully stop any attempt at a filibuster.

A listing of 2017 Senators and their contact information is listed at the end of this Weekly Report.

As with the start of any new Legislature, lawmakers are starting off slow in the introduction of legislative bills, thus far having introduced only 134 bills in the first three days. But don't worry there will be more bills introduced prior to January 18th, the tenth day of the session and final day for bill introduction.

Among the bills yet to come are the budget bills for the next biennium and how to deal with the projected $275 plus million shortfall in the remainder of the current budget, which ends June 30th. The Governor has indicated that he plans to cut $151 million from the current budget over the next six-month period, use $92 million from the cash reserve, and another $22 million from cash funds that are outside the general fund to help cover the current shortfall.

While the current budget may have a "simpler" fix, the budget that will cover the next biennium will not be so easy to craft, as the projections see a shortfall of over $985 million.

The budget issue will be coupled with and complicated by how to provide much needed property tax relief; Medicaid expansion; how to carry out the death penalty, which was repealed by a vote of the people this fall; and how to deal with prison overcrowding, all of which can have a financial impact on the state.

A few of the more noteworthy bills introduced thus far are:

LB44 , a bill that would require those entities outside of the state and selling over the internet to Nebraska customers to collect and remote Nebraska sales/use tax on such sales. Those sellers of such items that exceed $100,000 and make more than 200 sales annually will be required to collect the Nebraska tax or if they refuse they then must notify Nebraska purchasers to file and pay the tax due directly to the state. A failure to do so will result in a $5 penalty for each transaction.

LB48 would provide an income tax adjustment in the case of certain gains on the sale of real estate and provide for a stepped-up basis in computing the tax due.

LB52 would levy a 5.5% state tax on the amount of interest paid debtor on an eligible loan.

2017 NEBRASKA UNICAMERAL LEGISLATURE

(newly elected senators in bold)

Capitol Mailing Address:

Senator ___________

District # State Capitol

PO Box 94604

Lincoln NE 68509-4604

District	Senator			Capitol Phone (402 prefix)	City	Room
1	Watermeier	Dan	dwatermeier@leg.ne.gov	471-2733	Syracuse	2000
2	Kintner	Bill	bkintner@leg.ne.gov	471-2613	Papillion	1000
3	Blood	Carol	cblood@leg.ne.gov	471-2627	Bellevue	1208
4	Hilkemann	Robert	rhilkemann@leg.ne.gov	471-2621	Omaha	1115
5	McDonnell	Mike	mmcdonnell@leg.ne.gov	471-2710	Omaha	1004
6	Craighead	Joni	jcraighead@leg.ne.gov	471-2714	Omaha	1529
7	Vargas	Tony	tvargas@leg.ne.gov	471-2721	Omaha	1115
8	Harr	Burke	bharr@leg.ne.gov	471-2722	Omaha	2010
9	Howard	Sara	showard@leg.ne.gov	471-2723	Omaha	1012
10	Krist	Bob	bkrist@leg.ne.gov	471-2718	Omaha	2108
11	Chambers	Ernie		471-2612	Omaha	1114
12	Riepe	Merv	mriepe@leg.ne.gov	471-2623	Ralston	1528
13	Wayne	Justin	jwayne@leg.ne.gov	471-2727	Omaha	2011
14	Smith	Jim	jsmith@leg.ne.gov	471-2730	Papillion	1110
15	Walz	Lynn	lwalz@leg.ne.gov	471-2625	Scribner	1118
16	Brasch	Lydia	lbrasch@leg.ne.gov	471-2728	Bancroft	1016
17	Albrecht	Joni	jalbrecht@leg.ne.gov	471-2716	Hoskins	1206
18	Lindstrom	Brett	blindstrom@leg.ne.gov	471-2618	Omaha	1202
19	Scheer	Jim	jscheer@leg.ne.gov	471-2929	Norfolk	1401
20	McCollister	John	jmccollister@leg.ne.gov	471-2622	Omaha	1017
21	Hilgers	Mike	mhilgers@leg.ne.gov	471-2673	Malcolm	1015
22	Schumacher	Paul	pschumacher@leg.ne.gov	471-2715	Columbus	1124
23	Bostelman	Bruce	bbostelman@leg.ne.gov	471-2719	Wahoo	1022
24	Kolterman	Mark	mkolterman@leg.ne.gov	471-2756	Seward	2004
25	Geist	Suzanne	sgeist@leg.ne.gov	471-2731	Lincoln	1402
26	Hansen	Matt	mhansen@leg.ne.gov	471-2610	Lincoln	1404
27	Wishart	Anna	awishart@leg.ne.gov	471-2632	Lincoln	2028
28	Pansing	Brooks,	ppansingbrooks@leg.ne.gov	471-2633	Lincoln	1523
29	Bolz	Kate	kbolz@leg.ne.gov	471-2734	Lincoln	1120
30	Baker	Roy	rbaker@leg.ne.gov	471-2620	Lincoln	1522
31	Kolowski	Rick	rkolowski@leg.ne.gov	471-2327	Omaha	1018
32	Ebke	Laura	lebke@leg.ne.gov	471-2711	Crete	1101
33	Halloran	Steve	shalloran@leg.ne.gov	471-2712	Hastings	1103
34	Friesen	Curt	cfriesen@leg.ne.gov	471-2630	Henderson	1403
35	Quick	Dan	dquick@leg.ne.gov	471-2617	Grand Island	1116
36	Williams	Matt	mwilliams@leg.ne.gov	471-2642	Gothenburg	2015
37	Lowe	John	jlowe@leg.ne.gov	471-2726	Kearney	2103
38	Kuehn	John	jkuehn@leg.ne.gov	471-2732	Heartwell	1117
39	Linehan	Lou Ann	llinehan@leg.ne.gov	471-2885	Omaha	2107
40	Larson	Tyson	tlarson@leg.ne.gov	471-2801	O'Neill	1019
41	Briese	Tom	tbriese@leg.ne.gov	471-2631	Cedar Rapids	1107
42	Groene	Mike	mgroene@leg.ne.gov	471-2729	North Platte	1101
43	Brewer	Tom	tbrewer@leg.ne.gov	471-2628	Hyannis	1021
44	Hughes	Dan	dhughes@leg.ne.gov	471-2805	Venango	1117
45	Crawford	Sue	scrawford@leg.ne.gov	471-2615	Bellevue	1212
46	Morfeld	Adam	amorfeld@leg.ne.gov	471-2720	Lincoln	1008
47	Erdman	Steve	serdman@leg.ne.gov	471-2616	Ogallala	1210
48	Stinner	John	jstinner@leg.ne.gov	471-2802	Gering	1406
49	Murante	John	jmurante@leg.ne.gov	471-2725	Gretna	1423

Legislative hearings are scheduled to begin on January 17th and most likely will continue to the end of March. A completing listing of bills introduced and upcoming hearings will be in next week's Weekly Report.

DECEMBER 2016 PMAA SMALL BUSINESS COMMITTEE (SBC) PAC CONTRIBUTIONS

PAC Co-Chairs Brad Bell and Tim Keigher are grateful for the PMAA Small Business Committee (SBC) PAC contributions from the following individuals during the December 1 - 31, 2016 time frame:

Kentucky : John Newcomb Jr., William Newcomb

Louisiana : Justin Alford, Carey Bennett, Anne Gauthier, Jeff King, Louis Saab, Tony Savoie

Michigan : Robert Barrick, Robert Hohn, David Knapp, James O'Connor, Steven Scheweihofer, David Watkins

Mississippi : David Burns, David Craddock, Paul Fisher, Richard Mayers, Mitchell Morris

NEFI : Leslie Cernak

New Jersey : William Bellomo, Eric DeGesero, Stacey Fineburg, Deborah Fineman, Steven Foulk, Scott Majka, Jennifer Pierson, Richard Riggins, John Van Doren, Jan Waddell, William Ward

New Mexico : Ruben Baca

North Carolina : Harold Berry Jr., Thomas Berry, William Black, Rogers Clark Jr., V. Davis Clark Jr., Bill Daughtridge Jr., Lewis Efird, Wendy Fisher, Gary Harris, John Hendley, Hannah Holt, Doug Howey, Harold Kennedy, Judson Pope III, Michael Royster, Jerry Sparks Sr., Ricky Thomas

Oklahoma : Ronald Allford

Oregon : Ron Tyree

PMAA SBC PAC - OFF TO A GREAT START

PMAA provides petroleum marketers across the country a unified, united voice in Washington D.C.

One way that we as members can assist PMAA in carrying out our legislative and regulatory goals is to support the PMAA Small Business Committee PAC (PMAA SBC PAC).

As the data below shows 21 states have meet or exceeded their state goals.

States that have met their 2016 goal:.

Alabama/Bart Fletcher raised $9,390 or 145%.
Arizona/Warren Lueth & Amanda Gray raised $3,525 or 118%.
California/Jimm Cross & Ryan Hanretty raised $10,050 or 106%.
Colorado/Scott Paulson & Grier Bailey raised $3,809 or 100%.
Hawaii/Steve Wetter & Gene Inglesby raised $1,000 or 187%.
Idaho/Brett Adams & Suzanne Budge raised $3,400 or 162%.
Minnesota/Vern Kelley & Kevin Thoma raised $9,380 or 183%.
Missouri/Wayne Baker & Ron Leone raised $11,450 or 228%.
Montana/Kary Tonjum & Ronna Alexander raised $4,120 or185%.
Nebraska/Brian Copsey & Tim Keigher raised $5,150 or 129%.
Nevada/Gregg Benson & Peter Krueger raised $2,595 or 138%.
New Jersey/Larry Ray & Eric DeGesero raised $16,800 or 137%.
New Mexico/Ruben Baca raised $2,128 or 100%.
North Carolina/Doug Howey & Gary Harris raised $11,400 or 110%.
North Dakota/Mike Rud raised $3,800 or 137%.
South Carolina/Michael Fields raised $11,120 or 175%.
Oregon/Ron Tyree & Paul Romain raised $3,530 or 100%.
Utah/Larry Hansen & John Hill raised $2,990 or 120%.
Virginia/Mike O'Connor raised $5,290 or 118%.
Washington/Brad Bell & Lea Wilson raised $6,670 or 214%.
Wyoming/Mike Bailey & Grier Bailey raised $1,900 or 109%.

Congratulations to all who made their goal. PAC co-chairs Brad Bell and Tim Keigher hope that more states will exceed their goals in 2017. In fact, Alabama (123%) and Missouri (239%) have already exceeded their 2017 goals. For more than 14 years in a row, MPCA has exceeded and, for the past 10 years, has more than doubled their annual PMAA SBC PAC goal including:

In 2014, MPCA raised $11,250, or 304% of their annual goal. In 2015, MPCA raised $11,275, or 295% of their annual goal. In 2016, MPCA raised $11,450, or 228% of their annual goal (annual goals increased in 2016 to 21.4% of annual PMAA dues). For 2017, MPCA has thus far raised $11,600, or 243% of their $4763 goal.

Great Job Bart and Ron - you set the bar for the rest of us!

If Brad or Tim can be of any assistance in helping you raise PAC dollars for PMAA, please give them a call. Also consider contacting Bart or Ron as they have successful fundraising formulas. Or contact any of the state executives who met or exceeded their 2016 goal.

Happy New Year to all and lets help PMAA be the best they can be in 2017 by all of us collectively meeting or exceeding our PAC our PAC goal.

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