The Indiana Manufacturers Association (IMA) released its scorecard for the 2013 legislative session of the Indiana General Assembly. The scorecard measures how often individual members of the Indiana House and Senate vote in support of positions advocated by the IMA on select bills.
State Representative Woody Burton is one of 26 House members who received a perfect 100 percent score.
“I was pleased to see that the IMA gave me a perfect score for my support of business-friendly and pro-jobs legislation,” said Rep. Burton. “By focusing on cultivating a climate for job creation we are propelling our state forward.”
Twenty-four House votes were identified this session by the IMA as “priority” legislation. The priority votes of the IMA included those in support of the state budget, establishing the Indiana Career Council to better align the various participants in the state’s career training and job skills development system, and limiting the financial liability of worker’s compensation payments to hospitals.
According to the IMA president and CEO, Patrick J. Kiely; Indiana has the highest share of manufacturing as a percentage of private industry Gross State Product in the U.S. (29.7 percent) and the highest percentage of the workforce employed in manufacturing (16.4 percent).
“Indiana has added 13,000 manufacturing jobs over the past year, which is second in the nation, and has more than quadrupled the national rate of growth,” said Rep. Burton. “I will continue to support pro-jobs legislation in an effort to keep our Hoosier economy growing.”
