Office of Rep. Waymaster
TOPEKA — Representative Troy Waymaster, R-Bunker Hill, one of Kansas' top fiscal leaders, will serve as co-chair of a binational, nonpartisan forum of Midwestern legislators that will explore a wide range of issues related to state fiscal conditions and the development and management of state budgets.
The Midwestern Legislative Conference (MLC) Fiscal Affairs Forum will provide members with a forum for the exchange of information, ideas and strategies related to current revenue trends, spending needs and the critical fiscal and budgetary challenges facing states and provinces across the Midwest.
The forum will also address issues related to state tax policy, revenue estimating, budget making procedures and more.
“I am pleased to take on this role, and I look forward to working with my colleagues and counterparts across the Midwest,” said Rep. Waymaster. “States and provinces throughout this region face similar challenges and opportunities on the fiscal front, and there is much that we can learn from each other.”
In his role as co-chair, Waymaster will help guide the work of the forum in its effort to share information and best practices among states and provinces throughout the Midwest.
The committee will meet for the first time this summer during the 78th annual meeting of the Midwestern Legislative Conference, which will be held in Columbus, Ohio on July 21-24.
Waymaster has served as chair of the Kansas House Appropriations Committee since 2017.
All legislators from the following Midwestern states and Canadian provinces are members of the MLC: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Saskatchewan, South Dakota and Wisconsin. In addition, members of the legislative assemblies in three Canadian provinces — Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario — are MLC affiliates.
The Fiscal Affairs Forum is one of seven interstate and binational committees of the MLC, which receives staff support from the Midwestern Office of The Council of State Governments (CSG).
CSG is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that champions excellence in state government by sharing innovative solutions to common problems facing state-level policymakers nationwide.
Waymaster was appointed to serve as committee co-chair by the 2021 chair of the Midwestern Legislative Conference, South Dakota Senate Majority Leader Gary Cammack.
Minnesota Representative Fue Lee will serve as the committee's other co-chair with Co-Vice Chairs, Representative Sarah Anthony, Michigan, and Senator Jerry Cirino, Ohio.