Your Business Needs a Voice

Invest in Our Advocacy Fund

The Advocacy Fund educates, informs, and moves the needle on key policy issues that impact the business community. In 2024, the fund is focused on:

• Public Safety
• Housing
• Taxation
• Property Rights​

As the Voice for Business, the Chamber works at Local, State, and Federal Levels to represent your business interests, ensuring that the South Sound remains a desirable place to build and grow business.

This means you can concentrate on running your business while we meet with elected officials, community leaders, and business stakeholders to create and sustain pro-business policy that will provide a favorable climate for your business to succeed.

The Chamber's Legislative Agenda

The vision of the Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber is to make the South Sound the most equitable, inclusive, and thriving place to do business in Washington State. Through this mission, the Chamber will provide businesses in the South Sound strong advocacy efforts in order to protect the rights of business owners, grow business and the economy, increase our private sector workforce, and improve the overall business climate. In this legislative cycle it is critical we have a strong presence by uniting our business community at the state capitol.

Top Legislative Priorities

• Protect the Puget Sound Gateway, Connecting Washington, and Move Ahead Washington transportation packages to help meet our transportation and economic development needs.
• Support legislation focused on growing our manufacturing sector through workforce development and business growth.
• Support policies that encourage innovation, entrepreneurship and foster a thriving business environment.
• Support regulatory and tax code updates to encourage housing construction of all types.
• Improve public safety for our community’s business and their and employees.

See Our Full Legislative Agenda

The Chamber's Advocacy Work

The Manufacturing Industrial Council

The Chamber works closely with the Port of Tacoma and its surrounding industrial businesses so that it will remain one of the South Sound's greatest economic driving forces. ​

​Transportation and Infrastructure
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The Chamber works to ensure a healthy regional economy associated with the development of an effective, efficient transportation system and the resources to sustain it.

​Policy and Regulation

The Chamber advocates on behalf of businesses throughout Pierce County, at the State Legislature, and with Congressional delegates & federal agencies.

​Leveraging our resources and relationships, we are able to take a proactive role in discussions concerning policy decisions and regulations. ​

Member Engagement Opportunities

• Government Affairs Committee
• Legislative Advocacy Day
• Public Officials Holiday Reception
• Washington-to-Washington D.C. Conference

VIEW EVENTS CALENDAR

Additional Resources

Find Your County Council District

Find Your Legislative & Congressional District

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Association of Washington Business

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Contact Info

Advocacy:
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David Schroedel
Executive Vice President, Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber

EMAIL DAVID

Manufacturing Industrial Council:

Ryan Spence
Program Director, Manufacturing Industrial Council

EMAIL RYAN