pilot education program. He has also introduced legislation to create an aviation tax credit program for students studying engineering and aviation in the state and want to work in the Kansas aviation industry. The bill passed the state House of Representatives by a vote of 106-18 in March 2019. He has been active in working with state panels focused on unmanned aerial systems and a pilot program granted to the state by the Federal Aviation Administration. During a September 2019 meeting of the Kansas Capitol Preservation Committee he questioned why a new plaque including the names of former governors involved in the Kansas Capitol renovation project did not include former legislative leaders involved in the planning. In 2013, he teamed with Reps. Diana Dierks and Steven C. Johnson to donate 100 gallons of milk to a Salina charity for safe exchange between parents in custody disputes, which was matched by Dillons Supermarkets. He was a member of a legislative task force in 2018 that researched and make a series of recommendations for the next Kansas transportation plan. In 2018 and 2020 Representative Claeys was elected vice chairman of the Kansas Legislature's Joint Committee on State Building Construction and he was elected chairman of the Joint Committee on State Building Construction in 2019. The chairmanship and the vice chairmanship of the building committee alternates annually between the House of Representatives and Senate and the two leaders are elected by the committee rather than being appointed by legislative leaders. His 2018 election as vice chairman came after a nomination by then Republican House Speaker Pro Temp Scott Schwab, now the Kansas Secretary of State, with a second by Democratic state Sen. Laura Kelly, now the Governor of Kansas. Legislative committee assignments Kansas Senate committees 2021-2022 Vice Chairman of Ways and Means Chairman of Governmental Subcommittee Corrections and Public Safety Subcommittee Labor Subcommittee Vice Chairman of Transportation Utilities Assessment and Taxation Joint Committee on State Building Construction Kansas House committees 2019-2020 Chairman of General Government Budget Chairman of the Joint Committee on State Building Construction (2019) Vice Chairman of the Joint Committee on State Building Construction (2020) Appropriations Transportation 2019 Special Committee on Natural Resources Kansas House committees 2017-2018 Chairman of Transportation and Public Safety Budget Vice Chairman of the Joint Committee on State Building Construction (2018) Joint Legislative Transportation Vision Task Force Appropriations Commerce, Labor and Economic Development 2017 Special Committee on