 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 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.