Sentences with phrase «alec bills»

With electric utilities as his top political donors, Sen. Jordan has dutifully introduced ALEC bills to repeal renewable energy incentives (SB 34), along with other ALEC priorities like redirecting public funds for private schools (SB 88, 2011), and blocking Ohio from contracting unionized companies (SB 89, 2011).

For examples of what ALEC has already been busy with this year, check out PR Watch's roundup of 77 anti-environmental ALEC bills that have popped up in state legislatures in 2013, supporting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline project, rolling back renewable energy incentives and making it illegal to document animal abuse, among other issues.

Their study found that the ALEC bills» likelihood of passing was «strikingly high compared to the dismal rate at which all other bills are enacted into law.»

A plethora of ALEC bills crush wages, limit workers» rights, and privatize key government services.

ALEC bills also allow schools to loosen standards for teachers and administrators, exclude students with physical disabilities and special educational needs, eschew collective bargaining, and experiment with other pet causes like merit pay, single - sex education, school uniforms, and political and religious indoctrination of students.

The bill mirrors the provision of the ALEC bill that call for the providing of «a range of perspectives presented in a balanced manner.»

On the whole, sponsors and co-sponsors from the six states in which the ALEC bill was proposed were recipients of $ 44,409 in campaign money from the oil and gas industry, a miniscule down payment for some of the most lucrative corporations known in the history of mankind.

See our annotated version of the ALEC bill showing how ALEC's language can be used to peddle global warming denial in schools.

More specifically, there appears to be a key industry operative who oversaw development of the ALEC bill.

While this ALEC bill was finalized, ALEC's Private Enterprise board chairman was Mike Morgan of Koch Industries.

It appears that conflicting industry interests are holding up this ALEC bill which attacks a wildly popular government program.

At the end of any given year, the ALEC bill would allow states to bank any extra energy generated from RECs beyond what the RPS law requires and use them to meet RPS targets for the following year.

So far in 2015, versions of the new ALEC bill have already been introduced in Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and South Dakota, Tennessee and Virginia.

The ALEC bill and BHI reports ignore the inevitable costs that will be borne by states because of climate change as well as the co-benefits of taking action to address climate pollution.

The ALEC bill passed as H.B. 368 and S.B. 893, with 70 - 23 and 24 - 8 roll call votes, respectively.

Not exact matches

The bill is based on a model produced by the conservative, corporate - funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

It wasn't until the late 1980s that ALEC shifted its emphasis to drawing up bills that benefit industry.

Note that the bills killed or withdrawn in Utah, Maine and Tennessee were all sponsored by people with ties to ALEC.

Groups like ALEC actually write the laws they want passed, wine and dine (and probably pay outright) to get those bills passed as law.

Resolution in Opposition to a Carbon Tax: Despite support for a carbon tax from ALEC members like ExxonMobil, ALEC is creating a model bill to weigh in on what will become the keystone policy battle for climate change science deniers, a battle that is already creating a rift among conservative groups, like the Koch - funded Heritage Foundation and the Heartland Institute against the R Street Institute.

Common Cause has requested that the IRS investigate ALEC's 501 (c)(3) status for participating in a significant amount of lobbying activity by promulgating corporate - sponsored model bills and providing resources to the legislators promoting those bills.

This has been a long - term agenda item of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the corporate funded bill mill and many State Policy Network «think tanks» and advocacy groups funded by Bradley.

State Representative Robin Vos, the Wisconsin state chair for ALEC, sponsored the bill codifying Walker's radical expansion of online, for - profit schools.

A model bill for the «Parent Trigger Act» and much of school choice and privatization legislation is designed and promoted by the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC, which coordinates with the State Policy Network and has become notorious for promoting «stand your ground» legislation and propagating climate change denial.

Rachel Burgin forgets to remove ALEC boilerplate language from FL bill: https://kstreet607.com/2012/02/03/oops-florida-republican-forgets-to-remove-alec-mission-statement-from-boilerplate-anti-tax-bill/

Currently there are at least five different bills drafted by ALEC that use various approaches to divert public funds to private schools.

According to ALEC, the bill was drafted by Bryan Flood of K12 along with Mickey Revenaugh of Connections Academy, then - Colorado Representative Don Lee (now a lobbyist for K12, see [below]-RRB-, «and the rest of the Subcommittee.»»

Through the ALEC Task Force, K12 has actually had an equal vote with state legislators on so - called «model» bills to divert taxpayer funds away from traditional public schools toward the objectives of ALEC's private sector funders, to help their bottom - lines and / or legislative agenda.

When a new wave of school choice supporters were swept into power at the state level in November 2010, Heartland saw an opportunity to put the Parent Trigger idea on steroids by bringing it to ALEC, the controversial corporate «bill mill.»

«In 2004 when the «model» bill was drafted and approved, both K12 Inc. and Connections Academy were part of the «School Choice Subcommittee of ALEC's Education Task Force, according to an archived version of ALEC's website from February 2005.

The Center for Media and Democracy analyzed the bills ALEC politicians and corporations voted for.

ALEC convenes legislators, corporate lobbyists, and right - wing think tanks to vote as equals, behind closed doors, on «model bills» that benefit ALEC's corporate members, industry funders, and right - wing allies.

The bill was based on an ALEC «model bill,» and the lead sponsor was ALEC member and former State Senator Debbie Lesko.

In 2008, the Show - Me Institute released a «policy study» titled «The Fiscal Effects of a Tuition Tax Credit Program in Missouri,» and that same year, Jones introduced a tuition tax credit bill titled the «Children's Education Freedom Act,» which reflected the ALEC «Great Schools Tax Credit Act.»

While vouchers were initially billed as a social mobility ticket for minority or disadvantaged students, «universal vouchers» for all families — rich and poor — attending both private and religious schools, are now openly the goal of ALEC and most school voucher proponents.

ALEC, is of course the American Legislative Exchange Council, the corporate bill mill providing a library of «model» legislation to right - wing state lawmakers across the land.

For example, Speaker Jones sponsored «parent trigger» legislation in both 2011 and 2012, bills that reflected the ALEC model «Parent Trigger Act.»

Since then, similar bills have been introduced in many states around the country, with language written by the American Legislative Exchange Council, (ALEC), an organization that promotes a right - wing agenda.

Ohio Senator Bill Seitz is a member of ALEC's board of directors who has compared renewable energy standard policies to «Joseph Stalin's five year plan»

In 2014, Ohio Senator Bill Seitz denied that SB 310, which froze the state's clean energy standards through 2016, was influenced by ALEC.

Koch Industries has had a seat on ALEC's «Private Enterprise» board for years, while Koch network entities like Freedom Partners, Americans for Prosperity, and Koch - funded «think tanks» have seats on a number of task forces where they get a vote on bills.

Despite widespread public opposition to the corporate - driven education privatization agenda, at least 172 measures reflecting American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) model bills were introduced in 42 states in 2015, according to an analysis by the Center for Media and Democracy, publishers of ALECexposed.org and PRWatch.org.

The National Rifle Association partnered with ALEC to author gun rights bills.

ALEC has issued «model legislation» or resolutions denying climate change, promoting climate change denial in schools, and supporting offshore drilling, among other bills.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a matchmaking service that connects business interests with conservative lawmakers, drove more than 70 bills in 37 states last year that would have slowed the progress of greentech and clean energy.

This bill mirrors major provisions of the ALEC model bill that say teachers should «provide instruction in critical thinking so that students will be able to fairly and objectively evaluate scientific... controversies,» and mandates that «balanced and objective environmental education materials and programs will... be used.»

In summer 2011, «ALEC Exposed,» a project of the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) **, taught those alarmed about the power that corporations wield in the American political sphere an important lesson: when bills with a similar DNA pop up in various statehouses nationwide, it's no coincidence.

The bill was adopted by ALEC's Natural Resources Task Force, today known as the Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force, at ALEC's Spring Task Force Summit on May 5, 2000 — it was then approved by the full ALEC Board of Directors in June of 2000.

Corporations sit on all nine ALEC task forces and vote with legislators to approve «model» bills... Corporations fund almost all of ALEC's operations.

In Sandy Liddy Bourne's bio on the Heartland website, she boasts that «Under her leadership, 20 percent of ALEC model bills were enacted by one state or more, up from 11 percent.»