Sentences with phrase «draft model state»

ALEC is not only responsible for drafting model state laws attacking renewable energy programs and climate policies, it is also intentionally crafting and supporting Voter ID bills and other legislation designed to suppress people from voting and participating in our democracy.

We also drafted a model state law to help ensure that state - funded universities don't sell their inventions to patent trolls.

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«Since my own son had just sustained a concussion and I was aware that there is a gap in the state laws that protect our youth athletes, I was motivated to draft the bylaw,» Beltz - Jacobson told me in an interview, a bylaw which she modeled on the Brookline bylaw with her own enhancements.

The new Bolivian Constitution does not include one, but according to a working document drafted by indigenous and peasant organizations during the Constitutional Assembly: «The plurinational state is a model of political organization for the decolonization of our nations and peoples, reaffirming, recuperating and strengthening our territorial autonomy».

Following the recommendations of a resolution drafted by its Environmental, Energy and Technology Committee, the Ulster County Legislature approved «Memorializing Resolution» No. 315, which supports state - level bills establishing a customer's right to choose whether or not to accept the current wireless model electricity meters being deployed by Central Hudson.

The proposal would also require the state's Division of Human Rights to draft and publish a model policy on sexual harassment and prevention training.

The Humane Society of the United States, which helped draft the legislation, claimed in a press release that chimpanzees have «historically failed as a research model.»

The draft accountability rules, to be released this summer, will encourage states to identify high - and low - performing teacher preparation programs across all kinds of educational models, not just those based in colleges and universities; urge a transition from current input - based reporting requirements to a focus on more meaningful outcomes; and likely limit program eligibility for TEACH grants — which are available to students who are planning to become teachers in a high - need field in a low - income school — to only effective teacher preparation programs.

Opening Plenary The American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, is known for drafting conservative model educational legislation in states.

The Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act is recognized as the legislative model for other states when drafting similar laws.

ALDF has drafted a Model Law for a Private Right of Action, based on North Carolina's unique provision that, if passed in other states, would greatly reduce the burden on local prosecutors and allow concerned citizens and animal protection groups to stop the tragedy of hoarding in their own communities throughout the country.

These corporate funded gifts paid for Rep. Vaad's travel to ALEC's conferences, where lobbyists draft model legislation in partnership with state legislators.

In March 2009, Michaels, under the auspices of the Cato Institute, circulated a draft advertisement that stated: «Surface temperature changes over the past century have been episodic and modest and there has been no net global warming for over a decade now... The computer models forecasting rapid temperature change abjectly fail to explain recent climate behavior.»

Environmental Justice Australia has drafted model No More Bad Investments (NMBI) legislation (downloadable from this page) which state / territory governments could implement in order to ban new climate - damaging projects.

Dozens of reports, drafted by BHI and released by SPN member think tanks at the state level, promote the agenda contained in the model legislation from ALEC.

After the study, the team drafted model legislation for states to use in order to ban microplastics.

The ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services drafted a resolution urging «each state's highest court, and those of each territory and tribe, be guided by the ABA Model Regulatory Objectives» to help (1) assess the court's existing regulatory framework and (2) identify and implement regulatory innovations related to legal services beyond the traditional regulation of the legal profession.

In January 2016, the Minnesota State Bar Association created the MSBA Alternative Legal Models Task Force who, in December of this year, will report draft recommendations on representation by professionals other than attorneys.

For example, a document management system can not draft a model annotated form, nor can an enterprise search engine produce a state - of - the - market report on trends in venture capital financing terms.

(Here is the draft version of the model rule; the commentary was revised during the ABA debate to leave it to states to decide whether to make public the conditional nature of the admission.)

The pertinent section of the Colorado Revised Statutes (2016), strongly influenced by the language of the Model Penal Code (which never adopted in full by any state but highly influential stylistically in how U.S. criminal codes are drafted) is very typical of the majority rule regarding the defense of others and reads as follows (emphasizing the language relevant to the scenario in the question):

Many states have expressed concerns over the content of these treaties and reacted by drafting new «model agreements», renegotiate existing treaties or even terminate old treaties entirely.

Assists tax - exempt hospital clients in creation of joint ventures between hospital and physicians, including advising on permissible models under federal and state requirements, drafting of operating agreements and management agreements.

Further, in the Report to the House of Delegates containing the proposed model regulatory objectives, the Commission states that the Commission that it released the draft Report for comment only «to all ABA entities, state and local bar associations, and affiliated entities.»

Most states have enacted a version of a model law drafted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC).

These are outlined in the State profile and include the Protocol between the Queensland Government and QIWG, the Statewide Model ILUA, the Native Title Protection Conditions and the Draft Rural Leasehold Land Strategy.

While a senior vice president and regional counsel with CB Richard Ellis Inc., he drafted a model license portability statute that has been adopted by numerous state legislatures.