Sentences with phrase «legislators model bills»

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«It's what our view of a model bill was, but we're happy to sit with legislators and talk about what the best system would be,» Silver said.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver formally introduced a bill this week that would create a statewide voluntary public matching funds program in New York, calling on fellow legislators to pass the bill and make New York state «the model for the rest of the nation in establishing and preserving fair elections.»

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.

Model legislation is a template for a bill designed by education reformers, business leaders and lobbyists who work with state legislators to promote, sponsor and pass the bill.

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.

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.

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

Corporations sit on all nine ALEC task forces and vote with legislators to approve «model» bills.

This week in Denver, July 19 - 21, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) will welcome Republican state legislators and its corporate funders, including Koch Industries, ExxonMobil, K12 Inc., Peabody Energy, and PhRMA, to vote on corporate legislative priorities and create cookie cutter «model» bills in task force meetings that are still closed to the press.

ALEC is a lobbyists» policy factory, where corporations vote as equals on «model bills» with state legislators.

More than 2,000 state legislators are members, according to the group, with some serving on task forces to help craft model bills.

But many legislators have been tasked with promoting the project by oil industry lobbyists who provide them with model bills, talking points and draft op - eds.

Through ALEC, Duke works with state legislators to distribute anti-environmental model bills across the country that delay policy solutions to climate change, block clean energy, prevent EPA from regulating coal pollution, fasttrack coal mining projects and other dirty energy initiatives.