Sentences with phrase «model bill»

The group creates model bills, drafted by lobbyists and lawmakers, that in the past have included such things as «stand your ground» gun laws and tighter voter identification rules.

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

First, to refresh, ALEC is the secretive so - called «charity» run and funded by big corporations that subsidize the involvement of conservative state lawmakers, who then push for enactment of model bills written by the corporations who pay them.

ALEC's new model bill calls for updates to net metering policies to create a fixed grid charge designed to «recover grid costs from [Distributed Generation] systems.»

She urged states to «use the power of the purse» to «restore» free speech rights on campus, a popular conservative refrain as they push model bills in Wisconsin and other states to punish political speech and protest on campus.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the source of cookie cutter model bills written by corporate lobbyists and state politicians that appear in state legislatures across the country, named Republican North Carolina state representative Jason Saine its new national chairman late last year.

ALEC writes model bills for state legislators, SPN think tanks provide intellectual cover and legal briefs and Americans for Prosperity provides the illusion of grassroots support.

ALEC, a corporate front group that connects fossil fuel industry executives with legislators to serve industry interests, has also pushed model bills that would mandate teaching climate science denial in public schools.

Of course, ALEC conveniently provides legislators with an off - the - shelf model bill called the Education Savings Account Act.

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.

The Center for Media and Democracy reported that there will be a debate on the ALEC draft model bill to repeal the 17th Amendment, but many other controversial issues will be on the ALEC agenda as the meeting gets underway tomorrow.

These Oregon model bills do not assure our choice.

Senate Democrats, trying to determine what influence ALEC has in New York, say the group claims it has 39 model bills introduced in New York.

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.

The business - backed, conservative American Legislative Exchange Council has crafted model bills similar to the one (SB 1718, HB 1191) now on its way to the Senate floor in Florida; the House approved an identical measure last week along partisan lines.

Over the last three years, 109 corporations — from Ford to Google — have dumped ALEC after the public learned more about this shadowy group, particularly its role pushing national model bills like the «Stand Your Ground» law cited for exonerating Trayvon Martin's killer, along with bills that make it harder for Americans to vote and peddling extreme climate change denial.

The ordinance appears to be a combination of Animal Welfare Act standards particularly for housing and the recently released model bill by the American Veterinary Medical Association for commercial dog breeders.Â

ALEC's corresponding model bill is called «Compact for America: Balanced Budget Amendment.»

[34] The Nation reports that the Kochs have likely given over $ 1 million to ALEC over the years, and many of ALEC's model bills reflect the policies the Kochs have been advocating for decades.

But ALEC didn't pass the solar permitting model bill.

ALEC's new model bill targeting net metering (and distributed energy) may also be the first assault of EEI's long - term strategy to address business competition from distributed energy generation like solar.

It is also a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a bill mill which allows corporations to draft and distribute to state legislators model bills that benefit their own bottom lines.

ALEC facilitated the creation of several model bills intended to trip up the booming clean energy industry.

Some co-sponsors became ALEC members in the lead up to ALEC's late 2011 meeting in Scottsdale, AZ, where the fracking disclosure loophole model bill was finalized by ALEC's Energy, Environmental and Agriculture task force.

Despite continued support for ALEC, Duke Energy explicitly claims to have helped create RES laws in both North Carolina and Ohio, and claims to oppose ALEC's RES repeal model bill.

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.

Todd Wynn writes how «ALEC has been at the forefront of the effort to retain state sovereignty over hydraulic fracturing, and our recently adopted model bill, the Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Disclosure Composition Act, aims to preempt the promulgation of duplicative, burdensome federal regulations from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).»

Mr. Pritikin believes the problem stems mainly from small law firm owners modeling their billing cycle after large law firms.

It's because in an Internet based business model, supported by the business model Bill describes, hit count rules.

ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture task force is drafting new model bills on behalf of its members like Duke Energy, ExxonMobil, Koch Industries and Peabody.

Most states have adopted the AAFCO Model Bill and Model Regulations, which dictate that the pet food labelers / guarantors must comply with this definition in order to display the term «natural» on their pet food.

That compares to model bills in just seven states in support of the hot - button issue of the Keystone XL pipeline, according to figures in the documents.

«They try to undermine the authority of agencies that have the power potentially to control carbon pollution, so whenever there is a new EPA rule that pops up, they re-tool their arsenal of model bills to make sure they are blocking the new rule.»

A new ALEC model bill, adopted in December 2014 and titled «Act Requiring Approval of State Plan to Implement EPA's Carbon Guidelines,» requires that states seek legislative approval for their carbon pollution reduction plan under the Clean Power Plan, and conduct an analysis of the economic impact of any plan to reduce pollution — an effort that mirrors the BHI studies.

«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.

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.

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.

Trigger is among the model bills pushed by the now - notorious American Legislative Exchange Council.

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.