"Model legislation" refers to a proposed law or set of rules that is designed to serve as a template or example for other states or countries to use. It suggests a well-crafted, standardized version of a law that can be adopted and adapted by different governments to address similar issues or achieve specific goals.
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on model legislation developed out of best practices from around the country, this law creates a rigorous and accountable process to ensure that only the highest quality charter schools will be authorized.
The organization is
developing model legislation and policy tools to ensure community solar policies follow best practices for all players: consumers, project developers, utilities and grid managers.
The
new model legislation is presented in two versions, one for competitive electricity markets and one for vertically integrated utility markets.
Philip Sutton's draft of
model legislation for a Climate Emergency (Restructuring & Mobilisation) Act is here.
The organization has also created
model legislation with intended loopholes that allow energy companies to withhold names of certain chemicals used during hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
ALEC's Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force, whose members include fossil fuel and utility interests, has
produced model legislation attacking state level clean energy laws and solar net metering policies and distributed those model bills to legislators across the country.
The Heartland Institute, a libertarian think tank skeptical of climate change science, has joined with the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council to
write model legislation aimed at reversing state renewable energy mandates across the country.
The new bill, which has passed through the MEC committee and is headed for ratification in the State House of North Carolina, included a requirement to use the FracFocus website, following the ALEC fracking
model legislation passed in multiple states.
She is supportive of efforts by a conservative, pro-business group known as ALEC, or the American Legislative Exchange Council, to
create model legislation for school vouchers and similar programs for states to pass in their legislatures.
Legislators considering changing their divorce laws should consider the full range of legal options available to them, such as those compiled by Americans for Divorce Reform and posted on their Internet «Divorce Reform Page «69 This site presents arguments for and against the initiatives as well
as model legislation.
The D.C. - based organization has authored model legislation [PDF] that looks a great deal like the local bill.
States around the country, including Texas, Ohio, Missouri and North Carolina are poised to cut back on government support for clean energy jobs
using model legislation from the American Legislative Exchange Council.
In 2013, ALEC
pushed model legislation to repeal renewable energy portfolio standards in over a dozen states, though it failed across the board.
Along with American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), known for its efforts to provide
conservative model legislation to GOP lawmakers across the country, the IJ published a report in 2007 titled ``
The NMBI public forum
discussed model legislation to ban new climate - damaging projects in SA, why that is urgently necessary, and the implications of doing so.
BHI's reports mirror ALEC's
model legislation attacking the Clean Power Plan, which was discussed at fossil fuel - funded events attended by Berman's partners and representatives from coal, oil, gas, and utility companies with a financial interest in blocking the EPA's new regulations.
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A secretive pro-industry think tank's
model legislation helps coal - friendly lawmakers move to undercut federal action.
Kentucky's new law was based on
model legislation advocated by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a conservative, business - backed group based in Virginia.
A coalition of at least 74 investors have filed proposals at 50 companies asking for lobbying reports that include federal and state lobbying payments, payments to trade associations used for lobbying, and payments to any tax - exempt organization that writes and
endorses model legislation.
ALEC (funded in part by the Koch Brothers *) is the organization that brought you draft
model legislation AZ SB 1070 — the controversial anti-immigration measure to check the doc.umentation status of suspected aliens during a «lawful» stop.
Politicians who agree to
file model legislation simply fill in the blank with their name and tailor the identifying state language.
More Information: Further details of Mr. Vaad's deep and substantive ties with ALEC, details of IRS 501 (c)(3) tax fraud charges filed against ALEC by Common Cause and ALEC
model legislation calling for repeal of state Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards (RPS) and the ALEC Market - Power Renewables Act that directly seeks to influence state legislators and public utility commissioners to weaken clean energy regulations can be viewed at the website of: Friends of the Colorado PUC
«As you know, there has been a long - instituted gentleman's agreement among the Article V campaigns supported by ALEC to refrain from publicly attacking each other or otherwise throwing each others» ALEC
model legislation into disrepute.
Q: Given ALEC's emphasis on free markets and subsidies, does the Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force plan to pass
model legislation limiting fossil fuel and nuclear energy subsidies and corporate welfare?
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), allows member corporations to pay to
ghostwrite model legislation and then promote it in states around the country, mostly among right - wing state legislators.
The Guardian published a set of coordinated fundraising proposals from State Policy Network (SPN) members today that confirm many of these groups» intent to change state laws and policies, referring to «
advancing model legislation» and «candidate briefings.»
Many of SB 336's key specifics reflect provisions recommended by the
CCSA model legislation, according to Smithwood.
This Note discusses areas of strength in
current model legislation, namely the Privacy Expectation Afterlife and Choices Act (PEAC), which provides a useful example for states seeking to adopt comprehensive legislation recognizing the intimate and private nature of online property, even after death.
For more on this issue, view the Innocence Project's DNA access fact sheet or
review model legislation on post-conviction DNA access.
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 10, 2018 — The American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) today praised Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Laura Ellsworth for embracing good - government principles by signing ATRA's 2018 Transparency Code pledge and for her promise to support some version of the Transparency in Private Attorney Contracting (TiPAC)
model legislation supported by ATRA.
MBA and ALTA Release Model State Legislation for Remote Online Notarization Jan 12 In late December, MBA and the American Land Title Association (ALTA) collaborated to
prepare model legislation that would provide the basis for any state to adopt a remote online notarization process for real estate finance transactions.
In the latest attempt to rollback pro-clean energy policies, fossil fuel and utility interests operating through the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) are proposing
new model legislation to slow the rise of the clean energy industry by weakening net metering policies.
SPN, as reported in 2013 by DeSmog, was actually created as a message - force - multiplier by and for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), another conservative and corporate - backed group which
produces model legislation that is disseminated to predominantly Republican state legislators nationwide.