Keyword Tags
- 2013 Annual Meeting
- 2013 SNPS
- Accountability
- Accounting
- Admissibility
- ADR
- Agriculture
- Air Quality
- Alternative Energy Standard
- Alternative Fuels
- Animal
- Appeal Bond
- Article V
- Asbestos
- Bad Faith
- Balanced Budget Amendment
- Biotechnology
- Broadband
- Budget
- Canada
- Carbon Emissions
- Carbon Tax
- Charity
- Charter Schools
- Chemicals
- Child Protection
- Child Safety
- Choice
- Civil Justice Task Force
- Claims
- Class Actions
- Clean Air Act
- Clean Energy Standard
- Clean Water Act
- Climate
- Climate Change
- Coal
- Collateral Source
- Commerce Insurance and Economic Development Task Force
- Commercial Negotiations
- Commercial Spectrum
- Communications and Technology Task Force
- Community Correction
- Community Corrections
- Community Safety
- Comparative Fault
- Competition
- Competitive Bidding
- Competitiveness
- Congress
- Congressional Resolutions
- Consent Decrees
- Conservation
- Constitution
- Constitutional Amendment
- Consumer Banking
- Consumer Protection
- Corrections
- Corrections and Reentry
- Corruption
- Cost Benefit
- Cost-effective
- Criminal Justice
- Curriculum
- Cy Pres
- Debt
- Deregulation
- Digital Learning
- Disclosure
- Distributed Generation
- Dodd-Frank
- Duty of Care
- E-Government
- economic impact
- Economic Liberty
- Education
- Education Congressional Resolutions
- Education Reform
- Education Savings Account
- Education Task Force
- Efficiency
- Electric Grid
- Electric Utilities
- Electricity
- Electronic
- Electronic Records
- Eminent domain
- Emissions
- Employment
- Endangered species
- Energy
- Energy Efficiency
- Energy Environment and Agriculture Task Force
- Environment
- Environmental Audits
- Environmental Buffer Zone
- Environmental Health
- Environmental Literacy
- EPA
- Expert testimony
- Farming
- Federal Communications Commission
- Federal Health Reform
- Federal Trade Commission
- Federalism
- Financial Services
- Forestry
- Forum Shopping
- Fracking
- Free Markets
- Free Trade
- Freedom
- frivolous claims
- Fuel Standards
- Fuels
- Good Samaritan
- Government Procurement
- Governor
- Greenhouse Gas
- Grid Modernization
- Groundwater
- Health and Human Services Task Force
- Health Care Professionals
- Health IT
- Health Savings Account
- High-Risk Pools
- Higher Education
- Hospitals
- Housing
- HSAs
- Hydraulic Fracturing
- immunity
- indemnity
- Industry
- Infectious Diseases
- Infrastructure
- Innovation
- Insurance
- Intellectual Property
- interest rates
- International Relations Task Force
- International Trade
- Internet
- intrastate commerce
- Job Creation
- Joint and Several Liability
- Judges
- Jury
- Justice Performance Project Task Force
- K-12
- Keystone XL
- Labeling
- Laboratories
- Landowner
- Law Enforcement
- Lawsuits
- Lawyers
- Lcfs
- Lead
- Legal Reform
- Lending
- Liability
- Licensure
- Long-Term Care
- Mandated Benefits
- Mandatory Minimums
- Medical Liability Reform
- Mercury
- Mexico
- Military Family Scholarship
- Model Resolutions
- Multistate tax policy
- Municipal Services
- National Security
- Natural Gas
- Natural Resources
- Negligence
- Net Metering
- Network Neutrality
- Non Conveniens
- Noneconomic Damages
- Nuclear
- Occupational Licensing
- Oil
- Online Learning
- Open Enrollment
- Organ Donation
- Overcriminalization
- Overseas Initiatives
- Parent Trigger
- Parental Choice
- Pension reform
- Permit
- Permitting
- Personal Health Decisions
- Personal Information
- Pesticides
- Phantom Damages
- Pharming
- Phishing
- Pipeline
- Pollution
- Pollution Abatement
- Power Plants
- Preemption
- Prescription Drugs
- Pretrial Release
- Price Transparency
- Privacy
- Private Health Insurance Reform
- Private Property
- Privatization
- Procurement
- Product Liability
- Product Misuse
- Property
- Property Rights
- Protective Orders
- Public Attorneys
- Public Health Insurance Reform
- Public Lands
- Public-Private Partnerships
- Punitive Damages
- Recidivism
- Recycling
- Reform
- Regulation
- regulations
- REINS Act
- Renewable energy
- Renewable Energy Mandates
- Renewable Portfolio Standards
- RPS
- School Choice
- School Tax Credit
- Science
- Seat Belt
- Seeds
- Sentencing
- Silica
- Small Business
- Smart Meter
- Software
- Solid Waste
- Spending
- Spyware
- State Compact
- state sovereignty
- Statute of Limitations
- Statute of Repose
- Stem Cell Research
- Student Protection
- Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force
- Tax Credits
- Tax Preparation
- Tax reform
- Taxation
- Teacher Certification
- Teacher Evaluations
- Teacher Quality
- Teachers
- Technology
- TEL
- Telecommunications
- Tenth Amendment
- The Disabled
- Timber
- Tires
- Transparency
- Transportation
- Travel
- Trespasser
- UN
- Utilities
- Victims' Rights
- Video Programming
- Waste
- Water
- Weeds
- Welfare and the Workforce
- Wetlands
- Whistleblower
- Wireless
- Worker Freedom
- Workers' Compensation
- Workers' Rights
- Wrongful Death
- Zoning
- State Internet Tax Freedom Act
August 5, 2013
State Internet Tax Freedom Act Summary The borderless nature of the 21st century economy makes the preemption of certain taxes necessary for a growing economy and sound business environment. The borderless nature also makes Federal legislation the more appropriate vehicle to accomplish the pre-emption. Accordingly the current Federal Internet Tax Freedom Act should continue. This model bill is needed because it forbids either a state or local tax on Internet access, or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce, in those cases where the Federal Internet Tax Freedom Act may not apply. Model Policy {Title, enacting clause, etc.} Section 1. {Short Title.} […]
- Principles on Online Privacy
March 15, 2013
Principles on Online Privacy The American Legislative Exchange Council acknowledges that a market environment is essential for future success of the Internet. The proposed set of policies accounts for new technologies and tools that effectively empower consumers to protect their privacy. A consumer and private-sector-driven approach via self-regulation avoids undue regulatory burden that would threaten a thriving electronic marketplace. The American Legislative Exchange Council recognizes that the Internet has flourished due in large part to the unregulated environment in which it has developed and grown. Self-regulation, industry-driven standards, individual empowerment and a market environment generally promise greater future success than […]
- A Resolution Regarding the Regulation of Broadband Information Services in Innovative and Expanding Competitive Markets
March 15, 2013
A Resolution Regarding the Regulation of Broadband Information Services in Innovative and Expanding Competitive Markets WHEREAS, it is the mission of the American Legislative Exchange Council to advance the Jeffersonian principles of free markets, limited government, federalism and individual liberty, and WHEREAS, broadband information services sector is critical to growing the nation’s economy, enhancing quality of life through new and innovative applications, and enabling greater job creation, and WHEREAS, the rise of private investment in broadband technologies has dramatically transformed the way consumers work, live, learn, and conduct their daily lives, and WHEREAS, ALEC believes that innovation, private investment, and […]
- Advanced Voice Services Availability Act of 2007
March 15, 2013
Advanced Voice Services Availability Act of 2007 Summary The purpose of this legislation is to promote the availability of competitive advanced voice services, such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services, to all consumers and businesses in [state] by establishing a common-sense regulatory framework that promotes choice and competition. Model Legislation Section 1. {Title} This bill may be referred to as the Advanced Voice Services Availability Act of 2007. Section 2. {Purpose} The purpose of this legislation is to promote the availability of competitive advanced voice services, such as Voice over Internet Protocol services, to all consumers and businesses in […]
- Computer Protection Act
March 15, 2013
Computer Protection Act Summary Prohibits a person from using specified protected computers to relay or retransmit commercial electronic mail messages with the intent to deceive or mislead recipients or an electronic mail service provider under specified circumstances; prohibits a person from materially falsifying header information in commercial electronic mail messages under specified circumstances; prohibits a person from registering for electronic mail accounts or domain names under specified circumstances; provides for specified penalties and fines; etc. Model Legislation An Act to amend and reenact [insert appropriate sections] Be it enacted by state of [insert state]: That [insert appropriate sections] are amended […]
- The Pursue and Control Child Predators Act
March 15, 2013
The Pursue and Control Child Predators Act Summary Section 1 requires Internet access providers to make available to subscribers a product or service that controls a child’s use of the Internet. Section 2 requires teaching online safety in the classroom. Section 3 increases post-conviction controls on convicted sex offenders. Section 4 requires sex offenders to register their usernames used on interactive online forums. Section 5 requires online services to preserve and disclose customer information pursuant to law enforcement requests. Section 6 expands child porn reporting obligations. Section 7 criminalizes Internet sexual exploitation. Section 8 criminalizes the luring of a child. […]
- Travel Agent Tax Fairness Act
March 15, 2013
Travel Agent Tax Fairness Act Summary This legislation establishes a sensible framework to eliminate confusion and controversy in the imposition of hotel occupancy taxes on services provided by travel agents and other travel intermediaries. The legislation clarifies that a service which helps travelers to research, compare, and book hotel reservations is not subject to those taxes that are imposed on hotel operators for the provision of a room. By clarifying that taxes imposed as a hotel tax or occupancy tax shall apply only to the amounts received by hotel operators, this legislation will promote continued growth in travel and tourism. […]
- Online Bidding Act
March 15, 2013
Online Bidding Act Summary This Act would allow public agencies to use on-line, electronic bidding as a means of obtaining bids from vendors for the procurement of goods, services, construction and information services. Model Legislation Section 1. {Title} This Act may be cited as the “On-line Bidding Act.” Section 2. {Legislative Findings} The legislature purposes: (A) to provide increased economy in government procurement activities and to maximize to the fullest extent practicable the purchasing values of funds while ensuring that procurements are the most advantageous to public agencies; (B) to foster effective broad-based competition for public procurement within the free […]
- A Resolution on Network Neutrality
March 15, 2013
A Resolution on Network Neutrality WHEREAS, it is the mission of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to advance the Jeffersonian principles of free markets, limited government, federalism and individual liberty, and WHEREAS, ALEC recognizes the unprecedented advances a free and open Internet has fostered across all aspects of end user customers’ lives, and WHEREAS, the exponential growth of the Internet has flourished as a result of both the government’s ‘hand’s off’ approach, ever increasing competition, as well as fierce consumer interest, and WHEREAS, regulation of the Internet may interfere with future investment and innovations benefiting the health and well-being […]
- Resolution Providing Recommendation on UN Internet Oversight
March 15, 2013
Resolution Providing Recommendation on UN Internet Oversight Summary This resolution calls on the US delegation to the United Nations (UN) to stand in opposition to any attempts to permit UN regulation of the Internet. The Internet is currently based on a multi-stakeholder model, allowing input from the public and private sectors. Several countries have advocated for change in the current structure, proposing that the UN or one of its branches establish control over the Internet. Recognizing that the current model of open access has enhanced and encouraged communication, innovation, the flow of information and free speech, any change could threaten […]