On 25 July, the council issued proposed rules for grant selection and said it would begin accepting proposals from state and federal agencies next month.
A group composed of Republican state lawmakers and corporate executives, the American Legislative Exchange Council, is quietly spreading these proposals from state to state, sending e-mails about the latest efforts as well as suggested legislative language.
It not only ignores Congress's vital mandate, but it breezes past a range of valuable proposals from state and local disaster managers and first responders.
The mandate committee's report does include some policy proposals, including the creation of a new pension tier for public employees and includes dozens of draft proposals from state agencies to eliminate or reduce some costs to municipalities.
Prosecutors instead favor an alternate proposal from State Senator Catharine Young, Republican of Olean, that would eliminate the penetration standard for rape, meaning that only a certain kind of forced genital contact — the placement of the penis to the vulva or vagina — would qualify as rape, while other acts would remain under their existing classifications.
A proposal from state Sen. Steve Glazer (D-Orinda), SCA 9, would exclude rainwater capture systems from property tax reassessments starting in 2019.
After that vote, Boeing said it would seek proposals from other states, though it hasn't named those states.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has to choose among 90 proposals from 24 states, the District of Columbia and Amtrak — $10 billion worth in all.
The documents contain 40 funding proposals from 34 states, providing a blueprint for the conservative agenda in 2014.
The documents – obtained by the Guardian and shared with the Observer – contain 40 funding proposals from 34 states, offering a glimpse of the conservative agenda for 2014.
