ALEC pushes model state bills on issues ranging from supporting charter school expansion and right-to-work laws to inhibiting lawsuits over asbestos or drug-testing.
ALEC has for years focused on connecting state lawmakers and its corporate members — a roster that has included dozens of the nation's largest and well-known firms — and maintains a vast library of model state bills for lawmakers to use and modify.
As Mayor de Blasio pointed out in his speech urging the WFP delegates to give Cuomo their votes in return with this agreement, he could not have been elected mayor without the New York City public financing law, which is the model for the state bill.
Last year, the Model Alliance championed the Child Model Act, a New York state bill that extended labor protections that safeguard child performers to models who are under 18.
Late last week, the first state bill to require colleges to adopt an "affirmative consent" model in their sexual assault policies passed the California senate unanimously.
His state bill was $12,418.
2015 also saw the spread of state bills to preempt so-called "sanctuary city" policies, proposals that also have their roots in ALEC model legislation.
It has formed close partnerships with gun makers and business organizations around the country, working to protect manufacturers from liability and introduce model bills in state legislatures.
The move comes after half a dozen major corporations — including Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Intuit and McDonald's — announced they had decided not to renew membership in the group, which drafts "model bills" for state legislators.
In 2000 it solicited the Uniform Law Commission, a nonprofit group that writes model bills for state legislatures, to draft a law codifying its restrictions on interactions between student-athletes and agents—including bans on players accepting payments or gifts, and on their agreeing to sign with an agent before their collegiate careers end.
