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State Legislation Resembling ALEC "Models," by State

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South Carolina

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State Legislation Resembling ALEC "Models," by Topic

Environment

The EPA's Regulatory Train Wreck is a campaign of the American Legislative Exchange Council aimed at rolling back and dismantling environmental regulation.[1] If the campaign is successful, it would benefit many of ALEC's corporate members.

Bills and Resolutions Proposed and Passed

A number of states have taken action in favor of ALEC's position on the environment and environmental regulation. ALEC's website lists the following bills and resolutions:[2]


Health Care

ALEC's "Health Care Freedom Act" is a campaign of the American Legislative Exchange Council aimed at outlawing (via state constitutional amendments) a crucial element of the 2010 federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: the requirement that nearly everyone buy insurance or pay a penalty.[4][5] If the campaign is successful, it would benefit many of ALEC's corporate members.

Bills and Resolutions Proposed and Passed

According to ALEC & The Tenth Amendment Center, a group which focuses on legislation blocking the Affordable Care Act, the states with notes below have introduced a version of the "Health Care Freedom Act":[6][7]


According to ALEC, in the following states, legislators have publicly announced their intentions to introduce a version of the "Health Care Freedom Act":[8]

Federal-level legislation resembling ALEC bills

ALEC efforts to influence Federal Legislation

State Legislation Resembling Other Corporate and Lobbyist Wish Lists

Maine

"Confidential administration dossiers show Governor Paul LePage crafted significant portions of his regulatory reform agenda by literally copying and pasting passages from the memos his staff received from corporate lobbyists and their clients, turning swaths of it into little more than a set of giveaways to favored companies. . . . The documents show that . . . :
  • "PRETI FLAHERTY'S ENVIRONMENT DIVISION had the most influence on the Phase I reform agenda, ghostwriting at least 17 of the governor's proposals. These included the notorious proposal to downgrade all the state's environmental laws and regulations to conform with weaker federal standards, as well as initiatives to eliminate the Board of Environmental Protection, impose a six year statute of limitations on all environmental law suits, to require a 'cost-benefit analysis' in all environmental rulemakings, and to weaken the Natural Resources Protection and Site Location of Development Acts, as well as the rules governing storage tanks. Preti and Robinson represent a variety of potentially interested parties, including the Maine Turnpike Authority, Maine Automobile Dealers Association, the Ski Maine Association, PhRMA, Merck, and the Toy Industry Association of America.
  • "The state's largest law firm, PIERCE ATWOOD, wrote the language of at least 11 proposals on behalf of one of their most important clients, the MAINE PULP & PAPER ASSOCIATION. (The firm's distinctive document stamps are on each page of the association's memo to the transition team.) The paper industry was behind the governor's initiative to weaken various air pollution regulations — including lifting licensing and 'best technology' standards for smaller polluters and eliminating sulfur fuel and greenhouse gas standards — and various rules governing the storage and disposal of toxic waste. (Pinza also forwarded a measure to ensure that manufacturers do not have to pay to recycle their consumer products that was written by a thermostat recycling venture jointly owned by General Electric and Honeywell.) Pierce Atwood's other clients include companies and industry associations with potential interests in toxic-waste storage, consumer-products recycling, or air-pollution standards, such as the American Petroleum Institute, the American Chemistry Council, and Poland Spring's parent company, Nestle Waters North America.
  • "One of LePage's most controversial proposals — to 'require that not less than 30%' of Maine's 10 million-acre unorganized territories be 'zoned for development' — was lifted from a memo co-authored by Jay Haynes and Tom Gardner, whose respective families control the H.C. HAYNES and W.T. GARDNER & SONS companies and their associated land holding entities, which have bought and sold entire townships in the North Woods. In addition to their declared interest in their memos to further develop their holdings, the two companies share a lobbyist, RODERICK CARR OF DOYLE & NELSON, who presumably wrote the 29-page draft law to reform LURC that was attached to the memo. In fact, Haynes and Gardner's memo provided the language behind all five of LePage's LURC reforms, including the elimination requirements that aim to avoid sprawl and unneeded construction in the largest contiguous forest in the eastern United States.
  • "Ted Johnston's Fayette-based lobby shop, RESOURCE POLICY GROUP, wrote up at least four other agenda items to help his paying clients. The LAFAYETTE OCEANFRONT RESORT was the intended beneficiary of his proposed rule change exempting certain structures from rules governing construction on sand dunes (it passed) and an initiative to ensure "that the setback for shoreland feeding and roosting area[s] and waterfowl wading habitat" does not exceed 75 feet. (The hotel can now expand.) His other clients — the MAINE AGGREGATE ASSOCIATION and gravel and aggregate miner J.R. CARROLL — were behind LePage's proposal to force the DEP to streamline 'rules regulating the storage of petroleum products in gravel pits and quarries.'"[10]

References

  1. ↑ American Legislative Exchange Council, EPA's Regulatory Trainwreck, organizational website, Accessed July 17, 2011.
  2. ↑ American Legislative Exchange Council, Legislation to Consider, organizational website, Accessed July 17, 2011.
  3. ↑ Indiana State Legislature, House Resolution 13, 2011, accessed July 19, 2011
  4. ↑ Monica Davey, Health Care Overhaul and Mandatory Coverage Stir States’ Rights Claims, New York Times, September 28, 2009
  5. ↑ American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC's Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act: How Your State can Protect Patients' Rights, organizational site, accessed July 27, 2011
  6. ↑ American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC's Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act: How Your State can Protect Patients' Rights, organizational site, accessed July 27, 2011
  7. ↑ Health Care Freedom Act on Google Maps
  8. ↑ American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC's Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act: How Your State can Protect Patients' Rights, organizational site, accessed July 27, 2011
  9. ↑ Zoe Schlanger Water-Regulation-As-Federalism Bill Passes House, Looks A Lot Like ALEC, TPMMuckraker, July 21, 2011
  10. ↑ Colin Woodard, The LePage Files: Confidential administration dossiers show governor is skilled at copying corporate and lobbyist wish lists, Portland Phoenix, July 20, 2011

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