Model Policies
Model Policies (page 40)
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Resolution on Federal Medicaid and Welfare Block Grants
Resolution on Federal Medicaid and Welfare Block Grants Summary A Resolution supporting the adoption of Federal Medicaid and Welfare Block Grants which would transfer both the financial authority…
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Environmental Services Public-Private Partnership Act
Summary Provides an arrangement through which government utilizes the private sector to produce goods and services that would otherwise be provided or funded completely by government. Model Legislation Section 1.
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Resolution on Release Time for Union Business
Model Resolution WHEREAS, many public agencies, including school districts, regularly provide release time for union leaders and negotiating team members to conduct union business; and WHEREAS, such time should be recorded…
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Rent Control Preemption Act
Model Policy {Title, enacting clause, etc.} Section 1. This Act may be cited as the Rent Control Preemption Act. Section 2. As used in this Act, “local governmental unit” means…
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The Environmental Buffer Disclosure Act
Summary This Act protects the rights of property owners whose real property contains an environmental buffer zone from the alleged devaluation of adjacent principles. Model Legislation Section 1. {Definitions} (A)…
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Resolution in Support of Insurance Commissioners’ Exclusive State Regulatory Authority Over Variable Life Insurance and Variable Annuities
Resolution in Support of Insurance Commissioners’ Exclusive State Regulatory Authority Over Variable Life Insurance and Variable Annuities Model Resolution WHEREAS, variable life insurance and…
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Act Providing for the Detection and Prevention of Fraud, Waste, Abuse and Improper Payments in State Government
Model Policy {Title, Enacting Clause, etc.} Section 1. {Legislative Findings} (A) Fraud, waste, abuse and improper payments are pervasive, and often on the rise, in many government programs.
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Resolution on Pandemic Flu Preparedness
WHEREAS, Influenza pandemics occurred three times in the previous century, and history and science suggest that the United States and the world will face at least one pandemic in this…
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Resolution on Patient Access to Physical Therapists’ Services Without Current Professional Practice Restrictions Regarding Referral
Resolution on Patient Access to Physical Therapists’ Services Without Current Professional Practice Restrictions Regarding Referral Model Resolution WHEREAS, physical therapy is the care and services…
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Property/Casualty Insurance Form Filing Act
Property/Casualty Insurance Form Filing Act Section 1. {Short Title} This act shall be known as the Property/Casualty Insurance Form Filing Act. Section 2. {Legislative Declaration} This legislature…
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Resolution On Animal Antibiotic Use
WHEREAS, the treatment, prevention and control of animal disease is critically important to the health and welfare of animals and the safety of the food produced; and WHEREAS, the availability…
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Joint and Several Liability Act
Summary ALEC’s model Joint and Several Liability Act provides that each defendant is liable only for damages in direct proportion to that defendant’s fault. The Act also…
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Good Samaritan Drug and Medical Supply Donation Act
Good Samaritan Drug and Medical Supply Donation Act Summary The purpose of this Act is to encourage the donation of medical supplies and drugs by the private sector…
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Resolution to Repeal Special Privileges in Transit
Model Resolution WHEREAS, the nation faces serious problems of urban traffic congestion and air pollution; and WHEREAS, substitution of transit trips by automobile drivers reduces traffic congestion and air pollution;…
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Resolution Opposing Employer-Paid Health Care Mandates
Resolution Opposing Employer-Paid Health Care Mandates Summary A resolution in opposition to recent efforts by some state legislatures to mandate that private employers purchase health insurance for their…
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Civil Rights Act
Model Policy Section 1. {Short Title.} This Act shall be known as the Civil Rights Act. Section 2. {Legislative Declarations.} (A) The civil rights achievements of the 1960’s were designed…
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Resolution Opposing Government Mandated Disclosure of Proprietary, Trade Secret Information
Model Policy WHEREAS, vigorous competition leads to market innovations and increased efficiency in all economic sectors; and WHEREAS, the cost structures which underlie market innovations are carefully guarded as proprietary…
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Affordable Housing Tax Credit Act
Model Policy {Title, enacting clause, etc.} Section 1. The legislature hereby finds and declares that the inadequate supply of sales and rental housing units for persons and families of low…
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Resolution on State Medical Board Sunshine and Patient Protection
WHEREAS, State medical boards (“boards”) exist for the purpose of protecting patients by maintaining the high standards of excellence to which medical professionals in this country are held, and the…
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Medicaid Consumer-Directed Care Act
Medicaid Consumer-Directed Care Act Summary The purpose of this Act is to allow consumers to be in charge of directing their own care. In the existing system, disabled…