ALEC Model Legislation - How Much Is In Your State???

How much ALEC  "model legislation" do you have introduced in your state?

I recently reviewed three reports produced by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) for legislation that was introduced in each state and their report of how many of the bills were enacted in each state.

Some caveats about this list:

• The years I was able to get a hold of were not consecutive years - but this is the total of three recent years.
• Just because your state has a low enactment rate does not mean you shouldn't keep an eye on your legislature for bills being introduced - look at New York for an example - they are number one for introducing ALEC "model legislation" and their numbers are just plain scary!
• Of the top ten states  - New York, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Tennessee, Missouri, Georgia, Hawaii and Mississippi - introduced obscene amounts of ALEC "model legislation" - every year of the three years reported.
• In 2010 ALEC proclaims in their document that 826 pieces of ALEC "model legislation" were introduced - but their numbers only add up to 779 (I ran them 4 times) so there is an error somewhere on their document of 43 pieces of legislation (not reported because they were probably passed at the US Congress - IMHO)

Well folks - here you go... three years of ALEC "corporate focused" legislation in your state.
And as they said on one of the pieces of ALEC literature I used: 

           ALEC public and private sector members,

          serving on ALEC’s nine national Task Forces,

          draft, introduce, debate, and vote on Model Legislation

         throughout the year.

	TOTAL	Total
	Introduced	Enacted
New York	95	1
Florida	91	11
Pennsylvania	87	4
Illinois	85	13
Tennessee	83	6
Missouri	82	9
Oklahoma	78	9
Georgia	75	18
Hawaii	74	6
Mississippi	73	4
South Carolina	72	11
New Jersey	70	1
West Virginia	69	9
California	66	10
Arizona	62	11
Alabama	59	12
Texas	59	9
Minnesota	58	5
Virginia	58	17
Washington	57	11
North Carolina	55	7
Wisconsin	55	3
Kentucky	46	6
Maryland	46	6
Indiana	45	12
Rhode Island	43	5
Michigan	41	4
Iowa	40	7
Connecticut	37	6
Kansas	33	7
Massachusetts	32	0
Ohio	31	5
Louisiana	29	11
Maine	29	5
Utah	27	14
Colorado	24	4
Montana	23	3
Oregon	23	4
Nevada	21	4
New Mexico	21	4
Alaska	20	5
Delaware	17	6
North Dakota	17	8
Arkansas	13	4
Idaho	13	5
Nebraska	13	3
New Hampshire	12	3
Wyoming	11	5
South Dakota	9	5
Vermont	6	1

ALEC members and those affiliated with ALEC in any manner

MUST NOT BE RE-ELECTED.

Without state and federal legislators ALEC will cease to exist and it will implode.

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For more information on ALEC –

Please read this or this or this

or this series of six articles.

To see REAL -  ALEC "model legislation" - visit ALEC Exposed.