This law gives the Attorney General investigative and enforcement authority for attorney [and legal paraprofessional] discipline and licensing. It retains the Supreme Court’s role to ultimately adjudicate any such matters. This preserves the separation of powers and provides democratic accountability for this process.
Many states’ civil rights laws are enforced by unelected civil rights commissions that often do not address the violations brought before them. This model legislation focuses on allowing the state attorney general concurrent authority to investigate and enforce state civil rights laws.
This legislation will help the state increase generating capacity to meet increasing demand and to protect the reliability of its electricity grid by requiring each utility to maintain a minimum percentage of dispatchable power.
Numerous state-court lawsuits have been filed by states, cities, and tribal governments against fossil-fuel companies, claiming these companies are responsible for climate-change-related harms. This legislation will protect state sovereignty and the right to engage in lawful fossil fuel related activities within the state.
Electricity demand in the U.S. is rapidly increasing, and the Department of Energy recently estimated that the increased demand will raise the risk of blackouts. If China invades Taiwan, remotely switches off solar panels or batteries, or takes other hostile actions, it could threaten U.S. energy security. This legislation will require applicants before state and local boards to demonstrate that the key parts of the State’s energy infrastructure do not rely on a supply chain that includes China.
This legislation protects the state’s agriculture producers and farmers from being unduly restricted from financial services simply because they cannot adhere to the radical Net Zero agenda.
The world’s largest money managers are targeting specific sectors—including agriculture—to force those sectors to comply with the climate goals established by climate groups. This legislation will help strengthen fiduciary duties for public retirement systems.
Accrediting agencies are increasingly calling for colleges and universities to incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) initiatives into their programs. This legislation will help prevent accrediting agencies from collecting or considering DEI information, requiring DEI policies, or basing any of their accrediting decisions on DEI, when considering the accreditation of public colleges or universities.
An increasing number of occupational licensing boards in other states have incorporated unlawful diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) programming into their requirements for obtaining and maintaining occupational licenses. This law prohibits occupational licensing boards from considering DEI in licensing and credentialing decisions, and prohibits occupational licensing boards from requiring DEI training or commitments to earn or maintain a state-issued occupational license.
State-regulated insurers collect a wide variety of confidential information from their clients. Activists are attempting to force insurance companies to disclose some of that confidential information, including the carbon emissions of their insurance customers, to facilitate pressure campaigns. This bill therefore preserves and protects the right of insurance customers in this state to maintain the confidentiality of such information.
This legislation will require that Governmental entities in the state cannot purchase electric vehicles or their components without a sworn certification from the manufacturer that forced labor and child labor were not used for production.
Recently, businesses and organizations have unlawfully discriminated under the guise of diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”). The U.S. Attorney General called these practices “dangerous, demeaning, and immoral” and not only illegal. States should prevent agencies and subdivisions from funding or engaging in such harmful DEI practices.
Many investors depend on proxy advisory firms to recommend decisions in their financial interests when voting at annual shareholder meetings. This law will ensure that proxy advisors accurately describe their services and disclose to investors and companies when the advisors’ recommendations against management are not based on a written financial analysis.
States rely on the fiduciaries of their public retirement funds to make decisions that will maximize their returns and keep their funds strong. This legislation will require public retirement systems to cast votes in line with fiduciary duties, solely based on pecuniary factors, and for the sole purpose of maximizing shareholder value.
States rely on the fiduciaries of their public retirement funds to make decisions that will maximize their returns and keep their funds strong. This model bill ensures the public has information related to proxy voting by public retirement systems.
This legislation will prohibit state insurance regulators from requiring insurers to collect, disclose, or act on data about an insured’s emissions, protected characteristics, abortion or gender-reassignment policies, presence on a private list of disapproved persons, or donors.
This legislation would require the state public utility commission or corporation commission to approve or deny retirements of power plants, and may not approve retirements unless the utility demonstrates that the retirement would not increase costs or threaten the reliability of the electric grid.
This legislation will require public colleges and universities to evaluate whether their accreditor has used any DEI practice in accreditation in the past five years. If so, they must change to a new accreditor.