Kassoy also discussed some of the noteworthy differences between the Benefit Corporation model legislation and the Delaware law.
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Because it was the first-ever state to pass the law, Maryland used the model legislation created by B Lab.
The amendments are based on model legislation sponsored by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a bipartisan association of conservative state legislators.
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The NCCUSL drafted UCITA as model legislation for all states.
On the other, the model legislation requires that benefit corporations report on their overall social and environmental performance and make them available to the public, using a third-party evaluator.
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Along those lines, the American Legislative Exchange Council, an organization of nearly 2, 000 conservative state legislators, earlier this year adopted model legislation drafted by the American Principles Project that caps pension payouts at the private sector median.
"They are by make and model exempted from the legislation, " she said, adding that the old ban had 375 such exemptions.
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He also hopes the legislation will become a model that can be used by other governments.
Instead the strategy is to roll EPR out in a few states, fine tune those programs so that other states have a model, and then watch the legislation spread, as it has in the case of other products.
That assertion is laid bare as patently dishonest by reading this important passage from the model American Laws for American Courts legislation: Far from denying religious freedom, American Laws for American Courts expressly champions and protects that liberty guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and by state constitutions adopted pursuant to it.
That trust is essential, with or without E-Sign a law so broad it's making companies read between the legislation's lines and model their own approaches.
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Many critics argue that big business has lost its moral compass over the decades, but new legislation in seven states, including California, offers a different model.
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WildAid enlisted the aid of numerous celebrities to celebrate the ground-breaking legislation including my personal favorite, Hawaiian born Kelly Hu (Chinese America actress, fashion model, former Miss Teen USA and former Miss Hawaii USA).
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