Democratic Underground - An NPR story I posted a reply about earlier, "Shaping State Laws With Little Scrutiny," has a list

of legislation copying the Arizona immigration law at the end of the article:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130891396

A review of the two dozen states now considering Arizona's immigration law shows many of those pushing similar legislation across the country are ALEC members.

In fact, five of those legislators were in the hotel conference room with the Corrections Corporation of America the day the model bill was written.

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Copycat Legislation

Since Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed SB 1070 into law in April, five state legislators have introduced eight bills similar to it. Like SB 1070, four of them were also named "Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act." Lawmakers in many more states NPR interviewed have said they would introduce or support a similar bill.

State ... Bill No. ... Date Introduced ... Status

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The bill numbers in their list are links to the bills themselves, the text.

I don't know of any similar list for the anti-union bills.

I'd love to have such lists. But the way ALEC keeps non-members from directly accessing model legislation on its website makes it more difficult to compile them. Just using the title of the model legislation isn't enough, since the title can be too generic ("The Voter ID Act") or can be changed. The "Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act" name for the Arizona immigration bill apparently came from Arizona state Sen Russell Pearce, a member of the ALEC task force that drew up their model legislation, but the name of ALEC's model bill is the "No Sanctuary Cities for Illegal Immigrants Act." But they're essentially the same bill, according to everything I've read. The main difference in the bills is that the ALEC bill has harsher penalties for criminal trespassing (no cap on incarceration periods for a first offense, and subsequent offenses are felonies rather than misdemeanors, also meaning longer incarcerations -- and remember, this ALEC bill was co-written by Corrections Corporation of America).

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/6084/corporate_con_game/

However, ALEC likes to boast about its model legislation being adopted, and there is lots of info about its Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act. This press release from ALEC

http://www.emailwire.com/release/53730-Another-step-toward-victory-for-Americans-and-Freedom-of-Choice-in-Health-Care.html

links to this page:

http://www.alec.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=ALEC_s_Freedom_of_Choice_in_Health_Care_Act1&Template=/TaggedPage/TaggedPageDisplay.cfm&TPLID=29&ContentID=13954

The Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act, which was the subject of a front-page New York Times article, has already been filed or prefiled in 38 states�Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Lawmakers in an additional three states�Montana, Texas, and Utah�have publicly announced their intentions to file the legislation.

STATUTORY MEASURES ENACTED: Virginia, Idaho, Arizona, Georgia, Missouri, Louisiana
STATUTORY MEASURES VETOED BY GOVERNOR: Oklahoma, Florida
STATUTORY MEASURES PASSED BY ONE CHAMBER: Tennessee

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS ENACTED: Arizona, Oklahoma
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS PASSED BY ONE CHAMBER: Alabama

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS STRUCK FROM BALLOT: Florida

ACTIVE CITIZEN INITIATIVES: Mississippi

This is the NY Times article mentioned there:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/us/29states.html

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