This action guide will inform the process of building demand for a new, timely, and modern version of home rule that defines what powers local governments need now to protect and promote the health, safety, economic well-being and democratic voice of their residents.
Read MoreThis guide provides topline messages, best examples, and language do’s and don’ts to keep in mind when talking about HR21, or Principles for Home Rule in the 21st Century. The Principles call for a presumption of local authority and lay out a roadmap for strengthening local self-governance, local competence, and local fiscal stability.
Read MoreThis December 2019 amicus brief in the case ‘State of Florida v. City of Weston, FL” deals with Florida and gun safety preemption.
Read MoreThis white paper captures how defending local democracy now includes a growing focus on recovering lost local authority and summarizes key lessons learned so far in the fight to repeal existing preemption.
Read MoreThis webinar features the results of research about preemption and home rule, published in November 2019.
Read MoreWorking closely with the Local Solutions Support Center, PerryUndem conducted six focus groups with voters in late May-early June 2019 to test messages about preemption and home rule.
Read MoreKim Haddow at Local Solutions Support Center; Desiree Westlund Cindric at United for a New Economy; and Laura Huizar at Local Solutions Support Center and the National Employment Law Center hosted a webinar focused on lessons learned from efforts to repeal preemption laws.
Read MoreIn this white paper, we document how Juul has flooded statehouses with lobbyists to advance T-21 legislation – bills to raise the purchase age of tobacco to 21, but that include poison pill measures preempting local governments from further regulating tobacco products.
Read MoreIn this webinar from September 25, 2019, Ida Eskamani of Organize Florida presents on preemption work during Florida’s 2019 legislative session.
Read MoreLSSC helps to coordinate and create opportunities to counter the increasing state abuse of preemption and working to strengthen local democracies so they have they have the authority they need to protect and promote the health and safety of their residents.
Read MoreThis model ordinance from Local Maryland encourages local governments to pass laws that support healthy families, a clean environment and good jobs.
Read MoreThis webinar, presented August 12, 2019, focuses on messaging research about preemption.
Read MoreYou name it, and preemption can likely touch it. Most states have some form of preemption laws on their books.
Read MoreWhen it comes to their views on government and passing new laws or ordinances, Florida voters tend to take a more positive view of local government than of state government. Full results.
Read MoreA recent statewide survey reveals that Florida voters have a more favorable opinion of local governments, such as City Councils or County Commissions, than they do of the Florida State Legislature and believe local governments are better connected to the community than state government.
Read MoreBetween January and June 2019, state legislatures across the nation continued a troubling trend of passing more laws forbidding or “preempting” local control over a large and growing set of public health, economic, environmental, and social justice policy solutions.
Read MoreThis July 2019 amicus brief in the case ‘City of Austin v. Texas Association of Business’ deals with preemption of Austin’s paid sick leave policy.
Read MoreThis guide provides topline messages, best examples, and language do’s and don’ts to keep in mind when talking about home rule.
Read MoreThe unfortunate result of this burgeoning legislative movement to adopt statue statutes and other punitive preemption measures has been the erosion of local democracy, the stifling of local political innovation, and the undermining of local faith in the democratic process.
Read MoreThis guide provides topline messages, best examples, and language do’s and don’ts to keep in mind when talking about preemption.
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