This document provides a summary of local authority and preemption in Arizona. It can inform advocates’ efforts to adopt new policies at the city or county level.
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This document provides a summary of local authority and preemption in Iowa. It can inform advocates’ efforts to adopt new policies at the city or county level.
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This document provides a summary of local authority and preemption in Florida. It can inform advocates’ efforts to adopt new policies at the city or county level.
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This document provides a summary of local authority and preemption in Arizona. It can inform advocates’ efforts to adopt new policies at the city or county level.
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In the wake of recent demonstrations against racist police and vigilante violence against Black communities, we will likely see increased legislative attacks on protestors.
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Preemption of municipal broadband is complicated – even states that have a concise statute to bar telecommunications services are complicated by questions about whether the definition of such services includes broadband. NOTE: This resource was updated in August 2020 and may be out-of-date.
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This model resolution is geared towards helping local officials and advocates push their legislature and governor to clarify local authority pertaining to key policies around housing, worker protection, and broadband access.
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On February 27, 2020, staff from the Local Solution Support Center and Fordham Law hosted a webinar focused on home rule and discussed findings from the new report, Principles of Home Rule for the 21st Century.
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This groundbreaking new framework lays out a vision for rebalancing state and local relations, and provides model constitutional language to encourage legal reform.
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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.
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This 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.
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In 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.
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Between 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.
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The 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.
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All preemption laws are in tension with local democracy, but punitive preemption is especially threatening. Many state preemption laws are vague around the edges; some may violate the state’s constitution or legal doctrines.
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