Minneapolis DFL Sen. Scott Dibble is sponsoring a bill that aims to make ALEC disclose

The national organization American Legislative Exchange Council has members of the legislature from all 50 states.  ALEC promotes and distributes model legislation that is proposed and written on a national level, not in any individual state.  The bill sponsored in Minneapolis, below, is designed to give the people in the state more control of their legislation and diminish the power of out of state groups promoting and distributing model legislation.  (This bill will not apply to Utah)

2012 Utah Legislators with ALEC Ties

House of Representatives

▪   Rep. Roger Barrus (R-18), ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Member[1]

▪   Rep. Melvin Brown (R-53) [2]

▪   Rep. David Clark (R-74), ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force Member[3]

▪   Rep. Bradley Daw (R-60), ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force Member[4]

▪   Rep. Brad L. Dee (R-11), ALEC Communications and Technology Task Force Member[5]

▪   Rep. Julie Fisher (R-17), ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force Alternate[6]

▪   Rep. Gage Froerer (R-8), ALEC Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force Member [7]

▪   Rep. Keith Grover (R-61), ALEC Education Task Force Member[8]

▪   Rep. Chris N. Herrod (R-62)[9], ALEC State Chairman[10] and International Relations Task Force Member[11]

▪   Rep. Eric K. Hutchings (R-38), ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force[12] Member and guest at the December 2010 meeting of the International Relations Task Force[11]

▪   Rep. Ken Ivory (R-47), ALEC International Relations Task Force Member[13]

▪   Rep. Todd E. Kiser (R-41), ALEC Communications and Technology Task Force Member[14]

▪   Speaker Rebecca Lockhart (R-64), ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Member[15]

▪   Rep. Michael T. Morley (R-66)[9], ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force Member[16]

▪   Rep. Paul Ray (R-13), ALEC Public Safety and Elections Task Force Member [17]

▪   Rep. Dean Sanpei (R-63), ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force Member[18]

▪   Rep. Jennifer M. Seelig (D-23) - Member of ALEC's Public Safety and Elections Task Force [17]Rep. Seelig contacted ALEC to confirm that her membership has lapsed and will not be renewed on April 9, 2012.[19] See Legislators Who Have Cut Ties to ALEC for more.

▪   Rep. Christine Watkins (D-69) - Alternate member of ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force[20] - Rep. Watkins withdrew her ALEC membership publicly on July 16, 2012.[21] See Legislators Who Have Cut Ties to ALEC for more.

▪   Rep. R. Curt Webb (R-5), ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Task Force Alternate[22]

▪   Rep. Ryan Wilcox (R-7), ALEC Communications and Technology Task Force Member[23]

▪   Rep. Carl Wimmer (R-52)[9], ALEC Public Safety and Elections Task Force Member [17]

▪   Rep. Bill Wright (R-69) [24]

Senate

▪   Sen. J. Stuart Adams (R-22), ALEC Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force Member [7]

▪   Sen. Curt Bramble (R-16)[9], ALEC State Chairman[10] and International Relations Task Force and Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force Member[11][7]

▪   Sen. Margaret Dayton (R-15), ALEC Education Task Force Member[25]

▪   Sen. Lyle W. Hillyard (R-25) [26]

▪   Sen. Scott K. Jenkins (R-20)

▪   Sen. Peter Knudson (R-17), ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force Member[27]

▪   Sen. Daniel Liljenquist (R-23), ALEC Health and Human Services Task Force member[28] and Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force Alternate[29]

▪   Sen. Mark B. Madsen (R-13), ALEC International Relations Task Force Member[30]

▪   Sen. Wayne Niederhauser (R-9)[9], ALEC State Chairman [10] and Tax and Fiscal Policy Task Force[31] and International Relations Task Force[11]

▪   Sen. Ralph Okerlund (R-24),[32] ALEC Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force Member[33]

▪   Sen. Stuart C. Reid (R-18), ALEC Commerce, Insurance and Economic Development Member[34]

▪   Sen. Howard A. Stephenson (R-11), ALEC Education Task Force Member[35]

▪   Sen. Stephen H. Urquhart (R-29), ALEC Civil Justice Task Force Member[36]

▪   Senate President Michael G. Waddoups (R-6), ALECCivil Justice Task Force Member[37]

 2012 Sourcewatch.org

"In a measure aimed at making the American Legislative Exchange Council reveal more, DFL senators on Monday proposed  expanding who is a lobbyist and what lobbyists need to disclose.

If the measure became law, anyone who promotes or distributes model legislation would be required to register as a lobbyist. Under the measure, lobbyists and lawmakers would have to disclose any scholarship funds they get to attend events or meetings.

"It is aimed at ALEC," said Minneapolis DFL Sen. Scott Dibble, the bill sponsor. "ALEC is a very strong influential entity."

The measure would also apply to other national groups that push model legislation, that is, bills that are proposed and written outside of Minnesota and then tailored to the state. Dibble said a coalition of lawmakers interested in environmental issues would also be forced to disclose more information in the bill became law.

Conservative and business-funded ALEC works with Republican lawmakers to craft measures for them to introduce in their states. For the last two years, when the GOP was in charge of the Legislature, Republicans introduced several measures that mimicked bills that ALEC had proposed.

Republicans have said there is nothing unusual or wrong about participating and gaining ideas from like-minded national groups but their proposals were based on what they believe is best for Minnesota."

Startribune.com. Jan. 14, 2013.