The Local Solutions Support Center’s (LSSC) report explores 2021 legislative activity in more detail. Overall in the session, LSSC tracked over 400 preemption bills – more than two times the number of bills tracked during the 2019 session.
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This report reveals how the growing abuse of preemption over the last decade forced many municipalities to start from behind when responding to the pandemic, and highlights the issue areas advocates are preparing to defend from state interference in the months ahead.
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We examine the use and merits of the patchwork argument across 10 policy areas and review the evidence around the patchwork argument’s merits.
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This resource takes a look at how states and cities responded to the pandemic.
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14 authors were tasked with working as advocate-researcher co-authors to produce short articles highlighting recent research findings, emerging issues, and data and research needs across seven policy fields.
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A new report, Preempting Progress, examines how state interference in local policymaking prevents people of color, women, and low-income workers from making ends meet in the South.
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This document provides a summary of local authority and preemption in West Virginia. 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 Virginia. 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 Texas. 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 Pennsylvania. 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 North Carolina. 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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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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These new documents provide a summary of local authority and preemption in several key states that can inform advocates’ efforts to adopt new policies at the city or county level. State preemption laws limit or prohibit local policymaking in different areas.
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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.
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This guide highlights the scale of the broadband problem (before and during the pandemic) and important policies that local governments can consider in the short and long-term to increase access to broadband.
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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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