WHO IS ALEC?

Published on July 14, 2026 at 4:45 AM

Who's ALEC? Founded in 1973, American Legislative Exchange Council(ALEC), a nonprofit organization that brings together state legislators and representatives from business to draft and promote "model legislations" favoring the free market, limited government and federalism(LINKEDIN).

 ALEC provides a forum for state legislators and private sector members to collaborate on model bills(Wikipedia). What are model bills you ask? Model acts are suggested examples of law, drafted centrally to be disseminated and suggested for the enactment in multiple independent legislatures. ALEC has successfully gotten hundreds of model acts passed since 2010(Wikipedia).