The State Innovation Exchange (SIX), formerly American Legislative and Issue Campaign Exchange (ALICE), is a
nonprofit organization
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established in September 2012 by the
Center on Wisconsin Strategy
The Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS) is a progressive policy institute housed on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. It was founded in 1991 by UW Professor Joel Rogers. The organization says that its core values are democracy, ...
(COWS) at the
University of Wisconsin–Madison
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.
The organization provides an online database of state-level legislation that has been passed in a state for politicians and activists to replicate and enact in state legislatures. SIX focuses on providing liberal and progressive model legislation.
The nonprofit, nonpartisan organization is supported by government grants and foundations, but does not receive university funding, it is however a recipient of
The Democracy Alliance
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.
COWS receives formal support from the university in the form of tax status.
In 2014, ALICE merged with the Progressive States Network (founded in 2005 by Joel Barkin as another progressive answer to ALEC) and the Center for State Innovation to become the State Innovation Exchange. It is expected to retain ALICE's library of
model act
A model act, also called a model law or a piece of model legislation, is a suggested example for a law, drafted centrally to be disseminated and suggested for enactment in multiple independent legislatures. The motivation classically has been the ...
s.
See also
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American Legislative Exchange Council
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a nonprofit organization of conservative state legislators and private sector representatives who draft and share model legislation for distribution among state governments in the United State ...
(ALEC) – an organization which produces model legislation from a conservative, pro-free market standpoint
References
External links
State Innovation Exchange
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Legal organizations based in the United States
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2012 establishments in Wisconsin
Organizations established in 2012