Legislation
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My Comment on the Franchise Rule
On January 23rd, 2020, I discovered that my comment on the FTC’s Franchise Rule had finally been published. As of January 15th, before the change from the Trump administration to…
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AAFD Names Keith Miller as New Director of Public Affairs and Engagement
On October 3rd, the American Association of Franchisees and Dealers (AAFD) engaged Keith Miller of Franchisee Advocacy Consulting as their Director of Public Affairs and Engagement. In their online announcement,…
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Who are the Good Franchisors?
Who are the good franchiSORS? Will they please stand up and introduce themselves? There are franchiSEES who want to know who you are so they can invest. The good frnchiSEES…
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Franchise Self-Regulation Doesn’t Work
Self-Regulation won’t work in the franchise industry until power is equally balanced between franchiSEES and franchiSORS. Right now, franchise agreements are weighted excessively in franchiSORS’ favor giving franchiSORS too much…
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The Fair Franchise Act of 2017 — Purpose
On January 12, 2017, Representative Keith Ellison, a democrat from Minnesota introduced The Fair Franchise Act of 2017 to the Senate and the House of Representatives in the 1st Session…
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The SBA Franchise Loan Transparency Act of 2019 — Easy Version
On July 31st, 2019, Senator Cortez Masto of Nevada introduced a bill before the 116th Congress of the United States called the “Small Business Administration Franchise Loan Transparency Act of…
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The SBA Franchise Loan Transparency Act of 2019
Below is the “one-pager” of the SBA Franchise Loan Transparency Act as it was provided to me (pdf) on July 31, 2019. The bill (S.2383) will be posted to www.congress.gov…
