If passed, the bill aims to simplify procedures for making and enforcing local authority bylaws by introducing an alternative procedure for local authorities.

BBC: Communities, Equality and Local Government Committee

John Taylor, president and chief executive of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, calls the plan a "waste of taxpayers' money" since the Fed has a track record of laxity in enforcing its existing authority.

FORBES: Business In The Beltway

On the one hand, they would firmly assert their authority by enforcing their laws against both individual lawbreakers and against subversive, foreign financed institutions that incite the overthrow of their governments and their replacement with Islamic governments.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Islam and the nation-state