legislative advocacy: success with idaho’s legislature
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Legislative Advocacy: Success with Idaho’s Legislature. Idaho PTA presentation November 14, 2009 By Jana Kemp www.JanaKemp.com. Today’s Conversation:. Idaho’s Process and Timeline Be Effective Telling the PTA story Process + Passion = Getting Heard. Idaho’s Process and Timeline: Budget. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Legislative Advocacy: Success with Idaho’s Legislature
Idaho PTA presentationNovember 14, 2009
By Jana Kempwww.JanaKemp.com
Today’s Conversation:
Idaho’s Process and Timeline
Be Effective Telling the PTA story
Process + Passion = Getting Heard
Idaho’s Process and Timeline: Budget
March-May: Budget requests developed
May: Submit requests to Board or to Dept.
June-August: Board or Dept. of Ed reviews
Sept: Budgets submitted to DFM
Idaho’s Process and Timeline: Budget
Sept-Dec: Governor develops executive budget to submit to Legislature
January: Governor delivers Budget Message
January- Feb: JFAC conducts hearings
Feb-March: Appropriation Bills to Legislature and on to Governor
Idaho’s Process and Timeline: Budget
March – Agencies and Departments start all over again.
July 1: Starts the Fiscal year
Idaho’s Process and Timeline: Bills
1. Citizen or Organization has an Idea Develop the idea
2. Discuss it with legislator Assess support for the idea
3. Legislator works with “LSO” to draft Bill Organization involved, vets with others for/against
Idaho’s Process and Timeline: Bills
4. Legislator agrees to Sponsor
Search for right and best sponsor Negotiate with Committee Chair(s) Lobby members of the committee for their vote
Idaho’s Process and Timeline: Bills
5. Bill is “RS”ed Committee agrees to print – or not No testimony taken
6. Bill comes back to committee Hearings held Discussion by committee NO vote = Dead YES vote = goes to the “floor”
Idaho’s Process and Timeline: Bills
7. FLOOR VOTE YES = Goes to the other “floor” NO = DEAD
8. “Other Floor” Committee Reviews Floor Vote
• YES = Goes to Governor• NO = DEAD, or Amending orders, or other house can
take up
Idaho’s Process and Timeline: Bills
9. Governor’s Desk YES = Becomes Law NO = VETO and is Dead, or the House and Senate
can vote to over-ride the Veto
Be Effective Telling the PTA story
Statistics – Data – Facts
REAL stories and impact on children / the education process
Know Your Audience
Be Effective Telling the PTA story
Know the Committee Process Sign In Indicate Yea or Nay Wait to be called Speak to the Chair first – Always Respond to committee questions – if any Stay standing until the Chair “thanks you”
Be Effective Telling the PTA story
Know how the PTA story is different from:and Know how the PTA story is the same as:
IEA Superintendents Home-schoolers Virtual Charter Others the legislators will hear from
Process + Passion = Getting Heard
All Process and legislators don’t get interested.
All Passion and legislators don’t listen. “Sometimes our passion speaks so loudly that others
can not hear us.” – Jana Kemp to a legislator in 2006
Put together the process and the passion to get heard!
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