The Real Deal About Legislation and Tools of the Trade Pam Seamans Former Policy Director, NC Alliance for Health Betsy Vetter Regional Vice President of Government Relations American Heart Association
How A Bill Becomes a Law
The NC General Assembly Website Your Source for Lots of Information! Yes there is an AP!
Where Bills Start
Whose My Legislator? http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/representation/WhoRepresentsMe.aspx
Finding a Champion for Your Bill
Finding Your Bill Look up your bill Tracking the bill language Sponsors & Co-Sponsors
Committees
Committee Alerts Be notified when committees meet and the bills that are on their agenda!
Tracking your Bill What’s a PCS?
Listening Remotely
What If I Don’t Know the Bill Number?
Legislator Lists and More
Citizen’s Guide
What’s This? Dashboard
Learning More About the Legislature
Learning More About the Legislature
What’s Happening Outside North Carolina? What is happening in other states? Where do lawmakers get access to policy ideas and bill language?
National Conference of State Legislatures www.ncsl.org
American Legislative Exchange Council www.alec.org
The Public Health Community Are other states working on my issue? What does the public health community think about this issue? Where can I access research?
American Public Health Association APHA: www.apha.org
National Association of County & City Health Officials http://www.naccho.org/
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials www.astho.org
NC Public Health Association https://ncpha.memberclicks.net/
A Few Final Tools of the Trade How do you plan an issue campaign? What do you need to consider?
Campaign Planning Tools The Power Prism: http://www.powerprism.org/
Campaign Planning Tools Midwest Academy: http://www.midwestacademy.com/training/organizing-social-change/
Thank You!
For More Information: Pam Seamans pcseamans@gmail For More Information: Pam Seamans pcseamans@gmail.com Betsy Vetter betsy.vetter@heart.org