1. MABE’s Legislative Committee, Process, Resources & Communications

2. MABE’s Legislative Process
Bill Review
Staff
Daily Synopsis (DLS)
Tracking Report (DLS)
MABE Bill Report
Communication
Legislative Committee
GreenSheets
Bill Highlights & Bill Tracking Report
Advocacy
Legislative Positions
Testimony
Calls to Action
Talking Points

3. MABE’s Legislative Process
Bill Synopsis
Analysis
Fiscal Note
Bill Tracking Report
MABE’s Position
Testimony
MABE’s
Call to Action
Bill Hearing
Votes & Bill Status

4. MABE’s Bill Positions Bill Analysis Resolutions Legislative Positions
Bill Tracking Report
Support, Support with Amendment, Oppose, No Position
Hold
Legislative Committee
MABE Testimony
Bill Hearing

5. Legislative Committee Process
Committee Meetings: Bill Highlights, Advocacy Reports, Budget Updates, Guest Speakers, and Votes on Bill Decisions.
Bill Decisions by the Legislative Committee: Staff recommends positions for the Committee’s action on selected bills.
Examples: Governor/Leadership-sponsored bills, major new initiatives, bills involving inter-jurisdictional issues, and requests for MABE positions on local bills.
Note: Most MABE bill positions are determined by staff in accordance with adopted Resolutions & Positions.
Committee Chair: Attends leadership meetings & presents testimony on priority bills.

6. Legislative Communications
MABE’s Weekly Newsletter & Calls to Action
MABE’s Testimony
MABE’s Bill Report

7. Calls to Action GreenSheets (weekly) Alerts (as needed) Articles
New Bill Highlights
Bill Tracking Report
Alerts
Alerts (as needed)
Calls to Action
Talking Points
Contacts
Specific Action
Feedback Loop

8. Email via Constant Contact
GreenSheet & Alerts
via Constant Contact

9. Taking Action
What to say…
Use MABE Testimony and/or Talking Points
Who to contact… Legislator /phone contacts will be provided
Timing & Feedback… Prompt action & informing MABE adds to overall effectiveness

10. Alerts & Calls to Action
Example of a GreenSheet Bill Highlight &
Call to Action with the House Ways & Means Committee
Call to Action - Contact the Ways and Means Committee & Education Subcommitee to Oppose HB 633 to mandate collective bargaining of teacher and principal evaluations
House Bill 633 TITLE: Education – Teacher and Principal Evaluations – Revisions to Requirements POSITION: OPPOSE MABE Testimony DATE: February 18, 2016 COMMITTEE: Ways and Means Committee
To voice opposition to HB 633 (which was heard on 2/18) – Use these links to the Ways and Means Committee; and the Ways and Means Committee Roster.
Talking Points
MABE opposes House Bill 633, and the proposal to mandate the collective bargaining of the ways in which local school systems evaluate teachers and principals.
This provision of House Bill 633 represents a 180 degree reversal of longstanding law that excludes educator evaluation systems from the contract negotiation process.
If enacted, House Bill 633 would empower employee unions to litigate their objections to educator evaluation systems before the Public School Labor Relations Board (PSLRB) and ultimately the courts.
This would be a devastating blow to the governance and management authority of local boards and superintendents to evaluate staff.
Granting employee organizations access to mediation and binding arbitration regarding their evaluation systems could significantly weaken the authority of local boards and superintendents to establish and enforce evaluation systems that hold individual staff to high standards of professionalism and performance.

11. Alerts & Calls to Action
Example of a GreenSheet Bill Highlight & Call to Action Bill Information

12. Alerts & Calls to Action
Example of a GreenSheet Bill Highlight & Call to Action MABE Testimony

13. Contacting Key Legislators
The House Ways and Means Committee

14. Contacting Key Legislators
The House Ways and Means Committee
Education Subcommittee

15. Contacting Key Legislators
Education Subcommittee Chair
Delegate Anne Kaiser

16. Contacting Key Legislators
Education Subcommittee Chair
Delegate Anne Kaiser

17. Contacting Key Legislators
Delegate Anne Kaiser

18. Feedback
Letting MABE know how the conversation went
Contact Information: John R. Woolums, Esq. Director of Governmental Relations MABE 621 Ridgely Avenue, Suite 300 Annapolis, MD o: c:

19. Stay Tuned! MABE Legislative Committee Meetings
Jan. 9, 2017
Jan. 23, 2017
Feb. 9, 2017
MABE's Legislative Day
Feb. 13, 2017
Mar. 6, 2017
Mar. 20, 2017
Apr. 3, 2017
May 1, 2017
Session Summary
Go to MABE’s Annapolis Advocacy Center for:
2017 Legislative Positions & Priorities
MABE Testimony & Bill Status Reports 
Legislative Committee Materials 
Priority Issues 
Advocacy Toolkit 
Resolutions