The purpose of this online guide is to provide an overview of the drafting style and conventions used by the House Office of the Legislative Counsel in order to facilitate communication and collaboration between the attorneys of the Office and their clients.

The Office of the Legislative Counsel generally tries to organize a bill, and provisions within a bill, according to the template below. We do not always follow this template, but it is often our starting point when we think about how to put together a draft. - General rule: State the main message.

2016年10月24日 · Legislative attorneys may have different roles and state requirements can differ, so you will need to draft within the scope of your role and jurisdictional requirements. However, these are the general lessons that I gleaned …

2018年12月15日 · Writing a successful legislative proposal requires brevity, passion and focus. As briefly and as plainly as possible, tell your legislator about the problem your proposal solves, how it solves it and the consequences of not acting on it.

There are four different forms of legislation. Two of them (bills and joint resolutions) are used for making law, while the other two (simple resolutions and concurrent resolutions) are used for matters of congressional administration and to express nonbinding policy views.

2016年1月20日 · Understanding legislative antecedents and analogous statutes is essential to developing a new policy proposal. A review of the legislative record can help uncover whether and how the issue has been addressed in the past. 33 It will also provide further context on how the proposed legislation might interact with preexisting law and policies. 34 ...

2024年10月25日 · Links to state, congressional, and other online bill drafting manuals.

2013年5月1日 · Shows students how to draft legislation and rules in a wide variety of jurisdictions. The term "legislation," is broadly interpreted to include constitutional provisions, charters, statutes, and ordinances as enacted by referendum or a legislative body.

Effectively developing an organization or structure of a legislative proposal assists a legislative drafter in thinking through a policy objective.