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Liz Jazwiec Motivational Speaker & Best Selling Author of

Eat That Cookie and Hey Cupcake

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18th TILMAN HOVLAND AUDITORIUM,

Rugby High School

3:00-4:00 - Accountability, Turn Limited Resources into Results Audience: Managers, supervisors, business owners, informal leaders

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Liz Jazwiec

Wednesday, March 18

Tilman Hovland Auditorium 1123 South Main Ave Rugby

3:00-4:00 Accountability,

Turn Limited Resources

into Results

Audience: Managers,

Supervisors, Business

Owners, Informal Leaders

7:00-8:30 Yippee, Another

Day in Paradise, driving

negativity out of the

workplace

Audience: All Levels

Welcome

$10 Chamber Members

$12 Non-Chamber Member

Group rates available

3pm Session qualifies for

1 Nursing Contact Hour

Mail Registration to Shelley Block

Chamber of Commerce 126 2nd Ave SW Suite 111

Rugby, ND 58368

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“uplifting. motivational. fun”

Motivational Speaker & Best Selling Author of Eat That Cookie and

Hey Cupcake

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Guiding Principles

Advocacy & Legislation

A d v o c a c yD o’s a n d D o n’ t s

Adapted from The Marin Institute – Advocacy Do’s and Don’ts

When meeting with a legislator or other elected official, it is important to follow some basic guidelines for how to conduct the meeting and yourself. The following “Do’s and Don’ts” will help you plan your meet-ing and ensure that it is successful.

DO Identify yourself and who you represent every time you make contact. Legislators and lo-cal policymakers meet hundreds of people and they can’t remem-ber everyone.

DO Know the issue or the status of the legislation. Refer to the leg-islation by bill number.

DO Be brief (10 minutes or less). Legislators are very busy.

DO Be specific and practical. Re-late arguments to situations in the legislator’s home district.

DO Thank legislators.

DO Keep the door open for further discussion even if you don’t agree at the time.

DO Talk with legislators even if their positions differ with yours.

DO Think of yourself as a consul-tant to a legislator. You have ex-pertise and insights that help the legislators understand the bill.

DO Be honest. NEVER lie. Ac-knowledge opposing arguments and any political liabilities.

DO Ask your legislator for support.

DO Leave behind a one-page fact sheet summarizing your position. Highlight important facts and ar-guments. Include your name, ad-dress, and telephone number so you can be reached if there are any questions.

DON’T Arrive with a crowd. One to three well-prepared supporters are enough.

DON’T Back legislators into a cor-ner.

DON’T Overwhelm them with too much information or jargon.

DON’T Get into lengthy argu-ments.

DON’T Be afraid to say you don’t know. Offer to find out and send the information soon.

DON’T Confront, threaten, pres-sure or beg.

DON’T Expect legislators to be specialists. Their schedules and the number of bills make them generalists.

DON’T Ask the impossible.

T h e 6 C s o f E f f e c t i v e A d v o c a c yWith the proper tools and infor-mation, anyone can be an effec-tive advocate for chang-ing public policy. Change does not require a lot of money or high-paid pro-fessionals to influence public policy.

Following are excerpts from the “Six Cs of Ef-fective Advocacy” from the Community How To Guide On Public Policy from the Underage Drink-ing Prevention Project of the National Association of Gov-ernors’ Highway Safety Repre-sentatives.

Be Clear. Test your clarity by ex-pressing your goals in three sen-tences or less.

Be Consistent. Be sure everyone in your group is saying the same thing. Nothing can derail an ad-vocacy effort faster than mem-

bers of the same group saying dif-ferent things.

Be Concise. Plan exactly what to say and make the most compel-ling points first.

Be Creative. If you are distribut-ing flyers or educational packets, make them stand out from the mass of written information an elected official receives.

Be Convincing. Facts and re-al-life anecdotes are allies. Use

them to convey the impact the public policy change will have

– whether it is positive or neg-ative. Emotion is not enough – facts must support feelings.

Be Committed. Success does not occur overnight. Some-times, it takes years to win ap-proval. If you are absolutely committed to your cause, keep fighting for it.

HOW TO CONTACT LEGIS-LATIVE ENTITIES

During a legislative session, a legislator can be reached at the State Capitol through e-mail or by leaving a message with the legislative telephone message center at 1-888-NDLEGIS (635-3447) or 701-328-3373. Other-wise, a legislator can be reached by mail, telephone, or e-mail at

the address listed in the legisla-tor’s info in the attached tables.

The Legislative Council can be reached by:

Phone: 701-328-2916

TDD: 1-800-366-6888

(ND Relay Service)

FAX: 701-328-3615

Mail:

Legislative CouncilState Capitol 600 East Boulevard AvenueBismarck, ND 58505-0360

E-mail:

firstnameinitiallastname@nd.gov (jdoe@nd.gov)

H o w t o Te s t i f yYou have the right, as do all North Da-kota citizens, to testify before the North Dakota Legislative Assembly on any bill or resolution.

North Dakota has one of the most open legislatures in the nation. Every bill must have a public hearing before a legislative committee, must be pub-licly voted upon by the committee, and then must come before the full House or Senate for still another public vote.

Your opportunity to testify on a bill comes at the committee hearing.

Legislative committees meet in rooms on the ground floor or in the legisla-tive wing of the State Capitol. You can come into a committee meeting at any time, even if the door is closed or a hearing is in progress.

Lists of the legislative committees, committee members, and the days and places committees meet are available at the Legislative Information Kiosk in the hall between the Senate and House chambers.

You can find out which committee will be hearing the bill in which you are in-terested by calling the toll-free number and asking for information or inquiring in person at the Legislative Information Kiosk. Also, most of the state’s daily newspapers carry listings of all the bills that are introduced and of scheduled committee hearings.

In addition to checking with the Legis-lative Information Kiosk, you can find out what bills are being heard by what committees by reviewing the TV mon-itors on the kiosk and in the hall of the ground floor of the Capitol. Finally, you can find the weekly hearing schedules at www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/ and you can search for committee hearings.

You can get copies of bills from the Bill and Journal Room. However, if the bill has been amended, the printed bill may not include the amendments.

Hearings before North Dakota legisla-tive committees are generally informal and few rules need to be observed.

Before the hearing, you should …

• Find out when and where your bill will be heard. Be on time for the hear-ing. Usually, once a hearing is closed on a particular bill, no further testimo-ny is heard.

• Plan your testimony. It is not neces-sary, but it is helpful, to have written copies of your comments available.

• See if other people will be testifying on your bill. If so, try to coordinate your testimony before the hearing to avoid duplication.

• Contact the Secretary of State’s office if you are going to testify on behalf of anyone but yourself, to see if you must register as a lobbyist.

At the hearing you should …

•Be present at the start of the hear-ing. All persons present usually get a

chance to speak, but sometimes, be-cause of large turnouts, it is not possi-ble for everyone to have that oppor-tunity. If you do not get a chance to testify, your presence may be acknowl-edged and you might be asked if you favor or oppose the bill. And you can always submit written testimony.

• Sign the witness sheet at the lectern. Give the bill number, whether you favor or oppose the bill, your name, your lob-byist registration number if you have one, and who you represent if other than yourself.

• Wait your turn. The chairman an-nounces the beginning of the hearing on a particular bill. The clerk will read the bill. The first speaker is usually the bill’s sponsor. The chairman then asks for testimony, first from proponents and then opponents.

Plan on following custom (although it is not absolutely necessary) of begin-ning your remarks by addressing the chairman and committee members, giving your name and address, and why you are there. For example: “Mr. Or Madam Chairman, and members of the committee, my name is John Q. Public from Edwinton. I’m in favor of this bill because, etc.”

• Be brief. Do not repeat what others have said. The hearings are informal, so be conversational. Avoid being too technical. Avoid using acronyms or technical references unless you first ex-plain what they mean.

• Do not be nervous, or worried about doing something wrong. There are not “rights and wrongs” about testifying. Legislators are just your friends and neighbors who want to hear what you have to say.

• Expect some questions and com-ments from committee members. These questions are not designed to embarrass you, but merely to provide additional information.

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• Avoid any clapping, cheering, booing, or other demonstrations.

After the hearing...

• Some committees vote right after a hearing. Others wait until the end of the meeting. Some postpone voting until another meeting.

• All committee action is public, so you can stay to listen to committee debate and its vote, even though the public comment portion of the hearing is over.

• One or two days later you can check with the committee clerk, your legislator, or the Legislative Information Kiosk to find out how the committee voted on your bill.

• You have the right to testify on any bill before a legislative committee. Legisla-tors want to hear what you have to say.

10 Ways to Talk to Your Legislator

1. Get an appointment. Call your legislator’s office and ask to see him or her on on the next trip home (usually a Friday during the legislative season).

2. If you are in State Capital for business or pleasure, go and see him/her there.

3. Don’t be awed by your leg-islators. You probably know more about your issue than they do. So act confident, even if you don’t feel it.

4. Know your facts and keep your points concise. Make your pitch early on, and limit the entire meeting to ten min-utes.

5. Be a good listener.

6. Don’t let him/her evade the issue.

7. Hard questions do not mean that the legislator is against you. Use all questions as an opportunity to let him or her hear more about your issue.

8. If the legislator is on your side, make him or her feel good about it.

9. Press for a commitment (unless the legislator is clearly opposed).

10. If your legislators are not available, visit their office any-way and nurture relationships with staff while you are there.

Adapted from The Marin Institute “Ten Ways to Talk to a

Legislator”

A legislator may pre-file a bill with the Legislative Council. The Legislative Council staff numbers the bill and has the bill printed so copies are available when the Legislative Assembly con-venes in regular session. All bills beginning with the number “1” originate in the House. Senate bills all begin with the number “2”. These pre-filed bills are technical-ly introduced on the first day of the regular session, even though they have received numbers, have been printed, and have been referred to the appropriate stand-ing committee by the Lieutenant Governor (for Senate measures) or the Speaker of the House (for House measures.)

During a legislative session, a legislator can deliver a bill to the bill clerk of the appropriate house any time during the day. If the Legislative Council staff has not prepared the bill, it is delivered to the Legislative Council staff for a review to determine if the bill complies with the form and style requirement for bills. The Legislative Council staff prepares the bill in accordance with the requirements, and then returns the form and style to the bill clerk. Every bill received by the bill clerk before the deadline set for that day is numbered by the clerk and is introduced during the Ninth Order of Business (the order for introducing bills of that house). The Secretary of State or Chief Clerk of the House reads the bill’s

title upon introduction. This is known as the First Reading.

Once the bill has received its first reading, the following pro-cedure is followed:

The presiding officer refers the bill to a standing committee with the appropriate subject matter jurisdiction over the bill, e.g., a bill relating to game and fish licenses would be referred to the Natural Resources Com-mittee. The committee chair-man schedules a public hearing on the bill. By custom every bill referred to committee is sched-uled for public hearing.

After public hearing the com-mittee must report the bill back to the floor for a vote. The legislative rules require every bill referred to committee to be reported back to the floor for a vote. A committee report is received during the Fifth Order of Business. A committee must make one or more of the fol-lowing recommendations with respect to a bill:

• Do pass

• Do not pass

•Be amended

• Be referred to another committee

• Be placed on the calen-dar without recommendation.

Every bill reported from commit-tee is placed on the calendar for consideration during the Eleventh Order of Business (the order for Second Reading, when measures are voted on for final passage) the next day. If the recommendation is for amendment, the amend-ment is voted on first under the Sixth Order of Business (when amendments are considered), rather than final passage, and then the amended bill is voted on the day following the day of the vote on the amendment. If the bill passes, it is messaged (deliv-ered) to the other house, where a similar procedure is followed. If the bill is amended in the other house, it is returned to the house of origin for concurrence. If the house of origin does not con-cur, the presiding officer of each house appoints three members to a six-member conference committee to resolve differences. The house of origin votes on the conference committee report first, then the other house votes on the conference committee report.

Once a bill has passed both hous-es in exactly the same form, it is enrolled (retyped with all amend-ments in place) by the Legisla-tive Council staff, signed by the presiding officer of each house, and delivered to the Governor for approval.

The Governor may sign a bill and forward it to the Secretary of State, forward a bill to the Secre-

How a Bill Becomes a Law

tary of State without signature, or veto a bill or items in a bill. While the Legislative Assembly is in session, a bill becomes law if the Governor neither signs nor vetoes it within three legislative days after its delivery to the Governor. If the Legislative Assembly is not in session, a bill becomes law if the Governor neither signs nor vetoes it within 15 days, Saturdays and Sundays excepted, after its delivery to the Governor. If the Governor vetoes a bill while the Legislative Assembly is in session, the Governor must return the bill to the house of origin for a vote on whether to sustain (agree with) the veto. If the house of origin passes the bill by a two-thirds vote of the members-elect, the bill is sent to the other house and if that house passes the bill by a two-thirds vote of the members elect, the veto is overridden and the bill is delivered to the Secretary of State.

A law usually takes effect on August 1 after its filing with the Secretary of State. An appropriation measure for the support and maintenance of state departments and institutions or a tax measure that changes tax rates take effect on July 1 after its filing with the Secretary of State. Later effective dates can be specified in a bill, and a law that is declared an emergency measure and which passes each house by a vote of two-thirds of the members-elect of each house can take effect upon its filing with the Secretary of State.

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