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Legislative Bill 519: Creating And Lobbying For Original Legislation, Brooklyn Terrill
Legislative Bill 519: Creating And Lobbying For Original Legislation, Brooklyn Terrill
Honors Theses
This project reflects the process of writing and attempting to pass state legislation, Legislative Bill 519, as a college student. LB 519 is an immunity policy for certain drug and alcohol charges that would be potentially prohibitive to a survivor or witness of sexual assault reporting the crime. The first several sections cover the process of developing and introducing legislation. These sections cover the process of developing the idea for LB 519 and the thought process behind the language and structure of the bill. It then covers the advocacy portion of passing a bill which includes testifying and lobbying for …