Legislative Advocacy: Success with Idaho’s Legislature

Legislative Advocacy: Success with Idaho’s Legislature

Idaho PTA presentationNovember 14, 2009

By Jana Kempwww.JanaKemp.com

Today’s Conversation:

Idaho’s Process and Timeline

Be Effective Telling the PTA story

Process + Passion = Getting Heard

Idaho’s Process and Timeline: Budget

March-May: Budget requests developed

May: Submit requests to Board or to Dept.

June-August: Board or Dept. of Ed reviews

Sept: Budgets submitted to DFM


Sept-Dec: Governor develops executive budget to submit to Legislature

January: Governor delivers Budget Message

January- Feb: JFAC conducts hearings

Feb-March: Appropriation Bills to Legislature and on to Governor


March – Agencies and Departments start all over again.

July 1: Starts the Fiscal year

Idaho’s Process and Timeline: Bills

1. Citizen or Organization has an Idea Develop the idea

2. Discuss it with legislator Assess support for the idea

3. Legislator works with “LSO” to draft Bill Organization involved, vets with others for/against


4. Legislator agrees to Sponsor

Search for right and best sponsor Negotiate with Committee Chair(s) Lobby members of the committee for their vote


5. Bill is “RS”ed Committee agrees to print – or not No testimony taken

6. Bill comes back to committee Hearings held Discussion by committee NO vote = Dead YES vote = goes to the “floor”


7. FLOOR VOTE YES = Goes to the other “floor” NO = DEAD

8. “Other Floor” Committee Reviews Floor Vote

• YES = Goes to Governor• NO = DEAD, or Amending orders, or other house can

take up


9. Governor’s Desk YES = Becomes Law NO = VETO and is Dead, or the House and Senate

can vote to over-ride the Veto


Statistics – Data – Facts

REAL stories and impact on children / the education process

Know Your Audience


Know the Committee Process Sign In Indicate Yea or Nay Wait to be called Speak to the Chair first – Always Respond to committee questions – if any Stay standing until the Chair “thanks you”


Know how the PTA story is different from:and Know how the PTA story is the same as:

IEA Superintendents Home-schoolers Virtual Charter Others the legislators will hear from

Process + Passion = Getting Heard

All Process and legislators don’t get interested.

All Passion and legislators don’t listen. “Sometimes our passion speaks so loudly that others

can not hear us.” – Jana Kemp to a legislator in 2006

Put together the process and the passion to get heard!

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