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How To Use the Maryland General Assembly
Web SiteHow to Find Bills
How to Find Fiscal NotesHow to Find Legislator Contact
Where to Ask Questions and Order Constitutions
Presentation by Cindy SharrettsSlide Show by Kathy Fuller, for the Carroll County Republican Women’s Club
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How to use this power point
Bring up the Maryland General Assembly web site at http://mlis.state.md.us.
Then page through the power point while clicking on the web site where shown.
You can find out about bills, find legislator contact info, etc.
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To find bills dealing with certain subjects
Web site address http://mlis.state.md.us
To find a certain bill if you know the number
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Can search for bills using any of these categories, but by subject may be easiest
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For bills of various subject matters
We used a past legislative session because between sessions there are no bills to research
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We chose to look at bills about bees. If you have certain areas of interest or expertise research bills in those areas.
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To get the most information about a bill choose the Long Format
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HB327 and SB293 are likely virtually the same bill introduced in both houses to speed the process
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Scrolling down on this screen will bring you to what you see on pg 10 of this presentation— a link to the fiscal note
Clicking on the bill number will give you the text of the bill
For bills in the current session there will be a hearing schedule and which committee will hear it—this bill received an unfavorable report in committee, it did not go any farther and died here
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Opens the pages of the document for viewing
Click to view this page
The sponsors of the bill, and a synopsis is on the first page—the synopsis is often confusing to read, but read on to the body of the bill and it will make more sense
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This bill deals with existing law, but is an attempt to slightly alter that law. The changes to the existing law are in bold.
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This is the lower portion of the screen from pg 7 of this presentation—scroll up here to see bill number, etc.
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Each bill will have a fiscal note detailing what it will cost the government if it is enacted.
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The “Senators” and “Delegates” links are the best, most direct links to contact info for these members
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Clinking on the Senate or House links here will give you their budget links and links to their member contact information—pages that look very similar to this page
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All four of these links will get you to the hearing schedule, organized by different means.
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This screen allows you to see all hearings for the entire session—just keep scrolling down the page to the date, with the committee hearing you are interested in.
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Through Legislative Services you can ask questions, get copies of bills, and get copies of the Maryland Constitution for “free” (taxpayer dollars pay for it)