Submit a Bill Online

Bills must be submitted by Monday of the week of the Training Session that the sponsor of the bill will be attending.

Complete all fields

Email Address: An email we can send a confirmation of receipt of the bill.

Sponsor: The name of the prime sponsor of the bill

School / Club / YMCA: What is the name of your delegation?

Co-Sponsor: Up to 3 other names of those assisting with drafting of this bill

Endorsed By: Name of Advisor, Bills will be emailed to them to confirm they have approved the bill.

Financial Impact: How much will the bill cost to implement or how much revenue will the bill generate.

Bills must have some cost associated, bills will not be accepted with $0.00 or left blank. This must be a realistic estimate of the cost, or revenue that will be generated by the bill.

(Do not put $5,000.00 for printing, this is not an acceptable Financial Impact)

Bill Title: A short descriptive title with the opening,

Don’t use cutesy titles

If the bills revises or amends existing law the Maine Revised Statute Annotated (MRSA) title number must appear.

A Correct Title :

To require that all motorists carry liability insurance amending Sections xx-xx and xx-xx MRSA

An Incorrect Title

Get all Bums off the roads act

Bill Summary: This will be a 2 or 3 line brief summation of what the bill will do.

* Required Fields (Bills will be returned without all this information)

* Email:

* School / Club / YMCA:

* Financial Impact:

* Bill Sponsor:

* Co-Bill Sponsor:

* Endorsed By:

* Bill Title:

* Bill Summary:

Suggestion to draft bill in a word processor program then cut and paste into form

GUIDELINES FOR BILLS TEXT.

1. Use the current year bill form.

2. Single-spaced. (Do not number bill lines, that will be done by Youth in Government Office)

3. Express your intent in clear, concise, everyday language. Do not use vague or flowery language.

4. Because our time is short and printing costs are high bills are limited to 2 pages.

5. All sections must be numbered and subsections should be ALL IN CAPS, and BOLD and UNDERLINED (ie SECTION 4: ; STATEMENT OF FACT: )

6. Any materials to be stricken from present law is to marked out using hyphens, or strikeout feature. Materials to be added to present law should be underlined.

7. Bills should deal with only one subject; rather combining several ideas into one bill submit more bills.

8. Bills must be submitted with a cost. A dollar figure that the sponsor has determined it would cost the State of Maine to implement this bill.

9. Statement's of Fact must be varifiable facts, they should have their sources, noted in Resources section of the bill.

10. . NO BILLS WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE BILLBOOK WITHOUT ALL THESE

Bill Text:

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