Im just a bill metal12/13/2023 ![]() ![]() And what better way to do so than to uncover the real process that led to last week’s introduction of the Real Education and Access for Healthy Youth Act (REAHYA), a youth sex education and health services access bill whose drop was timed to coincide with Sex Ed for All Month. (No worries, what age- and developmentally-appropriate public policymaking instruction can one deliver to elementary school-age children in a three-minute film?)Ī llow me to fill in some of the gaps on bill introduction for our adult learners out there. Even those first steps of a bill becoming a law are more complicated than I’m Just a Bill articulates. I do give props to the filmmakers for teaching their audience that bills don’t simply appear out of thin air rather they start with an idea from a constituent to a legislator, who then, if they support the idea, drafts the idea into legislation and introduces (or drops) a bill. As a public policy advocacy practitioner for over 30 years, let me just say that how a bill becomes a law is more complicated than the short film conveys. I’m Just a Bill c over s how a legislative bill makes its way to law. I c an’t say I recall all of the series’ “lesson plans.” (I wasn’t much of a STEM student.) B ut, I do remember those covering civics, including I’m Just a Bill (an early indicator of my career path?). Reading up on it to write this post, Schoolhouse Rock covered a variety of subjects. (For those unfamiliar, Schoolhouse Rock was a series of animated musical educational short films dating back to the 1970s that aired during the Saturday morning children’s programming block on the ABC television network.) I ’m a proud member of the Schoolhouse Rock generation. ![]()
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