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Write the plain-language change
What votes differently.
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Summarize a Bill for a State Legislator Who Won't Read 40 Pages
25 min
Intermediate
Government
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Explain the vote in one page, not a law school outline.
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Members vote on tradeoffs, not statutory cross-references.
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What you'll do
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Map winners, losers, and costs
Tradeoffs.
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Draft the member ask
What you need from them.
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Prepare committee Q&A
They will ask cost and preemption.
Make Your Play
Summarize a Bill for a State Legislator Who Won't Read 40 Pages
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Your situation
Key sections, sponsors, committee, status.
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Who supports, opposes, and why.
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Support, oppose, amend, neutral.
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What you'll do
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01
Write the plain-language change
What votes differently.
02
Map winners, losers, and costs
Tradeoffs.
03
Draft the member ask
What you need from them.
04
Prepare committee Q&A
They will ask cost and preemption.
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Assembled prompt
Beginner instructions
Fill the fields with this week’s real details. Incomplete notes beat invented polish.
Run the assembled prompt, answer follow-ups with specifics, then copy the deliverable into your own doc and verify names and numbers.
Advanced instructions
Add constraints the model can’t see: politics, licensing, cash timing, union rules, or family bandwidth.
After the first pass, ask it to attack the weakest assumption in the draft.
Use this when
A bill dropped overnight, committee is Thursday, or the member asks "what does this do?"
You'll need
- Bill text or summary
- Stakeholder positions
- Agency position if any
You'll get
- A a bill summary: what changes, who wins/loses, fiscal note hooks, and recommended position you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- A a bill summary: what changes, who wins/loses, fiscal note hooks, and recommended position you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
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