However, the prohibition against plagiarixm remains in effect, and we discourage participants from submitting bills they know to have been passed last year.
Under NO circumstances are participants
to plagiarize another student's work from any previous year. Bills are to
be one's own original work.
Topics "passed into law" at last year's session and are considered "in effect" for the current year.
This means bills on the topics below, pro OR con, raising or lowering penalties, etc. will not be accepted this year.
Bills on a related topic will be accepted if they are substantially different in content and intent from the bill passed ithe previous year. The state office can OK bill topics prior to writing if questions arise.
Because we cannot actually create and maintain our own body of law, we will also not accept bills that strengthen, repeal or amend the bills passed last year.
All other bills submitted will be considered to be based on existing law contained in the real Montana Code Annotated (MCA), most recent edition. The code is updated every other year.
Participants are discouraged from resubmitting a bill of their own which they unsuccessfully introduced in a previous year without at least a substantial revision. (Presumably the bill failed because of some flaw or lack of widespread support and so should be revised to increase its chances of passing)
For additional help, consult the Bill Writing Guide
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- HB 62
- SB 44
- FYH 29
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