Assembly Bill A6026 melanie's law" in nys assembly

Assignment: 2-minute presentation

Each student will make a 2-minute oral presentation from the front of the room on a New York State

Assembly bill of your choosing addressing any reasonably controversial topic. It can be your expected

research paper topic, but it doesn't have to be. In this exercise, you are NOT an advocate for or

opponent of the legislation: you are charged with providing a legislator with balanced analysis of the bill,

the issue, and stakeholders, proponents, and opponents. You will not have enough time to say

everything that is important, so you will have to prioritize carefully. You will make the presentation

without Powerpoint or any audiovisual tools, but notes are allowed.

You should cover the most important elements of some of the following topics - you decide. Your goal

is to provide the most-useful information you can in 2 minutes, not to say a little bit about everything:

The bill, its sponsor, and what the bill would do - make sure you say the most important things

about what the bill would do

The issue the bill would address

Whether alternative approaches might address the issue more effectively

Key stakeholders and their views

Important impacts - fiscal

Potential unintended consequences

Concluding comments

Don't BS: If you've identified an important issue but don't have enough information yet, say that it's

important, what you've done, and what you'll do to learn more rather than trying to fake your way

through it. That's what you should do in the real world.

Your talk will be timed. It is much better to skip over some things than to run out of time and be unable

to give a proper conclusion.

The audience will be class members who, for this exercise, are astute legislators who are NOT

knowledgeable about the bill and may have to vote on it in the near future. At the end of your

presentation, you will call on legislators who will ask questions and you will answer, for up to 2 minutes.

After that, you will self-critique, reflecting on what you might do differently if you were to do it again.