Assembly Bill A6026 melanie's law in nys assembly Assignment: 2-minute presentation Each student will make a 2-minute
Question:
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.