Legislative drafting manual massachusetts

Drafting Manual Glossary Close Menu. Budget. Massachusetts Legislature Homepage. Search Search the Legislature. Search. Legislators. Senate the amendment recommended by His Excellency the Governor to the engrossed Bill creating a next-generation roadmap for Massachusetts climate policy (see Senate, No. 9). LEGISLATIVE DRAFTING AND LEGAL MANUAL Third Edition Counsel to the Senate State House, Room Boston, MA April Dear legislative drafter: The Senate Counsel’s office has prepared the third edition of this Manual to help legislative lawyers and other staff who are drafting or reviewing bills for the Massachusetts Senate.  · Manual is issued as of May and replaces all previous manuals issued by the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Part I of the Manual describes the promulgation process from initial draft through adoption and final publication in the Massachusetts Register. Part II concerns the preparation of regulations so that they meet the requirements for CMR.

Edition OPC's Drafting Manual gives an overview of drafting legislation. It covers technical aspects, such as titles, numbering and formatting, as well as matters relating to the content of laws, including constitutional issues and the use of various expressions. s05pqvpdf pdf KBs05pqvdocx docx KB. This Manual of Legislative Drafting is published principally for the use of the staff members in the Legislative Affairs Agency, the offices of the House Chief Clerk and Secretary of the Senate, and the Department of Law who are involved in all phases of the drafting, processing, and disposition of legislative documents. "In , recognising that there was a shortage of trained legislative drafters in the Commonwealth, the Commonwealth Secretariat first published a legislative drafting manual aimed at informing those practitioners with little or no previous experience in the skill, and assisting those with some experience who had never considered why drafting needed to be undertaken in a particular way.

Many legislative drafting offices have drafting manuals and similar materials. This page also gives links to other online resources (for example, videos of lectures or webinars related to legislation or legislative drafting). Manual is issued as of May and replaces all previous manuals issued by the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Part I of the Manual describes the promulgation process from initial draft through adoption and final publication in the Massachusetts Register. Part II concerns the preparation of regulations so that they meet the requirements for CMR. House Legislative Counsel’s Manual on Drafting Style (originally prepared by Ward M. Hussey and revised by Ira B. Forstater). Lawrence E. Filson and Sandra L. Strokoff, The Legislative Drafter’s Desk Reference, 2nd. ed. (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, ). Preface and Editor’s Note to the edition of the United States Code.