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Write your legislators about SF 496
Relating to children and students, including establishing a parent’s or guardian’s right to make decisions affecting the parent’s or guardian’s child, authorizing the parent or guardian of a student enrolled in a school district to enroll the student in another attendance center within the same school district in certain specified circumstances, prohibiting instruction related to gender identity and sexual orientation in school districts, charter schools, and innovation zone schools in kindergarten through grade six, and modifying provisions related to student health screenings, school district library programs, the educational program provided to students enrolled in school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, and charter schools, other duties of school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, the department of education, the board of educational examiners, and the governing boards of charter schools and innovation zone schools, competent private instruction, and special education, and including effective date provisions
Tips that make a message count
- Write to your own legislators. Offices give constituents the most weight.
- Name the bill number and say plainly whether you support or oppose it.
- Add one personal reason: how it affects you, your family, your work or your town.
- Keep it short and polite, and include your address so they know you live in the district.
- Timing matters: before a subcommittee meeting or floor vote is best. Funnel’s alerts tell you when.