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How to Successfully Lobby State Regulatory Agencies

Advocacy Training for Lobbying Success.

Executive agencies (also called departments, divisions, boards, and commisions, among other names) are authorized by the state to act as lawmakers, police officers, prosecutors, judges, and executioners, all in one. Both the courts and legislatures give agencies wide discretion in creating and enforcing agency rules; rules that have legal effect. Within the bounds of enabling legislation and administrative procedure, executive agencies can do almost anything they want, including enriching or impoverishing the people and activities they regulate.

Let us show you how to work better with and influence that actions of executive agencies by teaching you how to:

- Understand who and what motivate agencies and agency staff
- Work within limits of enabling legislation
- Avoid the pitfalls of administrative procedure
- Informally lobby for your rule
- Influence the development of agency rules
- Develop effective testimony for the rule making record
- Utilize external pressures on the agency
- Sell your position to staff
- Use formal and informal avenues of appeal
- Get the agency actions you want and stop or overturn the ones you don't

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