How to help

These bills will move the way the ones before them moved: an organisation decides a bill is worth its name, a legislator agrees to carry it, and families show up to tell the truth about why it matters. Here is what each role actually involves — stated plainly, so a yes means something.

Champion a bill

Your organisation takes the lead on one bill: it becomes part of your legislative programme, your staff or volunteers work it alongside Lawrence, and your name is the one other advocates associate with it. This is the commitment these bills most need, and the one to take only if your organisation can stay with a bill through a full session.

Endorse a bill

Your organisation puts its name behind a bill — listed as a supporter, available for a quote or a logo on materials, counted when legislative staff ask who is for it. Endorsement begins only when you say it does: reading this site, or being listed in anyone's research as a natural ally, commits you to nothing.

Testify

Show up — in person or in writing — when the bill is heard, and say what the current law did in a real case, or what the bill would change for the families you serve. Prepared testimony for each bill exists, and Lawrence will help any witness get ready.

Advise

Read a bill the way an opponent will. Attorneys, former prosecutors, and policy staff who stress-test these drafts now make them harder to beat later. Advice is welcome on any bill, at any depth — the technical appendix on the evidence-sharing page shows the level of scrutiny invited.

Author a bill

For members of the 90th Legislature: these drafts are ready for your office and for Legislative Council. Prospective authors are approached individually — several members with records on each issue, never a public shortlist — and the working papers for each bill include a "for prospective authors" brief with the drafting history, the known seams, and the pre-filing steps.