Greg Penglis: Creator of our Citizen Legislature, Host of Action Radio, and CEO at Writeyourlaws.com.
Please reach us at Greg@WriteYourLaws.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.
Action Radio is the next evolution beyond Talk Radio. It is a completely interactive and interconnected system of listeners, expert guests, research, social media, the callers, a bill writing website, submitting bills to legislators at every level of government, lobbying and advocating our bills, and talking about it all back on the show.
“We the people, give our consent to be governed, through writing the laws by which we are governed — and have the power through juries, to nullify the laws by which we do not consent to be governed.”
We offer legislative solutions to cure the problems we talk about on Action Radio, in the form of Citizen Bills that can be immediately submitted to Congress, the President, the State Legislatures, local governments, and media from local to worldwide.
WriteYourLaws.com is the worlds first legislative bill writing site attached to a media show. It is for you to try your hand at writing bills. These bills are post for comments and evaluation. We talk about them on the show. If they are good enough and ready for submission, we send bills to the appropriate legislature, which could be Congress if federal law, State Legislatures if state law, and city councils, county commissions, and school boards if local law.
Sure, anyone can. If your bill is good enough it may end up on the President's desk for signature. Legislators hardly write their own bills anymore. Truth is they hardly ever even read them. Especially those 5,000 page BS omni-spending bills. Those bills, and most legislation, are now written by special interests, wealthy individuals, lobbyists, huge corporations, extremist groups, and others with a vested interest in laws benefiting them. With citizen legislation we hope to reverse that so that "We the People" send bills we consent to be governed by to the appropriate legislature, and work to have them passed, rather than waiting for the government to hand down laws written by special interests to enforce on us.
If you have an idea for a bill, or have a comment on a posted bill, send me an email at: Greg@WriteYourLaws.com.
We have a basic format of three sections: first you write introduction or rationale, why your bill is needed; second you post the current law so people see what's there before it's deleted, added to, amended, or a whole new section of law is being added; third you post your ideas, additions, deletions, and amendments to the law for your bill. The best thing to do is look at examples of other citizen bills to get an idea of a format you might want to use. You can also be a guest on the show and ask for help writing your bill. Or you can email me and I'll get you started, and then have you on the show when you have a bill in process.
Actually, no. There are no legal requirements you need in order to write a bill. You should see what members of Congress who are lawyers write. It's embarrassing. However, if your bill is good enough for submission to a legislature, you can bet lots of lawyers will go over it. There are lawyers on the committee staff, lawyers who are members of the legislature, lawyers for the corporations or special interests whose illegal or unjustified power you are trying to take away, or their special subsidies or protected markets, or bloated contracts, especially government unions, or for whichever person, group or company you are trying to take back tax money that shouldn't be spent. Trust me, tons of lawyers are going to go over our bills that make it into a legislature, and into the national debate.
All bills start in "Citizen Bill Ideas." The best of them we talk about on the show. Then we take comments on the bills, make amendments, answer media and other questions, and get the bills ready to submit to the appropriate legislators and legislatures. When a bill is ready for submission, it goes to "All Proposed Laws." If our bill is accepted by a legislature, like Congress, then we start to track and advocate it. Where it is in the process will go right on the bill. We will organize around the bill and try to get media reports, talk show support, commentary on the show from legislators handling the bill, and we will encourage as many people as possible to write emails, make phone calls, and do anything they can to share the bill and get others involved in advocating the bill. We aren't the central control for our legislation. We do not pass bills ourselves. So it's really up to all of you how much you want to do, and how many bills you want to share and advocate, as to how many bills get actually passed into law.
If you have an idea for a bill, or have a comment on a posted bill, send me an email at: Greg@WriteYourLaws.com.
No special interest bill, obscene bill, stupid or frivolous bill, or any bill advocating or protecting crimes will ever be post on WriteYourLaws.com. I don't mind controversy, and I do post bills I disagree with. But no bill gets on our site that isn't creating more freedom and prosperity for We the People, and for All the People! No special interest legislation gets on our site.