Legislative Advocacy Training

About This Event

Learn how a bill actually becomes a law and how you can help make it happen. Review the process for funding increases within the state budget and where you can influence the outcome.

Objectives

• Know how a bill becomes a law.

• Know how the budget process works.

About Your Facilitator

Ms. Linda Siegle is president of Resources for Change, a government relations and lobbying firm incorporated in New Mexico. As a lobbyist, she has 36 years of experience working with the New Mexico Legislature and other governmental agencies. She is a publicly elected member of the Board of Trustees for Santa Fe Community College. Ms. Siegle represents many health care and social service clients including the New Mexico Coalition against Domestic Violence, NM Nurse Practitioner Council, NM Nurses Association, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, nurse midwives, psychologists, occupational therapists, chiropractors, Nurse Family Partnership, the Santa Fe Public Schools, the Coalition to End Homelessness, and others. She serves and has served on numerous non-profit boards. She has been a resident of New Mexico for 41 years.