At the Library Districts meeting yesterday, Wells Branch Library's founding Board Chair Dianne Koehler shared some helpful information about tracking legislation during the current session of the Texas Legislature. See below.
Thanks, Dianne! Laurie Laurie Mahaffey, Deputy Director Central Texas Library System, Inc. 1005 West 41st Street Austin, Texas 78756 www.ctls.net [email protected] 512-583-0704 x18 800-262-4431 x18 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Diannek Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 6:44 AM To: Library Districts Subject: [Txlibdistricts] Legislative bill tracking Here is how to sign up for an account and track the bills that affect libraries in general or library districts 1. go to http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/Home.aspx 2. in the middle toward the bottom find My TLO and select Track Legislation with Bill Lists 3. use the new account button if you haven't been to the site before or sign in 4. set up your legislation tracking page 1. set up one or more bill lists and save 2. on the second page enter in the number of the bill and info and save 5. search for possbile legislation 1. use search button along top row 2. select text search and use "all of the words" "library district" 3. as the session goes on you may want to check/uncheck options to the right side 4. add the bill # that you want to track to the list you established in #4 6. you may want to set up alerts or RSS feeds from the my TLO so you are notified of progress on the bills you are tracking. 7. Please share the #s of the bills you find with the list and any other info so we can all be more aware. Hope this helps--I do not find any current legislation but we are a couple of weeks early yet. we are not introducing any but someone else could. Dianne Koehler Wells Branch Community Library tel: 989-3188 cell: 507-0116 I GoodSearch for Wells Branch Community Library FOL Raise money for our charity just by searching the Internet or shopping online with GoodSearch using www.goodsearch.com <http://www.goodsearch.com/> - powered by Yahoo!
