Links and Info for Tn MS Youth Leg

Links and info for Middle School Youth Leg

The Official Website for Tennessee Youth in Government
http://www.tennesseeyig.org/yig/msyig/index.htm


Follow this link to find out what current bills are in the TN legislature, law codes, the official TN Legislature website, and Lexus Nexus (Great Research Site)
http://www.tennesseeyig.org/yig/links.htm

This link below has some great information on how to pick a topic. This is guide is for Youth Leg in the State of Indiana but the suggestions on pages 1 and 2 of the guide give greats steps for how your group picks a topic and will work for TN. Just make sure you look up laws in Tennessee and not Indiana! (see above links)
http://www.inyag.org/downloads/Legislature/The%20Bill%20Development%20Process.pdf

This link has a bunch of examples of Middle School bill for Youth Leg in Michigan. Read these over to get some ideas for what your group may want to do.
http://www.myig.org/ms/ms_docs/07%20Middle%20School%20House%20bills.pdf


A great way to find possible topics that could be made into laws is to search Editorials from Tennessee Newspapers. Editorials are different from regular newspaper articles because they state opinions where are article are supposed to just give facts without any opinion. I have links below to several editorial sections from TN newspapers.

Remember to focus on TN issues not national ones.

Memphis – The Commercial Appeal
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/opinion/editorial/

Nashville – The Tennessean
http://www.tennessean.com/section/OPINION?nav=6

Knoxville – The News Sentinel
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/opinion/

Chattanooga – The Times Free Press
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/opinion/