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The first of these is the Bill Drafting Manual. It is used by all attorneys at the Legislature to prepare bills and resolutions. The Manual explains the Legislature’s conventions used in wording, formatting, and legal writing. It contains many examples to illustrate the most common situations relevant to legislative bills.\nAnother useful file is the basic bill template. This is what our drafters use to build a bill for introduction. This template also contains the style sheet information for the proper formatting of various parts of a bill.\nUsing the Flash Drive\nThe flash drive provided by Legislative Services contains a series of files, in Word format, known as the Drafter’s Code. This contains the latest revisions to the Code plus some recommended amendments to revise gender references and remove certain deprecated language. All files are in a folder on the disc named “WV Code” and it is organized into subfolders for each chapter of the Code, e.g. “WVC 11” for Chapter 11.  Within each chapter folder your will find all of the sections for that chapter as well as files for the chapter and article headings.\nThe root directory of the flash drive also contains a copy of the basic bill template and the Bill Drafting Manual.\nCREATING A BILL\nTo begin creating a bill, open up the bill template in Word. You should see a page that looks like this:\nSince this is just a template, you should immediately save this as a separate document under a name that you wish to use for your bill draft. You can then begin to add text to your bill.\nAs you are probably aware, the new bill format uses a cover page for the information that previously appeared in the bill heading on the first page of bills. There are several fields for information on this page that may be completed later by legislative staff and you do not have to fill in or change many of these fields.  In most cases, the only text that you may want to change is the name of the chamber and the sponsor information.\nWhen you click on the text that says, “Enter Sponsors Here,” a thin outline appears around this text and you can simply overwrite this text with the name of the bill sponsor.  For example, “Delegates Allwork and Often” or “Senator Howse.”\nThe second page is for the real substance of the bill. There are two areas (fields) that hold the place of the Bill Title and the body of the bill, although these are not indicated by boxes or shaded areas.\nThe line numbers are already set up in the document and the first line number one is for the section of the bill known as the Bill Title. The second line numbered 1 is the place where a drafter writes the operative portions of the bill. Most drafters prefer to work on the actual text of the legislative code first. Later you may return and prepare the Title to reference the Code sections that are to be affected by the legislation. You may begin writing from scratch, but often you’ll probably want to pull in text that already appears in some other form.  Typically, this involves inserting code sections from the Drafter’s Code or pasting text from an old bill or a draft provided by someone else. We’ll explain both of these methods below.\nINSERT CODE SECTIONS AND HEADERS\nThere are two ways to insert sections of the Code into your draft bill.  One method is to open one of the section files and then copy the text from that file into the bill shell.  The other method is to insert the text from the section files from within the bill shell once you have begun your draft.\nIn 2007 Microsoft did away with the File, Import command that allowed a person to pick other documents and in","cbCaijIfWyuMe9Oj","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijIfWyuMe9Oj","docx",818784,"English","# Bill Drafting with Microsoft Word\n## Sources of Materials for Drafting\n## Using the Flash Drive\n## Creating a Bill\n## Insert Code Sections and Headers\n## Inserting Chapter and Article Headings\n## Using Text from Other Sources","[{\"question\":\"What materials are used to draft bills and resolutions in the legislature?\",\"answer\":\"The Bill Drafting Manual and the basic bill template are used. 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