This booklet provides vocational educators with a guide that they can follow as they plan their communications with legislators. The guide contains two parts. The first part explains the legislative branch of government and shows how an idea becomes a bill and then a law. The second part provides effective communication strategies that vocational educators can use as they express their views to legislators. These include personal visits, telephone calls, telegrams, and written correspondence. This part concludes with tips on (1) the important issues that should concern vocational educators, (2) whom to contact, and (3) when to communicate. (YLB)