1. “Get the effective date of a law or
regulation – in a jiffy. End the
inefficiency of calendar counting and
the risks of miscounting today! “

2. House Bill 442
House Bill 442
If you work in the legislative or
regulatory field, chances are that you
have encountered a law or regulation
without an effective date clause.

3. In most cases, you whipped out your
calendar and counted X number of days
after some legislative action (that is, 60
days after the legislature’s adjournment or
45 days after being filed with the Secretary
of State) to determine the effective date.

4. In a hypothetical world, let’s assume that you’re
in charge of assigning the effective dates for all
laws and regulations impacting the nursing
industry. This year, the Kentucky Legislature
enacted a law, House Bill 442, amending the
licensure requirements for nursing applicants.
You look at the law and notice that there is no
effective date clause telling you when the law is
effective. Based on your background, you know
that the state constitution makes a law effective
90 days after the legislature’s adjournment
unless noted otherwise in the law.

5. How would you determine the
exact effective date of the law?

6. Would you pull out a calendar and
literally count 90 days after the
legislature adjourned and risk
miscounting the effective date?

7. With LegisCalculateTM, you no
longer have to make this
inefficient choice.

8. Launch LegisCalculateTM on
your desktop computer.

9. Go to the “Select Date” section of
the software and select the date
(based on one of the three
legislative actions listed in the
“Hint for Date” section).

10. Next, go the “Day(s) to add”
section of the calculator and
enter the number of days you
want to count in advance. Here,
it would be 90 days.

11. Presto, the effective date of
House Bill 442 automatically
appears in the “Effective Date of
Measure:” section of
LegisCalculateTM in long and
short date formats.

12. In addition to the calculator tool,
LegisCalculateTM incorporates
legislative features under the
“Bonus Charts” menu to help you
efficiently do your job.

13. One feature includes:
A state-by-state chart of
effective dates of laws along
with citations.

14. Another feature includes:
A state-by-state chart of bill
status telephone numbers and
state legislative Web addresses
that you can launch from within
the application itself.

15. LegisCalculateTM also contains a
“Help” menu if you need
instructions on how to operate
the application.

16. For more information on LegisCalculateTM, click here.
LegisCalculateTM and its logo are registered trademarks of Tina Crum, J.D., M.S.J.. The
application was developed in 2003 in partnership with Aleksey Kazanskiy. Kazanskiy is a
software engineer with more than a decade of experience in developing financial
client/server systems for large companies. His specialty includes the creation of
customized databases, reports, client/server-based software and financial tasks. He is
also experienced in Web programming.