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The National Association of Legislative Information Technology recognizes Ann McLaughlin for her professional accomplishments and contributions to the National Association of Legislative Information Technology (NALIT).

Ann has directed the Delaware Legislative Information System (LIS) since 1998.  Under her leadership, Delaware’s LIS was elevated to a seamless, integrated system accommodating all the intricacies of the legislative process.  In response to a need for a more efficient workflow as well as the need to progress with technology, Delaware began to seek a solution for its legislative systems.  Ann launched an extensive study of the legislative process to determine the location of duplicate work and inefficiency.  She oversaw the planning and implementation of a Lotus Notes solution for the legislature.  The original plan was to create a database to house legislative information and another for document management.  The databases enable a draft to be created and conform to the specific processes required by both the House and Senate.  Other requirements included the preservation of the legislative process, as well as the absolute security required by this environment.  In four years the LIS has grown to 26 production databases, some of which are available via the Internet and an LIS Intranet site.

Ann has shared this information and exchanged ideas with her colleagues at NCSL conferences and seminars.  Ann has served as a moderator or speaker at numerous NALIT sessions and has contributed articles to the association newsletter.  In addition, Ann served on the NALIT Executive Committee as a Director for the past two years and as a member of the 2002 NALIT Officer Nominating Committee.
 

The National Association of Legislative Information Technology honors Jim Swain for his contributions to the Kentucky Legislature and to NALIT and NCSL.  Jim began working as a General Assembly employee for the Kentucky Clerk of the House of Representatives in 1978.  After becoming a full time employee of the Information Technology section in 1981, Jim helped to develop bill drafting, business and legislative automation systems, network and computer platforms, and planning information technology strategies.  Jim was instrumental in Kentucky’s move from a mainframe-based information system, to a mini-computer system, to the current distributed client server Internet/Intranet network supporting 650 users.  In 1996, Jim was named Chief Information Officer for the Legislative Research Commission.  Under his direction, the legislature automated the manual bill book process, converted in-house bill drafting and statute search systems, and implemented chamber automation.  Jim has also served as staff to the Kentucky Information Technology Task Force and as Legislative Liaison to the Kentucky Geographic Information Advisory Council.

Jim served on the NALIT Executive Committee as a regional director from 1996 through 1998.  He has continued to share his technical and management expertise with his colleagues in NALIT, as a speaker and moderator for NALIT sessions and by supporting strong involvement by his staff in NALIT and NCSL. He has shared programming code with other state legislatures and also served as a lead state in providing bill text and status information for the pilot project of NCSL’s National Bill Text and Status Project.

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