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Tim Rice is the Executive Director of the Illinois Legislative Information System and an active NALIT member. Tim has always looked for ways to collaborate with fellow NALIT members. It was an email from Tim posing the concept that perhaps states struggling with obsolete bill status systems should join forces and work together toward one common goal. The outcome of the suggestion was the Multi-State project. While that concept was not completely realized, the spirit of Tim’s idea is the embodiment of what NALIT is about. Further, as a result of this project, worthwhile dialogs were initiated between the states and helped form alliances between states with similar product goals.
Tim has also significantly impacted the Illinois Legislature. Under Tim’s leadership, Illinois has progressed through a four year project completely reengineering their comprehensive legislative information systems including bill drafting and tracking. Every step of the way, Tim has offered to share his successes and failures in order to help colleagues in other states. Most recently, Tim and his staff developed an in-house voting system to replace their antiquated Daktronics system. As soon as it was operational, Tim offered to give all of his expertise and experiences to other states so that they did not have to reinvent the wheel.
Through these and many other examples, Tim has demonstrated a heartfelt commitment to the legislative institution and NALIT. With each accomplishment, Tim has shown himself to be a true leader, always stepping out of the spotlight, giving credit to his staff. NALIT is happy to present the 2005 NALIT Staff Achievement Award to Tim Rice.
The 2005 NALIT Staff Achievement Award is presented to a team of individuals from the Washington State House of Representatives’ committee staff and legislative information technology staff, who developed an innovative project called the "Electronic Bill Book” or EBB. The EBB has revolutionized the way in which the Washington House of Representatives' standing committees conduct their public hearings. As the result of the EBB, the Washington House has reduced the labor-intensive work required to prepare pre-meeting informational packets and maintain paper bill books used in committee hearings. Committee members and staff are able to access to the "bill book" documents and display them during the hearing in an electronic format. In addition, the EBB has simplified the administration of complex committee hearings and has made it easier for committee members to navigate through the sometimes lengthy agendas. This important project is a great example of excellent team work between the committee and the information technology staff to provide a new and more efficient way of conducting committee business.
The project team members were:
Office of Program Research team members
Charlie Gavigan
Dave Knutson
Bob Longman
Cara Shipley (retired)
Legislative Service Center team members
Nate Naismith (retired)
Laura Graham
Sharon Maguire
Oscar Churchill
Kyle Overmiller
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