Legislators' Home Pages and Policies Regarding Links to Personally-Maintained Web Sites

Legislators' Home Pages and Policies
Regarding External Linking

March 2001

State	Standard Profiles for Members on Non-Partisan Web site?	External Links from Members' Web Sites Allowed?*	Notes
Alabama	Yes	Yes
Alaska	Yes	No	A single link to majority /minority web pages is provided on legislature's primary web page.
Arizona	Yes	Yes
Arkansas	Yes	No
Calif. Assembly Calif. Senate	Yes Yes
Colorado	Yes	Yes, with disclaimer¹
Connecticut	Yes
Delaware	Yes	Yes	One link will be provided to a privately run web site of the elected legislator when requested by the legislator.
Florida House Florida Senate	Yes	No
Georgia	Yes
Hawaii	Yes
Idaho	No	Yes	Online member directory includes links to members' e-mail addresses and also members' personal web pages on outside servers.
Illinois	Yes	No
Indiana	No		Member information is on partisan Web sites
Iowa	Yes	Yes, with disclaimer²
Kansas	Yes	Yes	Some of personalized pages are still hosted on "state" web servers such as the Information Network of Kansas. In these cases there are rules about what kinds of data and links can be included on a web page. The personalized pages can contain links to other sites such as political party sites or whatever. These are supposed to be clearly indicating that one is leaving a state server and going to a commercial one.
Kentucky	Yes	No
Louisiana House	Yes	No
Louisiana Senate	Yes	Yes	Each members' page has a section called "Topics of Interest," which on occasion has contained an outside link pointing to further information on particular legislation a member may be supporting or rejecting. A disclaimer is included.
Maine	Yes
Maryland	Yes	No
Massachusetts	Yes
Michigan House Michigan Senate	Yes Yes
Minnesota House	Yes
Minnesota Senate	Yes	No	Press releases or other documents on member's page may have text of a URL to an outside site. This is NOT a live hyperlink.
Mississippi House Mississippi Senate	Yes Yes	No Not addressed
Missouri House Missouri Senate	Yes Yes	No
Montana	Yes	No
Nebraska	Yes	No
Nevada	Yes	Under consideration
New Hampshire	Yes	No	Links to members' home sites are listed but are not live.
New Jersey	Yes	Under review
New Mexico	Yes
New York Assembly New York Senate	Yes Yes
North Carolina	Yes	No
North Dakota	Yes	No
Ohio House Ohio Senate	Yes Yes
Oklahoma House Oklahoma Senate	Yes Yes
Oregon House Oregon Senate	Yes Yes
Pennsylvania	Yes
Rhode Island	Yes
South Carolina	Yes
South Dakota	Yes	No
Tennessee	Yes
Texas	Yes
Utah	Yes	Yes, with disclaimer³
Vermont	No	Yes	Online member directory includes links to member's email addresses. A link to a member's personal page on an external server could be added if requested (none provided currently).
Virginia House Virginia Senate	Yes Yes	No No
Washington	Yes Yes
West Virginia	Yes
Wisconsin	Yes	Yes	In addition to a generic home page, a member may also host a "personal" or news page site which is also accessible from the main legislative home page. Members are responsible for the content and for maintaining their personal home page although technical support is provided by central IT staff. In keeping with Internet use guidelines http://www.legis.state.wi.us/Internet_Guidelines.html adopted by legislative leadership, the only links permitted are to sites maintained by, or for, governmental agencies.
Wyoming	No

¹ "Private Home Page - NOT maintained by State of Colorado - maintained by individual legislator."

² "By selecting any of the links provided below, you will leave the Iowa General Assembly's state-supported website. The links are provided for your convenience. All content and opinions expressed in the linked pages are those of the page owner, individual member of the Iowa General Assembly or the legislative caucus who sponsors the page. The Iowa General Assembly is not responsible for the content or opinions expressed therein."

³ "You are now leaving the official Utah State Legislative web site for... www . . . "

Legislators' Home Pages and Policies Regarding External Linking

Legislators' Home Pages and Policies
Regarding External Linking