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Texas Legislature Brings Home Top Legislative Website Award
The Texas Legislature took home the award for the nation's top legislative website last week during the National Conference of State Legislatures' 2008 Legislative Summit in New Orleans.
NCSL's Online Democracy Award is given each year to a legislature, legislative chamber or caucus whose website stands out for making democracy user-friendly.
Texas' website, www.legis.state.tx.us, stood out for its ease of navigation, depth of content and openness and availability of information for the public. Key features of Texas' website that contributed to this year's award include:
- Streaming video and audio services;
- Search capabilities;
- An education page directed to citizens young and old;
- An e-mail option which allows constituents to communicate directly with legislators; and
- Available information on elected officials.
The award is sponsored by NCSL’s Legislative Information and Communication Staff Section (LINCS) and National Association of Legislative Information Technology (NALIT).
LINCS is the voice of state legislatures. Its members include public information officers, press secretaries, radio and television producers, photographers, civic educators and all those who serve as the external liaisons between the nation's state legislatures and their constituents. LINCS provides legislative communicators with a network of more than 400 professionals from around the country with which to share ideas, war stories and experiences.
NALIT provides a network of information exchange among those involved in providing management and technical support and oversight for legislative information systems. NALIT works to promote improved communications and to foster better relations between legislative information systems professionals and the legislators and legislative staff they serve.
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