Did you know NCSL staff will travel to your state to provide committee testimony or to convene a stakeholder meeting?

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Fane Lozman may be the only person to fit within a “unique class of retaliatory arrest claims.” But that is all it took for him to win his (second) Supreme Court case.

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In 1986 a majority of the Supreme Court agreed that partisan gerrymandering may be unconstitutional in certain circumstances.

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Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on what were expected to be a pair of blockbuster redistricting cases—Gill v. Whitford and Benisek v. Lamone. The end result: the status quo has not changed.

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Compared to FY 2018, the FY 2019 budget process has been moving along seamlessly over the past several months.

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While the ban is certainly a setback in the short-term, states may see it as a way to increase waste reduction efforts and develop end-market opportunities to process collected materials and turn them into new products.

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To kick off the summer, this week’s NCSL podcast, “Our American States,” finds host Gene Rose discussing how summer learning programs help close the achievement gap with Matthew Boulay and Representative Barbara Smith Warner (D-Oregon).

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Have you ever wanted to quickly find the leaders of a Legislature, the percent of female legislators in a state or the state’s Capitol city? Well, now you can find all that and more on NCSL’s new Legislatures-At-A-Glance page!

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After every Election Day, a slew of news articles tout what went right, or focus on what went wrong. This primary season there seems to be a new, yet subtle trend in the news: stickers.

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In a situation the Portland Press Herald called a “strange set of circumstances,” Maine voters passed a popular referendum during Tuesday's election which repealed a recent state law that would have delayed the use of ranked choice voting.

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