Live webcasts of legislative floor proceedings are available in all 50 state legislatures, the District of Columbia Council, and the Northern Marianas, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands legislatures. At least 24 states and D.C. also broadcast...

The COVID-19 pandemic forced legislatures to make extraordinary shifts in the way they operated during 2020 and 2021, and technology was an integral part of those changes in many states.

In January, the Illinois House of Representatives elected a new speaker after Michael Madigan (D) stepped down from the position. Madigan’s tenure as speaker—he served 38 years in the top spot, including the last 24...

NCSL spoke with five legislative staffers about their top tips for being effective in the legislature.

Scott McPherson has been writing and lecturing about pandemics for 14 years. McPherson, chief information officer for the Florida House of Representatives, has a wealth of knowledge about the issue that he is happy to share with other...

“States are a great laboratory of wonderful ideas,” U.S. Representative Tom Graves (R-Ga.), vice chair of the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress, said last week during a hearing on “Modernizing Legislative...