Each year, NCSL devotes a week to celebrating the contributions and accomplishments of legislative staff. In 2023, programming includes a town hall, special-edition podcast, webinar and the annual shoutout competition.

An NCSL Q&A with Louis Lindstrom, the deputy director of civic education for the Washington Senate.

To preserve access to important emergency and other outpatient health care in rural communities, Congress created a new Medicare provider type, rural emergency hospital, under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021.

For all the talk about the power of AI (and its ethical implications), the burgeoning technology—once relegated to the pages of science fiction—remains remarkably under-regulated (if not unregulated) in the United States.

Supreme Court will reexamine and potentially limit or overturn the so-called Chevron deference, a decades-old doctrine that allows government agencies to interpret statutes whose language is not clear.

Shifting Medicaid spending from institutional to home-based care, a process known as rebalancing, can reduce state costs and let seniors stay at home as they age.

NCSL provides fact-based information on issues, statutory language, legislative process questions and so much more. NCSL staff track more than 1,400 topics to answer information requests and provide testimony before legislative committees.

Every year, we pause to celebrate the good work of legislative staff, like you, who work behind the scenes to support state legislatures. Join us for a conversation with Anne Sappenfield, NCSL Staff Chair and director of the Wisconsin Legislative...

In this issue of Capitol to Capitol Register for NCSL Policy Week, NCSL Comments on School Meals Community Eligibility Provision, and more.

This is Legislative Staff Week 2023 at NCSL, and we sat down with two staffers--one a long-time staffer and the other earlier in her career—to talk about why people come to work in the legislature and why they stay.

Tennessee uses a “common sense approach” to identify challenges in workforce development and provide key policy options to ensure a pipeline of well-prepared workers.

NCSL has appointed the 2023 legislative staff nominating committee and is seeking nominations for legislative staff to serve on the Executive Committee for conference year 2023-2024.

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a case involving a deaf student means many school districts and state boards of education may now face both administrative proceedings and civil suits over inadequate resources for disabled students.

Two cases will give the Supreme Court an opportunity to define when an official’s use of social media should be considered personal and when it should be considered a governmental function.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case that could determine the ability of state law enforcement agencies to use civil asset forfeiture, a practice that four states have abolished entirely.

In this issue of Capitol to Capitol NCSL Letter to Congress on Farm Bill Reauthorization and Town Hall, House Republicans Unveil Border Security Bill, and more.

May edition of the Plugged In Newsletter, NCSL’s monthly energy newsletter highlighting key state and federal developments affecting energy policies.

NCSL Goes to Tulsa plus a roundup of front-end policy, research and news.

Host Tim Storey’s guest for this episode is Leonor Ehling, the executive director of the Center for California Studies at Sacramento State University and co-director of the Legislative Staff Management Institute (LSMI), which is a flagship...

With the current farm bill set to expire on Sept. 30, join NCSL as we offer some background on the impact of this vital legislation on our food and farming systems. We’ll discuss how farm bill programs strengthen the economy, ensure fair...

Cyrus Anderson is the deputy sergeant-at-arms for the Wisconsin State Senate.

Thuba Nguyễn is a communications specialist for the Minnesota House People of Color and Indigenous (POCI) Caucus and Queer Caucus.

Jeff Wall is the sergeant-at-arms for the Idaho House of Representatives.

Former Maryland House Speaker Casper R. Taylor and former Maryland fiscal director William Sawtelle “Bill” Ratchford II died this week.