Brian Ebbert is the floor director for the California Assembly speaker.

Meggan Foesch is the business manager for the Wisconsin Senate.

Lena M. Lee is a research librarian for the South Carolina Legislative Council.

This issue takes a look at updates in election cyber-security, an interview with Jefferson County Colorado's Clerk and Recorder George Stern, and other worth noting items.

Highlighted in this issue are the Professional Development Seminar in Seattle, the Joint-Canadian Meeting in Concord, New Hampshire, and an Associate Exchange Program report from Jay Jacobs of the Kentucky House of Representatives.

Carole Wellmann supports marketing and member outreach in coordinating and executing integrated marketing plans to promote NCSL meetings, events, services and policy deliverables. Wellmann comes to NCSL with technical experience in executing...

Brian L. Takeshita is the chief clerk of the House of Representatives in Hawaii.

This issue looks at international education examples that states can emulate, the tax break conundrum and how to help disabled and ill workers get back on the job.

This issue of The Canvass dives deep into the world of youth poll workers, an interview with Senator Melanie Levesque (D-NH), Phillip Warren and Tammy Smith (election administrators in Nashville, Tenn.) and other worth noting items in elections.

In this issue: Information for Authors; A Note From the Editors; Recent Developments in the Law of Lawmaking (Tim Sekerak, Melissa Bybee-Fields, Morgan Speer, Heshani Wijemanne, Adriane Crouse and Misty Greene); Professional Journal Index

As a senior policy specialist, Andrew Smalley works on postsecondary education topics and legislative tracking at NCSL. Prior to joining NCSL, he was a legislative intern for three years at the Colorado General Assembly, working with legislators...

The North Carolina General Assembly’s website took home the 2019 Online Democracy Award for having a superior legislative website this week during the National Conference of State Legislatures’ (NCSL) 2019 Legislative Summit in...

The August 2019 issue of The Canvass discusses mail disputes for voters overseas, the Elections & Redistricting agenda at the 2019 Annual Legislative Summit in Nashville and other worth noting information in the elections world.

Mississippi and West Virginia joined the list of states that have signed legislation to remove the lifetime ban on public benefits for those formerly convicted of drug-related crimes, joining the Virgin Islands, Washington, D.C., and twenty-two...

This is the Summer 2019 edition of The Working Paper, the official newsletter of the National Legislative Program Evaluation Society.

“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...

William T. Pound retires after 32 years as executive director of NCSL; Tim Storey is the new director; welcome Gen Z lawmakers; distracted driving gets lawmakers attention.

Bryan Thomas serves as the chief communications officer, guiding NCSL’s brand, media, website, design, content and member outreach work alongside the fabulous communications team. Thomas joined NCSL after leading communications teams at a...

The July 2019 issue of NCSL's elections newsletter discusses the 100th anniversary of Women's Suffrage, reviews enacted election legislation in June and more.

Highlighted in this issue are the Spring Business Meeting in Jackson Hole and Wisconsin Senate Staff Clerk Jeff Beighley's account of his Associate Exchange visit to the Alaska Legislature.

Highlighted in this issue are the Spring Business Meeting in Jackson Hole and Wisconsin Senate Staff Clerk Jeff Beighley's account of his Associate Exchange visit to the Alaska Legislature.

The Double Jeopardy Clause provides that no person may be “twice put in jeopardy” “for the same offence.” Per the “dual-sovereignty” doctrine, the Supreme Court has long held that a “crime under one...

Free college tuition programs, the coming increase in Alzheimer's cases, the future of the death penalty, and a celebration of Legislative Staff Week.