In this installment of NCSL’s six-episode podcast series, “Building Democracy: The Story of Legislatures,” we travel west to see how women fought and won their right to vote, as well as how they shaped state legislatures and...

As an associate director of communications, Lisa Ryckman oversees the creation, editing and distribution of exceptional content for State Legislatures News and State Legislatures magazine. An award-winning journalist, Ryckman has decades of...

For the visual learners out there, compare the postelection map of legislative control against the map of preelection control. Can you spot the differences? Probably not. At this point there are very few changes. That is phenomenal in and of...

NCSL's newsletter about all things elections. An update on litigation in the current election season; a conversation with Georgia Representative Shaw Blackmon; and the latest election news.

A variety of funding streams through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act are supporting states in providing students with the resources they need to engage in online learning.

As a policy specialist, Alex McWard supports the Environment, Energy and Transportation Program by conducting legislative research. His research is primarily focused on renewable energy, emissions, energy efficiency, building electrification and...

Taylor Huhn works in the NCSL Leaders’ Center. Huhn comes to NCSL with several years of experience as a congressional staffer and federal lobbyist. He attended the University of Kansas, where he earned a bachelor’s in political...

NCSL's newsletter about all things elections. An update on litigation in the current election season; a conversation with Georgia Representative Shaw Blackmon; and the latest election news.

This is the Fall 2020 edition of The Working Paper, the newsletter for the National Legislative Program Evaluation Society.

It is hard to vote twice in the same state for the same election because states keep a record of who has voted. The first ballot that is recorded from a given voter gets counted, precluding the person from voting again.

The NCSL Task Force on Military and Veterans Affairs held a one-hour virtual roundtable meeting on Monday, Aug. 3, 2020.

In this installment, we explore how the states and their legislatures expanded west, split apart, and came together again.

Information for Authors; A Note From the Editors; Preface; Bad Facts Make Bad Law (Alfred W. Speer); League of Women Voters v. Evers (2019 WI 75) (Kirstynn Gonzales and Sanam Hooshidary); An In-Depth Look at Assistive Technologies Provided by the...

NCSL's newsletter about all things elections. An update on litigation in the current election season; a conversation with Georgia Representative Shaw Blackmon; and the latest election news.

The increased need for medical care and prescription drugs, coupled with scarcity of primary care physicians in rural areas, exacerbates many barriers to accessing necessary health care. 

The Lost Wage Assistance (LWA) will be administered by the states and territories through a grant agreement with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)—grants can be applied for at grants.gov.

NCSL’s Washington staff advocate on behalf of state legislatures before Congress, the White House and federal agencies.

As the meetings manager, Megan MacKenzie plans and executes 15-plus in-person meetings a year. MacKenzie comes to NCSL with eight years of meeting planning and management experience. She earned a bachelor's degree from the...

NCSL Daily Development is a limited series toolbox of five useful online resources on a common theme. These resources are relevant to every level of the legislative world: legislators, legislative staff and leadership.

Tune in to this popular program to hear Lisa Soronen, chief counsel and executive director of the State and Local Legal Center, discuss the Supreme Court cases that will have the greatest state impact. 

Criminal justice coordinating councils, which bring together stakeholders to explore and respond to issues in the criminal justice system, are among the ways legislatures can engage with local governments to produce criminal justice reform.

Tune in to this popular program to hear Lisa Soronen, chief counsel and executive director of the State and Local Legal Center, discuss the Supreme Court cases that will have the greatest state impact.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Great American Outdoors Act, 310-107, on July 22 and sent it to President Donald Trump, who is expected to sign it into law, given the bill’s broad support and his encouragement of it on Twitter.