The 2025 April edition of the NALIT Newsletter.

 

Rhode Island Senate President Dominick Ruggerio, the state’s longest-serving legislator, died April 21 of cancer and related illness. He was 76.

Norman Major, who served 26 years in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, died April 15. He was 91.

In this issue: One Exchange Left! 2025 RELACS Legislative Exchange Program; Last Chance to Nominate a Colleague!; Adventures in Accessibility: The Experience of One Legislative Office; The 2025 RELACS Professional Development Seminar!

NCSL has appointed the 2025 legislative staff nominating committee and is seeking nominations for legislative staff to serve on the Executive Committee for conference year 2025-2026.

State lawmakers have long sought to attract date center operations with generous tax breaks and incentives. But now, some are concerned that the infrastructure needed to add those facilities to the electric grid will drive up residents’...

Each year, NCSL devotes a week to celebrating the contributions and accomplishments of legislative staff. In 2025, programming includes a town hall, special-edition podcast, webinar and the annual shoutout competition.

In this issue of Capitol to Capitol: House Paases Bill to Limit Judicial Powers, Proposed Medicaid Changes, Disaster Resiliency Grant Program Ended, and more.

A Texas state representative talks about the annual Texas SandFest, a world-renowned sand-sculpting competition on the beach in Port Aransas.

A new book from NCSL and the federal Election Assistance Commission gathers best practices in election procedures from across the nation.

Henry Kinch is the executive director of Rhode Island’s Joint Committee on Legislative Services.

Every day, you and your colleagues work behind the scenes to support the work of state legislatures. From drafting bills to making statehouses accessible to the public to keeping computer networks secure, legislatures couldn’t function...

April 2025 issue of the News Reactor, NCSL’s nuclear newsletter. 

NCSL joins other national bipartisan organizations to provide an update to State and Local Fiscal Facts, an overview of the current fiscal health of state and local governments, including snapshots of state finances, federal role in...

NCSL joins members of the Public Finance Network in a welcome letter to leadership of the 119th Congress that highlights the importance of tax-exempt status of state and local bonds as well as support for the network’s recent primer,...

In this issue of Capitol to Capitol NCSL Comments on House Consumer Privacy Measure, NCSL Comments on House Consumer Privacy Measure, and more.

Proposed threatened species designation for the monarch butterfly could help conservationists protect habitat critical to the black-and-orange pollinator’s survival.

Growing public awareness of backlogs in testing sexual assault evidence kits has prompted states to work toward eliminating their inventories.

Nikki Farrell is the manager of financial and purchasing operations for the New Jersey Legislature. She spoke with NCSL as part of the “Staff Snapshots” series.

 NCSL's comments to the House Energy and Commerce Privacy Working Group.

As the U.S. doubles down on tariffs as a primary tool of U.S. trade strategy, individual states are beginning to assert a more active role in international economic engagement.

In this issue of Capitol to Capitol NCSL State-Fed Advocate on Budget, Department of Education Cancels Spending Extension for Federal Education Stimulus Funds, and more.

A recent NCSL survey suggests that legislators are spending more time on legislative work than they were 20 years ago.

To offer a clear and comprehensive overview of election administration from both state-to-state and national perspectives, NCSL and the U.S. Election Assistance Commission released the report Helping America Vote: Election Administration in the...