A recent NCSL report, “State Legislators at Work: Insights Into Legislator Time and Demographics,” gives insights into who legislators are, how much time they dedicate to legislative work and how that work impacts their other...

Interim committees are a critical tool for legislatures when they are out of session. They may take the form of standing committees empowered to meet during breaks between sessions; or committees, task forces or commissions created specifically...

Efforts to form a single national organization to represent state legislatures began in the early 1970s. Three organizations that represented different aspects of legislative work came together to form NCSL, a move that was intended to signal to...

To better understand the demands on legislators and legislative staff time during legislative interims, NCSL studied the number and type of meetings that occurred during the most recently completed interim in 2023.

Hot topics in legislative operational policies for 2025 include use of generative AI, legislator compensation, chamber rules and staff recruitment. Forecast ’25 

There are lots of ways we can use artificial intelligence, experts at NCSL’s Legislative Summit said. But they emphasized that it’s best to define the problem you’re trying to solve, then decide whether AI is the right tool for...