Office of Policy and Legal Analysis
David E. Boulter, Director
David C. Elliott, Principal Analyst
Patrick T. Norton, Principal Analyst
Margaret J. Reinsch, Principal Analyst
Darlene Shores Lynch, Senior Researcher
Primary Services:
- Staff 15 joint standing committees (and other legislative committees as assigned), including providing policy
and legal research and analysis on pending bills, helping organize and facilitate committee decision-making process,
preparing management reports of bills in committees and committee studies, preparing committee amendments and new
drafts and helping design study research requests
- Staff interim study subcommittees and commissions, including providing policy and legal research and analysis,
helping organize and facilitate study group decision-making process and drafting final reports and associated legislation
- Prepare approved staff studies, including researching and analyzing background information on assigned topics,
defining options for addressing issues suggested or utilized by others and drafting final reports
- Draft bills for introduction in cooperation with the Revisor of Statutes
- Provide statutory analysis of budget bills in cooperation with the Office of Fiscal and Program Review
- Prepare general legal and policy background materials and respond to legislators' requests for information