Sentence examples for legislative services from inspiring English sources

As many parliamentary democracies have already done, the Council should establish a legislative services commission that sets the rules for hiring, compensation, promotion and retention of legislative staff.

Mr. Abernathy submitted bogus expenses from 1994 to 1997, saying that much of the money went to pay aides for legislative services.

A year ago that figure was just under 50percentt and five years ago, only 36percentt, said Eugene C. Laney, the association's director of information and legislative services.

"It's one thing to load up the lame duck during a reasonable budget cycle, another to do it when the treasurer and the office of legislative services is telling you the future is very uncertain," Mr. Kenney said.

That estimate is based on projections of sharp growth in international business travel, coupled with improvements in air-fare distribution and other factors that "will open the door for additional travel by companies" that once tended "to stay home because of high travel costs," said Eugene Laney Jr., director of information and legislative services at the industry trade group.

In their testimony today before the Assembly budget committee, officials from the legislative services office and the treasurer's office said the corporate business tax, which was overhauled after a bitter debate that dominated the budget discussions a year ago, was much more successful than they had expected.

At Yale Law School in 1967 he started Yale Legislative Services, which mobilized students to provide first-rate analytical and drafting services to legislators that lacked their own staff support.

The state Constitution requires the next governor to present a new 2002-2003 budget almost as soon as he takes office, and it will not be an easy task, said Alan R. Kooney, legislative budget and finance officer in the Office of Legislative Services, the Legislature's nonpartisan administrative and research staff.

Professional services for members of the Senate and the House of Delegates are provided by the Department of Legislative Services, which is non-partisan.

The sentence informs people that the Division of Legislative Services, the legislature's in-house law-writing service, did not author the bill.

O'Neil has not heard back from the Office of Legislative Services about his request, but said he expects to discuss the issue with staff and other legislators during meetings later this week in Helena.