Legislative Service Agency Directors (LSA)
Throughout its 57-year history, the SLC has encouraged regional cooperation and networking among key legislative staff members in the South. Currently, the Conference’s LSA Directors Group comprises the staff executives charged with the full range of administrative and programmatic services for the legislative bodies in the 16 Southern states. The LSA Directors meet twice annually to share knowledge and insights on legislative staffing operations. Frequently, an LSA Directors’ meeting will include presentations on, and analysis of, the disparate bill drafting and information management systems employed by the legislatures in their respective states. The Directors’ program agendas have focused on open meeting and open records provisions; state legislative committee structures and staffing patterns; state redistricting initiatives, homeland defense, legislative personnel policies, and Freedom of Information in a legislative agency.
Each year the LSA Directors present the Carter/Hellard Staff Excellence Award to a legislative staff member in the South who has demonstrated distinguished service to their state’s legislature.
Chair: Jerry Bassett, Director, Legislative Reference Service, Alabama
LSA Contact: Kenneth Fern, Jr.
Material from the 2008 Spring Meeting, May 28-30, Lexington, Kentucky
Legislative Orientation Programs in the Southern States
Please contact Kenneth Fern, Jr. at the Southern Legislative Conference to receive a copy of the compilation in its original format.
