KLRD staff members coordinate and help plan interim committee meetings and certain commissions and task forces that meet throughout the year.
During the regular legislative session, standing committees are coordinated and planned by committee assistants, who should be contacted through the office of the standing committee's chairperson.
Standing Committees are established by statute or by House or Senate Leadership that meet during the regular legislative session.
Interim Committees are either established by statute and meet outside the regular legislative session (e.g. joint committees, oversight committees, commissions, and task forces) or are created by Legislative Coordinating Council to review specified topics and legislation during the Interim.
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Role of KLRD - Standing Committees During the Legislative Session
KLRD typically assigns two research analysts to each standing subject-matter committee, and two or more fiscal analysts to each House budget committee, the House Appropriations Committee, and the Senate Ways and Means Committee and its subcommittees.
As committee assistants normally are not available prior to the start of the Legislative Session, analysts work with chairpersons to develop agendas and schedule speakers for committee meetings during the first week or two of the Session.
During the Session, research and fiscal analysts perform a variety of tasks for committees, as shown in the list below (activities carried out solely or primarily by either research or fiscal analysts are noted):
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Attend each committee and subcommittee meeting;
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Respond to questions from committee members;
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Gather and present information upon request of the committee or one of its members;
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Explain a bill (this responsibility sometimes is performed by staff of the Office of Revisor of Statutes, depending on the preference of the chairperson);
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Prepare and present budget analyses for individual state agencies (fiscal analysts);
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Prepare and publish supplemental notes summarizing each bill on which the committee takes action (primarily research analysts);
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Prepare detailed explanations of appropriations bills, including the final budget bill;
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Prepare subcommittee reports incorporating budgetary adjustments throughout the appropriations process (fiscal analysts);
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Prepare and publish Conference Committee Report Briefs (CCRBs) (research analysts);
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Prepare a three-column report for an appropriations bill in conference committee that highlights the position of each chamber (fiscal analysts); and
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Review draft minutes of committee meetings.
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2014 Interim Information
Statutory Joint Committees
Special Committees
Other Task Forces, Commissions, Committees
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