§ 22-11-1. Permanent committee — Composition. There is created a permanent joint committee on legislative services consisting of the president and the minority leader of the senate, the majority and minority leaders from the house of representatives, and the speaker of the house of representatives. The members of the committee shall serve until their successors […]
§ 22-11-2. Officers. The speaker of the house of representatives shall serve as chairperson of the joint committee and the president of the senate shall serve as vice-chairperson. History of Section.P.L. 1960, ch. 181, art. 6, § 1; P.L. 2001, ch. 180, § 32.
§ 22-11-3. Functions. (a) It shall be exclusively the responsibility of the joint committee to act upon all administrative matters affecting the operation of the general assembly, including, but not limited to: (1) The preparation of the legislative payrolls; (2) The preparation of requests for the annual operating budget for the general assembly; (3) The […]
§ 22-11-3.1. Rules and regulations. (a) The joint committee on legislative services is authorized and empowered to adopt any rules and regulations that are deemed necessary to accomplish the purposes of this chapter, a copy of which rules and regulations shall be filed with the secretary of state and available for public inspection; provided, that […]
§ 22-11-3.2. Law revision director. The joint committee on legislative services is authorized and empowered to appoint a law revision director in charge of law revision, who shall perform the duties as the joint committee on legislative services may prescribe in relation to law revision. History of Section.P.L. 1985, ch. 153, § 3; P.L. 1988, […]
§ 22-11-3.3. Printing and binding of proceedings of general assembly. The joint committee on legislative services shall, at the end of each session of the general assembly, cause to be published, with a proper index, a number of copies of the public laws not exceeding three thousand (3,000) that shall have been passed during the […]
§ 22-11-3.4. Duties of the law revision director. (a) In addition to other duties assigned to the law revision director, he or she shall rearrange, rephrase, and consolidate the public laws and acts and resolves of the general assembly so that redundancies may be avoided, obsolete enactments eliminated, contradictions reconciled, omissions supplied, and imperfections cured. […]
§ 22-11-3.5. Revision of statutes — Gender neutrality. The law revision director is authorized and empowered to amend statutes for the purpose of making statutory language gender neutral. History of Section.P.L. 1988, ch. 378, § 2.
§ 22-11-4. Employees. To accomplish the purposes of this chapter, the joint committee is authorized to employ a chief legislative clerk and any other legislative assistants, including clerical assistants, that it deems necessary, and to fix the rates of compensation of these employees. History of Section.P.L. 1960, ch. 181, art. 6, § 1.
§ 22-11-5. Quarters. The permanent joint committee on legislative services shall be provided with suitable offices in the state house for its staff. History of Section.P.L. 1960, ch. 181, art. 6, § 1; P.L. 1988, ch. 489, § 2.
§ 22-11-6. Annual appropriation. The general assembly shall annually appropriate the sum as shall be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. History of Section.P.L. 1960, ch. 181, art. 6, § 1.
