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Sponsor asks committee to study providing personal staff to legislators
Summary
Representative Steve Vetter asked the Finance and Taxation Committee to refer House Concurrent Resolution 3,033 for study on giving legislators personal staff, citing institutional knowledge loss and proposing several staffing models and rough fiscal estimates; the committee held a hearing and took no formal action.
Representative Steve Vetter told the Senate Finance and Taxation Committee that House Concurrent Resolution 3,033 would direct a study into providing personal staff for individual legislators, arguing that staff would help new lawmakers learn the job and preserve institutional knowledge.
Vetter said the measure follows a failed 1532 proposal he introduced on the House side that would have provided each legislator a single staffer. “More informed and knowledgeable legislature leads to better laws,” Representative Steve Vetter said, and added that personal staff could jump-start new legislators and maintain institutional memory as long-serving members leave because of term limits.
Vetter reviewed several staffing models drawn…
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