Legislative joint offices brief State Government Finance Committee on roles, staffing and services

Directors from the Legislative Budget Office, the Legislative Reference Library, the Revisor of Statutes office, the Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement, and the Legislative Coordinating Commission briefed the State Government Finance Committee on the services they provide to the legislature and the public.

Nut graf: Committee members heard overviews of each joint office’s core duties — fiscal analysis and fiscal notes, research and archives, legal drafting and publication, pensions oversight, and shared administrative and mapping services — and asked clarifying questions about staffing, workloads and how members can use those services.

Christian Larson, director of the Legislative Budget Office, summarized the LBO’s two statutory duties: provide nonpartisan fiscal estimates for proposed legislation and staff the Tax Expenditure Review Commission. He described the fiscal note and local impact note processes, said the office receives…