Legislative Council limits which offices legislative employees may hold, keeps resignation rule for campaigns

Dec 5, 2025

The Legislative Council voted to bar legislative employees from holding federal, state, county or municipal elected office while exempting tribal and many small local positions, and kept the current requirement that employees resign upon filing or accepting nomination for those prohibited offices.

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The Legislative Council on Thursday voted to prohibit legislative employees from holding federal, state, county or municipal elected offices while preserving exceptions for tribal offices and many small local bodies, and it retained the existing rule that staff who file for or accept nomination to those prohibited offices must resign.

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