length: 105 days. If necessary, the Governor can call for a 30-day special session. Legislators can call themselves into special session with a two-thirds vote. Next Cutoff: April 3, Last day to read in committee reports from opposite house exept House fiscal committees and Senate Ways & Means and Transportation committees. Information: • For up-to-date legislative information, visit: www.leg.w...

It has been three years since states began to implement the accountability and program improvement provisions of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act of 1990 (Perkins II), and policymakers are asking whether these provisions are working. We know, from previous National Center for Research in Vocational Education (NCRVE) research, that states adopted systems of mea...

the impact of legislative on the formulation of/ and or decision-making in various countries are different. in this article, a primary attempt is made to survey this impact, from both legalist prism and theoretical. in the second subsection of the paper, a historical account was presented. in this historical account, the legislative role in foreign policy of a few countries was surveyed.

This article investigates the impact of the legislative powers of the European Parliament (EP), particularly the co-decision procedure. After explaining the development of the legislative procedures, the article analyses the extent to which the different procedures have been used since their creation. It then considers how growing legislative power has affected the EP’s internal development, ho...

This paper reports on the development of methods for the automated detection of violations of style guidelines for legislative texts, and their implementation in a prototypical tool. To this aim, the approach of error modelling employed in automated style checkers for technical writing is enhanced to meet the requirements of legislative editing. The paper identifies and discusses the two main s...

We describe sources and methods for state legislative research and provide access to the State Legislative Search Guide tool. State legislation creates and regulates chronic disease prevention interventions both directly through programs targeted to reduce the chronic disease burden and legislation affecting environments such as parks and trails that support health behaviors. Researching state ...

Legislative language exhibits some characteristics typical of languages of administration that are particularly prone to eliciting ambiguities. However, ambiguity is generally undesirable in legislative texts and can pose problems for the interpretation and application of codified law. In this paper, we demonstrate how methods of controlled natural languages can be applied to prevent ambiguitie...