Lens on the Legislature: Monitoring Legislation on a Subject of Interest

Most readers have an area or two of primary legislative interest. Because nearly 4,000 bills and resolutions have been filed in the 79th session, few people have had the time to review them all and try to ferret out those that relate to their areas of interest.

Fortunately, the Legislative Council has categorized most bills according to one or more subject areas. Bills by subject can be viewed online. You may have to look through the whole list initially to find your subjects of interest since "Workers' Compensation," for example, is listed under the L's as "Labor - Workers' Compensation" and "Computers" are listed under the E's as "Electronic Information Systems." If you have already reviewed a bill in your area of interest, you can look up its bill status which will show you the subjects into which it was categorized. That may give you some insight into the categories you should monitor for similar bills.

Here are some subjects (and their respective links) that are likely to be of interest to many of our readers: