by Nate Carr

You’re feeling great!  The bill you’ve been working on for months has just cleared third reading on the floor.  A few amendments were added before it passed, but that’s okay.  Leadership dismisses everyone for the day, and you leave the chambers.  The next morning you return to your desk to find a letter from the Publications Coordinator and the Revisor of Statutes titled “Revisor’s Comment”.  Both work in the Office of Legislative Legal Services.  You open the letter to discover that they are alerting you to a conflict that your bill has with one or more other bills circulating through the process.  You may experience a touch of anxiety, but don’t worry, the OLLS staff is ready and willing to work with you to resolve the conflict. (more…)