SS/SCS/SCR 13 - This resolution creates a subcommittee within the Joint Committee on Legislative Research. The subcommittee will be charged with investigating ways to reduce costs to state government and increase quality of services to citizens through utilizing private resources within certain aspects of the state government. The subcommittee will consist of 16 members. Four members will be from the Senate, four from the House, four will be representatives of private business appointed by the House, and four will be representatives of private business appointed by the Senate. In each of these four groups, at least two from each group shall be from the minority party. The Senate and House will collaborate to ensure that the 16 members are representative of the state population from both a racial and gender perspective.

The subcommittee may provide for reasonable compensation for its non-legislative members. The subcommittee will first meet by the first Friday following the September veto session. The subcommittee will report to the Legislature by 1/15/04 and again by 12/31/04.

The subcommittee will expire at the end of the 92nd General Assembly.
JEFF CRAVER