SB2704 Summary

• Amends the General Assembly Staff Assistants Act by modifying Section 1a concerning the employment and allocation of staff assistants.

• Makes a technical change by removing one instance of the word "the" before "General Assembly" in the statute text.

• Maintains existing provisions that staff assistants shall be employed as full-time, part-time, or contractual employees as necessary.

• Preserves the allocation formula requiring one half of all staff assistants be assigned to the Senate and one half to the House of Representatives.

• Preserves the requirement that within each chamber, one half of assistants are designated by the majority leader and one half by the minority leader.