Lesley Stedman Weidenbener has an article on the study committee assignments given by the Legislative Council, the administrative arm of the General Assembly.
Her article focuses on the assignment to the Interim Study Committee on Criminal Justice Matters to evaluate potential changes in the law that automatically deems the spouse as the “next of kin” when an individual dies. Sen. Connie Sipes (D-New Albany) requested consideration of whether that’s appropriate in cases where the spouse has confessed to murdering the decedent.
But this is one of many assignments made by the Legislative Council. Some study committees are created by statute — sometimes when a legislator is unable to pass legislation on an issue, he or she can get legislation assigning the issue to a study committee as sort of a consolation prize. The other way issues get assigned to the study committees is by assignment by the Legislative Council. Presumably this information will be available via LSA’s Interim Information page sooner or later, but I was unable to find the text of the Legislative Council’s resolution as I was writing this.
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