Sec. 2-71f. Employment of staffs to assist legislative leaders.
Sec. 2-71f. Employment of staffs to assist legislative leaders. The Joint Committee on Legislative Management shall employ staffs to assist the speaker of the House
of Representatives, the president pro tempore and the majority and minority leaders of
the House and Senate. Such staffs shall serve such leaders during the periods when the
General Assembly is not in session as well as during any session. The speaker of the
House of Representatives and the majority leader of the House shall be entitled to appoint
five persons as staff to assist them. The president pro tempore and the majority leader
of the Senate shall be entitled to appoint five persons as staff to assist them. The minority
leaders of the House and Senate shall be entitled to appoint two persons, each, as staff
to assist them. In addition to such staff, the clerk and assistant clerk of the Senate and
the clerk and assistant clerk of the House shall assist the Joint Committee on Legislative
Management and such leaders when the General Assembly is not in session. Salary
schedules for such staff, such clerks and assistant clerks when there is no regular or
special session of the General Assembly, shall be set by the Joint Committee on Legislative Management upon recommendation of such leaders.
(1969, P.A. 749, S. 13.)