NCCPPR North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research

This is the first time the guide is available only online and via Internet-capable handheld devices. The Center has published a guide to the legislature since 1977. Authored by Center policy analyst Sam Watts, this citizens’ guide contains profiles and photos of each of the 170 members of the General Assembly; business and home addresses; telephone and fax numbers; counties in their districts; the number of terms they have served in the legislature; and their educational and occupational backgrounds. For members who served in the 2009-2010 session, the guide lists five bills they introduced in that session and their votes on 12 bills of statewide interest. It also includes past rankings of each returning legislator’s attendance, roll call voting participation, and effectiveness. The effectiveness rankings are based on surveys of all legislators, registered lobbyists based in North Carolina, and the capital news media. The latest set of legislative effectiveness rankings was released in April 2010. The online Article II also contains important information for citizens, lobbyists, and reporters, including each legislator’s political party affiliation, home county, current legislative office address and telephone number, e-mail address at the General Assembly, legislative seat number, and all committee assignments. The guide shows seating charts in the House and Senate, committee meeting schedules, and deadlines for introducing various kinds of bills and resolutions. The guide also includes demographic and occupational trends for the General Assembly since 1989. Finally, the new guide also includes rankings of the most influential lobbyists in the legislature, the latest of which were released in September 2010.

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