The total number of substantive bill drafting requests received by North Carolina legislative staff is down by over 12% comparing March 20, 2009 with the same point in the 2007 Regular Session, a reduction from 3105 to 2727.
Interestingly, the number of bills filed in North Carolina has dropped during bad economic times. During the eight-month long 2001 recession, bill filings dropped by 3% between 1999 and 2001; there was a sharper 32.3% drop from 1989 to 1991 during that recession; while bill filings dropped 32.3% between 1929 and 1931.
The House public bill and House appropriations bill request deadlines still remain in the weeks ahead, so final numbers for the long session are a few weeks away.
I had noted previously that our paper consumption on an average per bill is down by 36.8% as we implemented in January formatting changes that cut the average length of a bill by 18.5% and are printing 22% less copies of each bill.
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The table below shows the statistics in greater detail:
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| 2009 long session drafting | ||||
| requests as of March 20 compared | ||||
| with same point in 2007 Session | 2007 | 2009 | CHANGE | |
| RESEARCH DIVISION | 293 | 332 | +13.31% | |
| DRAFTING DIVISION | 2895 | 2428 | -16.13% | |
| TOTAL | 3188 | 2760 | -13.43% | |
| BLANKS | 83 | 33 | -60.24% | |
| SUBSTANTIVE TOTAL | 3105 | 2727 | -12.17% | |
Posted by gercohen 
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