State House

OLS is housed in the New Jersey State House complex. It's a very nice building with nice marble, leather covered doors for the committee rooms, gold dome, you know, that kind of thing. I got a tour yesterday, and I learned about the legislative process today. It involves a lot of volumes of statues and laws, which are searchable on the NJ Legislature website. (Makes it a lot easier that way.)

While I'm here, I'm going to be working on a database project to store information about the state's legislators and also doing some research and answering some reference questions. For all you people in New Jersey, the new hands-free cell phone law will go into effect on July 1, 2004. It is not a primary offence, but a secondary one. Police cannot pull you only for talking on your cell phone, but can give you a ticket if they pull you over for something else and see that you were also talking on your cell.