The Legislative Council is meeting this morning, with an agenda that includes appointments to interim legislative committees, including panels on federal lands transfer, the state’s public defender system, natural resources issues, the K-12 education system, Energy, Environment & Technology; and the criminal justice system. There’s also a health care task force and a wind energy task force.

So far this morning, the council has been reviewing the legislative session with legislative services staff, including how the technical end of the session worked; Legislative Services Director Jeff Youtz said the research and legislation division hit the 100 percent performance mark for having all bills turned around in five work days; and the bill-drafting process was almost entirely error-free. “We had an excellent session,” Youtz told the lawmakers.

He’s also named new deputy division managers, a new position, for several of the divisions within the Legislative Services Office; they include Paul Headlee in Budget & Policy Analysis; Eric Milstead in Research & Legislation; and Norma Clark in Information Technology. They’ll assist the existing division managers, Cathy Holland-Smith, Mike Nugent and Glenn Harris.

The meeting runs all day; later items on the agenda include a general fund budget update; a Tax Commission presentation on HB 315, the new business personal property tax exemption bill; and discussion of processes for fiscal notes, public records requests, video archiving of legislative proceedings; improvements to wireless service in the Capitol; and more.