Legislative Study Committee Reports
Full-text Online Definition
According to the Arizona Legislative Manual (Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Legislative Council, 2003), p. 15: Interim Committees
As the name implies, interim committees (often referred to as "study committees") operate between legislative sessions. They may be created by legislation or by the President or Speaker, or both. Often, persons other than members of the Legislature serve with or instead of legislators on interim committees.
Interim committees undertake studies and investigate issues about which the Legislature desires further information. Free from the legislative session deadlines and other pressures, interim committees have the time necessary to tackle complex problems in depth. They may hold meetings, take testimony and break into working groups to gather additional information. Interim committees usually report their findings to the Legislature and often suggest legislation to be considered in the next session. Pilot Project
As a pilot project, the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records has digitized the 1999 - 2001 reports received by the agency. To access the full-text of the reports which are online, you may either select from: Then, to see the full-text report, select the format of the report following the linked report title, e.g. [HTML] or [PDF]. To see a description of a committee, select the committee name. To see an abstract of the report, select the report name. To see a listing of other legislative study committee reports in the Arizona State Agency Publications Collection, search the library catalog for other legislative study committee reports. Try a keyword search on your topic with the phrase or series name "Legislative Study Committee" A listing of interim committees with agendas and minutes for more recent sessions of the Arizona Legislature can be found on Arizona Legislative Information Service. A Note on Image Quality
The majority of pages in these documents can be read on the Web without any special browser. However, some text cannot be read due to poor quality originals and current limitations on Web technology. Most monitors are limited to 90 dpi resolution or less. Higher resolution files are large (120K) and slow to download via modem. If you are not able to read the Web version of a document, the library encourages you to contact the Law and Research Library Division. You will need Adobe® Reader® to view the Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) version of the reports. It is available for free. You may download the Adobe® Reader® at: http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html. Alternate Formats
If a person requires this material in an alternate format due to disabilities, please contact the Law and Research Library Division. Updated: 03/30/2006 | 
