RSA 17-A:1 Office Established.

There shall be a director of legislative services, appointed as hereinafter provided, who shall have the following functions and duties:
I. To draft bills for both houses of the general court and the individual members and incoming members thereof, both during sessions and while the general court is not in session, and to check and examine all bills and joint resolutions prior to final engrossment.
II. Pursuant to the direction of the president of the senate and the speaker of the house, to perform or cause to be performed, as circumstances will permit, research and drafting service requested by any committee of the general court in connection with the performance of its functions; to give such consideration to and service concerning any measure before the general court