Whereas, the Legislative Technology Services Bureau has been providing a full range of information technology services to the Wisconsin legislature since 1998; and

Whereas, the software development team of the Legislative Technology Services Bureau was awarded the Legislative Staff Achievement Award by the National Association of Legislative Information Technology for its work on the development of Slate, a successful bill drafting, clerking, and publishing system; and

Whereas, the Slate Repository and Slate Explorer were successfully deployed to the Legislative Reference Bureau and the Legislative Council to draft for the 2013 legislative session; and

Whereas, DeskClerk was successfully deployed by the Senate Chief Clerk and the Assembly Chief Clerk to record bill and committee activity for the 2013 legislative session; and

Whereas, the Slate Publisher and a new InSession application were deployed to the Wisconsin legislature's public Internet website to provide legislative and public users with timely and accurate updates about legislative activity; and

Whereas, completing Slate in-house provided the Wisconsin legislature with considerable savings; and

Whereas, Slate is a user-friendly suite of applications designed for efficiency and accuracy; now, therefore, be it