he joined ncsl in march of 2012 after nearly four years with the national association of state budget officers. a master's degree in public policy from rutgers university and bachelor of economic from wake forest. ben. ben: i get to stay out a whole lot. first off, thank you very much for having me. i just wanted to say publicly thank you for all your help as we have been dealing with this issue for probably more than a year. thank you very much. if there is one thing can i leave you with today, it is that if you ever have a question or you're trying to figure out what other states, how other states have looked at this issue, if you google ncslab the top result will be our public database with legislation that deals with both autonomous vehicles and connected vehicle information. if you go to that page you'll won't change, er especially if states are in session now. but we're about 20-plus states. i want to point out that some of that number includes some states that have won't change, especially if states are in session now. ut we're appropriated funding for connected vehicle technol