September 2012

CONTENTS AFWA ...... 1 Leadership Institute, all of which will be held on ASTHO ...... 1 September 9. CSO ...... 2 CSG ...... 3 The Sport Fishing and Boating Partnership Council will CSG-SLC ...... 3 hold a stakeholder input session on September 10, DAGA ...... 4 providing participants with an opportunity to help shape DGA ...... 4 ECOS ...... 4 a strategic plan to guide the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ICMA ...... 4 Service Fisheries Program to meet fisheries NASCIO...... 5 management challenges in the 21st Century. NACo ...... 5 NASBO ...... 5 The multi-agency National Fish, Wildlife & Plants NASEO ...... 6 Climate Adaptation Strategy team will hold a “Listening NASPO ...... 6 Session” on September 11, in order to present NCDM...... 6 information and gather input from state natural resource NCSL ...... 6 professionals. NLC ...... 7 RGA ...... 8 SLLF ...... 8 USCM ...... 8 ASSOCIATION OF STATE AND Stateside Associates’ Groups Practice ...... 8 TERRITORIAL HEALTH OFFICIALS 2012-2013 Groups Schedule ...... www.stateside.com (ASTHO) Stateside Contact: Robert Holden at [email protected] ASSOCIATION OF FISH & WILDLIFE ASTHO will hold its Annual Meeting and Policy

AGENCIES (AFWA) Summit, September 11-14, 2012, in Austin Texas. The Stateside Contact: Mark Anderson at [email protected] Summit will focus on wellness and preventative health care issues facing state health officials. David Lakey, AFWA will hold its Annual Meeting September 9-12 on ASTHO President and Texas Commissioner of State Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Over 50 AFWA Health Services will open the Summit; Paul Wallace, committees and working groups will convene during the Chair of the Institute of Medicine Committee on the conference, including special sessions of the AFWA Integration of Primary Care and Public Health will also 2012 Farm Bill Strategy Working Group, the Wildlife be an opening speaker. Both speakers will discuss Viewing and Nature Tourism Working Group and a moving policy decisions away from treating sickness and workshop conducted by the National Conservation towards prevention.

A variety of sessions and prominent speakers have been • Kathleen Nolan, Director of State Policy and scheduled for the Summit, focusing on preventative Programs, National Association of Medicaid policy. They include: Directors • Doug Porter, Former Director, Washington State Working with Hospitals to Improve Prevention, featuring: Health Care Authority • Karen Remley, Virginia Commissioner of Health • Mary Selecky, Secretary, Washington State • Sister Carol Keehan, President and CEO of the Department of Health Catholic Health Association of the • Nirav Shah, New York State Commissioner of Prescription Drug Overdose, Misuse, and Diversion, Health featuring: • Shu-Ti Chiou, Director of the Taiwan • Terry Cline, PhD, Committioner, Oklahoma Department of Health State Department of Health

Making the Case for Prevention, featuring: • Theodore E. Wymyslo, MD, Director, Ohio • John Auerbach, Commissioner of the Department of Health Massachusetts Department of Public Health • John J. Dreyzehner, MD, MPH, FACOEM, • James S. Marks, Senior Vice President, Robert Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Wood Johnson Foundation Health

2012 President’s Challenge: Strides toward Healthier Progress and Opportunity: A Tobacco Update, featuring: Babies, featuring: • Ed Ehlinger, MD, MSPH, Commissioner, • David Lakey, Commissioner, Texas Department Minnesota Department of Health of State Health Services • Lawrence Deyton, MD, MSPH, Director, Center • Jennifer Howse, President and CEO, March of for Tobacco Products, U.S. Food and Drug Dimes Administration • Michael Lu, Associate Administrator, Maternal and Child Health, HRSA • Jewel Mullen, Commissioner, Connecticut COASTAL STATES ORGANIZATION (CSO) Department of Public Health Stateside Contact: Mark Anderson at [email protected] • Terry Cline, Commissioner, Oklahoma State Department of Health CSO held a briefing on Increasing Resiliency of Coasts and Shorelines on July 24 at the Capitol Improving Child Nutrition, featuring: Visitors Center, Washington, DC. • Loretta Fuddy, Director, Hawaii Department of Health A panel of speakers, including the North Carolina • Kevin Concannon, Under Secretary, Food and Coastal Zone Management Program Chair, the Nutrition Services, U.S. Department of Administrator of the Delaware Shoreline and Waterway Agriculture Management Section and the Policy Manager from the Association of State Floodplain Managers focused on Medicaid and Public Health Partnerships: Achieving strategies for coping with increased natural hazards and Better Health Outcomes, featuring: how to most effectively utilize the partnerships and tools • Karyl Rattay, Director, Delaware Division of created by the Coastal Zone Management Act. Public Health

Stateside Associates The Groups Report September 2012 2 The 2012 Fall CSO Membership Meeting will take • International Committee place September 24-27 at The Sawmill Creek Resort in • Intergovernmental Affairs Committee Sandusky, Ohio. Prior to the start of the meeting, the • Finance Committee CSO Executive Committee will convene September 23. December 3 • Executive Committee COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS (CSG) Stateside Contact: Heather Williams at In addition (and new to the National Conference), the [email protected] 2012 Henry Toll Fellow Graduation will be featured on December 2. CSG will host its National Conference November 30- December 3 in Austin, Texas. COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS- CSG’s National Governance Working Group will seek SOUTHERN LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE final approval on its proposed changes to CSG’s (CSG-SLC) governance structure during the December 1 Governance Committee meeting. The work began in Stateside Contact: Michael Behm at [email protected] September 2011 to change the governing structure and SLC held its Annual Meeting July 28-August 1, 2012 in management of CSG and to improve the services CSG Charleston, . Eight committees met provides its state official members. including:

The Committee on Suggested State Legislation (SSL) • will meet December 1 and December 2. The Committee Agriculture & Rural Development • will accept legislation and enactments to be considered Economic Development, Transportation and on the SSL Docket for the meeting until October 5. Cultural Affairs • Education A Diabetes Health Policy Academy, which is a • Energy & Environment continuation of the meeting held in the spring during the • Fiscal Affairs & Government Operations National Leadership Conference, will take place • Gulf Coast & Atlantic States Regional Task December 3. Force • Human Services & Public Safety The meeting will also feature a three-part Education • Legislative Fiscal Plenary Legislative Briefing. Focused on college and career • Legislative Service Agency Directors readiness and the strategies and supporting policies that must be in place for implementation, the meeting will be The SLC adopted the following policy positions during broken up across three days starting December 1 and the Annual Meeting: finishing December 3. • The Impact of Medicaid Fraud on Southern All 11 task forces and committees are scheduled to States meet. The very preliminary agenda for CSG’s task force • Sales Tax Collections and E-Commerce and committee meetings is as follows: Transactions in Southern States • The Emergency Management Performance November 30 Grant Program for Southern States • CSG Associates Advisory Committee • The Panama Canal Expansion and Its Impact on Southern Legislative Conference States December 1 • Reauthorization of the Farm Bill • Committee on Suggested State Legislation • Urging Congressional Action on the (SSL) Recommendations of the Blue Ribbon • Governance Committee Commission Regarding Used Nuclear Fuel • Health Policy Task Force Disposal • Transportation Policy Task Force • Combating Prescription Drug Trafficking and • 21st Century Foundation Abuse

December 2 • Energy and Environment Task Force • Education Policy Task Force • National Conference Committee

Stateside Associates The Groups Report September 2012 3 DEMOCRATIC ATTORNEYS GENERAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL OF THE ASSOCIATION (DAGA) STATES (ECOS) Stateside Contact: Steve Arthur at [email protected] Stateside Contact: Mark Anderson at [email protected]

DAGA will hold its 2012 Fall Policy Forum, September ECOS held its Annual Meeting August 27-29 in 27, 2012 in Washington, DC. The Forum will be a Colorado Springs, Colorado. The opening plenary condensed political program with Democratic Attorneys session featured a discussion about developing a joint General candidates discussing their races and other state and U.S. EPA vision for modern technology being political experts discussing the upcoming November utilized to improve environmental protection. elections. The Forum will begin with luncheon and conclude at 5:30pm that afternoon. Other discussions at the meeting included:

A dinner for DAGA Roundtable Members will be held on • State legislative smart grid initiatives the evening of September 27. Attorneys General • State initiatives on point/nonpoint sources of currently confirmed as participating include Chris Koster water pollution trading (Missouri), Jack Conway (Kentucky), Martha Coakley • Collaboration between states and federal (Massachusetts), Doug Gansler (Maryland), Roy Cooper agencies to manage high-level radioactive waste (North Carolina), Gary King (New Mexico), Catherine and spent nuclear fuel Cortez Masto (Nevada), (Oregon) and • Hydraulic fracturing enforcement and Darrell McGraw (West Virginia). compliance • PCBs in products • The need for a national mercury reduction DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION implementation strategy and global action to (DGA) further mitigate atmospheric mercury total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) Stateside Contact: Mark Anderson at [email protected] • State, Department of Defense and U.S. EPA

dialogue on munitions response. DGA will hold its Western Policy Conference

September 27-28 in Portland, Oregon. Hosted by Featured plenary speakers at the meeting included Governor John Kitzhaber, the conference will feature the former Colorado Governor Bill Ritter (D), now Director of following policy discussion topics: the Center for the New Energy Economy, and U.S. EPA

Deputy Administrator Bob Perciasepe. • Transforming Health Care for Better Patient

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• Innovations in Preventative Health Care INTERNATIONAL CITY/COUNTY • Health Care in America: Post Supreme Court MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (ICMA) On October 17-18, DGA will host its Fall Policy Stateside Contact: Michael Behm at [email protected] Conference October 17-18 in Louisville, Kentucky. Hosted by Governor Steve Beshear, the conference will ICMA will hold its Annual Conference on October 7-10 feature the following policy discussion topics: in Phoenix, Arizona. The conference theme will be Building Community: Rising to Seize the Opportunities. • Revitalizing Our Economy by Reinvesting in Committees and task forces scheduled to meet during American Manufacturing the event include the Governmental Affairs and Policy • Securing Our Prosperity and Economic Future Committee and the Sustainable Communities Advisory through Innovations in Energy Committee. Scheduled educational sessions include:

• Partnerships and Shared Savings: The Future of • U.S. Health Care Radical Change: Rethinking How Local Governments Should Deliver Services In addition, DGA will host its Annual Meeting and • Sustainability: It's More Than Being Green Holiday Party December 3-4 in Los Angeles, California. • Open Source: Disrupting IT Procurement • The Business Case and Content Strategies for Social Media • The Dark Side of Technology and Social Media: Understanding Common Technology Hazards to Protect Your Local Government • Advancing Women in Local Government

Stateside Associates The Groups Report September 2012 4 • Addressing Barriers to Going Solar Analytics,” which will explore governments’ investment in • From Waste Management to Sustainable business intelligence and business analytics. Materials Management • Immigration Reform: Truths, Myths, and Politics A variety of issues sessions has been scheduled during the meeting, including: A number of workshops and other special sessions have been scheduled during the meeting, including: • Multi-Jurisdictional Collaboration • What Lies Ahead: Insights from the 2012 State • Solar Powering Your Community Workshop: CIO Survey Actionable Steps for Adopting Solar in Your • Batten Down the Hatches on Health Data Community Exchange • Building Digital Communities • Striving to Protect: Mobile Device Management • From Football to Frat Houses: Effective Policies and Security for Your College Town • State Governments at Risk: Cybersecurity • Health Care Fundamentals: Maximizing Results • Lessons Learned on the Choppy Seas of while Minimizing Costs Outsourcing • Local Government Customer Service and • Charting the Course: Public Safety Broadband 311/CRM Systems • Full Speed Ahead: Mobility – Mobile applications and Solutions The conference will also feature “Solutions Track” • Setting the Waypoint for IT Procurement sessions, which will present case studies of local Modernization governments that have taken advantage of public-private • Government Transparency, Open Data and partnerships. Presentation topics include: Web-Based Tools and How is this Information Being Used? • Improving Cost-Efficiency and Customer Service for the Phoenix Water Services Department • Water Partnerships for Investment Capital and NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES Debt Relief (NACo) • Innovative Ways to Use a Mass Notification Stateside Contact: Jake Hegeman at [email protected] System to Reduce Costs and Recover Revenue

• Economic Development Master Planning NACo will hold its Premier Corporate Forum October • Can Government Create a Following? 4-7, 2012, La Jolla, California. The meeting will include Leveraging the New GIS App Economy roundtable discussions between NACo Executive • Information Rules: Communicating with Leadership, county leaders from selected, large U.S. Residents in the "Google Era" Counties and attending private sector about a variety of local government and national public policy issues. The Roundtable discussions hosted by ICMA members and meeting is exclusive to NACo’s Corporate Membership other experts will include: Program.

• Managing Under Millions of Microscopes Jeff Arnold, NACo’s Deputy Legislative Director and a • Municipal Facilities and Energy Security senior staff member, passed away on August 23. He • Taking a Gamble on Casinos was 57. Jeff served NACo and its members since 1994. Stateside extends its condolences to Jeff's family and his friends. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICERS (NASCIO) Stateside Contact: Michael Behm at [email protected] NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE BUDGET OFFICERS (NASBO) NASCIO will hold its Annual Conference October 21- Stateside Contact: Michael Behm at [email protected] 24, 2012 in San Diego, California. NASBO’s Fall Meeting will take place October 4-6 in Two General Sessions are scheduled during the Alexandria, Virginia. The meeting will focus on federal meeting, including “Overhauling the Ship: Extreme issues affecting the states and state budgets. Scheduled Government Makeover,” addressing increasing demand sessions will include: on government IT and reduced resources; and “Navigating Towards Success Through Data and • Economic Development and Unemployment Insurance Stateside Associates The Groups Report September 2012 5 • Study of State Finances • Multistate Natural Gas Vehicle RFP update • Update on GASB Issues • Procurement Barriers White Paper • Federal Budget Update • State Revenue Outlook • National Economic Update NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF DEMOCRATIC MAYORS (NCDM) NASBO held its Annual Meeting July 29-August 1 in Stateside Contact: Michael Behm at [email protected] Providence, Rhode Island. Presentation topics included Medicaid Cost Containment and Health Care Exchanges NCDM will hold its Fall Policy Conference September and Corrections Spending and Current State Policies. 19 - 20 in Washington, DC. Focusing on "Addressing Cities' Critical Infrastructure Needs," the meeting will feature policy discussions on all forms for urban NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE transportation, water and sewer systems and important ENERGY OFFICIALS (NASEO) economic assets. Confirmed attendees include Mayor Stateside Contact: Steve Arthur at [email protected] Ralph Becker (Salt Lake City, Utah), Mayor R.T. Rybak (City of Minneapolis, Minnesota) and Mayor Kasim Reed NASEO will hold its 2012 Annual Meeting in (City of Atlanta, Georgia). Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 9-12.

Among the topics currently scheduled for discussion NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE include: LEGISLATURES (NCSL) Stateside Contact: Michael Behm at • State and Business Partnerships [email protected] • Manufacturing and its Key Role in America • Public Private Partnerships for Energy Efficiency NCSL held its annual Legislative Summit in Chicago, • Zero Net Energy and High Performance Illinois August 5-9, with nearly 5,500 legislators, staff and Buildings representatives from the private sector, non-profits, • Farming and Energy Efficiency unions and advocacy groups attending. • Enhancing Energy Systems Resiliency • Innovation in the Electric Transportation Sector NCSL’s Executive Committee elected a new Vice and a presentation by Tesla Motors. President, Nevada Assemblywoman Debbie Smith (D). Several leadership changes occurred at the conclusion of the Legislative Summit: New Hampshire NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE Representative Terie Norelli (D) became President; Oregon Senator Bruce Starr (R) became President- PROCUREMENT OFFICIALS (NASPO) Elect; and Immediate Past NCSL President, and Kansas Stateside Contact: Steve Arthur at [email protected] Senate President, Steve Morris (R) became Foundation for State Legislatures President. NASPO will hold its 2012 Annual Conference September 9-12 in Louisville, Kentucky. Scheduled NCSL consolidated its Standing Policy Committees from sessions include: 12 to 10, merging Energy, Transportation and Agriculture into a single Standing Policy Committee and • Outsourcing of Government Functions eliminating the Redistricting & Elections Committee • Of Course It’s Tough, Now What? Achieving (although NCSL is considering creating an elections- Results Without Going Crazy, Getting Sick, or related task force or working group). A separate Losing Your Family agriculture task force is also likely to be created. • Beyond Key Performance Indicators: Data – Strategy – Results During the Summit, NCSL also consolidated its policy • eMarket Center Demonstration resolutions and directives, reducing the number of policy • Best Practices in IT Services Procurement expressions from over 180 to fewer than 90. NCSL • Imbalance Issues: Perspectives on Cooperation approved a number of new policy resolutions at the & Collaboration between States and Public Legislative Summit, including the following policy Higher Education expressions below (policy summaries are those of • Savings and Small Business: Can Competing NCSL): Goals Co-Exist?

Stateside Associates The Groups Report September 2012 6 • Federal Deficit Reduction and the Effect on NCSL has scheduled its Symposium for Emerging States: Urges the federal government not to Leaders September 19-21 in Cary, North Carolina. The disproportionately cut state-federal programs or three-day meeting, focused on developing legislative leadership skills, is expected to include about 40 add new unfunded mandates in their effort to legislators from around the country. reduce the nation’s debt.

• State Sovereignty in Online Gaming: Opposes Meeting topics will focus on the changing national any Congressional effort to preempt state demographics, effective leadership skills, addressing authority by legalizing or regulating online leadership and ethical challenges and a leadership gambling at the federal level. roundtable. Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos • Marketplace Fairness Act: Supports passage (R) and SAS CEO Dr. James Goodnight are invited of the Marketplace Fairness Act (S. 1832) and speakers. Marketplace Equity Act (H.R. 3179), which would give states the authority to collect owed NCSL is holding its Fall Executive Committee Meeting September 27-29 in Phoenix, Arizona. This is the third sales taxes from remote sales. and last meeting of the Executive Committee – NCSL’s • Reauthorization of the Elementary and governing body – in 2012. The meeting will include Secondary Education Act (ESEA): Calls on meetings of the Budget Committee, its Member Congress to reauthorize ESEA, and includes Outreach Subcommittee and an orientation for new specific recommendations based on NCSL Executive Committee members on September 29. positions. NCSL’s Legislative Staff Coordinating Committee • Immigration: Emphasizes the importance of (LSCC) will meet September 28, along with the Task federal immigration reform that enhances border Force on International Relations. No other Task Forces security, stresses the importance of fair are scheduled to convene during the meeting.

employment verification, creates temporary

worker programs, and promotes citizenship as a NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES (NLC) national priority. Stateside Contact: Heather Williams at • Climate Change: As Congress and the [email protected] administration examine proposals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, NCSL urges the NLC will host its Congress of Cities and Exposition federal government to consult with state officials, November 28-December 1 in Boston, Massachusetts. their national representative organizations, and The meeting will focus on three broad policy themes: existing interstate partnerships in developing a Promoting Strong Local Economies, Building federal program. Sustainable Communities and Strengthening Neighborhoods and Families. • Energy Security: Urges Congress to direct the

U.S. Department of Energy through the national All seven (7) of NLC’s policy committees will meet, laboratories and technology centers to develop a including: national energy strategy for moving the United States toward independence from non-North • Community & Economic Development American energy sources. The new policy • Energy, Environment & Natural Resources directive focuses on the state-federal • Finance, Administration & Intergovernmental relationship regarding policies that will ensure a Relations secure, stable and reliable energy future for the • Human Development United States. • Information Technology & Communications • Medicaid Expansion Options: Urges Congress • Public Safety & Crime Prevention to afford maximum flexibility to states and to • Transportation Infrastructure & Services permit states to implement some, but not all of Conference and Committee session topics on the the expansion provisions without penalty. preliminary agenda will include:

A full list of policy directives and resolutions is available November 30 on NCSL's website, broken down by committee, at: • http://www.ncsl.org/state-federal- The Just City committees.aspx?tabs=854,15,685#685 • Supporting Start-ups and Entrepreneurs • Beyond Skills Mismatch – Connecting Workforce and Economic Development

Stateside Associates The Groups Report September 2012 7 • Comprehending Comprehensiveness: Getting Invited Governors include Bob McDonnell (Virginia), Started with Sustainability Robert Bentley (Alabama), Rick Scott (Florida), Sam • Energizing your Energy Efficiency Program Brownback (Kansas), Bobby Jindal (Louisiana), Phil • Coping with Community Transformation and Bryant (Mississippi), John Kasich (Ohio), Tom Corbett Population Shifts (Pennsylvania), Nikki Haley (South Carolina), Rick Perry • Supporting Families and Neighborhoods (Texas) and Scott Walker (Wisconsin). Through Strong Multi-Sector Partnerships • Moving Past the Smoke Stack: A Discussion on Business Attraction STATE LEGISLATIVE LEADERS • Economic Gardening: Unleashing the Export FOUNDATION (SLLF) Potential of Growth-Oriented Companies Stateside Contact: Michael Behm at [email protected] • Placemaking: Successful Strategies to Integrate Transportation and Land Use SLLF will hold its second annual Health Care Summit in • Utilizing Performance Tools to Measure Your collaboration with Johns Hopkins Medicine September Cities’ Sustainability Efforts 13-15, in Baltimore, Maryland. • Closing the Gap: Addressing Disparities in Access to Critical Goods and Services The theme will be The Affordable Care Act: Fact, Fiction • Harnessing the Power of Technology and and Implementation. The focus of the Summit will be on Information examining positive and negative claims made about the • Making Your City More Business Friendly ACA and actions states are performing and can do in • Strengthening Career Pathways for Workforce order to be able to effectively implement the law. Development • Building a Big Tent: Developing and Strengthening Partnerships to Advance UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF Sustainability Goals MAYORS (USCM) • Integrating Green Infrastructure into Your Stateside Contact: Heather Williams at Community [email protected]

December 1 USCM will hold a Fall Leadership Meeting on • Film Session: Lessons from the Dudley Street Developing Next Generation Leadership in Cities Neighborhood Initiative through Workforce Development September 23-24 in • Growing Your Local Food Economy Dallas, Texas. • Protecting Critical Infrastructure and Promoting Community Resilience USMC will hold the Mayors Water Summit on October • Stabilizing Families and Communities through 4-5 in Washington, DC. Financial Empowerment • Technology Solutions for Sustainable Infrastructure STATESIDE ASSOCIATES’ GROUPS • Revitalizing Your Downtown PRACTICE

Since 1988, Stateside Associates has been helping REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION corporate, trade association and federal government (RGA) clients plan and manage their engagement with Stateside Contact: Steve Arthur at [email protected] organizations of state and local officials.

Groups services include helping clients with strategic RGA will hold a Regional Policy Summit September planning; using Groups’ forums to educate policymakers; 24-25 in Atlanta, Georgia hosted by Governor Nathan all aspects of lobbying Groups’ policies, resolutions and Deal. model legislation; building sustainable relationships with

Groups’ leaders and staff; and monitoring Groups Session topics currently scheduled include: activities and issues.

• Healthcare For more information, contact Michael Behm at • Infrastructure (703) 525-7466, or by email at [email protected]. • Energy, Transportation • Technology & Innovation.

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