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LEGISLATIVE STAFF WEEK, DEC. 3–10 PAGE 18 December 2017 Coming to America Politics aside, legal immigrants arrive daily with dreams of new lives in a new home. B:8.75" T:8.125" S:7" GoBoldly.com ©2017 America’s Biopharmaceutical Companies.Biopharmaceutical ©2017America’s ©2017 America’s Biopharmaceutical Companies. B:11.375" T:10.875" S:10" RESEARCHERS ARE ARMING THIS CELL TO BATTLE SOME OF THE MOST INSIDIOUS FORMS OF DISEASE. BEAUTY, IT APPEARS, CAN BE A BEAST. Scientists are pioneering advanced treatments to help dendritic cells activate immune T cells to attack the body’s most lethal illnesses . Welcome to the future of medicine. For all of us. JOB: PHR-GEN-M03633B DOCUMENT NAME: 7F81844_PHR_b2.1_ks.indd DESCRIPTION: DENDRITE CELLS BLEED: 8.75" x 11.375" TRIM: 8.125" x 10.875" SAFETY: 7" x 10" GUTTER: None PUBLICATION: Congressional Quarterly ART DIRECTOR: Jin Park 8-4689 COPYWRITER: Craig Geller 8-3993 ACCT. MGR.: Alex Cohen 8-3211 ART PRODUCER: Bill Gastinger 8-3727 PRINT PROD.: Peter Herbsman 8-3725 PROJ. MNGR.: Linda Holmes 8-4121 This advertisement prepared by Young & Rubicam, N.Y. 7F81844_PHR_b2.1_ks.indd CLIENT: PhRMA Research & Mfg. TMG #: 7F81844 HANDLE #: 1 JOB #: PHR-GEN-M03633B BILLING#: PHR-GEN-M03632 DOCUMENT NAME: 7F81844_PHR_b2.1_ks.indd PAGE COUNT: 1 of 1 PRINT SCALE: None INDESIGN VERSION: CC 2015 STUDIO ARTIST: Kevin Sullivan 6-9941 LAST SAVE DATE: 6-30-2017 11:33 AM CREATOR: KMS CREATION DATE: 6-30-2017 11:33 AM DOCUMENT PATH: TMG:Clients:YR:Pharma:Jobs:2017:7F:7F81844_PHR-GEN-M03633:Mechanicals:7F81844_PHR_b2.1_ks.indd FONT FAMILY: Circular Std (Book, Medium) LINK NAME: 7E81728_PHR_a1_w.tif, Go Boldly™ Lockup_100pt_4C_FINAL_yr.ai, PhRMA_ABC™_logo_4C+W_alt2_yr3.ai INK NAME: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black B:8.75" T:8.125" S:7" GoBoldly.com DECEMBER 2017 VOL. 43 NO. 10 | CONTENTS A National Conference of State Legislatures Publication Executive Director William T. Pound Director of Communications Karen Hansen NCSL’s national magazine of policy and politics Editor Julie Lays Assistant Editor Kevin Frazzini FEATURES DEPARTMENTS ©2017 America’s Biopharmaceutical Companies.Biopharmaceutical ©2017America’s Contributing Editor Jane Carroll Andrade Coming to America Page 10 STATESTATS PAGE 4 Online Magazine BY ANN MORSE Hate groups find fertile ground in America. Ed Smith Beyond the border battles, immigrants continue to take the oath Mark Wolf of citizenship and integrate into American life. SHORT TAKES PAGE 5 Art Director ©2017 America’s Biopharmaceutical Companies. Bruce Holdeman Connections, insight and ideas from NCSL NCSL President Senator Deb Peters TRENDS PAGE 6 South Dakota Hurricanes leave troubled waters behind, another strategy to NCSL Staff Chair Chuck Truesdell battle opioid abuse and the growth of food freedom laws Fiscal Analyst, Legislative Research Commission NEWSMAKERS PAGE 8 Kentucky What’s happening under the domes Denver Office 7700 East First Place Denver, Colorado STATELINE PAGE 16 80230 (303) 364-7700 News in brief from across the country— Washington, D.C., from marauding mute swans in the B:11.375" OfficeT:10.875" S:10" Northeast to new sanctuary state laws 444 N. Capitol St. N.W., Suite 515 in California and Illinois Washington, D.C. 20001 (202) 624-5400 LEGISLATIVE STAFF WEEK PAGE 18 State Legislatures Introduction: Raul Burciaga and Chuck Truesdell (ISSN 0147-0641) is published 10 times a Toolbox: The Making of a Manager: Six essential traits of top year by the National Conference of State legislative bosses Legislatures. What Staff Know: 5 Things Committee Staff Want You to Know RESEARCHERS ARE ARMING THIS CELL TO BATTLE ©2017, All rights reserved. Reproduction It’s Time To Meet: If Committee Rooms Could Talk… in whole or in part ©2017 BRUCE HOLDEMAN SOME OF THE MOST INSIDIOUS FORMS OF DISEASE. without permission is prohibited. Requests for permission to THE FINAL WORD PAGE 31 reprint may be emailed Meet Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek BEAUTY, IT APPEARS, CAN BE A BEAST. to Julie Lays at: julie. [email protected]. “I would encourage everyone in Opinions expressed in this magazine Cut, Color and Chardonnay? Page 24 legislatures across the country not to do not necessarily BY HEATHER MORTON lose hope about the impact they can reflect NCSL policy. State Legislatures is Some believe a merlot and a massage go as well together as a have on people’s lives.” indexed in the PAIS Bulletin and Expanded beer and a football game. Academic Index. Annual subscription SL ONLINE rates: U.S.—$49; Keeping PACE Page 28 Find more information and links to foreign—$55; teachers—$25 (promo BY JOCELYN DURKAY resources on topics covered in these code SLMTEA). Single copy: $6.50. Increasing consumer protections is strengthening a clean energy pages at SL Online. Periodically, NCSL financing program for homeowners. rents mailing labels to Go to ncsl.org/magazine other organizations. If you prefer your name not be included please State Legislatures magazine is printed send a written request. on recycled paper. Postmaster: Send address changes to: State Legislatures magazine, 7700 East First Place, Denver, CO Scientists are pioneering advanced treatments to help dendritic cells 80230. activate immune T cells to attack the body’s most lethal illnesses . Welcome to the future of medicine. For all of us. STATE LEGISLATURES 3 DECEMBER 2017 JOB: PHR-GEN-M03633B DOCUMENT NAME: 7F81844_PHR_b2.1_ks.indd DESCRIPTION: DENDRITE CELLS BLEED: 8.75" x 11.375" TRIM: 8.125" x 10.875" SAFETY: 7" x 10" GUTTER: None PUBLICATION: Congressional Quarterly ART DIRECTOR: Jin Park 8-4689 COPYWRITER: Craig Geller 8-3993 ACCT. MGR.: Alex Cohen 8-3211 ART PRODUCER: Bill Gastinger 8-3727 PRINT PROD.: Peter Herbsman 8-3725 PROJ. MNGR.: Linda Holmes 8-4121 This advertisement prepared by Young & Rubicam, N.Y. 7F81844_PHR_b2.1_ks.indd CLIENT: PhRMA Research & Mfg. TMG #: 7F81844 HANDLE #: 1 JOB #: PHR-GEN-M03633B BILLING#: PHR-GEN-M03632 DOCUMENT NAME: 7F81844_PHR_b2.1_ks.indd PAGE COUNT: 1 of 1 PRINT SCALE: None INDESIGN VERSION: CC 2015 STUDIO ARTIST: Kevin Sullivan 6-9941 LAST SAVE DATE: 6-30-2017 11:33 AM CREATOR: KMS CREATION DATE: 6-30-2017 11:33 AM DOCUMENT PATH: TMG:Clients:YR:Pharma:Jobs:2017:7F:7F81844_PHR-GEN-M03633:Mechanicals:7F81844_PHR_b2.1_ks.indd FONT FAMILY: Circular Std (Book, Medium) LINK NAME: 7E81728_PHR_a1_w.tif, Go Boldly™ Lockup_100pt_4C_FINAL_yr.ai, PhRMA_ABC™_logo_4C+W_alt2_yr3.ai INK NAME: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black STATESTATS Hate Groups Find Fertile Ground Types of Hate Groups in the United States, 2016 ow prevalent are hate groups in your state? Since the early 1990s, the Southern Poverty Law Center has published an annual Hmap showing where hate groups operate. The SPLC defines hate groups as having “beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics.” Their activities can include criminal acts, marches, rallies, speeches, meetings, leafleting or publishing. The SPLC compiled this information using the hate groups’ publications and websites, citizen and law enforcement reports, field sources and news reports. Hate groups operate in every state—except Alaska and Hawaii—and the District of Columbia. By the SPLC’s last count, there were 917 nationwide. —Magazine staff Number of Identified Hate Groups in Each State PHOTO BY ANTHONY CRIDER BY PHOTO Alt-right demonstrators prepare to enter Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia, during the Unite the Right rally in August. Source: Southern Poverty Law Center An Upward Trend 1018 1007 The number of active hate groups in the United States 1002 peaked at 1,018 in 2011, then decreased sharply. Since 2014, 926 932 939 917 892 however, the number has been on the rise. 888 844 803 784 751 762 708 676 602 457 Source: Southern Poverty Law Center DECEMBER 2017 4 STATE LEGISLATURES SHORT TAKES ON NCSL NEWS IDEAS Making Occupational Licensing Work EXPERTISE NCSL, the National Governors Association’s Center for Best Practices and the Council of State Governments have announced the 11 states that will participate in a new initiative to improve “Moving to paper occupational licensing policy. Participants from Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, is absolutely the Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Nevada, Utah and Wisconsin will become experts in their happening trend.” state’s occupational licensing policies and learn about best practices in other states. The goal is Wendy Underhill on to remove barriers to labor markets by improving the portability of certain professional licenses how some states are across state lines. returning to paper The project stems from a $7.5 million grant the three partner organizations received from the ballots to reduce the threat of U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration. In addition to the 11-state cyberattacks, in Governing. consortium, the partners will provide research on the current state of the national occupational licensing landscape. To read more about occupational licensing issues, read the article in the “Basing those fees January 2017 issue of State Legislatures magazine. off of power is not an accurate proxy of use Tackling Transportation Funding or damage caused [to roads].” NCSL’s transportation policy team joined Kevin Pula on a state lawmakers and others to discuss the Missouri study on charging vehicle nation’s transportation infrastructure needs registration fees according to the and how to fund them at the American Road car’s fuel efficiency rather than and Transportation Builders Association’s third engine power, which is used annual workshop in Washington, D.C. From currently, in the St. Louis Post- left, Montana Representative Frank Garner, Dispatch. Tennessee Senate Speaker Pro Tem Jim Tracy, Oregon Representative Brad Witt, and Rich “Since professional Juliano of the ARTBA. Visit ncsl.org/magazine to athletes’ salaries and find all kinds of resources in our Transportation travel schedules are Deep Dive, a one-stop shop for all the latest publicly available, news on transportation policy trends and ideas.