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 United States • 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, West Virginia. 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