Presentations of Fiscal Interest

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The latest presentations and reports, for the Budget and Revenue Committee at the Spring Forum in April 2008:

State Budget Update: April 2008 by Corina Eckl of NCSL,
Strategies for Constraining Economic Development Incentive Competition by Y. Canaan Huie of the House Finance Counsel for the North Carolina General Assembly.
Is the 2007 U.S. Sub-Prime Financial Crisis So Different?: An International Historical Comparison by Carmen M. Reinhart, University of Maryland and NBER, and Kenneth S. Rogoffm Harvard University and NBER.

From the Budget and Revenue Committee at the Fall Forum in December 2007:

Crunch: An Economic Outlook by Jim Rounds of Elliott Pollack & Co.
Dynamic Forecasting by Hans Olofsson of the Arizona Joint Legislative Budget Committee staff.
The Promises and Pitfalls of Incentive Strategies by Ionna Morfessis of IO.INC.
A Review of State Economic Development Programs by Kate Wade of the Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau.
State Pensions and Retirement Plan Enactments in 2006 and 2007 by Ron Snell of NCSL.

and from the Fiscal Chairs meeting in December 2007:

State Transportation Issues in 2007, by Ron Snell of NCSL.

From the Fiscal Analysts Seminar in September 2007:

Broadening the Business Tax Base by Leveling the Playing Field, by Phineas Baxandall, Senior Analyst for Tax and Budget Policy, U.S. PIRG, The Federation of State Public Interest Research Groups.
Controlling Medicaid Costs through Case Management, by Elinor Hall, Health Policy and Management Consulting.
Covering the Uninsured: An Individual Mandate, by Elliot K. Wicks, Health Management Associates.
Demographics and Education Finance, by Ron Snell, Division Director, NCSL.
Education Finance Litigation and Its Impacts: An Evolving Story, by Daphne Kenyon, Visiting Fellow, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
Education Finance Reform in Vermont, by Darcy Rollins Saas, Deputy Director New England Public Policy Center Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
Energy & Environment Taxation: What's New? by Jennifer DeCesaro of Clean Energy Group
How Secure is Securitization? by Colin MacNaught of Standard & Poor’s Public Finance Ratings.
Overview of the States/ Federal Motor Fuel Taxation, by Cindy Anders-Robb, Motor Fuel Tax Associate, Federation of Tax Administrators.
Perspectives on Federal Revenues and Health Care Spending, by Joseph R. Antos of the American Enterprise Institute & Alice M. Rivlin of the Brookings Institute.
Property Tax Relief and School Finance Reform in Texas, by John McGeady, Senior Analyst, Texas Legislative Budget Board.
Re-examining the Role of the Property Tax in School Funding, by Daphne Kenyon, Visiting Fellow, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
State Budget and Tax Actions 2007: Preliminary Report, by Corina Eckl, Group Director, NCSL.
Trends in State and Local Taxation of Business, by Joseph Crosby of Council On State Taxation.
The Ups and Downs of State Tax Revenue Performance, by Robert B. Ward and Alison J. Grinnell, of the Rockefeller Institute of Government, SUNY.
The U.S. Economic Outlook: Weathering the Subprime Contagion, by Sara Johnson, Managing Director, Global Macroeconomics, Global Insight, Inc.

From NCSL's Legislative Summit in August 2007:

Coping with Retiree Benefits, by Eric Berman, Office of the Comptroller, Massachusetts.
Don't Tread on Me: Property Tax Reform in South Carolina, by South Carolina Rep. Thad Viers.
The Economic Outlook: How Hard A Landing? by economist David Wyss of Standard & Poor's.
Financing State Government in a No New Taxes World, by Pennsylvania Rep. David J. Steil.
Got Reform? Property Taxpayers Seek Solutions, by Pennsylvania Rep. David J. Steil.
Got Reform? Property Taxpayers Seek Solutions, by Andrew Reschovsky, Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin and Visiting Fellow, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy,at NCSL's 2007 Annual Meeting.
The Power of the Purse, on the New Mexico Legislature develops the budget, by David Abbey, director of the Legislative Finance Committee.
The Power of the Purse: Legislatures That Write State Budgets Independently of the Governor, by Ron Snell.
Rating Agency Perspective: OPEB and S&P’s Financial Management Assessment, by Robin Prunty, Director, Standard & Poor's.
Transparencyin Government: An update on performance measurement reporting in Texas, by John O'Brien, Director, Texas Legislative Budget Board.
The Year of Living Dangerously, by Marcia Howard of Federal Funds Information for States.

2007 Spring Forum

The Economic Outlook: Economic Trends from a State Perspective, by Andrea Wilko from the Utah Legislative Fiscal Analyst's Office.

2006 Fall Forum

Age, Taxes, and State Revenue Reform, by Ron Snell, NCSL State Services Director.
How Vulnerable Are State Revenues? by Harley Duncan of the Federation of Tax Administrators.
State Budget Update: November 2006, by Corina Eckl, NCSL Fiscal Program Director.
A Trail of Broken Premises, on federal, state, and local taxation, by Vic Miller of FFIS.
Trends in State Medicaid Spending: Reform Is in the Air, by Jason Cooke of Health Management Associates.
Update on Select Federal Issues, by David Shreve, NCSL Senior Committee Director.

2006 Fiscal Analysts Seminar

Plenary: The California Budget Perspective. California's Economic and Budget Outlook by Brad Williams, Legislative Analyst Office, California.
Analyzing Capital Project Costs--Discussion. Solutions And Possible Answers To Maintaining Budgets and Countering Escalation, by Larry Hendrick, Barnhart Inc., Carlsbad, California and ASPE San Diego Chapter #4: Coping with the Current Escalation Dilemna in Construction, Frank Young, O'Connor Construction Management Inc., San Diego, California.
Capital Budgeting for Higher Education--State Options. Capital Budgeting for Higher Education: Washington by Susan Howson, Staff Coordinator, Capital Budget Committee, House Program Research Office, Washington.
Cost Impacts of Chronic Diseases on State & Local Budgets by Susan Haber, Senior Economist, Research Triangle Institute, Boston, Massachusetts.
Medicaid-- After Part D - For the Rest of Us. Drug Assistance for the Uninsured After Part D Louis F. Rossiter, Ph.D., Research Professor and Director, Schroeder Center for Healthcare Policy, Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Montana Major Capital Maintenance Dilemma: Decades of Decline.
Multi-State Drug Pools. Prescription Drug Bulk Purchasing: Recent History and State Actions by Dick Cauchi, Health Program Director, National Conference of States Legislatures, Colorado.
National Economic Outlook and State Fiscal Conditions. State Fiscal Conditions by Corina Eckl, Group Director, Fiscal Affairs, NCSL.
Performance Budgeting Workshop. Performance-Based Budgeting in Texas by Anita Zinnecker, Assistant Director, Legislative Budget Board, Texas; see also her handout.
Perspectives on Federal Revenue and Spending. The Federal Budget Outlook and CBO's Role by Pete Fontaine, Deputy Assistant Director for Budget Analysis, Congressional Budget Office, Washington, DC.
Revenue Estimating. Revenue Forecasting Issues and Challenges by Brad Williams, Legislative Analyst Office, California.
State of Utah Capital Budget Oversight
The State Role in Affordable Housing. Boom, Bust and In Between--Today's Housing Realities by Cathy Atkins, Program Principal, Environment, Energy and Transportation, NCSL.
Tax Burdens and Targeted Tax Policy (joint with Human Services). Age, Pensions and State Revenue by Ron Snell, Director of State Services.

2006 Annual Meeting

Public-Private Partnerships: Not Just for Toll Roads by Scott Trommer, Senior Director at Fitch Ratings.
Colorado Representative Bernie Buescher provided details on Colorado's economy and the effects from the Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR).
The Economic Outlook: Oil and Bubble. David Wyss, Chief Economist, Standard & Poor's.
Federal Budget Update. Marcia Howard, Federal Funds Information for States.
The Indiana Toll Road Lease Transaction: The Public Sector Experience. Ryan C. Kitchell, Public Finance Director, State of Indiana.
John Petersen focused on state spending pressures.
"The Future of State Budgets" featured a presentation by Bill Fox on the revenue challenges facing states.

2006 Spring Forum

Current Budget Projections and CBO's Role. Peter Fontaine, Congressional Budget Office.
MSA Payment Issues. Mark Greenwold, Chief Counsel for Tobacco, National Association of Attorneys General.
The Role of the Joint Committee on Taxation in the Legislative Process, Mark Udell, Joint Committee on Taxation.

2005 Fiscal Leaders and Fall Forum.

2005 Annual Meeting

Congress and State Taxes, Council On State Taxation.
Congress and State Taxes, Annabelle Canning of Verizon Wireless.
Tax that Fellow Behind the Tree: Pitfalls and Promises of Solving State Budget Crises with Taxation of Casino Gambling, with supporting tables. Faculty of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Faulty Foundations and How to Fix Them: State Structural Deficits. Michael Mazerov, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

2004 Fall Forum of the Budgets and Revenue Committee and the Fiscal Chairs Seminar

The Post-Election Economy: Why the Deficits Matter, by David Wyss.

2004 Annual Meeting

Priority-Based Budgeting: Bob Williams of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation.
Don't Get Caught in the Dark: Workforce Development.

Updated 5 May 2008
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