American Society of Legislative Clerks and Secretaries at the NCSL Annual
Meeting
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Salt Palace Convention Center · Salt Lake City, Utah · July 19-23,
2004 |
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Agenda |
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Monday July 19, 2004 |
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8:00 am-5:00 pm |
Registration
Convention Center |
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10:00 am-5:00 pm |
NCSL Executive Committee Meetings
Grand America Hotel |
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10:00 am-5:00 pm |
Legislative Staff Coordinating Committee (LSCC) Meeting
Grand America Hotel |
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11:00 am-12:00 pm |
ASLCS International Program
Grand America Hotel, Imperial Ballroom D
This program features interactive work stations with staff to provide
information, including civic education and conveying the legislative
product via the Internet, member services and other functions of the
Clerk’s offices, and various technological services provided by private
contractors. |
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12:00 pm-1:30 pm |
International Delegates Luncheon
Grand America Hotel, Grand Ballroom C
Sponsored by the American Society of Legislative Clerks and Secretaries
and private vendors.
The topic of discussion will be the 2004 elections.
Speakers: Frank Pignanelli, Former House Minority Leader, Political
Columnist, Desert News, Salt Lake City, Utah . |
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Tuesday July 20, 2004 |
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7:30 am-9:00 am |
Continental Breakfast
Salt Palace Convention Center - Main Corridor, Lower Level |
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8:00 am-5:00 pm |
Registration
Salt Palace Convention Center |
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8:30 am-10:00 am |
Opening Plenary
Salt Palace Convention Center - Ballroom A-D, Lower Level
The changing nature of employment in the United States was dramatized
by the slow recovery of jobs from the recession of 2000. How well is the
economy creating new jobs? What's the real meaning of outsourcing? What
are the short-term and long-term prospects for the growth of quality jobs
in this country?
Speakers: David A. Wyss, Chief Economist, Standard and Poor’s
John
Castellani, President, Business Roundtable |
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10:00 am- 4:00 pm |
Exhibit Hall Open
Convention Center |
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12:00 pm- 1:30 pm |
Legislative Staff Luncheon
Salt Palace Convention Center - Ballroom A-D, lower level
Christopher Buckley, "the quintessential political novelist of his
time" according to Fortune magazine, is one of the country's leading
humorists and satirists. Buckley is the author of 10 books, many of them
national bestsellers, including Thank You For Smoking, God Is My Broker,
Little Green Men, No Way To Treat A First Lady and Washington Schlepped
Here. Like his writing, Buckley's talks and lectures provide a uniquely
humorous perspective on current events and culture that will amuse,
enlighten and stimulate every audience.
Presiding: Max Arinder, Executive Director, Legislative PEER Committee,
Mississippi , Staff Chair, NCSL
Speaker: Christopher Buckley, Washington, D.C. |
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1:30 pm- 3:15 pm |
Attracting and Retaining the Best and the Brightest Legislative
StaffConvention Center - 250 DE - Upper Level
Cosponsored by the
NCSL Legislative Effectiveness and State Government Committee, the ASLCS
and other staff sections.
Good legislative staff are worth their weight in gold. With tight
budgets, short timelines, partisan conflicts and term limits, staff play a
critical role. This two-part session explores how to attract and keep
outstanding employees in the midst of competition, reduced funding and an
aging work force.
Moderator: Katherine B. Schill, Fiscal Officer, Minnesota House of
Representatives, and President, National Association of Legislative Fiscal
Officers (NAFLO)
Speakers: Ronald Sims, Floyd Dewey Gottwalld Senior Professor, Graduate
School of Business, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg,
Virginia
Susan Swords, Manager LIBR, Office of Legislative Service, New Jersey
Senator Jeff Wentworth, Senate President Pro Tem, Texas |
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3:15 pm- 5:00 pm |
Retaining the Best and Brightest, Part 2- The Management Game of the
Apprentice, Trading Spaces or Survivor?
Convention Center - 250 DE - Upper Level
Cosponsored by the NCSL
Legislative Effectiveness and State Government Committee, the ASLCS and
other staff sections.
The second part of the program focuses on the wide variety of
management styles in legislative service agencies. How can management
style help nurture employee growth and development, foster productivity
and improve employee morale?
Moderator: Michael Adams, Director, Legislative Information Services,
Colorado
Speakers: Karl Aro, Executive Director, Department of Legislative
Services, Maryland
Dina Hidalgo, Director of Personnel, Senate, California
Representative Diane Picraux, House Majority Leader, New Mexico |
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6:00 pm- 9:00 pm |
Welcome Reception
State Capitol and Temple Square
Enjoy Utah fare, mix and mingle with friends, and get reacquainted at
this elegant event at the Utah State Capitol, overlooking the fabulous
Salt Lake Valley . After the reception, attend a private concert given
especially for NCSL by the world-famous Mormon Tabernacle Choir at Temple
Square . |
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Wednesday July 21, 2004 |
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7:30 am-8:30 am |
Coffee Service
Salt Palace Convention Center - Main Corridor - Lower Level
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8:00 am-5:00 pm |
Registration
Salt Place Convention Center |
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8:00 am -12:00 pm |
NCSL Standing Committee Meetings
Salt Palace Convention Center
NCSL’s 15
standing committees will hold informational sessions and policy meetings.
The programs are open to all meeting attendees. |
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8:00 am- 12:00 pm |
Mason’s Manual Commission
Marriott Salt Lake City Downtown - Salons G, H and I
Presiding: John Phelps, Clerk of the House, House of Representatives,
Florida |
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10:00 am- 4:00 pm |
Exhibit Hall Open
Salt Palace Convention Center |
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12:00 pm- 1:00 pm |
Lunch in the Exhibit Hall
Salt Palace
Convention Center - Hall D - Lower Level |
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1:15 pm- 4:45 pm |
ASLCS Standing and Special Committees
Salt Palace Convention Center - Ballroom J -
Lower Level
(Committee meet in one-hour blocks beginning at 1:15 pm)
"A"
Committees
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
"B" Committees
2:15 pm - 3:15 pm
"C" Committees
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm |
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1:15 pm -5:00 pm |
Concurrent Sessions
Salt Palace Convention Center
-When Will the States Find Economic Relief
-Effect of Term Limits
-The Future is Now: Using Technology to Save Money and
Lives
-Linking Tuition, Appropriations and Financial Aid
-Making
Sure It’s Really You
-Medicaid Finance-States Address the Crisis
-The Methamphetamine Menace
-TANF Reauthorization, Tight Budgets and Welfare
-Policies in Sync-Linking Appropriations, Tuition and Financial Aid
-Project Citizen
-State-Tribal Relations |
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4:15 pm- 4:45 pm |
ASLCS Special “A” Committees
Salt Palace Convention Center -
Ballroom J - Lower Level |
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Thursday July 22, 2004 |
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8:00 am- 5:00 pm |
Registration
Salt Palace Convention Center |
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8:00 am- 9:00 am |
Coffee Service
Salt Palace Convention Center - Lower Level - Main
Corridor |
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8:30 am- 10:30 am |
Concurrent Sessions
Salt Palace Convention Center
-The Love-Hate Relationship Between the Media and
Legislators
-Clearing the Air
-The Color of Justice
-Federal Pharmaceutical Assistance and Medicare and Medicaid Reform
-The Changing Job Market
-Immigration Reform: Who Gets Helped? Who Gets Hurt?
-Is Tax Reform Possible?
-Meeting the Challenge of No Child Left Behind |
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8:30 am- 10:30 am |
Separation of Powers in the 21st Century
Salt Palace Convention
Center - 250 DE - Upper Level
Co-sponsored by the ASLCS, Cosponsored by
the Legislative Education Staff Network, the Legal Services Staff Section
and the Research & Committee Staff Section
Governors assault legislative budgetary powers. Courts tell
legislatures how to fund education and draw their district lines.
Legislatures tell courts they are meddling in lawmaking. Defining
separation of powers is as old as the Constitution and as new as this
year's legislative sessions. Find out what's happening now.
Speakers: The Honorable Christine Durham, Chief Justice, Utah Supreme
Court, Salt Lake City, Utah
Representative William (Bill) Peterson, House Majority Leader, South
Dakota
Wayne Roberts, Senior Fiscal Advisor, Office of the Governor, Austin,
Texas
Paul E. Salamanca, College of Law , University of Kentucky , Lexington,
Kentucky |
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10:00am- 4 pm |
Exhibit Hall Open
Salt Palace Convention Center |
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10:45 am- 12:15 am |
Legislative Voting System Trends and Technology
Salt Palace
Convention Center - 258 - Upper Level
ASLCS co-sponsorship with the
National Association of Legislative Information Technology staff
section
The evolution of legislative voting systems has taken several twists
during the past five years. We will examine an in-house system introduced
at the 1999 Annual Meeting and show where it's heading. Voting system
industry representatives will give a preview of upcoming voting system
technologies.
Moderator: J. Andrew Kraus, Senior Network Administrator, Kansas State
Legislature, Kansas
Speakers: Tracy Fong, Chief Deputy Director, Legislative Data Center ,
Sacramento, California
Ann Niethamer, Applications Services Manager, House of Representatives,
Pennsylvania
Pat Saville, Secretary of the Senate, Kansas State Legislature, Kansas
Bill Schaefer, Vice President, International Roll-Call Corp,
Mechanicsville, Virginia |
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10:45 am- 12:00 pm |
ASLCS Special “B” Committees
Salt Palace Convention Center -
255-257 AB - Upper Level
Special "B" Committee--Archives/Records Retention Committee and Logo
Items Committee
10:45 am - 12:00 pm
255 AB -- Upper Level -- Salt Palace Convention Center
Special B Committee--Budget and Revenue Committee
10:45 am - 12:00 pm
256 AB -- Upper Level -- Salt Palace Convention Center
Special B Committee--Publication Standards Committee
10:45 am - 12:00 pm
257 -- Upper Level -- Salt Palace Convention Center |
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10:45 am- 12:15 pm |
Concurrent Sessions
Convention Center
-The Federal Budget and the States
-Citizenship: A Challenge for All Generations
-Federalizing Financial Regulation: Are States Losing the
War?
-Finding New Dollars to Finance Transportation
-Fighting Obesity in Schools, Workplaces and Communities
-Housing, Families and Economic Development
-Keeping Our Electricity System Working
-Quality/Value Purchasing
-School Choice-New Options for States and Students
-Smart on Crime |
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12:30 pm- 2:00 pm |
American Society of Legislative Clerks and Secretaries Business
Luncheon
Rio Grande Café - 270 S. Rio Grande Street, Salt
Lake City Utah, 84101
Presiding: Norm Moore, ASLCS President |
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2:15 pm- 4:00 pm
(preliminary time) |
Preserving Institutional Memory in State Legislatures
Salt Palace
Convention Center - 259 - Upper Level
ASLCS co-sponsorship with
Research and Committee staff section
When members leave office, their knowledge and experience is often
lost, while newly elected legislators must quickly learn the intricacies
of the legislative process. How can legislative staff help to address this
critical need? This session explores ways of preserving legislative
knowledge and institutional memory, including formal and informal
orientation sessions and the use of oral history to record the
perspectives, knowledge, and wisdom of former members.
Moderator: Millicent Macfarland, Clerk of the House, House of
Representatives, Maine
Speakers: Robert Marchant, Chief Clerk & Director of Legislative
Operations, Senate, Wisconsin
John Phelps, Clerk of the House, House of Representatives, Florida
Donald Williams, Research Director, Legislative Counsel Bureau, Nevada
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2:15 pm- 3:45 pm |
Concurrent Sessions
Salt Palace Convention Center
-Women Leading Legislatures
-Building New Energy Facilities
-The Ethics of State DNA Collection
-Implications of McCain-Feingold
-Insuring the Uninsured
-Making the Grade: Early Childhood Education and School Readiness
in Light of NCLB
-NAFTA at 10: What It Means for the States
-The State of the Union-State Efforts to Define Marriage
-School Finance Litigation Workshop
-Tax and Expenditure Limits: Recent State Experiences
-Telecommunication Taxes and Regulation: Will Technology Undo
Them? |
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2:30 pm- 4:30 pm |
American Society of Legislative Clerks and Secretaries Executive
Committee Meeting
Salt Palace Convention Center - 256 AB - Upper
Level
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6:30 pm- 9:30 pm |
Utah Social Event
Olympic Oval
Experience the chills, thrills and spills of the Olympic Oval where
U.S. athletes won 10 Olympic medals and eight world records were set. You
will have the opportunity to have your picture taken with Olympic athletes
on the podium where the gold medals were awarded. Enjoy demonstrations in
slap shot hockey, curling, figure skating, and speed skating. |
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Friday July 23, 2004 |
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8:00 am- 12 pm |
Registration
Salt Palace Convention Center |
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8:00 am- 9:00 am |
Coffee Service
Salt Palace Convention Center - Main Corridor - Lower
Level |
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8:30 am- 10:30 am |
Closing Plenary
Salt Palace Convention Center - Ballroom A-D - Lower
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Election 2004
From the White House to the Statehouse, the
results of November's elections will shape all approaches to America 's
issues. Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, is well-known
as a shrewd political observer and commentator. Donna Brazile, Al Gore's
campaign manager in 2000, knows politics from the trenches as well as from
the towers of CNN and the talk shows. If anyone can tell you what will
happen in November 2004, it's this pair.
Presiding: Delegate John Hurson, Maryland , President-elect, NCSL
Moderator: Ed Sardella, Denver, Colorado
Speakers: Donna Brazile, Commentator, CNN, Georgetown University
William Kristol, Editor, Weekly Standard, Washington, DC |
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10:15 am- 12:15 pm |
NCSL Annual Policy and Business Meeting
Salt Palace Convention
Center
NCSL’s strength in Washington, D.C. , starts with the
organization’s policy process. Twelve months of hard work in the
NCSL Standing Committees climax at the Annual Business Meeting, where all
legislators debate and vote on resolutions that determine state
legislatures’ positions on major public policy matters. Attend the
annual business meeting, debate the resolutions, and determine NCSL’s
position on critical federal issues.
Presiding: Senator Lana Oleen, Senate Majority Leader, Kansas , Chair,
NCSL Standing Committees
Representative Marty Stephens, Speaker of the House, Utah , President,
NCSL |
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