Driver Focus and Technology-$15,000
NCSL and the Foundation for State Legislatures will conclude its work on the Driver Focus and Technology project. The partnership is designed to provide state legislators with policy options as they considered the issue of technologies in the car including cellular telephones and other devices that allow drivers to perform a variety of tasks. To date three forums have taken place, NCSL has tracked legislative activity, disseminated information about project results and published a report.

Health Policy Forum-$15,000
This award provides support for the continuation of the Institute for Legislative Health Staff Development. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has made a $50,000 award and a comparable amount is anticipated from at least one other national foundation. Patterned after LSMI, the Institute's primary objective is to improve the health policymaking process at the state level by enhancing the knowledge and skills of key professional legislative staff, making them more effective contributors to the process.

Its goals are to provide professional health staff in the legislatures the opportunity to improve their competence as key participants in the development of health policy in their state, to reflect and retool in an academic setting, and enhance their credentials as researchers and policy analysts. The Institute is co-sponsored by NCSL and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Institute lasts for seven days and is conducted each summer. Each class is limited to 32 professional legislative staff. Three Institute programs have been conducted so far with almost 100 graduates from 40 states.

International Programs-$60,000
For over twenty five years NCSL has promoted communication, understanding and the exchange of ideas among state legislators and legislative staff and the members and staff of national and subnational parliaments and other counterpart organizations throughout the world. Requests for information from NCSL are most often about federalism, public policy issues such as economic development, fiscal relations, social services, and infrastructure development, and technical assistance projects involving staff training and the legislative institutions in developing countries. Many NCSL activities mirror our domestic work, and grant funding supports most of the international activities. Foundation assistance has supported relationships with organizations including the German Partnership of Parliaments, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, the Parliamentary Conference of the Americas, and the Conference of World Regions. Foundation assistance also allows NCSL to host legislators from other countries that are visiting our states, and to sponsor reciprocal visits.

Leaders' Institute and Services-$50,000
This award supports the Leader's Center, offering state legislative leaders specialized services including timely information on public policy and ideas for innovative management. Meetings include the NCSL Annual Meeting in Denver in July 2002. Publications include training materials and audiotapes for new and veteran legislative leaders, and articles in State Legislatures magazine. The NCSL Executive Committee Leaders' Advisory Committee guides the activities of the Leaders' Center.

Legislative Staff Management Institute (LSMI)-$30,000
Foundation support since 1990 has encouraged the continued operation of the highly successful annual two-week Legislative Staff Management Institute at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. The Foundation's assistance enables NCSL to provide scholarships for senior legislative staff attending this executive management program. During fiscal year 2002 the LSMI took place July 9-20, 2001 prior to NCSL's 28^th Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. This year's Institute will be held August 5-16.

Legislative Training Innovations-$30,000
NCSL is continuing its series of legislator CDs and audiotapes by creating a new version on "How to be an Effective Legislator: Mastering the Rules." Respected and experienced experts will provide advice on how new legislators can become parliamentary experts. NCSL has previously produced audiotapes and CDs relating to providing constituent service, working with the media, building consensus and chairing committees. This new CD/audiotape will be helpful for all new legislators, but will be particularly helpful in term-limited states. NCSL will provide free distribution to legislators in January 2003.

LegisBriefs- $15,000
NCSL is in its ninth year of producing LegisBriefs, short briefing papers on the hot issues facing state legislatures. NCSL staff write 48 LegisBriefs a year on issues ranging from managed care to welfare reform, school violence to tax cuts, recycling to auto insurance. The series analyzes successful approaches, provides multistate data, offers alternative courses of action, and gives resources for more information. Legislators use them to get good background information on topics being discussed in their legislatures.

New Member Orientation-$75,000
Following each general election, NCSL sends each new legislator the NCSL Guide, the Tips for Becoming an Effective Legislator booklet, and a series of audiotapes including on How to Be an Effective Legislator, Understanding the Budget Process, and Working with the Media. The audiotape on How to Be an Effective Committee Chair is now also being sent to all new committee chairs. This award supports the ongoing program for new members.

Privacy Partnership-$10,000
Citizen concerns about personal privacy are in the forefront of public policy debates. Numerous surveys and polls have identified privacy as a paramount concern of consumers, a concern intensified by technology's role in making information quickly and easily accessible and enabling information to be collected, distributed, analyzed and manipulated in ways never before possible. This project will identify the major policy issues raised regarding electronic privacy, review existing state laws and policies that safeguard electronic privacy and identify other options to address electronic privacy concerns.