A network of legislators committed to promoting civility in legislative discourse was launched during a training session just before the start of the 2015 Legislative Summit in Seattle.

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Federal law requires that most commercial health insurance plans have “adequate” networks of providers, but what constitutes “adequate” or “sufficient” is not explicitly defined under federal law. 

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Historian Jon Meacham offered an insightful and oftentimes humorous perspective on the key elements of leadership at the closing General Session of the 2015 Legislative Summit in Seattle.

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It was hard to tell who was more enthusiastic about seeing whom at the “Corrections Reflections: A Conversation with Piper Kerman” session Wednesday.

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Jeopardy! America’s favorite game show was the backdrop to the Legislative Staff Luncheon Wednesday at the Legislative Summit.

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Tim Corey’s artwork, as seen at NCSL’s Legislative Summit in Seattle this week, is really graphic. And explicit.  Even shocking.

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Strolling the aisles at the Legislative Summit exhibit hall is the very definition of inclusive. There are doctors, dentists, lawyers, accountants, activists of every stripe, a little beer, a motorcycle, candy, a firetruck, a stagecoach, the circus and Bigfoot.

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The Affordable Care Act has been affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court and states have the option to expand Medicaid. So are states now ready to stop worrying about innovation in Medicaid? Not by a long shot, according to a panel of experts from Washington and Utah who talked about their Medicaid innovation efforts at a panel Wednesday at NCSL’s Legislative Summit in Seattle.

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Arkansas Representative James Sturch defines a citizen legislator as “one who always keeps a focus on people, before politics.” That’s why the 24-year-old, elected in 2014 and the youngest legislator currently serving in the Arkansas Legislature, showed up at the Legislative Summit session, “Marketing the Citizen Legislator.”

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Everyone wants to know what’s hot and what’s not; what is the Top 10 of this and the Top 10 of that. Just a few years ago, in fact, the term “trending” was a rarely used form of the verb, to trend.

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