7:30-8:45 a.m.
Mezzanine Level-M100DE
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Border-to-Border Broadband: Making Access to High-Speed Internet a Priority in Minnesota
Joint with the Budgets and Revenue Committee and the Labor and Economic Development Committee
NCSL gratefully acknowledges Thomson Reuters for sponsoring this continental breakfast.
Minnesota set goals to ensure, by 2015, that all its residents and businesses have high-speed broadband Internet access and that the state be a leader, nationally and globally, for broadband utilization. Learn about Minnesota's broadband development efforts, including legislative and policy initiatives to accelerate achieving these goals.
Moderator:
- Senator Matt Schmit, Minnesota
Speakers:
- Margaret Anderson Kelliher, Minnesota High Tech Association, Minnesota
- Rick King, Thomson Reuters, Minnesota
- Danna McKenzie, Office of Broadband Development, Minnesota
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7:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
Level 1-Registration Lobby
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Registration |
8-8:45 a.m.
Level 2-200DEFG
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Prayer Breakfast
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9-10:15 a.m.
Level 1-Auditorium
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General Session: Ending Human Trafficking
Human trafficking in the United States exploits tens of thousands of children and vulnerable victims each year. Two women, U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar and humanitarian Cindy McCain, are working with Congress, the states and through private initiatives to bring national focus on trafficking, ensure that victims are not treated as criminals and to develop policies to end it. |
10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Level 1-Exhibit Hall B
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Exhibit Hall
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10:30–11:30 am
Level 1-101DEFG |
The Changing Communications Landscape
Learn about new technologies and the transition to Internet based communications and the potential impact on consumers, public safety, and regulatory frameworks. Hear an update on spectrum availability and auction, net neutrality, E-rate and more.
Moderators:
- Senator Thomas Alexander, South Carolina
- Representative Chris Perone, Connecticut
Panelists:
- Representative Angela Williams, Colorado
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11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Level 1-101DEFG |
CFI Committee Business Meeting
Committee members will discuss and vote on committee business and consider, review policies and vote on any new policy resolutions submitted for consideration.
Presiding:
- Senator Wayne Harper, Utah
- Representative Chris Perone, Connecticut
- Curtis Clothier, Legislative Affairs Agency, Alaska
- Gary Schaefer, Senate, Louisiana
New Resolutions
National Spectrum Policy: This is a new resolution that supports the Federal Communications Commission’s move to allocate additional spectrum for unlicensed use in order to meet increased demand for wireless technologies.
Glass-Steagall: This is a new resolution that supports the enactment of the Glass-Steagall legislation currently before the Congress that reinstates the separation of commercial and investment banking functions, prohibiting commercial banks and bank holding companies from investing in stocks, underwriting securities or investing in or acting as guarantors to derivatives transactions
Economic Recovery (joint with Natural Resources and Infrastructure): This is a new resolution that supports returning the United States to a Constitutional credit system in order to accomplish an economic recovery. The resolution requests Congress enact the Glass-Steagall legislation currently before the Congress; return to a national banking-and-credit system; use the Federal credit-system to generate high-productivity trends in improvements of employment, with the accompanying intention, to increase the physical-economic productivity, and the standard of living of the persons and households of the United States; and launch a crash program to finally bring nuclear fusion on line.
Resolutions for Renewal
State Sovereignty in Online Gaming: (joint with the Budgets and Revenue Committee): This is a renewal of an expiring resolution that opposes any congressional effort to preempt state authority by legalizing or regulating online gambling at the federal level.
Marketplace Fairness Act Resolution (joint with Budgets and Revenue Committee): This is a renewal of an expiring resolution supporting the Marketplace Fairness Act, which would give states the authority to collect owed sales taxes from remote sales.
Resolution Supporting Intellectual Property (IP) Rights and Protections: This is a renewal of an expiring resolution calling for the creation, development and implementation of robust pro-IP awareness and enforcement and supports existing efforts to shut down the top illegal rogue websites globally that are willfully selling counterfeit goods and facilitating digital theft.
Resolution Opposing Federal Contactless Technology Mandates for State Issued Identification Documents: This is the renewal of an expiring resolution urging the president, Congress, and the Departments of State, Transportation, and Homeland Security to not pass law, allow for federal policy, use international organizations, or enter into international agreements that mandate or attempt to indirectly influence the use of contactless technology in state or local identity documents.
NCSL Opposes the State Video Tax Fairness Act: This is the renewal of an expiring resolution opposing the State Video Tax Fairness Act.
NCSL Supports Public Private Partnerships to Increase Broadband Internet Adoption and Use: This is the renewal of an expiring resolution calling upon all levels of governments to work cooperatively with the private sector, nonprofits, and academia to create public-private partnerships to develop and implement robust broadband awareness, adoption, and use programs.
NCSL Supports Federal VoIP Communication Sourcing: This is the renewal of an expiring resolution supporting federal legislation that would require sourcing for purposes of state and local taxation of interconnected VoIP services to be the same as the sourcing rule for state and local taxation of wireless services as contained in the Mobile Telecommunications Sourcing Act.
NCSL Supports Passage of the Federal Digital Goods & Services Tax Fairness Act (joint with Budgets and Revenue Committee): This is a renewal of a resolution that urges Congress to pass the Digital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act, in conjunction with or after consideration of the Marketplace Fairness Act.
NCSL Supports the Extension of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002: This is a renewal of an expiring resolution urges Congress and the Administration to take action as soon as possible to extend the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002.
Memorial Resolution for Renewal
NCSL Resolution in Support of State Public Affairs Networks: This is a renewal of a memorial resolution that supports and encourages the efforts of the National Association of Public Affairs Networks in its vision for the formation and expansion of a state public affairs network in each of the 50 states in the manner most appropriate for each individual state.
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12:30–1:45 pm
Level 1-102ABC |
The State Role in Private Retirement Security Luncheon
Joint session with the Budgets and Revenue Committee
NCSL gratefully acknowledges the American Council of Life Insurers and the Minnesota Insurance and Financial Services Council for sponsoring this luncheon.
A number of states are considering state-run retirement savings plans for private workers without an employer-provided pension. Some would mandate employer participation, others would be voluntary. These proposals raise several questions – do private employers and workers currently lack access to cost effective private retirement plans? Would these state proposals offer new options, lower costs or incentives not available from private sector providers? How would a state plan mesh with the federal framework of worker protections and income taxation? Explore the merits of state, federal and private sector savings reforms.
Speakers:
- Jeffrey Brown, University of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign
- Sarah Mysiewicz, AARP, Washington, D.C.
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2–3:15 pm
Level 1-103DEF |
Emergency Communications
Joint session with the Law and Criminal Justice Committee and the National Legislative Services and Security Association
A teenager with a smart phone possesses greater communications capabilities than a police officer in the field. The First Responder Network Authority is operational and prepared to roll out the national network architecture to bring public safely communication into the 21st Century. Discuss the framework for this effort and the critical role state lawmakers will play as the network rolls out.
Moderators:
- Representative Dan Eaton, New Hampshire
- Senator Thomas Wyss, Indiana
Speakers:
- Brian Fontes, National Emergency Number Association, Virginia
- Matt Gerst, CTIA-The Wireless Association, Washington, D.C.
- Mitch Herckis, NASCIO, District of Columbia
- Victoria Lee, First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet), Oregon
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3:30–5 pm
Level 1-101DEFG |
Crypto-Currencies: Changing the Way We Do Commerce [CLE]
Some stores offer alternative credit options and accept alternative payments, such as Bitcoins and other virtual currencies, that benefit both customers and merchants. With the concept of cryto-currencies becoming more popular, the IRS issued new guidelines on virtual currencies. Explore the policy implications these new payment methods present for the states.
Moderators:
- Representative Joe Atkins, Minnesota
- Gary Schaefer, Louisiana Legislature
Speakers:
- Jim Harper, Bitcoin Foundation, Washington, D.C.
- Matthew Lambert, Conference of State Bank Supervisors, Washington, D.C.
- Jason Thomas, Thomson Reuters, Virginia
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5-6 p.m.
Level 2-Lounge A
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Women's Legislative Network Reception
Join the Women's Legislative Network for a reception honoring the incoming president, New Mexico Representative Jane Powdrell-Culbert, the Network executive board, and women in politics around the world. |
5:15–6:30 p.m.
Level 1-101DEFG
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Steering Committee
The steering committee will review the policies reported from the standing committees at the Summit and determine the calendar for the NCSL Business Meeting on Friday, Aug. 22, at 10:30 am. |
5:30-7:30 p.m.
The Living Room, W Minneapolis – The Foshay, 825 Marquette Avenue South
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American Financial Services Association and Card Coalition’s Reception for the Communications, Financial Services and Interstate Commerce Committee members
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States’ Night |