NGA ISSUE LIBRARY
Our nation’s Governors are dedicated to leading bipartisan solutions that improve citizens’ lives. Through NGA, Governors identify priority issues and deal with matters of public policy and governance at the state, national and global levels. NGA teams work side-by-side with state leaders to identify challenges and develop solutions. View NGA products below, filterable by content type and topic.
Meeting of the Federal Facilities Task Force: Summer Meeting 2018
June 26 – 28, 2018 | Idaho Falls, ID The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices’ (NGA Center) Federal ...
FAA Reauthorization
Letter to Senators John Thune, Bill Nelson, Dean Heller, and Maria Cantwell from the National Governors Association, National Conference of ...
Increasing Consistency and Transparency in Considering Costs and Benefits in the Rulemaking Process – Comment Period Extension and Public Hearings Request
Letter (from the National Governors Association, Association of State Drinking Water Administrators, National Association of Clean Air Agencies, Association of ...
Governors Homeland Security Advisors Council
The NGA Center formed the Governors Homeland Security Advisors Council (GHSAC) to provide an organizational structure through which the homeland ...
Traffic Fatality and Injury Prevention
Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death in the United States. In 2017, there were 42,159 unintentional pedestrian, ...
Health Care Workforce Redesign
Scope of Practice Scope of practice defines the types of services that a particular health care worker can provide as ...
Health Care Workforce Planning
An accessible, well-trained and flexible health care workforce is vital to governors to improve the health of residents, control cost ...
Return on Investment and Prevention
With national attention on transforming health care systems, governors and other state leaders are focused on finding interventions that improve ...
State Options Under ACA Section 1332
Section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) gives states significant flexibility to change many elements of their individual and ...
State Insurance Marketplace Options
States have regulatory oversight authority over large portions of their private health insurance markets. The NGA Center for Best Practices ...
Data, Privacy and Interoperability
New and innovative health care delivery and the payment infrastructure to support those reforms must be built on the interoperable ...
Interagency Collaboration Toward Population Health
The current conversation about how to reform the nation’s health care system centers on the important task of finding ways ...