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.
Transportation and Energy Innovation Policy Roadmaps
The National Governors Association has released two new policy roadmaps, which provide governors and senior state policy officials with ideas for ...
Governors Staying Ahead of the Transportation Innovation Curve
The United States is experiencing a transportation technology revolution that is moving us toward a future that is increasingly autonomous, ...
Executive Authority During Energy Emergencies: A Road Map for Governors
The NGA Center for Best Practices has released Executive Authority During Energy Emergencies: A Road Map for Governors. The road ...
State Public Safety and Autonomous Vehicle Technology: Recommended Actions for Governors
Summary The NGA Center for Best Practices released policy guidance on autonomous vehicles. The issue paper, entitled State Public Safety and ...
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 ...
Data-Informed Policy
Data can serve as an extremely powerful tool to set governors’ priorities and inform their decision-making. State leaders are in ...
