Policy Positions&Resolutions - The Council of State Governments

According to the bylaws of The Council of State Governments, official policy positions adopted by the Governing Board/Executive Committee sunset after three years. The following expired policy resolutions are provided to illustrate the range of issues in which CSG has been engaged and to serve as an archive of past policy positions.

2005 Spring Meeting

Comprehensive Cancer Control

In Support of Legislation to Promote the Use and Production of Biofuels

Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation

Prevention and Treatment of Obesity

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Supporting Permanency for Beneficial Tax Treatment of College Savings Plans

Supporting the Return of Unclaimed U.S. Savings Bonds to their Rightful Owners

Statement of Intergovernmental Policy: Communications

2004 Annual Meeting

Animal Guardianship and Liability Legislation

Diabetes Care

Health Care Quality

Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children

Proposed Federal Business Activity Tax Legislation

2004 Spring Meeting

Medicaid’s State-Federal Financial Partnership

Supporting the Establishment of a National Homeland Security Consortium with Members Representing Appropriate State and Local Stakeholder Organizations

Supporting Maintaining the Intended Use of the Emergency Management Grant Program (EMPG) and Continuing the Program at Adequate Funding Levels

Supporting Maintaining and Sustaining Homeland Security Funding, While Preserving Traditional All-Hazards Programs

2003 Annual Meeting

Department of Energy Website on Energy Efficiency

Future of Medicaid

In Support of Advanced Telecommunications Development and Equitable Competition Rules

Multiple Testing to Determine Student Placement

National Amber Alert Coordination

Patient Pharmaceutical Assistance

Promoting Access to Federal Benefits by Eligible Offenders with Mental Illness

Rural Development

Standardize Regulations Pertaining to the Importation of Food Grade Dairy Products

States as the Sole Regulators of the Business of Insurance

Support of Farm to School Programs

Supporting the Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Enforcement Assistance Program

Transformation of the Mental Health System

Working Group on Renewable Energy

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