• Dan Logsdon is the Director of the National Center for Interstate Compacts at The Council of State Governments Center of Innovation. (csg.org)
  • Carl Sims is a Special Projects Manager at The Council of State Governments Center of Innovation. (csg.org)
  • Matt Shafer is a Deputy Program Director at The Council of State Governments Center of Innovation. (csg.org)
  • Isabel Eliassen is a policy analyst with the National Center for Interstate Compacts at the Council for State Governments. (csg.org)
  • Adam Diersing is a Policy Analyst and The Council of State Governments Center of Innovation. (csg.org)
  • The compact was developed by the Council of State Governments' National Center for Interstate Compacts, the Department of Defense, national associations, federal and state officials, departments of education, school administrators, and military families. (wi.gov)
  • Staff from the Council of State Governments gave ASWB members an up-close and detailed review of the draft compact legislation. (aswb.org)
  • The August session of Engaging with ASWB featured representatives from the Council of State Governments National Center for Interstate Compacts, who provided an in-depth look at the compact language and fielded questions from ASWB members. (aswb.org)
  • The Council of State Governments (CSG) is partnering with the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Future of the Beauty Industry Coalition to support the mobility of licensed cosmetologists through the development of a new interstate compact. (cosmetologycompact.org)
  • The Council of State Governments National Center for Interstate Compacts reviews state compact legislation to ensure consistency with the model language. (cosmetologycompact.org)
  • Since 1962, the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, now the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP), has accredited the Taylor University Education program. (taylor.edu)
  • Mike is active in the Council of State Governments where he is a member of the Board of Directors for the CSG Justice Center. (grantlaw.com)
  • To reach the Website for a Board of Nursing, scroll down to the alphabetical links below, or refer to this clickable US map hosted by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NSCBN) for complete contact information for each Board of Nursing. (medscape.com)
  • Another key resource is the National Council of State Boards of Nursing , a nonprofit organization whose membership is composed of the boards of nursing from each state, territory, and the District of Columbia. (medscape.com)
  • Indian Council of Medical Research in collaboration with the National Health Authority, Govt. (bvsalud.org)
  • She works primarily with occupational licensure compacts, serving as the interim Executive Director for the Counseling Compact and the Occupational Therapy Compact. (csg.org)
  • Within the Center of Innovation, Adam primarily works on projects in occupational licensure, veteran support policy, and interstate compacts. (csg.org)
  • Keith Buckhout is a Research Associate providing technical assistance on development of interstate compacts for occupational licensure with research and analysis focused on policies that promote public safety, remove barriers to employment, expand access to services and streamline regulatory administration. (csg.org)
  • Check to see if your state is part of an Interstate Medical Licensure Compact , which allows you to practice across state lines. (hhs.gov)
  • The Cosmetology Licensure Compact has been completed. (cosmetologycompact.org)
  • The following language must be enacted into law by a state to officially join the Cosmetology Licensure Compact. (cosmetologycompact.org)
  • How does the Cosmetology Licensure Compact work? (cosmetologycompact.org)
  • The Cosmetology Licensure Compact is structured to create a multistate cosmetology license that functions like a driver's license. (cosmetologycompact.org)
  • Who is eligible to use the Cosmetology Licensure Compact? (cosmetologycompact.org)
  • The Cosmetology Licensure Compact is not yet active. (cosmetologycompact.org)
  • However, the Cosmetology Licensure Compact preserves each compact member state's sovereignty by allowing each state to determine the number of education or training hours and competency exam(s) required for licensure. (cosmetologycompact.org)
  • Several members were in attendance and learned more in-depth about the 2023 Model Practice Act and opportunities surrounding the up and coming Dietitian Licensure Compact. (eatrightmaine.org)
  • The Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) recognizes the mutual recognition model of nursing licensure. (medscape.com)
  • On August 4, 2022, Governor Carney signed into law Senate Bill 257 , making Delaware the 17th member of the Counseling Compact. (counselingcompact.org)
  • The Counseling Compact will hold its inaugural commission meeting on October 25-26th. (counselingcompact.org)
  • I promise to support legislation in favor of popular vote interstate agreements because only these will ensure that a voter in Gary, IN, for example, is just as relevant as a voter in Los Angeles, CA. The electoral college is a system that must not be entirely eliminated but innovated and updated by and through constitutionally appropriate state-based actions. (ontheissues.org)
  • An interstate compact is a constitutionally authorized, legislatively enacted, legally binding agreement among multiple states. (cosmetologycompact.org)
  • There are powerful arguments that non-compacting states are denied their constitutionally mandated representative share of electoral votes. (americanthinker.com)
  • CSG noted they have received more than a thousand comments to date, which is a higher volume than received during comment periods for compacts for other professions. (aswb.org)
  • She is a graduate of the University of Mississippi and of the School of Health Related Professions' Paramedic Program at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. (ms.gov)
  • How many professions have interstate compacts? (cosmetologycompact.org)
  • The Academy and CDR Nominating Committees are pleased to announce the slate of candidates for the 2023 national ballot. (eatrightpro.org)
  • The post 50 cent live at E11even night club Miami 2022 first appeared on Miami County News and Events . (miamifreetime.com)
  • She is a graduate of the inaugural class of the Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute (2005-2006) sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control. (okstate.edu)
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) facilitates and supports efforts to provide education, awareness and training on EMAC to local, state and federal public health professionals. (cdc.gov)
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cannot attest to the accuracy of a non-federal website. (cdc.gov)
  • NCIC is the nation's only technical assistance provider on interstate compacts, offering compact education, development, and administrative services. (csg.org)
  • The Academy remains committed to improving the nation's health and advocating for policies that support the five pillars in the National Strategy, with Academy members playing a key role. (eatrightpro.org)
  • The AMA believes that any delay in the commencement of training programs will significantly compromise serving our nation's most vulnerable patients at hundreds of academic medical centers and safety-net facilities across the U.S.," wrote James Madara, MD, the AMA's executive vice president and CEO. (medpagetoday.com)
  • Matt serves in the National Center for Interstate Compacts, where he manages development of licensure compacts for teaching, cosmetology, massage therapy, social work and dentistry and supports the legislative enactment of licensure compacts for counseling, occupational therapy and speech language pathology. (csg.org)
  • It allows cosmetologists who hold an active, unencumbered single-state cosmetology license in the compact member state in which they live to be eligible to apply for a multistate license. (cosmetologycompact.org)
  • Reasons given for the compact include: (1) State winner-take-all laws encourage candidates to focus disproportionately on a limited set of swing states (and in the case of Maine and Nebraska, swing districts), as small changes in the popular vote in those areas produce large changes in the electoral college vote. (wikipedia.org)
  • Participate on NAIC task forces to draft model laws for state insurance departments including broker disclosure, HIPAA compliance, interstate compact, unauthorized entities and unlawful activities, antitrust and antifraud issues, and uniformity. (linode.com)
  • Ensure that public health personnel have a basic understanding of the intersection among federal, state, and local laws regarding quarantine and isolation as they relate to international airports and interstate border crossings. (cdc.gov)
  • This interstate compact supersedes state laws and may be amended by all party states agreeing and then changing individual state laws. (medscape.com)
  • To retrieve a specific state's compact legislation not offered in .pdf form, please follow that state's official citation. (csg.org)
  • Wisconsin became part of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children through legislation that was enacted in 2010. (wi.gov)
  • As of August 2014, all 50 states and the District of Columbia have passed legislation to become members of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children, which consists of general policies in four key areas: eligibility, enrollment, placement, and graduation. (sdcoe.net)
  • We need a national election in which every vote counts equally in every part of the country," says Maryland State Sen. Jamie Raskin, a Democrat who sponsored the compact legislation in his state. (fairvote.org)
  • others believe that the compact will require congressional consent under the Constitution's Compact Clause or that the presidential election process cannot be altered except by a constitutional amendment. (wikipedia.org)
  • The compact would modify the way participating states implement Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution, which requires each state legislature to define a method to appoint its electors to vote in the Electoral College. (wikipedia.org)
  • Substantively, the Compact Clause protects non-compacting states from any actions that infringe upon their sovereignty. (americanthinker.com)
  • The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an agreement among a group of U.S. states and the District of Columbia to award all their electoral votes to whichever presidential ticket wins the overall popular vote in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. (wikipedia.org)
  • The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is a proposal that would retain the institution of the Electoral College while also ensuring that the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote is elected President of the United States. (rockthevote.org)
  • The NPVIC is an agreement among states to guarantee the election of the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote. (rockthevote.org)
  • When a state joins the NPVIC, it agrees to commit all of its electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote, rather than the candidate who wins their individual state. (rockthevote.org)
  • The compact only becomes binding when enough states join the NPVIC to reach the 270 electoral college votes threshold required to elect the President. (rockthevote.org)
  • Interstate licensure compacts are statutorily enacted agreements among states to allow professionals to work across state lines. (csg.org)
  • A separate body composed of the participating state board of nursing administrators is in charge of that state's compact. (medscape.com)
  • The Constitution forbids states to "enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State," without the consent of Congress. (americanthinker.com)
  • Carl oversees the work of the 2021-22 CSG Healthy States National Task Force, a multi-year project focused on the improvement of state fiscal, civic, economic and workforce and human health. (csg.org)
  • In recent years, state policymakers have used two mechanisms to enable interstate mobility of licensed professionals. (csg.org)
  • Washington is the first state to propose a national interstate teacher mobility compact. (wa.gov)
  • We are also working on a similar compact that will allow nurses the same mobility. (wa.gov)
  • Once in effect, in each presidential election the participating states would award all of their electoral votes to the candidate with the largest national popular vote total across the 50 states and the District of Columbia. (wikipedia.org)
  • Meet National Popular Vote, the group spearheading the campaign to destroy the Electoral College and abandon centuries of constitutional history in the name of saving democracy (read: electing Democrats). (capitalresearch.org)
  • But this is hopelessly undemocratic and out of date, according to National Popular Vote. (capitalresearch.org)
  • NPV proposes that the candidate who wins the popular vote at the national level-which happens to be the Democrat in every election since 2008-should receive all electoral votes from states that adopt the NPV plan, regardless of whether the candidate wins that state's popular vote. (capitalresearch.org)
  • Most of the time, the presidential candidate who wins the electoral vote also wins the national popular vote, but not all the time. (rockthevote.org)
  • Theoretically, a candidate could win the Electoral College with only 23 percent of the national popular vote. (rockthevote.org)
  • A president elected by a national popular vote would skew toward the will of the northern states given that a major portion of the population of southern states were nonvoting enslaved persons. (rockthevote.org)
  • National popular vote compacts would ensure that winners of presidential elections would at least be individuals most Americans favored. (ontheissues.org)
  • Under the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, the Electoral College is preserved but the voting method changes from the winter-take-all method of awarding electoral votes used by 48 states and the District of Columbia to a national popular vote. (enterstageright.com)
  • Some claim a national popular vote wouldn't matter because California and New York would simply out-vote the rest of the country. (enterstageright.com)
  • That was especially true in 2000, when for the fourth time in American history, the electoral college chose the loser of the national popular vote as the president of the United States. (fairvote.org)
  • Therefore, the compact's backers argue, states have the constitutional authority to agree with other states to appoint only those electors who pledge themselves to the candidate who wins the national popular vote. (fairvote.org)
  • Not since the President George H.W. Bush has a non-incumbent Republican won the national popular vote. (boston.com)
  • Another Electoral College reform plan called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact would purportedly circumvent the constitutional amendment process. (boston.com)
  • Under the compact, a group of states would agree to award their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. (boston.com)
  • Under the agreement, signatory states obligate themselves to appoint their electors based on whomever wins the national popular vote, regardless of the results in their own state. (americanthinker.com)
  • Instead of lobbying for a constitutional amendment, election reformers have proposed an interstate compact that calls for national direct elections. (fairvote.org)
  • The interstate compact proposes to upend the electoral college process without a constitutional amendment. (fairvote.org)
  • The counterargument is that non-compacting states retain the power to self-determine their electoral vote process. (americanthinker.com)
  • She is a member of several National organizations including Past President of the National Association of SARA Title III Program Officials, TRI Committee of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, the Bioavailability workgroup of the National Environmental Policy Institute, and the ECOS steering committee on Childhood Asthma. (okstate.edu)
  • All 50 states are members of the Interstate compact, and Indiana has some degree of reciprocity with each state. (taylor.edu)
  • Each state that adopts the compact becomes a member of the Compact Commission, which is the governing agency overseeing the compact. (aswb.org)
  • Williams also sits on the Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact Commission and on the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians Board of Directors. (ms.gov)
  • The site indicates the compact "creates a regional commission to help Western states increase educational opportunities for their citizens, improve colleges and universities, expand the supply of specialized manpower, and inform the public as to needs of higher education. (hawaii.edu)
  • It's just ingenious," says John Samples, director of the Center for Representative Government at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. (fairvote.org)
  • Henderson won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for commentary and the 2014 National Association of Black Journalists Journalist of the Year Award while writing for the Detroit Free Press. (ncsl.org)
  • A strong advocate for emergency medical services, she sits as on both the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee for the National Association of EMS. (ms.gov)
  • I work with Oregon s insurance company executives and legal staff and I represent the State at the quarterly meetings of the national Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). (linode.com)
  • State of Oregon s liaison to National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) and NAIC State Insurance Departments Attorney Task Force. (linode.com)
  • For example, Hawaii is a signatory of the Western Regional Education Compact. (hawaii.edu)
  • The compact mandates a July 20 deadline in presidential election years, six months before Inauguration Day, to determine whether the agreement is in effect for that particular election. (wikipedia.org)
  • Opponents of the proposed compact say it would take power away from the states, produce presidential campaigns that focus solely on large metropolitan areas, elect presidents without national mandates, introduce the prospect of nationwide recounts, and reduce sparsely populated states to nonentities. (fairvote.org)
  • The Interstate Massage Compact (IMpact) was a project that was started a few years ago by the Department of Defense and the Federation of Massage State Boards to help improve the ability to move from one state to another. (massagechangeslives.com)
  • This was my first national convention in all of my 35 years of being a massage therapist. (massagechangeslives.com)
  • Compacts for dentists and dental hygienists, dietitians, massage therapists, school psychologists, social workers and teachers are under development. (cosmetologycompact.org)
  • Partnering With CBCAP Programs to Support Tribal Prevention Efforts , a brief produced by the FRIENDS National Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention, provides important information on what the CBCAP program entails, including who manages the program at the Federal and State levels, what activities are authorized by the program, and the program's target populations. (hhs.gov)
  • Similar to a contract, a compact establishes a formal, legal relationship among states to address common problems or promote a common agenda. (csg.org)
  • SARA is an agreement, among member states, districts, and territories, that establishes comparable national standards for the interstate offer of postsecondary distance education. (lincoln.edu)
  • Student participation in the American Diesel Training Centers program doubled after the it began using CIBs, with over 90% of graduates getting hired. (csg.org)
  • To maintain public health and safety standards, a state must require a competency exam and completion of an education or training program to be eligible to join the compact. (cosmetologycompact.org)
  • He was a chairman of the Criminal Justice/Mental Health Consensus Project, an associate with the State Sentencing and Corrections Program at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York City, and a member of The Center for Sex Offender Management National Resource Group within the U.S. Department of Justice. (grantlaw.com)
  • The compact serves as a policy option for state policymakers and is intended to improve interstate transmission line siting. (windpowerengineering.com)
  • 21 The bill includes measures for "medical liability reform" to bring down the costs of defensive medicine (costs which often get passed on to consumers), interstate shopping of health insurance, and provisions prohibiting "an insurer from canceling a policy unless a person commits fraud or conceals material facts about a health condition. (nationalcenter.org)
  • The " Long-Term Care Policy Guide " is the result of a nine-month partnership between CSG and the Commonwealth Fund , a national, private foundation based in New York City that supports independent research on health care issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and policy. (csg.org)
  • A spokesperson told the National Review , "We continually assess our engagements with policy and advocacy organizations and based on our most recent assessment, we have determined that we can effectively pursue policy matters of current interest to BP without renewing our membership in ALEC. (sourcewatch.org)
  • I hope to discuss these policy proposals and more at our legislative town hall on Thursday, March 16th at 6:30 pm at the South Puget Sound Community College Lacey campus Event Center on 6th Avenue. (wa.gov)
  • The interstate compact license grants the social worker multistate authorization to practice in remote states (states other than the home state that are part of the compact). (aswb.org)
  • A multistate license provides authorizations to practice in all compact member states without having to go through the licensure processes of each compact member state. (cosmetologycompact.org)
  • Should a multistate licensee move to another compact member state, the cosmetologist can seamlessly transfer the multistate license to the new home state. (cosmetologycompact.org)
  • Because all the compact member states agree to recognize the multistate license as authorizing practice in their state, the multistate license is an easier, faster way to work in multiple states. (cosmetologycompact.org)
  • To be eligible to apply for a multistate license, a cosmetologist must hold an active, unencumbered single-state license in the compact member state in which they live and pay all required fees. (cosmetologycompact.org)
  • When compact member states are ready to issue multistate licenses, instructions on applying for a multistate license will be posted online. (cosmetologycompact.org)
  • Ratified by Congress and signed into law in 1996, the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) external icon is an interstate mutual aid agreement that provides a mechanism for sharing personnel, equipment and resources among states during emergencies and disasters. (cdc.gov)
  • CSG's National Center for Interstate Compacts Database allows you to search more than 1,500 statutes for state-by-state interstate compact membership, serving as the most useful and innovative search tool for researching interstate compacts available. (csg.org)
  • We invite you to search through the database where you will find useful, relevant information pertaining to all active interstate compacts in use today. (csg.org)
  • A team of state legislators, federal agency representatives, and key stakeholders has nearly completed work on an electric transmission line siting compact. (windpowerengineering.com)
  • Unfortunately, some on the right are on a scare campaign to intimidate state legislators from voting for the compact. (enterstageright.com)
  • Beyond the sanctuary states, all of which reliably vote Democrat in presidential elections, it is impossible to ignore that Republican-voting Texas, Florida and Georgia have the country's second, third and sixth highest illegal immigrant populations, according to the Pew Research Center . (enterstageright.com)
  • My colleagues and I at the Capital Research Center have exposed the plan to effectively federalize all future elections through a combination of hastily adopted vote-by-mail rules, privately funded drop boxes in major U.S. cities, and nonprofits that specialize in flooding mailboxes with absentee ballot forms in battleground states. (capitalresearch.org)
  • In addition to the fact that states could later decide to pull out of the compact, the plan is also limited, as Nate Silver has written , by the difficult path to that 270-vote threshold. (boston.com)
  • A number of the 36 participants representing 22 jurisdictions sought clarification on different sections of the compact, including residency requirements, accreditation of education programs, fee collection, and procedures for investigation and adjudication of complaints. (aswb.org)
  • Under the current presidential electoral process, a candidate must win a majority of votes of the Electoral College - at least 270 of 538 votes - rather than the majority of the national votes cast to become President. (rockthevote.org)
  • Any substantive changes may jeopardize the enacting state's participation in the Compact. (cosmetologycompact.org)
  • The compact would no longer be in effect should the total number of electoral votes held by the participating states fall below the threshold required, which could occur due to withdrawal of one or more states, changes due to the decennial congressional re-apportionment or an increase in the size of Congress, for example by admittance of a 51st state. (wikipedia.org)
  • In prepared testimony for a congressional committee, National Wildlife Federation President Larry Schweiger said BP had failed to disclose results from its tests of chemical dispersants used on the spill, and that BP had tried to withhold video showing the true magnitude of the leak. (sourcewatch.org)
  • 10 The Democratic National Committee has produced web and television ads accusing individual Republicans, 11 and the GOP as a whole, 12 of being opposed to health care reform. (nationalcenter.org)
  • Fourteen states currently require fitness centers and health clubs to carry defibrillators. (wa.gov)
  • Some of the sites that students have recently completed their rotations include Franklin Memorial Hospital, Maine Medical Center, Southern Maine Health Care, Fresenius Kidney Care, Good Shepherd Food Bank, Southern Maine Agency on Aging, Westbrook and Old Orchard school districts, Bath YMCA, and many more! (eatrightmaine.org)
  • At the NAIC I work with NAIC staff and Insurance Commissioners from all fifty states, Puerto Rico and Guam to develop national standards for health insurance regulation. (linode.com)
  • The federal bill would set tougher national standard for mental health insurance coverage but would supercede Oregon s Senate Bill 1 (Mental Health Parity) that was passed in 2005. (linode.com)
  • To achieve universal health coverage (UHC), the Indian healthcare system is gearing up by initiating several schemes such as National Health Protection Scheme, Ayushman Bharat, Nutrition Supplementation Schemes, and Inderdhanush Schemes. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) seeks to develop collaborative initiatives with academic and support units across campus that foster best practices in teaching and learning. (lincoln.edu)
  • There are over 250 active compacts in the U.S., and on average states are members of about 25. (csg.org)
  • Temporary or limited license holders are not eligible for an interstate compact license because of the requirement that the license be active and unencumbered, with no discipline and fully authorized to practice within the authorized scope. (aswb.org)
  • Posted in Database , Legal Research and tagged interstate compact , Western Regional Education Compact . (hawaii.edu)
  • How many hours of education or training does the compact require? (cosmetologycompact.org)
  • Taylor University's national- and state-accredited Education programs seek to develop competent, caring, and reflective teachers who are prepared for both local and global service. (taylor.edu)
  • The National Center for Interstate Compacts mission is to serve as an information clearinghouse, a provider of training and technical assistance, and a primary facilitator in assisting states in the review, revision, and creation of new interstate compacts as solutions to multi-state problems or alternatives to federal preemption and the National Center for Interstate Compacts Database serves as a vital component toward achieving these objectives. (csg.org)
  • She has helped write compact language and provides technical assistance to compact commissions and state legislatures. (csg.org)
  • She works for the National Center for Interstate Compacts, supporting the development of compacts. (csg.org)
  • The National Center for Interstate Compacts Database is a great place to start if you need to research interstate compacts. (hawaii.edu)
  • Against these facts it is clear that conservatives and Republicans would actually benefit from the compact. (enterstageright.com)
  • The compact provides for the uniform treatment of military children transferring between school districts and states. (wi.gov)
  • Similar to a driver's license compact, remote states can take action against a social worker's ability to practice in their state but only the home state can take action against the social worker's interstate compact license. (aswb.org)
  • Spot how the Gallatin Art Crossing project places dozens of quirky sculptures around the city and in the gardens of public buildings like the library and the arts centre. (hertz.com)
  • These jurisdictions have 205 electoral votes, which is 38% of the Electoral College and 76% of the 270 votes needed to give the compact legal force. (wikipedia.org)
  • Certain legal questions may affect implementation of the compact. (wikipedia.org)
  • The electoral college has proven to be an incredibly resilient institution for balancing the interests of federalism and popular election of the national leader through all kinds of changes in the political system," including the emergence of political parties and the current red-state blue-state phenomenon, says George Terwilliger III, a partner at White & Case LLP, who helped lead the legal team for President Bush during the Florida recount. (fairvote.org)
  • The checklist format is not intended to set forth mandatory requirements or establish a national standard for legal preparedness. (cdc.gov)
  • EMAC has traditionally been used by states for National Guard, emergency management and other types of response assistance. (cdc.gov)