NASBO Issue Briefs provide a summary and synthesis of fiscal topics important to state budget officers. Issue briefs are published as free PDF documents.

Recent Issue Briefs

• Fact Sheet: State and Local Bankruptcy, Municipal Bonds and State and Local Pensions - Winter 2013
• Ballot Measures in Upcoming and Recent Elections: Potential Impact on State Budgets - October 2012
• Municipal Bankruptcy & the Role of the States - August 2012
• GASB Enacts Pension Accounting Reforms Regarding the Use of Discount Rates - July 2012

Summaries of Fiscal Year Proposed Executive Budgets

• Fiscal Year 2014 Governors' Proposed Budget Summaries
• Fiscal Year 2013 Governors' Proposed Budget Summaries

Fiscal Topics

• Fact Sheet: State and Local Bankruptcy, Municipal Bonds and State and Local Pensions - Winter 2013
• Municipal Bankruptcy & the Role of the States - August 2012
• GASB Enacts Pension Accounting Reforms Regarding the Use of Discount Rates - July 2012
• A State Budgeting Perspective on Public Pensions - January 2012
• Remote Sale Tax Collection: Congress to Examine Different Proposals - December 2011
• Municipal Bonds in 2011: An Update on State and Local Borrowing - November 2011
• A New Funding Paradigm for Higher Education - Spring 2011
• Analyzing the Costs of Winter Storms - February 2011
• Recommendations from State Restructuring Commissions and Agencies - December 2010
• Saving Funds Through Shared Services: The Minnesota and Wisconsin Plan - January 2009
• Transparency in Government - November 2008
• School Efficiency Studies - March 2006
• State Funding for Homeland Security - March 2002
• State Environmental Expenditures and Innovations - May 2000
• State Juvenile Justice Expenditures and Innovations - October 1999

Federal Issues

• Impact on States of Federal Deficit Reduction - October 2011
• Impact of a Federal Government Shutdown on States - February 2011
• Intergovernmental Communication and the Recovery Act - July 2010
• Government Withholding Provision - June 2006
• The Real ID Act - March 2006
• Federal Budget Update: Fiscal 2006 Executive Proposal Targets Discretionary Spending; States May Carry Heavy Impacts - February 2005
• Update: Reconciliation Act of 2003 - May 2003

Healthcare

• Medicaid Cost Containment-Recent Proposals and Trends - April 2011
• National Health Care Reform and the Implications for States - August 2010
• Medicaid Regulations - January 2008
• Redesigning Medicaid Using the Deficit Reduction Act - September 2007
• SCHIP Reauthorization - January 2007
• Health Information Technology - November 2006
• Medicaid to Stress State Budgets Severely - March 2002
• Health & Welfare Update - February 2002
• HIPAA and State Budgets - September 2001
• Managing State Costs in Services for the Elderly, Disabled and Special Populations - October 1998

Ballot Measures

• Ballot Measures in Upcoming and Recent Elections: Potential Impact on State Budgets - October 2012
• Outcome of Ballot Measures from 2011 Elections - November 2011
• Ballot Measures in Recent and Upcoming Elections - October 2011
• Outcome of Ballot Measures in the 2010 General Election - November 2010
• Ballot Measures in the Upcoming General Election - October 2010
• Outcome of Ballot Measures - November 2009
• Outcome of Ballot Measures in the 2008 General Election - November 2008
• Ballot Measures in the Upcoming General Election: Significant Fiscal Measures on Ballots - October 2008
• Outcome of Ballot Measures - November 2007
• Outcome of Ballot Measures - November 2006