Briefs



NASBO Information Briefs provide broad overviews on selected topics. Generally, these papers are shorter than published reports and are available for download below.

• Medicaid Regulations - January 2008

• Outcome of Ballot Measures - November 2007

• Redesigning Medicaid Using the Deficit Reduction Act - September 2007
  
• SCHIP Reauthorization - January 2007
  
• Outcome of Ballot Measures - November 2006
  
• Health Information Technology - November 2006
  
• Government Withholding Provision - June 2006
  
• The Real ID Act - March 2006
  
• School Efficiency Studies - March 2006
  
• Current Fiscal Issues: Revenue Implications for States - September 2005
  
• Federal Budget Update: Fiscal 2006 Executive Proposal Targets Discretionary Spending; States May Carry Heavy Impacts - February 2005
  
• Budgeting Amid Fiscal Uncertainty - February 2004
  
• Update: Reconciliation Act of 2003 - May 2003
  
• Budget Shortfalls: Strategies for Closing Spending and Revenue Gaps - December 2002
  Highlights new budget balancing strategies and examples of measures states are taking to close spending and revenue gaps
  
• Medicaid to Stress State Budgets Severely - March 2002
  
• State Funding for Homeland Security - March 2002
  
• State Fiscal Recovery - March 2002
  
• Health & Welfare Update - February 2002
  
• HIPAA and State Budgets - September 2001
  
• The New Economy and the States - January 2001
  
• State Environmental Expenditures and Innovations - May 2000 
  
• Managing State Costs in Services for the Elderly, Disabled and Special Populations - October 1998