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Interstate Compacts: Governance and Administration
While interstate compacts are essentially contracts whose provisions are limited primarily by the imaginations of their drafters, their development has, in practice, evolved along best practices....
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Transferring Juveniles Outside Compact Can Cause Problems
Each spring break and summer, Jean Hall and her staff in the juvenile compact office in Florida stay very busy. The lure of beaches, sunshine and Disney attract a lot of runaways. To return these...
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Upcoming CSG Webinars: Essential Health Benefits; Prescription Drug Abuse;...
The Council of State Governments will be offering a variety of webinars designed to educate and inform state leaders on a range of policy-related issues. Registration for these sessions is...
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Resolution to Explore a Telehealth Interstate Compact
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT, that The Council of State Governments establish a Telehealth Care Interstate Compact Working Group to explore the creation of a new interstate compact agreement...
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The Evolution of Interstate Compacts
Interstate compacts are the only form of multi-state cooperation specifically referenced in the Constitution. This brief outlines the history of interstate compacts and specifically addresses how...
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The Evolution of Interstate Compacts
First referenced in Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution, interstate compacts are the most formal mechanism available to policymakers seeking state-driven solutions to a...
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State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement Backgrounder
With growth rates approaching 20 percent, online learning represents the fastest growing segment of the higher education population. These statistics are only expected to continue climbing as...
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All Great Lakes states now set to implement, comply with water management...
Stateline Midwest ~ July/August 2012With Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich’s signing of HB 473 into law in June, each of the eight Great Lakes states now has water-management plans in place to comply...
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A Victory for Interstate Compacts
A California court ruling is being hailed as a significant victory for states and the interstate compact mechanism. At issue in the case of The Gillette Company v. The Franchise Tax Board was...
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Victory for Interstate Compacts
A California court ruling is being hailed as a significant victory for states and the interstate compact mechanism. At issue in the case of The Gillette Company v. The Franchise Tax Board was...
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NCIC Director Crady deGolian Discusses Key Legal Victory for Interstate Compacts
A California court ruling is being hailed as a significant victory for states and the interstate compact mechanism. At issue in the case of The Gillette Company v. The Franchise Tax Board was...
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Protecting Water—The Essence of Life
Water is critically important to Michigan. “If you ask most people in Michigan about the importance of water, they would say, ‘it’s the essence of our being’ or ‘it’s the essence of our living’ or...
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Top 5 Issues for 2013: Interstate Compacts
Crady deGolian, Director of CSG's National Center for Interstate Compacts, outlines the top 5 compacts to watch in 2013, including those dealing with the siting of electricity transmission lines,...
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Supreme Court to Hear Case with Broad Implications for Interstate Compacts
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in April 2013, in the matter of Tarrant Regional Water District v. Herrmann. While the specifics of the case pertain to a dispute between Texas and...
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The U.S. Supreme Court Reaffirms the Contractual Nature of Compacts
By Rick Masters, Special Counsel to CSG’s National Center for Interstate CompactsOn Thursday, June 13, 2013 the U.S. Supreme Court again upheld the bedrock principle that compacts are contracts and...
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Supreme Court Issues Ruling in Red River Compact Case - Updated
A June ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court is being hailed as a significant victory for interstate compacts. At issue in the case was whether the Tarrant Regional Water District, located in Texas, could...
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