2021 Legislative Summit Preview | OAS Episode 142
Our American States
NCSL’s Legislative Summit is back Nov. 3-5 in Tampa, Fla.
On this podcast, we talk with three of NCSL’s experts about some of the sessions coming up at the Summit.
Natalie Wood, director of NCSL’s Center for Legislative Strengthening, discusses a session on legislative oversight during an emergency, lessons learned by legislatures during the pandemic and why tension between the executive and legislative branches is actually a sign of a healthy state government.
The second guest is Erica MacKellar, a fiscal expert from NCSL, who previews a session on the state of state budgets and some of what attendees will hear from economist Dan White, a speaker at the Summit.
Kate Blackman, director of NCSL’s Health Program, rounds out the group. She highlights sessions planned for Summit that will look at the pandemic and its effect on the health care system, mental health and child care.