1:00pm - 5:00pm

Committee on Commerce and Communications

1:00pm-2:30pm

Sales of Wine & Beer Over the Internet & Delivery Across State Lines

The direct sale of wine and beer across state lines occurs primarily through wine and beer clubs and catalog sales. With the growth of electronic commerce, the Internet is allowing small vineyards and breweries to reach even a larger audience. These mediums provide consumers with the ability to choose from the many premium wines and specialty beers produced throughout the country. Some states prohibit the direct shipment of wine from a vineyard or beer from a brewery across state lines to consumers. This session will address the issues of direct wine sales and possible Congressional action.

2:30pm-4:00pm

State or Federal regulation of Insurance? An Indusrty Point of View

McCarran-Ferguson has guaranteed the authority of states to regulate the business of insurance for over 50 years. While there have been congressional attempts to erode state authority, Congress always seemed reluctant to set up a new federal insurance bureaucracy. Many thought that a Republican controlled Congress would ensure the strengthening of McCarran-Ferguson, however, since their takeover we have seen many legislative attempts to weaken the scope of McCarran-Ferguson. Solid insurance industry support for state regulation seems to be cracking and there are some that believe that the large industry associations are advancing the idea of a federal regulator. This session will provide the industry an opportunity to clarify their positions on who should regulate the business of insurance.

4:00pm-5:00pm

Insurance Over the Internet: Are There Still Hurdles?

As more and more financial services are moving to the Internet, states will have to review their laws and regulations so as not to hamper or burden this transformation. At the same time, states have an obligation to protect the consumer from fraud and theft. This session will discuss some of the hurdles insurance companies wishing to do business over the Net are facing, and also address how states can remove these hurdles.

8:30am - 12:00pm
OPTIONAL

Tour of United Airlines Maintenance Facility
In August 1992, United Airlines began construction of the Indiana Maintenance Center and opened for operations in March 1994. The state of Indiana was successful in luring this $800 million, world class,
state-of-the-art facility by offering a series of state and local tax incentives in the hope of creating new jobs. Today, the facility employs more that 2,800 people who maintain and service United's entire narrow-body fleet, including the Boeing 737, 755, 767 and Airbus A320 and A319. Located on a 300-acre site at the Indianapolis International Airport, this facility has set the industry standard for overhauling and servicing aircraft.

8:30am

Buses leave Convention Center

9:00am - 11:30am

Tour of Maintenance Facility

10:30am - 12:30pm

Brunch (Convention Hall)

1:00pm - 3:00pm

Opening Plenary Session

3:15pm - 5:00pm

Commerce and Communications Committee Session

With competition in telecommunications markets growing at a slow but steady pace, the question of Universal Service, E-rate, 911 and e-911 calls always causes a debate whether the question is raised in our nation's capital or the halls of our state capitols. Somebody has to pay. While the cost in the past may have been hidden in pages of monthly phone bills, the consumer is now seeing line-item charges for providing various services such as E-rate, or 911. This session will review the federal-state relationship on Universal Service and discuss who should pay to subsidize low cost basic services, Internet access for schools and libraries and emergency call service.

6:00pm - 10:00pm

Social Event at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway

8:00am - 11:45am.

AFI Committee on Commerce and Communications

8:00am - 9:30am.

The officers of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners will address the members of the Committee on the status of state regulation across the country. At this session, the NAIC officers will be asked to comment on the recent decision by the NAIC to accept the preemption of state laws prohibiting the demutualization and redomestication of mutual insurers. The Commissioners also will be asked to speak to their decision to accept on behalf of the federal government the role of deciding what state laws and regulations with regard to the licensing and registering of agents and brokers are preempted because they fail to meet NAIC standards on uniformity.

9:30am - 10:45am

The cellular telephone industry has been working on submitting legislation to Congress which will direct the way states and local governments will be able to tax cellular phone service. As cell phones continue to grow in popularity, many questions have arisen about their impact on state telecommunications taxes. This session will review the proposed legislation and the controversies surrounding the question of taxing cell phone service.

10:45 am - 12:00pm

The Committee will consider expiring policy statements on Insurance Solvency, Telecommunications, Empowerment and Insurance Fraud. The Committee also may consider Action Calendar Resolutions on the Sale and Delivery of Wine and Beer Across State Lines; The NAIC Decision to Support Preemption of State Insurance Laws; Cellular Phone Taxes; and Y2K Liability.

ALL COMMITTEE ACTIVITY ENDS AT 12:00 NOON

12:00pm - 2:00

Legislators Lunch
Speaker: David Wyss
Chief Economist
Standard & Poor's/DRI
Massachusetts

2:15pm - 4:15pm

CONCURRENT SESSIONS
All are invited to attend either of the sessions listed below.

How can states combat fraud on the Internet? What is unlawful in the real world should also be unlawful on the Net, but practical problems of enforcing state laws are complicated by the borderless nature of the Web. We will examine how state laws can be enforced while maintaining the freedom of the Internet.

2:15pm - 4:15pm

As financial markets become more global in nature state supervision of banks, insurance and securities will be tested. Industry has made clear they want more uniformity in regulatory oversight, not wanting to have to deal with 50 different state regulators and systems of regulation. National organizations representing state regulators have tried to accommodate this call for uniformity, sometimes at the expense of state legislative authority. This session will discuss the future of state financial services regulation and interplay between regulators' push for uniformity and state legislative prerogatives.

5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Exhibit Hall Reception

6:30pm - 9:30pm

Cyber-Education

8:00am - 9:30am

Speaker:
Honorable James Gilmore
Governor
Commonwealth of Virginia

Chairman,
Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce

Comments:
Senator Steven Rauschenberger, Illinois
Co-Chair
NCSL Executive Committee Task Force on State and Local Taxation Of Telecommunications and Electronic Commerce

9:45am - 11:45am

There are now more than 60 million Internet users who have access to a growing volume of financial, governmental and consumer information. Will the Internet redefine what is personal information and what is public record? Policymakers face new challenges in crafting privacy policy for a cyber society.

OR

9:45am - 11:45am

This session will review the issues surrounding right-of-way use in the new competitive communication marketplace. Panelists also will discuss how some states have successfully rescinded the authority of their localities to manage public rights-of-way for telecommunications.

12:00pm -1:15pm

Democratic Legislators' Luncheon

1:30pm - 3:30pm

Speaker: Steven Covey
Author, "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
Utah

3:45pm - 5:15pm

The Internet has opened up a new world of access to and for state governments to better serve their citizens. It provides the capability to streamline government operations and service delivery and to expedite access to information. This movement to electronic government is full of challenges and opportunities.

A global economy with Internet communications is changing the world with breathtaking speed. What will this mean for federal, state and local tax policy and finances?

3:45pm - 5:15pm

Three years after enactment of the most far-reaching telecommunications legislation in recent history, citizens still do not see the "fruits" of competition. Do the recent telephone company mergers and the new telecommunications products provide consumers with more choices? This session will look at the obstacles and the reality of competition.

10:00am - 11:30am

The Business Meeting will consider all policy statements and action calender resolutions reported by the nine committees os the Assembly on Federal Issues.

12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Closing Plenary Session
Speaker: The Honorable Donna Shalala
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Washington, DC

2:00pm - 4:00pm

Special Briefings:
The Problems with Privacy in the Information Age
Throughout the 1990s, states and the federal government have grappled with the serious dilemma of maintaining privacy when information about individuals is everywhere in our electronic world. Who should access the data and for what purpose? Come examine the challenges of privacy in the information age.
Refreshments sponsored by Dunn and Bradstreet

Facilitator: Representative Phill Kline, Kansas
Professor Amitai Etzioni, Dept. of Sociology, George Washington University, author of "The Limits of Privacy"
Robert Ellis Smith, Editor, Privacy Journal
Dr. Paul Billings, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Invited
Christine Barni, Online Privacy Alliance (Former Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission), Invited
Representative, American Civil Liberties Union

6:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Closing Social Event - The Children's Museum of Indianapolis