What the States Will Do This Year

With state legislators beginning to wander back into their state capitols for this year's sessions, the National Conference of State Legislatures predicts and elaborates on the biggest issues to be faced on the state level this year. Those issues are:

1. Immigration
2. Homeland security and standardized ID cards
3. Budget pressures
4. Health insurance
5. Sexual offenders and predators
6. Energy and environment
7. Minimum wage
8. Higher education reform
9. Privacy
10. Obesity