Info Maps NASBP offers a series of maps to highlight local legislative activity, legislative initiatives, and valuable resources for our members, affiliates, associates, and their clients. Survey of NASBP Comment Letters Examples of NASBP advocacy efforts on behalf of its members relating issues concerning local, state or federal owners
Comments on Financial Management Service (FMS) docket number FISCAL-FMS-2010-0001 with regards to concerns with proposed rules impacting the administration of the corporate surety program by FMS
Fiscal FMS Comment Letter 2010-0001.pdf
NASBP provides its membership access online at www.nasbp.org , to maps that highlight local legislative activity, bonding thresholds and other valuable information across the United States. The maps feature: NASBP comment letters on bills and regulations State statutes authorizing public-private partnerships Federal, state and local agencies that certify disadvantaged business enterprises (DBEs), with hyperlinks to agency websites A survey of state bonding thresholds With the maps , NASBP is making its resources “as easily accessible to our membership as possible,” says Shannon Crawford, NASBP Manager of State Relations. “It's really important to us.” The comment letters map serves as a repository of the 150-plus letters that NASBP has submitted on a wide range of issues, including owner prequalification requirements, warranties and surety credit ratings. Members can click on their state and then view comment letters in PDF format, arranged by topic and then by date sent
Additional Resources The information map series was kicked off with NASBP’s first map, a compilation of state P3 statutes, and since then the Association has been produced five more, which are continually updated. Its Survey of NASBP Comment Letters map is especially robust, cataloging hundreds of advocacy efforts NASBP has taken on behalf of its members. In California alone, for example, members can browse through 25 different comment letters. Additional maps include a list of federal, state and local certifying agencies in the State DBE Certifying Agencies map , and a list of Producer Licensing State Agencies . “The Survey of State Bond Thresholds map is absolutely my favorite map that we’ve done,” Crawford said