2022 Year in Review
A President’s Farewell Former – Asm. Ken Cooley (CA)
As 2022 winds up, it is fitting to reflect on what together we have achieved at NCOIL in recent years, including 2022 when I have been privileged to serve NCOIL as its President.
It feels like yesterday we were at our 2021 Annual Meeting in Scottsdale and my colleagues elected me NCOIL President. Since then, across three National Meetings, we gathered, did our work of listening, weighing and collaboration, adopted and re-adopted many model laws, all while constantly asserting the distinctive merit for Americans of state-based insurance regulation. And yes, very proudly I can declare, we also made the NCOIL house and its membership more representative of America. Rep. Tom Oliverson MD, TX Vice President
NCOIL has always been a national organization, however, its increasing stature across all 50 states can best be seen through the attendance at our most recent meeting in New Orleans. We broke our all-time attendance record with 393 total participants including 68 legislators from 28 states. Having such a wide array of elected voices throughout the nation during our meetings speaks to NCOIL’s national reach and its ability to be useful in legislatures all around the country.
In addition to boosting overall participation at NCOIL meetings, the membership of the organization has come to look more representative of America both in its bipartisan nature as well as the diversity of its legislative membership. Indeed, with Representative Deborah Ferguson, DDS (AR), now serving as NCOIL President, we have a woman leading the organization for the first time in nearly 20 years. And with Assemblywoman Pam Hunter (NY) now within our officer ranks, history was made this year with our mix of current leaders. This was the result of years of NCOIL officers and staff’s efforts to live up to the bipartisan and representative nature NCOIL embodies.
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