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The National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services (NASDDDS) is a nonprofit organization near Washington, D.C., established in 1964, to improve and expand public services to people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities in the United States. Mary P. Sowers is the executive director.
Currently, all secretaries of state, including Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam are members of NASS. NASS maintains its office in Washington, D.C. , and promotes positions on issues of interest to secretaries of state: voter turnout, voting procedures, business services, electronic government, securities, and ...
NASDS (USA) - National Association of Scuba Diving Schools only USA (Founded in the 1960s and merged with SSI in 1999) [30] TAC - The Aquatic Club - existed in the UK between 1982 and 1986. dissolved organization [31] YMCA SCUBA – Defunct recreational diver training and certification agency (1959-2008). [32] [33]
The United States federal government chartered and owned corporations operate to provide public services. Unlike government agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, or independent commissions, such as the Federal Communications Commission, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and others, they have a separate legal personality from the federal government.
The Council of State Governments (CSG) is a nonpartisan, non-profit organization in the United States that serves all three branches of state government.Founded in 1933 by Colorado state Sen. Henry W. Toll, CSG is a region-based forum that fosters the exchange of insights and ideas to help state officials shape public policy.
Until 1964, state senators were generally elected from districts that were not necessarily equal in population. In some cases state senate districts were based partly on county lines. In the vast majority of states, the Senate districts provided proportionately greater representation to rural areas. However, in the 1964 decision Reynolds v.
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Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside, due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government. [1] Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia use the term commonwealth rather than state in their full official names. States are the primary subdivisions of the ...