Author: Paul L. Posner
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 087840709X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the politics behind the use of mandates requiring state and local governments to implement federal policy. Over the last twenty-five years, during both liberal and conservative eras, federal mandates have emerged as a resilient tool for advancing the interests of both political parties. Revealing the politics that led to the policies, Paul L. Posner explores the origins of these congressional mandates, what interests and needs they satisfy, whether mandate reform initiatives can be expected to alter their use, and their implications for federalism. This book reveals how mandates have changed the way policy is formed in the United States and the fundamental relationship between the federal government and the state and local governments.
Federal Mandate Relief for State, Local, and Tribal Governments
Author: United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiscal policy
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiscal policy
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Unfunded Mandates Reform Act: History, Impact, and Issues
Author: Robert Jay Dilger
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437983081
Category : Government spending policy
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437983081
Category : Government spending policy
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Politics of Unfunded Mandates
Author: Paul L. Posner
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 087840709X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the politics behind the use of mandates requiring state and local governments to implement federal policy. Over the last twenty-five years, during both liberal and conservative eras, federal mandates have emerged as a resilient tool for advancing the interests of both political parties. Revealing the politics that led to the policies, Paul L. Posner explores the origins of these congressional mandates, what interests and needs they satisfy, whether mandate reform initiatives can be expected to alter their use, and their implications for federalism. This book reveals how mandates have changed the way policy is formed in the United States and the fundamental relationship between the federal government and the state and local governments.
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 087840709X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the politics behind the use of mandates requiring state and local governments to implement federal policy. Over the last twenty-five years, during both liberal and conservative eras, federal mandates have emerged as a resilient tool for advancing the interests of both political parties. Revealing the politics that led to the policies, Paul L. Posner explores the origins of these congressional mandates, what interests and needs they satisfy, whether mandate reform initiatives can be expected to alter their use, and their implications for federalism. This book reveals how mandates have changed the way policy is formed in the United States and the fundamental relationship between the federal government and the state and local governments.
Federal Mandates on State and Local Governments
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Unfunded Mandates
Mandate Madness
Author: James T. Bennett
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351507133
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
What do drivers' licenses that function as national ID cards, nationwide standardized tests for third graders, the late unlamented 55 mile per hour speed limit, the outlawing of the eighteen-year-old beer drinker, and the disappearing mechanical lever voting machine have in common? Each is the product of an unfunded federal mandate: a concept that politicians of both parties profess to oppose in theory but which in practice they often find irresistible as a means of forcing state and local governments to do their bidding, while paying for the privilege.Mandate Madness explores the history, debate, and political gamesmanship surrounding unfunded federal mandates, concentrating on several of the most controversial and colorful of these laws. The cases hold lessons for those who would challenge current or future unfunded federal mandates. James T. Bennett also examines legislative efforts to rein in or repeal unfunded federal mandates. Finally, he reviews the treatment of unfunded mandates by the federal courts. Those who find wisdom in America's traditional federalist political arrangement maintain perhaps with more wishfulness than realism that the unfunded federal mandate has not yet joined death and taxes as an immovable part of the modern political landscape.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351507133
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
What do drivers' licenses that function as national ID cards, nationwide standardized tests for third graders, the late unlamented 55 mile per hour speed limit, the outlawing of the eighteen-year-old beer drinker, and the disappearing mechanical lever voting machine have in common? Each is the product of an unfunded federal mandate: a concept that politicians of both parties profess to oppose in theory but which in practice they often find irresistible as a means of forcing state and local governments to do their bidding, while paying for the privilege.Mandate Madness explores the history, debate, and political gamesmanship surrounding unfunded federal mandates, concentrating on several of the most controversial and colorful of these laws. The cases hold lessons for those who would challenge current or future unfunded federal mandates. James T. Bennett also examines legislative efforts to rein in or repeal unfunded federal mandates. Finally, he reviews the treatment of unfunded mandates by the federal courts. Those who find wisdom in America's traditional federalist political arrangement maintain perhaps with more wishfulness than realism that the unfunded federal mandate has not yet joined death and taxes as an immovable part of the modern political landscape.
Unfunded mandates : Reform Act has had little effect on agencies' rulemaking actions : report to the Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428977120
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428977120
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Federal Mandate Reform Legislation
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.
Unfunded Mandates Reform Act
Author: Congressional Research Service
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781507868072
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (UMRA) culminated years of effort by state and local government officials and business interests to control, if not eliminate, the imposition of unfunded intergovernmental and private-sector federal mandates. Advocates argued the statute was needed to forestall federal legislation and regulations that imposed obligations on state and local governments or businesses that resulted in higher costs and inefficiencies. Opponents argued that federal mandates may be necessary to achieve national objectives in areas where voluntary action by state and local governments and business failed to achieve desired results. UMRA provides a framework for the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to estimate the direct costs of mandates in legislative proposals to state and local governments and to the private sector, and for issuing agencies to estimate the direct costs of mandates in proposed regulations to regulated entities. Aside from these informational requirements, UMRA controls the imposition of mandates only through a procedural mechanism allowing Congress to decline to consider unfunded intergovernmental mandates in proposed legislation if they are estimated to cost more than specified threshold amounts. UMRA applies to any provision in legislation, statute, or regulation that would impose an enforceable duty upon state and local governments or the private sector. It does not apply to conditions of federal assistance; duties stemming from participation in voluntary federal programs; rules issued by independent regulatory agencies; rules issued without a general notice of proposed rulemaking; and rules and legislative provisions that cover individual constitutional rights, discrimination, emergency assistance, grant accounting and auditing procedures, national security, treaty obligations, and certain elements of Social Security. State and local government officials argue that UMRA's coverage should be broadened, with special consideration given to including conditions of federal financial assistance. During the 112th Congress, the House passed H.R. 4078, the Red Tape Reduction and Small Business Job Creation Act: Title IV, the Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act of 2012. It would have broadened UMRA's coverage to include both direct and indirect costs, such as foregone profits and costs passed onto consumers, and, when requested by the chair or ranking Member of a committee, the prospective costs of legislation that would change conditions of federal financial assistance. The bill also would have made private-sector mandates subject to a substantive point of order and removed UMRA's exemption for rules issued by most independent agencies. During the 113th Congress, these provisions were included in H.R. 899, the Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act of 2014, which the House passed on February 28, 2014, and in H.R. 4, the Jobs for America Act, which the House passed on September 18, 2014. During the 114th Congress, these provisions are included in H.R. 50, the Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act of 2015, and its companion bill in the Senate, S. 189. This report examines debates over what constitutes an unfunded federal mandate and UMRA's implementation. It focuses on UMRA's requirement that CBO issue written cost estimate statements for federal mandates in legislation, its procedures for raising points of order in the House and Senate concerning unfunded federal mandates in legislation, and its requirement that federal agencies prepare written cost estimate statements for federal mandates in rules. It also assesses UMRA's impact on federal mandates and arguments concerning UMRA's future, focusing on UMRA's definitions, exclusions, and exceptions that currently exempt many federal actions with potentially significant financial impacts on nonfederal entities.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781507868072
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (UMRA) culminated years of effort by state and local government officials and business interests to control, if not eliminate, the imposition of unfunded intergovernmental and private-sector federal mandates. Advocates argued the statute was needed to forestall federal legislation and regulations that imposed obligations on state and local governments or businesses that resulted in higher costs and inefficiencies. Opponents argued that federal mandates may be necessary to achieve national objectives in areas where voluntary action by state and local governments and business failed to achieve desired results. UMRA provides a framework for the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to estimate the direct costs of mandates in legislative proposals to state and local governments and to the private sector, and for issuing agencies to estimate the direct costs of mandates in proposed regulations to regulated entities. Aside from these informational requirements, UMRA controls the imposition of mandates only through a procedural mechanism allowing Congress to decline to consider unfunded intergovernmental mandates in proposed legislation if they are estimated to cost more than specified threshold amounts. UMRA applies to any provision in legislation, statute, or regulation that would impose an enforceable duty upon state and local governments or the private sector. It does not apply to conditions of federal assistance; duties stemming from participation in voluntary federal programs; rules issued by independent regulatory agencies; rules issued without a general notice of proposed rulemaking; and rules and legislative provisions that cover individual constitutional rights, discrimination, emergency assistance, grant accounting and auditing procedures, national security, treaty obligations, and certain elements of Social Security. State and local government officials argue that UMRA's coverage should be broadened, with special consideration given to including conditions of federal financial assistance. During the 112th Congress, the House passed H.R. 4078, the Red Tape Reduction and Small Business Job Creation Act: Title IV, the Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act of 2012. It would have broadened UMRA's coverage to include both direct and indirect costs, such as foregone profits and costs passed onto consumers, and, when requested by the chair or ranking Member of a committee, the prospective costs of legislation that would change conditions of federal financial assistance. The bill also would have made private-sector mandates subject to a substantive point of order and removed UMRA's exemption for rules issued by most independent agencies. During the 113th Congress, these provisions were included in H.R. 899, the Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act of 2014, which the House passed on February 28, 2014, and in H.R. 4, the Jobs for America Act, which the House passed on September 18, 2014. During the 114th Congress, these provisions are included in H.R. 50, the Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act of 2015, and its companion bill in the Senate, S. 189. This report examines debates over what constitutes an unfunded federal mandate and UMRA's implementation. It focuses on UMRA's requirement that CBO issue written cost estimate statements for federal mandates in legislation, its procedures for raising points of order in the House and Senate concerning unfunded federal mandates in legislation, and its requirement that federal agencies prepare written cost estimate statements for federal mandates in rules. It also assesses UMRA's impact on federal mandates and arguments concerning UMRA's future, focusing on UMRA's definitions, exclusions, and exceptions that currently exempt many federal actions with potentially significant financial impacts on nonfederal entities.
Unfunded Mandates, Regulatory Burdens, and the Role of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations, and Procurement Reform
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description