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- Blog Post
Last year CBO launched an online tool that allows users to search for intergovernmental and private-sector mandates that the agency has identified in bills and public laws. Data for calendar year 2016 are now available.
- Blog Post
The aim of the new search tool is to enhance users’ experience by making information on mandates easier to access, searchable, and more timely. New data will be added periodically throughout the year.
- Blog Post
In 1995, the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA) was enacted to ensure that the Congress receives information, during the legislative process, about federal mandates—requirements that would be imposed on state, local, and tribal governments and on entities in the private sector. In particular, UMRA defines a legislative provision as a mandate if that provision, when enacted, would: