[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 69 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 69

 To amend the Standing Rules of the Senate to require that a financial 
 impact statement be included in the report accompanying each bill or 
    joint resolution reported by any committee (except those by the 
  Committee on Appropriations), showing the financial impact that any 
 Federal mandates in the bill or joint resolution would have on States 
                         and local governments.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             February 16 (legislative day, January 5), 1993

 Mr. Heflin submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
               the Committee on Rules and Administration

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 To amend the Standing Rules of the Senate to require that a financial 
 impact statement be included in the report accompanying each bill or 
    joint resolution reported by any committee (except those by the 
  Committee on Appropriations), showing the financial impact that any 
 Federal mandates in the bill or joint resolution would have on States 
                         and local governments.

    Resolved, That paragraph 11 of rule XXVI of the Standing Rules of 
the Senate is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (c) by striking ``(a) and (b)'' and 
        inserting ``(a), (b), and (c)'';
            (2) by redesignating subparagraph (c) as subparagraph (d); 
        and
            (3) by inserting after subparagraph (b) the following:
    ``(c) Each such report (except those by the Committee on 
Appropriations) shall also contain--
            ``(1) an evaluation, made by such committee, of the 
        financial impact that any Federal mandates in the bill or joint 
        resolution would have on State and local governments; or
            ``(2) in lieu of such evaluation, a statement of the 
        reasons why compliance by the committee with the requirements 
        of clause (1) is impracticable.''.

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