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104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 13

To require a Congressional Budget Office analysis of each bill or joint 
   resolution reported in the Senate or House of Representatives to 
   determine the impact of any Federal mandates in the bill or joint 
                              resolution.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 4, 1995

 Ms. Moseley-Braun introduced the following bill; which was read twice 
 and referred jointly pursuant to the order of August 4, 1977, to the 
 Committees on the Budget and Governmental Affairs, with instructions 
that if one committee reports, the other committee have thirty days to 
                        report or be discharged

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                                 A BILL


 
To require a Congressional Budget Office analysis of each bill or joint 
   resolution reported in the Senate or House of Representatives to 
   determine the impact of any Federal mandates in the bill or joint 
                              resolution.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AMENDMENT TO THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT OF 1974.

    Section 202 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by 
adding at the end thereof the following:
    ``(i) Federal Mandates.--
            ``(1) The Director shall analyze each bill or joint 
        resolution reported in the Senate or the House of 
        Representatives to determine--
                    ``(A) the cost to State and local governments of 
                complying with any Federal mandates in the reported 
                bill or joint resolution; and
                    ``(B) the extent to which Federal funds, either in 
                the bill or joint resolution, or otherwise, cover the 
                costs of complying with the mandates.
            ``(2) The Director shall annually determine the cumulative 
        costs of complying with Federal mandates in all bills or joint 
        resolutions enacted in the preceding year and the extent to 
        which Federal funds cover the costs of complying with such 
        mandates.
            ``(3) For purposes of this subsection, the term `Federal 
        mandate' means a provision that--
                    ``(A) requires creation or expansion of a State or 
                local service or activity;
                    ``(B) requires standards different from State or 
                local law or practice in delivering a service or in 
                conducting an activity;
                    ``(C) creates additional personnel or other 
                administrative costs for State and local governments; 
                or
                    ``(D) requires contracting procedures different 
                from or in addition to those required under State or 
                local law or practice.''.

SEC. 2. REPORT REQUIRED FOR SENATE CONSIDERATION.

    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 shall also contain an evaluation by the 
Congressional Budget Office of any Federal mandates in the bill or 
joint resolution as required by section 202(i) of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974.''.
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