[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 17 (Friday, January 27, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S1639]
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                      UNFUNDED MANDATE REFORM ACT

  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order, the Senate will 
resume consideration of S. 1, which the clerk will report.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 1) to curb the practice of imposing unfunded 
     Federal mandates on States and local governments; to 
     strengthen the partnership between the Federal Government and 
     State, local, and tribal governments; to end the imposition, 
     in the absence of full consideration by Congress, of Federal 
     mandates on State, local, and tribal governments without 
     adequate funding, in a manner that may displace other 
     essential governmental priorities; and to ensure that the 
     Federal Government pays the costs incurred by those 
     governments in complying with certain requirements under 
     Federal statutes and regulations, and for other purposes.

  The Senate resumed consideration of the bill.

       Pending:
       Levin amendment No. 174, to provide that if a committee 
     makes certain determinations, a point of order will not lie.
       Levin amendment No. 175, to provide for Senate hearings on 
     title I, and to sunset title I in the year 2002.
       Levin amendment No. 176, to clarify the scope of the 
     declaration that a mandate is ineffective.
       Graham amendment No. 189, to change the effective date.
       Glenn amendment No. 195, to end the practice of unfunded 
     Federal mandates on States and local governments and to 
     ensure the Federal Government pays the costs incurred by 
     those governments in complying with certain requirements 
     under Federal statutes and regulations.
       Glenn amendment No. 197, to have the point of order lie at 
     only two stages: (1) against the bill or joint resolution, as 
     amended, just before final passage, and (2) against the bill 
     or joint resolution as recommended by conference, if 
     different from the bill or joint resolution as passed by the 
     Senate.
       Byrd amendment No. 200, to provide a reporting and review 
     procedure for agencies that receive insufficient funding to 
     carry out a Federal mandate.
       Grassley amendment No. 208, to require an affirmative vote 
     of three-fifths of the Members to waive the requirement of a 
     published statement on the direct costs of Federal mandates.
       Kempthorne amendment No. 210, to make technical 
     corrections.
       Kempthorne (for Dole) amendment No. 211, to make technical 
     corrections.
       Glenn amendment No. 212, to clarify the baseline for 
     determining the direct costs of reauthorized or revised 
     mandates, and to clarify that laws and regulations that 
     establish an enforceable duty may be considered mandates.
       Gramm amendment No. 216, to require an affirmative vote of 
     three-fifths of the Members to waive the requirement of a 
     published statement on the direct costs of Federal mandates.
       Byrd modified amendment No. 217, to exclude the application 
     of a Federal intergovernmental mandate point of order to 
     employer-related legislation.
       Levin amendment No. 218, in the nature of a substitute.
       Levin amendment No. 219, to establish that estimates 
     required on Federal intergovernmental mandates shall be for 
     no more than ten years beyond the effective date of the 
     mandate.
       Brown amendment No. 220, to express the sense of the Senate 
     that the appropriate committees should review the 
     implementation of the Act.
       Brown/Hatch amendment No. 221, to limit the restriction on 
     judicial review.
       Roth amendment No. 222, to establish the effective date of 
     January 1, 1996, of Title I, and make it apply to measures 
     reported, amendments and motions offered, and conference 
     reports.
     

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