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Unfunded Mandates Accountability Act of 2011

Introduced: September 15, 2011 See on congress.gov
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Passed Senate
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Became law
Oct 3, 2011
Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement Reform .
Sep 23, 2011
Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law.
Sep 15, 2011
Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Rules, and the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Sep 15, 2011
Introduced in House
Sep 14, 2011
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6150-6151)
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Unfunded Mandates Accountability Act of 2011 - Amends the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 to: (1) require regulatory impact analyses for rules that do not involve a legislative mandate and for final rules that do not have a prior notice of proposed rulemaking; (2) require federal agencies to prepare and publish in the Federal Register an initial and final regulatory impact analysis prior to promulgating any proposed or final rule that may have an annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more or that may result in the expenditure of $100 million or more in any one year by state, local, and tribal governments; (3) require such agencies to identify and consider regulatory alternatives before promulgating any proposed or final rule and select the least costly, most cost-effective, or least burdensome alternative; (4) define "cost" as the cost of compliance and any reasonably foreseeable indirect cost resulting from agency rulemaking; (5) exempt rules concerning monetary policy proposed or implemented by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or the Federal Open Market Committee from provisions of such Act relating to regulatory accountability and reform, review of federal mandates, and judicial review; and (6) expand provisions relating to judicial review of regulatory impact analyses.

Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to require independent regulatory agencies to conduct regulatory impact analyses.

What's happening now October 3, 2011

Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement Reform .

 Related & companion bills 2
  • S 1189 Related bill Unfunded Mandates Accountability Act of 2011
  • S 1720 Related bill Jobs Through Growth Act
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 6
 Cosponsors 7
All 7 Republican 1
DUNCAN, JOHN
· May 10, 2012
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Harris, Andy
Maryland · Oct 13, 2011
Jenkins, Lynn
· Oct 13, 2011
BRADY, KEVIN
· Sep 15, 2011
Labrador, Raul
· Sep 15, 2011
McHenry, Patrick
· Sep 15, 2011
Rokita, Todd
· Sep 15, 2011
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