Unfunded mandate

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In United States law and politics, unfunded mandates are regulations, or in some cases conditions for receiving grants, that impose costs on state or local governments or private entities for which they are not reimbursed by the federal government.

• Any one of many federal legislations such as the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act that require programs to be sponsored by the governments of the states, without providing any funds for those programs
• The provisions in the Americans with Disabilities Act that require nearly all American business owners to make their business premises available to disabled customers, without providing any funds for the cost of reconstruction or additional interior space
• The provisions in the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act that require nearly all American emergency rooms to accept and stabilize any patient regardless of the patient's ability to pay, but do not provide adequate reimbursement for indigent patients

[edit] References

• The head ignores the feet, The Economist, May 22, 2003.
• King, David C.: Election Reform as an Unfunded Mandate, Sep. 3, 2001.
• Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995, a US bill intended to limit the number of unfunded mandates that can be enacted by the federal government

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