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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2255 
To amend the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 to ensure that 
actions taken by regulatory agencies are subject to that Act, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 5, 2009 
Ms. FOXX (for herself and Mr. CUELLAR) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 
and in addition to the Committees on Rules, the Budget, and the Judici-
ary, 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 
A BILL 
To amend the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 
to ensure that actions taken by regulatory agencies are 
subject to that Act, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Unfunded Mandates 
Information and Transparency Act of 2009’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds that— 
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(1) before acting on proposed Federal man-
dates, Congress should carefully consider their ef-
fects on consumers, workers, and small businesses; 
(2) Congress has often acted without adequate 
information concerning the costs of Federal man-
dates, instead focusing only on their benefits; 
(3) the implementation of the Unfunded Man-
dates Reform Act of 1995 has resulted in increased 
awareness of intergovernmental mandates without 
impacting existing environmental, public health, or 
safety laws or regulations; 
(4) the implementation of this Act will enhance 
public awareness of prospective Federal mandates on 
the private sector, State, local, and tribal govern-
ments without adversely affecting the environment, 
public health, or safety laws or regulations; 
(5) the costs of private sector mandates are 
often borne in part by consumers, in the form of 
higher prices and reduced availability of goods and 
services; 
(6) the costs of private sector mandates are 
often borne in part by workers, in the form of lower 
wages, reduced benefits, and fewer job opportunities; 
and 
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(7) the costs of private sector mandates are 
often borne in part by small businesses, in the form 
of hiring disincentives and stunted economic growth. 
SEC. 3. PURPOSE. 
The purpose of this Act is— 
(1) to improve the quality of Congress’ delibera-
tion with respect to proposed Federal mandates, 
by— 
(A) providing Congress and the public with 
more complete information about the effects of 
such mandates; and 
(B) ensuring that Congress acts on such 
mandates only after focused deliberation on 
their effects; and 
(2) to enhance the ability of Congress and the 
public to distinguish between Federal mandates that 
harm consumers, workers, small businesses, State, 
local, and tribal governments and mandates that 
help those groups. 
SEC. 4. APPLICATION OF REPORTING REQUIREMENTS TO 
POLICIES INVOLVING CHANGES IN CONDI-
TIONS OF GRANT AID. 
Section 423(c) of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974 is amended by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of para-
graph (2), by striking the period and inserting ‘‘; and’’ 
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