2 U.S.C. § 1501 : US Code - Section 1501: Purposes

Search 2 U.S.C. § 1501 : US Code - Section 1501: Purposes

The purposes of this chapter are - 
(1) to strengthen the partnership between the Federal
Government and State, local, and tribal governments;
(2) to end the imposition, in the absence of full consideration
by Congress, of Federal mandates on State, local, and tribal
governments without adequate Federal funding, in a manner that
may displace other essential State, local, and tribal
governmental priorities;
(3) to assist Congress in its consideration of proposed
legislation establishing or revising Federal programs containing
Federal mandates affecting State, local, and tribal governments,
and the private sector by - 
(A) providing for the development of information about the
nature and size of mandates in proposed legislation; and
(B) establishing a mechanism to bring such information to the
attention of the Senate and the House of Representatives before
the Senate and the House of Representatives vote on proposed
legislation;
(4) to promote informed and deliberate decisions by Congress on
the appropriateness of Federal mandates in any particular
instance;
(5) to require that Congress consider whether to provide
funding to assist State, local, and tribal governments in
complying with Federal mandates, to require analyses of the
impact of private sector mandates, and through the dissemination
of that information provide informed and deliberate decisions by
Congress and Federal agencies and retain competitive balance
between the public and private sectors;
(6) to establish a point-of-order vote on the consideration in
the Senate and House of Representatives of legislation containing
significant Federal intergovernmental mandates without providing
adequate funding to comply with such mandates;
(7) to assist Federal agencies in their consideration of
proposed regulations affecting State, local, and tribal
governments, by - 
(A) requiring that Federal agencies develop a process to
enable the elected and other officials of State, local, and
tribal governments to provide input when Federal agencies are
developing regulations; and
(B) requiring that Federal agencies prepare and consider
estimates of the budgetary impact of regulations containing
Federal mandates upon State, local, and tribal governments and
the private sector before adopting such regulations, and
ensuring that small governments are given special consideration
in that process; and
(8) to begin consideration of the effect of previously imposed
Federal mandates, including the impact on State, local, and
tribal governments of Federal court interpretations of Federal
statutes and regulations that impose Federal intergovernmental
mandates.