US Congress Senate Bill 1189 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 23-0)
Status: Introduced on June 14 2011 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2011-07-20 - Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 112-220.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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.

Unfunded Mandates Accountability Act of 2011

Sen. Rob Portman [R-OH]	Sen. Lamar Alexander [R-TN]	Sen. Kelly Ayotte [R-NH]	Sen. John Barrasso [R-WY]
Sen. Roy Blunt [R-MO]	Sen. John Boozman [R-AR]	Sen. Saxby Chambliss [R-GA]	Sen. Daniel Coats [R-IN]
Sen. John Cornyn [R-TX]	Sen. Mike Crapo [R-ID]	Sen. Michael Enzi [R-WY]	Sen. Chuck Grassley [R-IA]
Sen. Orrin Hatch [R-UT]	Sen. Mike Johanns [R-NE]	Sen. Ron Johnson [R-WI]	Sen. Jon Kyl [R-AZ]
Sen. Mike Lee [R-UT]	Sen. Mitch McConnell [R-KY]	Sen. Jerry Moran [R-KS]	Sen. James Risch [R-ID]
Sen. Pat Roberts [R-KS]	Sen. Jeff Sessions [R-AL]	Sen. Pat Toomey [R-PA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-07-20	Senate	Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 112-220.
2011-06-23	Senate	Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 112-220.
2011-06-14	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

HB2964 (Related) 2011-10-03 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement Reform .
SB1720 (Related) 2011-10-18 - Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 203.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/1189/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/s1189/BILLS-112s1189is.pdf