Title 2 — The Congress
Chapter 25 — Unfunded Mandates Reform
§ 1511. Cost of regulations
Statutory text
Sense of Congress
It is the sense of the Congress that Federal agencies should review and evaluate planned regulations to ensure that the cost estimates provided by the Congressional Budget Office will be carefully considered as regulations are promulgated.
Statement of cost
At the request of a committee chairman or ranking minority member, the Director shall, to the extent practicable, prepare a comparison between—
an estimate by the relevant agency, prepared under section 1532 of this title, of the costs of regulations implementing an Act containing a Federal mandate; and
the cost estimate prepared by the Congressional Budget Office for such Act when it was enacted by the Congress.
Cooperation of Office of Management and Budget
At the request of the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall provide data and cost estimates for regulations implementing an Act containing a Federal mandate covered by part B of title IV of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 [2 U.S.C. 658 et seq.].
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995
Pub. L. 104–4 title I § 103 · 109 Stat. 48
Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 1511
(Pub. L. 104–4, title I, § 103, Mar. 22, 1995, 109 Stat. 62.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 104–4, title I, § 103, Mar. 22, 1995, 109 Stat. 62.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 103. COST OF REGULATIONS. (a) Sense of the Congress.— It is the sense of the Congress that Federal agencies should review and evaluate planned regulations to ensure that the cost estimates provided by the Congressional Budget Office will be carefully considered as regulations are promulgated. (b) Statement of Cost.— At the request of a committee chairman or ranking minority member, the Director shall, to the extent practicable, prepare a comparison between— (1) an estimate by the relevant agency, prepared under section 202 of this Act, of the costs of regulations implementing an Act containing a Federal mandate; and (2) the cost estimate prepared by the Congressional Budget Office for such Act when it was enacted by the Congress. (c) Cooperation of Office of Management and Budget.— At the request of the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall provide data and cost estimates for regulations implementing an Act containing a Federal mandate covered by part B of title IV of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (as added by section 101 of this Act).
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, referred to in subsec. (c), is Pub. L. 93–344, , 88 Stat. 297. Part B of title IV of the Act is classified generally to part B (§ 658 et seq.) of subchapter II of chapter 17A of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 621 of this title and Tables.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Pub. L. 104–4, title I, § 110, , 109 Stat. 64, provided that: “This title [enacting this subchapter and sections 658 to 658g of this title and amending sections 602, 632, and 653 of this title] shall take effect on or on the date 90 days after appropriations are made available as authorized under section 109 [2 U.S.C. 1516], whichever is earlier and shall apply to legislation considered on and after such date.”