Budget Amendment ID: FY2016-S3-584-R1

Redraft EDU 584

Unfunded Mandate Commission

Ms. O'Connor Ives, Messrs. Hedlund, Tarr, Humason, Moore and Ross moved that the proposed new text be amended by inserting, after section 105, the following new section:-

"SECTION 105A.  Notwithstanding section 6B of chapter 11 of the General Laws, the division of local mandates shall review and analyze all unfunded local mandates and deliver a report of the cost and economic impact of these mandates on municipalities.

The division shall also consider mandates placed on school districts, including but not limited to, unfunded mandates and reporting requirements. The division may make recommendations, in consultation with the department of elementary and secondary education, to repeal any reporting requirements that the division deems to no longer serve its intended purpose or be duplicative to other reporting requirements.

Not later than March 1, 2016, the division shall file its report, along with any proposed legislation to mitigate the effects of such mandates, with the clerks of the senate and the house of representatives, the joint committee on municipalities and regional government, the joint committee on education and the house and senate committees on ways and means."