Assemblyman Robert Smullen, R,C-Mohawk Valley and the Adirondacks, has criticized the Democrat Majority for its refusal to ...

State Rep. Johanny Cepeda‑Freytiz has proposed installing panic buttons in every classroom (“Panels eye school cellphone bans, silent alarms,” Reading Eagle, Nov. 20). It is certainly motivated by ...

MESA COUNTY, Colo. (KJCT) -Mesa County is working to put together its 2026 budget as unfunded state mandates continue to strain local resources, with the county joining 47 others across Colorado in ...

Unfunded mandates are regularly lambasted as an expensive burden that curbs job growth and overloads budgets, but their defenders say some of them get a bad rap and might even save your life. Unfunded ...

State Sen. Kevin C. Kelly (R-21) testified before the General Assembly’s Planning and Development Committee in support of Senate Bill 223, An Act Concerning Unfunded Mandates. “The cities and towns ...

When Georgia lawmakers asked what they could do to make the lives of educators a little easier, they got a predictable response: stop telling us what to do, especially if you will not pay for it. The ...

Teller County commissioners reached the boiling point over unfunded mandates passed down by the state legislature for years. Last week, commissioners Dan Williams, Bob Campbell and Erik Stone sent a ...

LAKE PLACID – Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Mandate Relief Council continued its statewide tour Friday with a three-hour hearing on mandate relief at the Conference Center. The council, which consists of state ...

Mesa County has published a list of “unfunded mandates” as part of its campaign to get the state of Colorado to fund the mandates. The mandates range from requirements that the District Attorney ...

OLYMPIA — A bill addressing the unfunded and underfunded mandates placed on Washington’s public schools has passed the state House of Representatives. With HB 2636, the mounting mandates will come ...