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HEHS-94-110R 1 (1994-04-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackni0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UntdStates GAO General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Human Resources Division B-252054 April 5, 1994 The Honorable John Conyers, Jr. Chairman, Committee on Government Operations House of Representatives The Honorable Edolphus Towns Chairman, Subcommittee on Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations, Committee on Government Operations House of Representatives Over the past two decades, the fiscal distress at all levels of government contributed to a dramatic shift in American intergovernmental relations. Federal aid to state and local governments peaked in 1978, then began to decline as a proportion of total state and local spending. At the same time, federal policymaking began shifting from an incentive-based system of grants-in-aid designed to encourage state and local governments to perform an activity or provide a service to a more command-based system requiring state and local action under federal regulation. This letter responds to your request for information on the perspectives of state and local government representatives on the impact of unfunded federal mandates. We obtained our information through reviews of mandate studies and discussions with public sector associations; federal, state, and local officials; and researchers who have studied the mandate issue. Since our objective was to identify mandate concerns from the viewpoint of state and local governments, we did not evaluate the extent to which their views differ from federal perspectives. As agreed with your offices, we did not attempt to independently verify the accuracy of the data they provided or to substantiate the validity of examples offered to illustrate the impact of mandates (see app. I for a description of our scope and methodology). Mandates are generally defined as any constitutional, statutory, or regulatory provision that imposes requirements on local governments for which they must GAO/HEHS-94-11OR Federal Mandates

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