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

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 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 ...

I am writing to express concern about the state-mandated Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code. As written, this code constitutes another unfunded mandate from the State of Colorado, placing a significant ...

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 ...

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 ...

The city of Jamestown will be hiring part-time, on-call matrons to work in the city jail when the city is holding women until they can be arraigned in Jamestown City Court. The issue arose after an ...

Marshfield will argue before the Supreme Judicial Court that a state housing law constituted an “unfunded mandate” and effectively took away residents’ right to vote. The South Shore community is ...

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 ...