These companies can self-insure and be exempt from all state, and some, federal mandates.
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Many of these agencies are small, often volunteer organizations with limited budgets, no engineering expertise, and a distrust of Federal mandates.
Federal mandates are the primary reason that 25 percent of public school funds are spent on non-teaching staff -- an amount twice the average of most industrial countries.
But Big Oil, Big Ethanol and tiny start-ups like Verenium have all failed to meet federal mandates for so-called advanced biofuels, fuels produced with agricultural waste or dedicated fuel crops like switchgrass instead of from edible grains like corn.
While the federal government mandates schools that receive federal money serve a free lunch to children whose families meet a certain income, the funds don't cover the entire cost of the meal.
Although women outlive men, federal law mandates the use of unisex actuarial tables for pensions.
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The federal government mandates that drug makers generally give Medicaid a 23-percent discount.
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To be sure, the legal distinction he makes between state and federal individual mandates is a sound and principled one.
In fact, national standards can only add to the burden that federal education mandates place on state education departments and local school districts.
Virginia Democrat senators Jim Webb and Mark Warner signed a bipartisan letter to the EPA supporting a temporary waiver of federal ethanol mandates.
While some tax incentives do exist (for ethanol and wind energy), there are no federal energy mandates besides a meager Renewable Fuel Standard passed last year by Congress to boost production of ethanol and biodiesel.
On that note, if you're wondering whether a franchiser has ever been sued, consider that federal law mandates that franchise disclosure documents cite any significant litigation it's been involved, including lawsuits filed by franchisees or groups of franchisees.
The federal government mandates that hospitals keep patient privacy sacred under the 1996 Health Information and Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA. But doctors and hospitals are bound by law in some cities and states to report every gun-violence incident.
He advised Catholic clergy to go to jail to protest federal contraceptive coverage mandates.
My list was copied from the famed checklist the Federal Aviation Administration mandates to keep airline crashes to a minimum.
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The Army, which was not required to make any capital investment in the project, will keep title to the associated Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) for complying with federal renewable energy mandates.
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It is, however, very unlikely the courts would strike down any effort by Congress to prohibit illegal residents from working or obtaining welfare benefits, including federal efforts to solicit or entice the states to cooperate in such efforts through the use of federal grants and mandates.
Not even stiff new federal fuel-economy mandates may be enough to rescue EVs as a commercial proposition.
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"What we don't want from the federal government is unfunded mandates, " Douglas said.
These functions include (1) the development and sharing of best practices and innovative ideas to promote transparency, encourage participation, and foster collaboration and (2) coordinating efforts to implement existing mandates for Federal spending transparency.
Here is a suggestion for a smart minimum wage law (perhaps proposed in return for relaxing federal healthcare taxes and mandates for small business?): A minimum wage rise that is triggered by stipulated economic conditions, much like the Fed says it will let interest rates seek market levels only when unemployment drops to 6.5%.
Recently, for example, they were instrumental in the passage of legislation that mandates five percent federal contracting set asides for women-owned businesses.
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Wind is by far the cheapest of the renewable energy technologies, so wind development should grow steadily over the next several years as state renewable power mandates toughen and the federal government contemplates putting a price on carbon.
The U.S. Code alone contains 55, 000 pages of mandates, and that's only a sliver of federal and state statutes.
ObamaCare makes federal and state efforts to cap rates even more complicated because the law mandates all sorts of costly benefits.
The bill is not without problems, such as the provision that mandates that all employers, public and private, use the federal E-Verify system, which checks workers' immigration status.
The mandates Carter refers to are part of Germany's Green Area and Biotope Area Federal Law.
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The whistleblower program mandates that the SEC must pay individuals bounties if they come forward to report violations of federal securities laws.
"These states are getting more flexibility with federal funds and relief from No Child Left Behind's one-size-fits-all mandates in order to develop locally tailored solutions to meet their unique educational challenges, " Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a call with reporters.
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