---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 1512"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "1512"
heading: "Consideration for Federal funding"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/1512"
units:
  - "Chapter 25 — Unfunded Mandates Reform"
  - "Subchapter I — Legislative Accountability and Reform"
---

# §1512. Consideration for Federal funding


Nothing in this chapter shall preclude a [State](/usc/2/4556.md?p=1), local, or tribal government that already complies with all or part of the Federal intergovernmental mandates included in the bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report from consideration for Federal funding under [section 658d(a)(2) of this title](/usc/2/658d.md?p=a-2) for the cost of the mandate, including the costs the [State](/usc/2/4556.md?p=1), local, or tribal government is currently paying and any additional costs necessary to meet the mandate.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–4, title I, § 105, Mar. 22, 1995, 109 Stat. 62.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 104–4, Mar. 22, 1995, 109 Stat. 48, known as the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1501 of this title and Tables.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Jan. 1, 1996, or on the date 90 days after appropriations are made available as authorized under section 1516 of this title, whichever is earlier, and applicable to legislation considered on and after such date, see section 110 of Pub. L. 104–4, set out as a note under section 1511 of this title.