All Local Mandate Determinations

The Office of the State Auditor's Division of Local Mandates has certified the costs to be incurred by cities and town to provide uniform polling hours in the 2020 state and presidential elections.

This mandate determination examines whether a 2018 law regarding disability benefits for firefighters is an unfunded mandate under the Local Mandates Law.

State Auditor Suzanne M. Bump certified that Massachusetts communities spent approximately $1.1 million on mandated expenses to provide early voting in 2018.

This mandate determination examines whether the costs for services provided to out-of-district foster care students constitute an unfunded mandate.

At the direction of the Legislature, the Office of the State Auditor's Division of Local Mandates has certified the unfunded mandated costs incurred by cities and town to provide early voting in the 2016 general election.

Responding to a petition from Framingham, State Auditor Suzanne M. Bump determined that certain educator evaluations do not constitute an unfunded mandate.

The Office of the State Auditor's Division of Local Mandates has determined the fiscal year 2019 costs to be incurred by each city and town to provide three incremental hours for the next state primary to be conducted in September 2018 and general election to be conducted in November 2018.

Responding to petitions from the Town of Oxford and the City of Woburn, Auditor Suzanne M. Bump determined that parts of the early voting law constitute an unfunded mandate.