Section 200.30  Definitions

"State mandate" means any State-initiated statutory or "executive action" that requires a local government to establish, expand or modify its activities in such a way as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenues, excluding any order issued by a court other than any order enforcing such statutory or executive action, or legislation enacted to comply with a federal mandate.  State mandates may be reimbursable or nonreimbursable; however, a State mandate is not reimbursable unless the General Assembly has appropriated funds from which a local government may be reimbursed for its costs of complying with the State mandate.