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Definition of sunset law in US English: sunset lawnoun Law A law that automatically terminates a regulatory agency, board, or function of government on a certain date, unless renewed. in accordance with the state sunset law, the act sets the expiration date for the committee three years after the date of its creation Example sentencesExamples - A federal sunset law could help bring that same healthy process of renewal to the government sector.
- Since 1981, sunset laws have been repealed in eight of 36 states with such statutes and suspended in four others.
- Historically, sunset laws have cleared out a good deal of agency deadwood over the last quarter century.
- Not only would a sunset law help to curtail the growth of state bureaucracy, it would abolish useless and inefficient agencies, boards, and commissions which cost the taxpayers money.
- By the 1990s, however, several states had ceased using the sunset laws because of various logistical and political hindrances.
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