Sentence examples for mandate a requirement from inspiring English sources

In July, after the Obama administration announced it was delaying the so-called employer mandate — a requirement that companies with more than 50 employees contribute to the cost of insurance or pay a penalty — Ms. Tavenner told lawmakers that she had been on vacation when the decision was announced and had no part in it.

Is the law's "individual mandate", a requirement that everyone buy health insurance, constitutional or not?

But only about one in three Americans supports the law's "individual mandate," a requirement that all individuals buy health insurance or pay a penalty.

Among the taxes that would have been affected are the "individual mandate", a requirement that individuals buy insurance or face a tax penalty; the "employer mandate", a requirement that businesses with more than 50 employees provide insurance; and the "Cadillac tax", which taxes expensive health insurance plans.

The central question is whether there should be a health insurance "mandate" — a requirement that everyone sign up for health insurance, even if they don't think they need it.

The Republican tax bill is expected to undercut the insurance markets by eliminating the individual mandate — a requirement under the ACA that Americans buy insurance or face a penalty.

"Congress made these performance standards, and mandated a requirement that would help meet them," he said.

In 1996, the Federal Communications Commission mandated a requirement limiting SAR levels on phones sold in the United States to less than 1.6 watts per kilogram of human tissue.

Rabbi Michael DaviSimilarlymber of Jewish Voice for Peace's Rabbinical Council.

It's mind-boggling that the USDA, lobbied heavily by the beef industry, never mandated a labeling requirement for LFTB.

Consequently, the Court, which held recently that the Constitution permits a State to im-pose an opt-in requirement, see Davenport, 551 U. S., at 185, has never said that it mandates such a requirement.