The Effectiveness of State False Claims Acts in Protecting State Transportation Funding
For more than 150 years, the Federal False Claims Act has served to prevent false claims for
federal government funds. In recent years, a number of state legislatures
have enacted state false claims acts modeled after the Federal FCA, to prevent false claims for state
government funds.
State highway departments and transportation agencies
have a continuing need to keep abreast of operating
practices and legal elements of specific problems in
highway law.
The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's
NCHRP Legal Research Digest 79: The Effectiveness of State False Claims Acts in Protecting
State Transportation Funding provides an in-depth
assessment of state and federal statutes and case law relating
to false claims in the area of highway and transportation
contracting.
This Summary Last Modified On: 1/21/2020