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.