Sentences with phrase «changes to the bill include»

Changes to the bill include clarifications that it applies solely to cancer diagnoses and that active cases would not be excluded from the benefits, an official said.

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The 479 - page bill includes an array of sweeping changes to the tax code, including the reduction of the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20 percent as of 2019.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has implemented a number of reforms to help rectify long - standing problems there, including hiring more staff, changing recruitment and training protocols for guards, and tripling the number of cameras.
As the budget process illustrated last year, the federal government can use subsequent budget omnibus bills to include changes not mentioned in March budgets.
A two part Omnibus Bill with over 1000 pages, which included legislative changes, only remotely referred to in the budget or not at all.
The GOP bill including some changes would increase federal budget deficits by $ 1.7 trillion over 10 years, according to Joint Committee on Taxation estimates shared by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
Other changes in the House bill are directed at businesses, including a further rate reduction for certain qualified «pass - through» firms that send their earnings to their owners to be taxed as individual income.
Directing emergency funds to areas hit by natural disasters had traditionally been quick bipartisan exercises, but that changed after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — when the Republican Study Committee, a group of House conservatives, pushed spending cuts to compensate for the approximately $ 200 billion expected in Katrina relief — including cutting farm subsidies, Amtrak funding and postponing the Medicare prescription - drug bill Republicans had approved two years earlier.
State Sen. Bill Galvano is floating a series of plans that would change how Floridians buy and use guns, including one that would increase the minimum age to buy a military - style rifle to 21.
Changes to background check procedures have received bipartisan support since the Parkland shooting, including from President Trump, but the Florida bill does not address them.
This change of behaviour needs to occur at the banks that issue the bank bills, as well as those that buy them including the investment funds and state treasury corporations.
Since 2007, Budget Omnibus Bills have been used to include many legislative changes vaguely mentioned in the Budget, or for that matter, even mentioned in the Budget.
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Presentations included The Future of Food Panel Discussion, which examined how food production, manufacturing and innovation are adjusting to changing demographics and included panelists James Corwell, CMC, founder Tomato Sushi, San Francisco; Bruce Friedrich, executive director, The Good Food Institute, Washington, D.C.; Bill Franklin, CMC, AAC, corporate executive chef, Nestlé Professional, Denver; and Helmut Holzer, CMC, vice president / corporate executive chef R&D, Gourmet Foods International, Atlanta; as well as How Diversity in the Workplace Can Lead to Success, presented by Costa Magoulas, CEC, CCE, CCA, AAC, dean, Mori Hosseini College of Hospitality and Culinary Management, Daytona State College, Daytona Beach, Florida, who discussed how to develop programs to help people from different backgrounds work together and communicate more efficiently.
If we can get a manager to come in and force the board in investing more on players, which includes modifying the wage bill, then perhaps the club can see a change of fortunes.
The proposed change was included in the Welfare Reform Bill — the most significant policy change proposed by the last Government in relation to fatherhood because it touched on the legal foundations.
It also includes the not so obvious: earning the salary, paying the bills, maintaining the house, calling the insurance company about that surprise medical bill, researching all the possible causes of that weird cough your baby has been doing lately, scheduling tours of daycare centers, getting that promotion or signing that big client, researching life insurance plans, getting the oil changed like clockwork because you really need this car to last you, plus taking breaks so that you can recharge....
Cuomo said the Legislature didn't have an appetite for the proposed changes, which included constitutional amendments for term limits, limiting private - sector income and bills aimed at making it easier to vote in New York.
The bills include measures aimed at early voting in New York, making it easier to vote through an absentee ballot with «no excuse» voting, pre-registration for 16 - and 17 - year - old future voters, and making it easier to change a party ahead of a primary.
The Bill also contains clauses paving the way for Making Tax Digital, substantial changes to the rules for fulfilment businesses and a range of anti-avoidance measures, including penalties for enablers of avoidance schemes.
In the wake of problems experienced by voters who wished to participate in New York's presidential primaries, Matthew Hamilton, reporting for the Albany Times Union, discussed legislative changes that would improve voter access to the polls, including reform bills sponsored by Kavanagh.
And a number of sought - after items, including cash bail, early voting, changes to statutes regarding child molestation, New York's DREAM Act, and ethics reform fell out of the final bill, unable to pass a divided legislature.
Question topics during a post-announcement Q&A included the surprise resignation of Joe Percoco, the extensive list released today of New York endorsers of Hillary Clinton and Mayor Bill de Blasio's absence from that list, whether he supports de Blasio's call for changes to bail in light of the killing of Police Officer Randolph Holder, «felony drug dealers» being offered treatment instead of jail time, dealing with homeless people in the subway and rail systems, details of his executive order extending anti-discrimination laws to transgender people, Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch's departure and rules and laws around criminal defendant drug diversion programs.
Supposedly final, agreed - upon program bill language, including changes to arbitration as part of a local «financial restructuring board» law, was released by the governor's office to the AlbanyTimes Union and posted on the paper's Capitol Confidential website at 11:49 a.m. on June 18.
A bill passed by both the Senate and Assembly would include New York in an effort to change the allocation of electoral votes in presidential elections.
Cuomo signed four bills into law, including legislation that will change the election date for the Albany school board to May.
Guests on the show included environmentalist Bill McKibben, who has praised Cuomo for «paying attention» to climate change and its impact on the weather in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, and Rep. Jerry Nadler, who offered no defense of Cuomo following Hayes» rant.
Activists are trying to change that by supporting a bill that would set up mandatory protocols — including contacting the student's parents — for schools to follow if a student expresses suicidal thoughts.
«The repeal bill will include powers for ministers to make some changes by secondary legislation, giving the government the flexibility to take account of the negotiations with the EU as they proceed.»
The final package is likely to include a bill allowing ride - hailing services like Uber and Lyft to operate outside of New York City, funding for a task force to address hate crimes, an agreement to distribute roughly $ 1 billion in housing money and some changes to oversight of state procurement.
A key component of the Senate GOP's lawsuit against the prisoner counting change included in the 2010 - 2011 budget is a challenge to the way that switch was made — through a budget extender bill sent to the Legislature by then - Gov.
No such target was included in the November 2012 energy bill but the report sees «little reason not to include one» unless the targets in the Climate Change Act 2008 are to be revised at a later date.
The Environmental Advocates of New York have released a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo urging him to include in the final budget agreement a bill that's aimed at fighting climate change.
A «wholesale transformation of the energy system» is required, the report says, and given the scale and complexity of the change a decarbonisation target should be included in the energy bill to provide a policy commitment for the investors who will need to provide the capital for the development of new technologies.
The Living Wage bill that stemmed from the Kingsbridge Armory redevelopment battle is entering a new phase in the City Council, as the bills proponents, including Oliver Koppell and Annabel Palma, have changed the bill to make it affect less businesses and more attractive therefore to holdout Councilmembers.
For New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a second - term Democrat, it poses the annual opportunity to lobby for the city's priorities, including small and large policy changes and additional funding for city agencies.
Off topic question topics included whether the mayor and his wife have smoked marijuana inside Gracie Mansion, a Daily News call for the mayor to «accept responsibility for inflaming the police», whether the mayor believes he should apologize for comments on the police, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns about current mayoral / police friction as it considers Brooklyn as a site for the 2016 Democratic Convention, whether the mayor supports the recent Cuomo / Christie veto of legislation on the Port Authority, a pending state legislative bill on police disability pensions, the expected special election in the 11th Congressional District, whether the mayor believes there is a police slowdown, the dismay of the recently shot and wounded police officers at Mayor de Blasio's hospital visit, the possible change in the Staten Island Chuck / Groundhog Day ceremony, the meeting today between Police Commissioner Bratton and union leaders and how Mayor de Blasio envisions the current mayoral / police friction ending.
While many of the changes in the bill seem to address lawmakers» concerns about the provisions» impact on the accused, the new legislation also includes requirements that those found «responsible» are labeled as such on their academic transcripts.
BARBARAELLEN KOCH FILE PHOTO County Executive Steve Bellone has proposed changes to the county's farmland preservation bill that would include more agritourism uses on preserved parcels.
A climate change bill is due shortly which will set out ministers» plans to cut emissions at home in the UK, and changes to the European emissions trading scheme (ETS) are also planned, including its expansion into the emissions - heavy aviation industry.
Moreover, this strict amendment process has not excessively impeded constitutional change, as it has allowed for many significant constitutional amendments over the nation's history, including the Bill of Rights and Amendments concerning the income tax, the direct election of senators, the two term presidency, and the right to vote of women and 18 year olds.
Republicans were making major changes to the bill up to the last minute, including one that would roll back some of the tax cuts after six years to appease deficit hawks.
Members of the state Assembly could as early as this week vote on a bill that would undo the changes to the STAR School Tax Relief program that were included in last year's budget negotiations but which have sparked statewide complaints.
Lerner says Common Cause has analyzed the details of the bill authorizing the constitutional change, and has found a number of technical loopholes that she says keeps the power to manipulate the lines well within the hands of the legislature, including the ability to continue to add additional Senate seats for political purposes.
WASHINGTON — The Senate Republican tax bill, which had appeared to be cruising to victory, suffered a setback late on Thursday as lawmakers were forced to contemplate significant changes, including future tax increases, to help pay for the legislation.
The extension of the bill came up in the legislature but Governor Andrew Cuomo would not allow a last minute vote, the Post said, because the «extender billincluded unrelated provisions, including changes to the loft law.
The announcement came in the form of a series of changes Fariña proposed to the Department of Education's 2015 - 2019 Capital Plan, which also includes adding 7,000 seats to the city's schools to make room for Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposed universal pre-K program and to help reduce class size, which rose consistently during the last six years of the Bloomberg administration.
The prosecutor said that given the allegations in the cases he's brought this week, he's got some pointed questions he wants answers to, including finding out how many bills were born of bribery and how many items in the state budget got there because money changed hands.
The Senate bill has further changes, such as including donations made to charter schools and expanding the pool of available credits, capping it at $ 150 million for calendar year 2017, $ 225 million for 2018 and $ 300 million for 2019 going forward.
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