Sentences with phrase «enabling legislation allows»

Enabling legislation allows for the spending on statutory programs without having to seek annual approval by Parliament, unless changes to the parameters of the programs are being sought.

Not exact matches

The Devolution Bill is a deliberately non-prescriptive and enabling piece of legislation that allows for the devolution of almost anything — housing, health, welfare, policing and more — to a local level.

But the enabling legislation, which allowed the private sector to finance the project, was stripped from the budget in negotiations with the Legislature.

Cuomo is backing the creation of a chief procurement officer and is supporting legislation that would allow the comptroller, attorney general and the procurement officer «to collaborate on a student and make recommendations regarding initiatives to better enable the public to track state contracts and audits.»

Lawmakers approved enabling legislation earlier this year that allows for casinos in the Catskills, Southern Tier and the Albany area.

«We are looking forward to working with New York State officials to enable legislation that will allow this dynamic opportunity to become a reality,» said President of Batavia Downs Gaming Henry Wojtaszek in a statement.

The pending amendment to the state's constition allows for up to seven casinos statewide, but the enabling legislation provides for a five - year moratorium on New York City - area casinos after the upstate casinos have been up for two years.

The interview confirms the word around the Capitol that Cuomo had met with legislators to discuss increasing the number of first - round casinos allowed in New York to four should the enabling legislation be approved alongside the second passage of a constitutional amendment that expands non-Indian gaming in New York.

«We're excited about this legislation, as it would enable Data Conversation Laboratory to substantially increase our federal competitiveness, allowing us to grow our business and bring more technology jobs to Queens,» Williams said.

Legislation in 1998, advanced by Bryan and Nevada's other senator, Harry Reid, and then - congressman John Ensign, allowed the U.S. Department of the Interior to sell tens of thousands of acres of federal land to private developers, enabling Las Vegas Valley authorities to steer federal land sales they otherwise would not have the right to control.

It is an enabling piece of legislation that allows the government to bring out regulations to cover specific hazards.

School choice proponents may have had their biggest success in Indiana, where Republican Governor Mitch Daniels signed legislation that removes the charter cap, allows all universities to be charter authorizers, and creates a voucher program that enables about half the state's students to attend public or private schools.

Recently she was involved, through a petition of 9,200 signatures garnered in two weeks, in the overall defeat of Oklahoma Senate Bill SB32, which would have allowed cities to restrict ownership of any breed dog, enabling breed specific legislation to become law.

The gas industry wants to enable access within the current legislation, which allows negotiated third party access to high - pressure networks.

(1) an enabling power should be introduced that will allow electronically executed wills or fully electronic wills to be recognised as valid, to be enacted through secondary legislation;

This would allow the Government to bring forward secondary legislation to enable the use of electronic wills at a time when it is feasible to do so.

My comments start from three propositions which are rooted in constitutional theory: (1) absent constitutional objection, legislation binds; (2) administrative decision - makers enabled by statute can only go so far as their home statute allows (3) it is a court's job, on any standard of review, to enforce those boundaries; in American terminology, to «say what the law is» (Marbury v Madison; Edmonton East, at para 21).

In 2010, ICBC's enabling legislation, the Insurance Corporation Act, was amended by Christy Clark's BC Liberal government to allow the Cabinet Committee to compel ICBC to pay specified dividends into the provincial treasury.

The exception to this is the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC), which had its enabling legislation amended in 2010 to allow the provincial government to compel ICBC to pay dividends into the provincial treasury.

Wyoming has been the most aggressive in passing blockchain - friendly legislation, passing five laws: declaring that «utility tokens» would not be regulated under state securities laws, exempting cryptocurrencies from property taxes, adjusting its money transmitter regulation to accommodate cryptocurrency exchanges, allowing LLCs to register on a blockchain, and enabling the secretary of state to register companies on a blockchain.