Sentences with phrase «for signature legislation»

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Former President Barack Obama on Sunday called for lawmakers to have «courage» when considering health care legislation that would significantly gut his signature domestic policy, the Affordable Care Act.

While the Obama administration finds its own signature health care legislation so complicated to administer that it is now putting off implementation of the large - employer insurance mandate until 2015 (i.e., after the congressional midterm elections), it is forging ahead with its oppressive HHS contraception - sterilization - abortifacient mandate, despite repeated condemnations of it from countless religious leaders for nearly two years now.

Legislation to expand the Plainfield Park District board has won state Senate approval and is being sent to the governor for his signature.

«I look forward to completing action on this critical legislation [Thursday] and sending it to the President's desk for his signature.»

At about the same time that the U.S. House of Representatives was readying legislation to combat poaching and wildlife trafficking for President Obama's signature, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) delivered 90 finger - length giant Thai catfish, a critically endangered species, to Shedd Aquarium.

Mr. President, the new legislation awaiting your signature is a giant step in the right direction — on behalf of the students at my little public school, including my son, Zack: Thank you for putting kids first.

The Assembly legislation would move the filing deadline for petitions in 2012 to April 16, reduce the number of designating signatures for Assembly ballot access from 500 to 375.

Senate Republicans in recent days have called for amendments to the SAFE Act, a signature piece of legislation from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's first term and passed in 2013.

The SAFE Act remains a signature legislative victory for Cuomo in his second term, but led to a fall in support from Republican voters who have typically opposed gun control legislation.

Clinton's comments came during a 32 - minute speech in which she took aim at Walker and his signature legislation that all but eliminated collective bargaining rights for most public employees and his proposal in the last state budget to cut funding for higher education.

«We believe we had a bipartisan majority of the Senate to pass the legislation and send it to the governor for his signature,» Nathan M. Schaefer, ESPA's executive director, said in a written message posted on the group's website.

The legislation, which now awaits Governor Andrew Cuomo's signature, would be in effect for one year.

The vote to repeal and replace President Obama's signature healthcare law would have paved the way for a widescale dismantling of the legislation that provides care to 14,440 enrollees in the New York's 21st Congressional District, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

«gun control legislation remains broadly popular, and the SAFE Act, controversial though it may be for gun owners and Second Amendment supporters, is one of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's signature legislative achievements in his first term.»

In this heavily Democratic state, gun control legislation remains broadly popular, and the SAFE Act, controversial though it may be for gun owners and Second Amendment supporters, is one of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's signature legislative achievements in his first term.

«I urge the Senate to take up this important legislation so we can send it to the president for his signature,» said Rice in a statement released after the vote.

By contrast, New Jersey lawmakers hope to have legislation ready for Gov. Phil Murphy's signature by June 7, state Senate President Stephen Sweeney said Tuesday.

Two New York state lawmakers from the Hudson Valley say their legislation that would enable a waterway in Dutchess County to become eligible for federal funds awaits the governor's signature.

A spokesperson for the mayor told Politico that his daily schedule determines whether or not he signs legislation or simply allows bills to become law without his signature.

The legislation awaiting the governor's signature would provide the children and siblings of police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical technicians who died as a result of the September 11th World Trade Center attack or rescue operations following the attack to receive additional points on a civil service exam for a position that is located in the same municipality where the applicant's deceased parent or sibling served.

The landmark package of laws is considered former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's signature legislation and has become a model for the rest of the world.

July 31, 2014 • A 91 - 3 vote in the Senate will send the landmark VA legislation, meant to address widespread problems in the VA health care system, to President Obama for his signature.

The Senate last week gave final approval to national - service legislation, clearing it for President Clinton's signature.

To entice a presidential signature of the legislation — which would create tax breaks for parents» public and private education expenses — House and Senate negotiators have included a new reading program in it and deleted language that would have blocked plans for new national tests and transformed most federal education funding into block grants.

To be more succinct, Governor McDonnell's signature education legislation will punish high poverty schools and divisions even where significant gains toward increasing achievement for economically - disadvantaged students have been attained.

That proved to be a seamless exercise, with the House voting 359 to 64, and the Senate following suit 85 to 12, to send the historic legislation on to President Obama for his signature.

The legislation now heads to the president for his signature to become law.

Now that the U.S. House of Representatives has introduced its appropriations bill for fiscal year 2018, which begins October 1, the U.S. Senate must follow suit and pass similar legislation before submitting a complete bill to the president for his signature.

John Humphries, the director of state and federal programs for the school district of about 1,300 students, signed the 2011 petition to trigger a recall election for Walker following the passage of Walker's signature legislation known as Act 10 that all but eliminated collective bargaining rights for most public employees, including teachers.

Evers earlier this year praised Walker's budget proposal, but until now the two have been at odds over how much money the state and property taxpayers should send to schools, the expansion of taxpayer - funded vouchers and on Walker's signature piece of legislation known as Act 10, which nearly eliminated collective bargaining for public school teachers and resulted in massive membership losses for the state's largest teachers union, which has heavily backed Evers.

«DFER - LA applauds the Louisiana House of Representatives for passing this critical piece of legislation through its last legislative hurdle and sending it to Governor Edwards» desk for signature.

Whatever his political views, the animals and the no - kill movement owe Tom Hayden a thank - you for moving this landmark piece of legislation through the California Senate and for reaching across the aisle to secure the signature of a governor from an opposing party.

Legislation that bans the pet store sale of all dogs, cats, and rabbits from commercial breeding facilities waits for governor's signature.

This resolution proposes to amend the Constitution of Maine to require that the signatures on a petition to directly initiate legislation be of voters from each of the State's 2 congressional districts and that the number of signatures from each congressional district be not less than 10 % of the total vote for Governor cast in that congressional district in the previous gubernatorial election.

However, the governor's signature is still required for this legislation to be law.

02/7/12 - City Beat - Breeding Ground, Lack of dog auction regulation draws out - of - state dealers 02/3/12 - Columbus Dispatch, Editorial - Dogged effort 01/31/12 - The Oxford Press - Auctions, puppy mills to blame for increase in unwanted dogs 01/28/12 - Columbus Dispatch - Ohio lawmakers to consider dog auction ban 01/28/12 - 13 ABC (Toledo)- Ohio group clears step in dog auction ban effort 01/24/12 - Westlake / Bay Village Observer - Petition shows support for dog auction ban 01/24/12 - Ohio Akron Beacon Journal, Letter to the Editor - Push for animal rights 01/23/12 - Toledo Blade - Ohio group seeks to ban dog auctions 01/21/12 - Examiner - Coalition to Ban Ohio Dog Auctions Exceeds Signature Goal for Ballot Initiative 01/19/12 - Columbus Dispatch - Signatures collected to prompt action on dog auctions 01/13/12 - WOUB News - Group Wants Ohio to Ban Dog Auctions 01/12/12 - DogHeirs - Proposed Ohio Dog Auctions Act Stops Distribution for Puppy Mill Breeders 01/11/12 - WOSU All Sides with Ann Fisher - Efforts to Ban Puppy Mills and Dog Auctions in Ohio / Open Forum 01/11/12 - The Athens News, Letter to the Editor - Please sign petitions to end quarterly dog auctions in Ohio 01/10/12 - Cincinnati Animal News Examiner - Group works to ban dog auctions in Ohio 01/8/12 - Tanglewood Hairdressers - Dog auction petition signatures being certified 01/7/12 - Pack Mentality - Pack Line Headlines: Dog auctions, dog lawsuit and puppy mill legislation 01/6/12 - Cleveland Scene - Puppy Sales on Hold at Ohio Dog Auction 01/5/12 - Cleveland Plain Dealer - Ohio dog breeders association owns shuttered Farmerstown dog auction 01/3/12 - Life with Dogs - Ohio Dog Auctions: Going... Going... Gone 12/31/11 - Columbus Dispatch, Letters to the Editor - Ohioans deserve a say on puppy mills 12/30/11 - Orvis - Ohio One Step Closer to Banning Dog Auctions 12/28/11 - Statehouse News Bureau - Group files petition to put before voters a law banning dog auctions 12/27/11 - Columbus Dispatch - Dog - auction ban a sSignatures collected to prompt action on dog auctions 01/13/12 - WOUB News - Group Wants Ohio to Ban Dog Auctions 01/12/12 - DogHeirs - Proposed Ohio Dog Auctions Act Stops Distribution for Puppy Mill Breeders 01/11/12 - WOSU All Sides with Ann Fisher - Efforts to Ban Puppy Mills and Dog Auctions in Ohio / Open Forum 01/11/12 - The Athens News, Letter to the Editor - Please sign petitions to end quarterly dog auctions in Ohio 01/10/12 - Cincinnati Animal News Examiner - Group works to ban dog auctions in Ohio 01/8/12 - Tanglewood Hairdressers - Dog auction petition signatures being certified 01/7/12 - Pack Mentality - Pack Line Headlines: Dog auctions, dog lawsuit and puppy mill legislation 01/6/12 - Cleveland Scene - Puppy Sales on Hold at Ohio Dog Auction 01/5/12 - Cleveland Plain Dealer - Ohio dog breeders association owns shuttered Farmerstown dog auction 01/3/12 - Life with Dogs - Ohio Dog Auctions: Going... Going... Gone 12/31/11 - Columbus Dispatch, Letters to the Editor - Ohioans deserve a say on puppy mills 12/30/11 - Orvis - Ohio One Step Closer to Banning Dog Auctions 12/28/11 - Statehouse News Bureau - Group files petition to put before voters a law banning dog auctions 12/27/11 - Columbus Dispatch - Dog - auction ban a ssignatures being certified 01/7/12 - Pack Mentality - Pack Line Headlines: Dog auctions, dog lawsuit and puppy mill legislation 01/6/12 - Cleveland Scene - Puppy Sales on Hold at Ohio Dog Auction 01/5/12 - Cleveland Plain Dealer - Ohio dog breeders association owns shuttered Farmerstown dog auction 01/3/12 - Life with Dogs - Ohio Dog Auctions: Going... Going... Gone 12/31/11 - Columbus Dispatch, Letters to the Editor - Ohioans deserve a say on puppy mills 12/30/11 - Orvis - Ohio One Step Closer to Banning Dog Auctions 12/28/11 - Statehouse News Bureau - Group files petition to put before voters a law banning dog auctions 12/27/11 - Columbus Dispatch - Dog - auction ban a step closer

The legislation now goes to the full House and potentially to the Senate and to Ohio's governor for his signature.

Other points we covered included existing legislation in this realm, which currently is toothless and difficult to enforce — Canine Companions for Independence is gathering signatures on a petition designed to persuade legislator to create more forceful laws dealing with service dog fraud (www.cci.org/stopfraud)–an array of experiences aboard flights with both authentic and bogus service animals, how a policy seeking to root out phony users of service animals had the unintended and ironic consequence of punishing disabled people and veterans with legitimate service dogs, and much more.

Keep in mind that the conventional wisdom as recently as June of 2009 had it that — with the Waxman - Markey bill having been passed triumphantly by the House of Representatives — Senate action would follow; the only question raised by many commentators was whether the final legislation could be sent to the President for his signature by the time of the Copenhagen climate talks in December.

House Bill 589, «Competitive Energy Solutions for North Carolina,» is currently awaiting action by Governor Roy Cooper, who has until July 30 to sign, veto or allow the legislation to become law without his signature.

This landmark, bi-partisan legislation is now up for the Governor's signature and would establish guidelines for farming the non-psychoactive plant which is used in a wide variety of everyday consumer products, including food, body care, clothing, paper, auto parts and bio-fuel.

A cut and paste of a signature, even if authorized by the person whose signature it purports to be, doesn't count as a signature for statute of frauds purposes, unless legislation specifically authorizes that and the legislation that does so has limitations and safeguards built into it.

He is particularly critical of the claims made for digital signatures and much of the legislation that provides for their use.

It does not appear to have any digital signature, unlike some of Australia's legislative publications (see Australian Capital Territory legislation: http://www.legislation.act.gov.au/)-- is that necessary for authentication?

That doesn't change the fact that millennials were painfully slow to sign up for President Barack Obama's signature legislation, which helped throw its validity into question.

And Trump, who hasn't exactly kept his disdain for his predecessor's signature legislation a secret, has taken many steps to undermine the ACA since taking office.

«Tolls on Miami - Dade expressways could drop 5 percent under legislation awaiting Gov. Rick Scott's signature, and that might mean the end of yearly rebate checks for the county's biggest toll payers.

For example, in March 2017, the state of Arizona passed legislation (HB 2417) to amend its version of the UETA to confirm that electronic signatures, records or contracts secured through blockchain technology are valid under the state law.

The legislation now goes to Governor Rick Scott for his signature.

Korea had been the most active trading community in the world for Bitcoin, its influence still conspicuous; a petition even calling for senior ministers to be fired over legislation mismanagement accrued over 130,000 signatures in days, Bitcoinist reported last week.