Sentences with phrase «from drafting legislation»

From drafting legislation to challenging corporate misconduct to supporting sustainable alternatives, these smart lawyers are playing a critical role, yet receive little credit for the important work they do.

The damages for late payment clause was, however, omitted from the draft legislation, but could be reinserted at a later date.

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Outsports.com writer Cyd Ziegler suggested that the National Football League could threaten to move the annual NFL Draft Combine from Indianapolis or not award future Super Bowls to the city over the legislation.

Regardless of the «he said, she said» narrative, it takes time, potentially years, for the wheels of legislation to turn; a bill would require drafting, after which it would need to win a majority vote from the National Assembly before it could become a law.

The questions ask whether the draft legislation is within the province's jurisdiction and whether it can apply restrictions to a substance that arrives from another province via pipeline or rail.

Regardless, it takes time, potentially years, for the wheels of legislation to turn; the bill will require drafting, after which it will need to win a majority vote from the National Assembly before it could become a law.

The draft legislation is the latest in a series of income cuts, tax hikes and reforms imposed on austerity - weary Greeks since 2010, when the debt crisis exploded that brought Greece to the brink of bankruptcy and expulsion from the eurozone — the club of European Union countries that use the euro currency.

MacCharles also told the legislature that the government legislation was drafted «in response» to two previously proposed private members» bills, including one from Liberal MPP Arthur Potts.

Some big ones are: (a) whether the draft PROMESA legislation raises retroactivity issues that make it unfair to bondholders (including mutual funds and their investors) who may be subject to restructuring ex post without having had notice of that possibility ex ante; (b) relatedly, whether creating a bankruptcy - like restructuring process for Puerto Rico is bad for bondholders because it prevents holdout creditors from holding up restructuring negotiations, (c) how much oversight and sovereignty Puerto Rico should cede (for example, different stakeholders feel differently about the installation of an oversight board); (d) the extent to which austerity measures are feasible and should be imposed [fn1], and (d) and what substantive reforms should be put enacted going forward.

Plaintiffs» attorneys may then offer help in drafting new legislation from which they themselves hope to benefit.

Persico said last week he is drafting legislation designed to allow the property owners to de-annex from the park district.

Please draft the Petition urging congress to mandate all midwives to report adverse outcomes, and at the same time, passing legislation to protect hospitals from being sued from adverse outcomes due to negligent midwives.

An open invitation to all made it needless to invite representatives from special interest organizations to express their views, a clear departure from common parliamentary practice which has been, and remains, to invite special interest groups to influence, or even draft, legislation of interest to them.

32BJ's involvement in drafting the legislation was so close that union officials jointly edited a Microsoft Word document with the proposed bill language with officials from the city's Department of Consumer Affairs.

Pressure from Tory peers leads PM to promise draft legislation on register of beneficial owners by summer

A New York state assemblyman from Orange County in the Hudson Valley is drafting legislation to repeal a clause in the new tuition - free pubic college program for middle - class students.

He even agreed to draft legislation that would block competing daycare centers from opening, according to the criminal complaint.

GOP Assembly members — who are outnumbered in the chamber more than 2 - to - 1 — say their names are being stripped from bills as co-sponsors even when they had a hand in drafting the legislation.

«It's an old bill draft and any final legislation will contain what we believe will be the best plan to fight opiod and heroin abuse and include recommendations from the Heroin Task Force,» spokesman Rich Azzopardi said in an email.

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Although the draft legislation is awaited it appears from the Budget papers that it will apply to all income tax reliefs that are currently uncapped.

The task force dealt with issues ranging from helping victims with orders of protection to drafting new legislation.

Mr. Stevenson was convicted on four counts stemming from charges that he drafted legislation and performed official government services in exchange for more than $ 20,000 in cash bribes — the latest in a long string of corruption arrests hitting the state's lawmakers.

A bipartisan draft bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the original name of the federal education legislation, would bar the federal government from requiring states to use student test scores in teacher evaluations or forcing closure or other sanctions on struggling schools.

Tedisco caught up with POLITICO by phone from his office in Clifton Park, where he lamented the state of talks and the effect of a 2004 court ruling, Silver v. Pataki, which confirmed the governor's exclusive power to draft budget legislation.

After several missed deadlines and a leaked draft that was met with heavy criticisms from the scientific community, the draft legislation — and a 2005 - 07 budget of 6 milliards euros more than in 2004 — have finally been announced.

Draft legislation under consideration in China, however, could make it far more difficult for scientists from other countries to undertake joint projects with Chinese researchers.

The warm glow of an old electric light - bulb, which has been banned in many countries because it is so energy inefficient, may soon be making a comeback All 12V MR16 lamp bulbs will be phased out from 2013 if draft legislation is approved.

If the court determines that the state can legally withhold licenses from dropouts, the report says, the panelists would work with the attorney general to draft new legislation to enact the proposal.

The proposal to create an «achievement school district» that wrests control of low - performing schools away from local school boards and into the hands of charter operators is being developed behind closed doors as the legislative session marches on, with numerous lawmakers and advocates working in tandem on successive drafts of the legislation.

A state senator from Gary who drafted legislation establishing charter schools now thinks Gary has reached its limit.

The legislation requires that the alternative assessment method must be designed to assess a student's mastery of the essential knowledge and skills in writing through timed writing samples; improvement of a student's writing skills from the beginning of the school year to the end of the school year; a student's ability to follow the writing process from rough draft to final product; and a student's ability to produce more than one type of writing.

Mortgage modification has been drafted specifically for those who are threatened with foreclosure or are having a hard time making their monthly mortgage payments and is different from mortgage refinancing that is available under the same legislation (for homeowners who are not behind on their mortgages but can not refinance because of lowered market values for their homes).

CIBC Wealth's Jamie Golombek says the Budget included draft legislation that allows for an increased TFSA dollar amount for 2015 to $ 10,000, up from $ 5,500, the current 2015 TFSA dollar amount.

The latest draft of the Senate legislation includes a system somewhat different from the House bill's to ensure that the price of emissions permits does not rise or fall too quickly.

Draft legislation from U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would radically expand the federal government's power to speed the siting of transmission lines from remote renewable energy zones to the nation's population centers.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office has released a draft of legislation that would give the federal government power to speed the siting of transmission lines from remote zones to population centers.

If signed by Schwarzenegger, the Hemp Industries Association and Vote Hemp — the two groups that helped advise the Assemblymen who drafted the legislation — will seek to enjoin the Controlled Substances Act from interfering in the pilot program, said Patrick Goggin, California council with HIA and Vote Hemp.

It also supports the sharing of experiences and lessons learned from this pilot project with other developing countries through the formulation of a set of draft legal provisions that could serve as a reference tool to policy makers and legal drafters of a larger number of countries, in their efforts to further strengthen existing legislation to support and facilitate adaptation.

The group allowed lobbyists from fossil fuel giants, such as Koch Industries and Peabody Energy, to draft legislation designed to undermine regulation on air pollution and climate change.

From there the bill moves to the Senate, where senators are drafting parallel legislation.

Environmental Justice Australia has drafted model No More Bad Investments (NMBI) legislation (downloadable from this page) which state / territory governments could implement in order to ban new climate - damaging projects.

These projections are used for a multitude of purposes, from helping governments work out where to spend their money to drafting legislation and calculating insurance risks.

New research from the environmental group Client Earth reveals that only ten EU member states (Austria, Denmark, Croatia, Germany, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Portugal, Luxembourg, Slovenia and the UK) have implemented the timber regulation, while eight countries (Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Ireland, Poland, Romania and Sweden) have drafted legislation but have yet to adopt it, and another eight (Estonia, Lithuania, Greece, Malta, Hungary, Slovakia, Spain and Italy) have done nothing.

The biggest push is coming from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a 40 - year - old industry group with free - market views that drafts and pushes legislation and that sees renewable energy mandates as an overreach of government authority.

Dozens of reports, drafted by BHI and released by SPN member think tanks at the state level, promote the agenda contained in the model legislation from ALEC.

ALEC is not only responsible for drafting model state laws attacking renewable energy programs and climate policies, it is also intentionally crafting and supporting Voter ID bills and other legislation designed to suppress people from voting and participating in our democracy.

Perhaps threats of withdrawal from the market by some insurers will prompt the «simple exercise» that is now required of the Alberta government to fix this poorly - drafted legislation.»

Bob Ambrogi, who says he helped draft a new Massachusetts shield law to protect journalists from having to cough up their sources, describes the pending legislation in today's post.

Apart from the usual posts observing developments in the case law and new legislation, in these posts a contributor will briefly present one piece of reading (book, article, SSRN paper, blog post etc.) which he or she found of particular interest and then set out why he or she considers this reading could also be of interest for others, be they specialized in the particular domain or as a generally well - drafted, thought provoking contribution to EU law.