Sentences with phrase «government act provides»

The Local Government Act provides very detailed regulation of Municipal taxation.

Not exact matches

I bring this up because this absence (or call it omission, if you like) underlies the staunch opposition of many conservative Republicans to the Affordable Care Act — and to previous government efforts to provide publicly funded health care and insurance coverage to their citizens going back to the passage of Medicare in 1965.

Part of the reason to have bonds is to have stability on days like this; government bonds provide that stability, and they're acting like they should act, by providing that cushion to the equity volatility in your portfolio.

And third, if Carrier makes decisions that lead to financial distress as a result of acting on Trump's advice, the federal government will inevitably face pressures to provide Carrier with additional assistance.

«The risk that the Russian government, whether acting on its own or in collaboration with Kaspersky, could capitalize on access provided by Kaspersky products to compromise federal information and information systems directly implicates U.S. national security.»

The NFIB Small Business Legal Center — a legal adversary of the Affordable Care Act and government regulation — recieved a total $ 3.1 million in grants in 2011, of which just over $ 2 million was provided through Donors Trust.

The government, through paragraph 10, section 6 of the Citizenship Act, can confer citizenship «because of the services already provided by the foreigner and the extraordinary achievements still to be expected of him in the special interest of the Republic.»

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Maybe 15 percent of your income is taken right off the paycheck by the FICA [Federal Insurance Contributions Act] for Social Security and essentially pre-saving for Social Security medical care (which provides the government with enough money to cut taxes on the higher brackets.)

Having recently called out the federal government for failing to provide a justification for its decision to approve Shell's Jackpine mine oil sands expansion project (an approach that serves no interest other than the government's, as even industry would stand to benefit from knowing why one project is justified while another, e.g. Taseko's original Prosperity mine, is not), it was reassuring to see that at least this Joint Review Panel (JRP) shares my understanding of this obligation under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012, SC 2012, c 19.

The Public Policy Forum's report on the future of journalism and democracy was designed to convince the Liberal government to enact a number of changes to help Canada's media industry, including amending the Income Tax Act and the Copyright Act to provide new streams of revenue for the media.

Indeed, transfers and regional equity are enshrined in Section 36 of the 1982 Constitution Act and Section 36 (2) reads: «Parliament and the government of Canada are committed to the principle of making equalization payments to ensure that provincial governments have sufficient revenues to provide reasonably comparable levels of public services at reasonably comparable levels of taxation.»

Entities that may still have access to your Equifax credit file include: companies like Equifax Global Consumer Solutions which provide you with access to your credit report or credit score, or monitor your credit file; federal, state, and local government agencies; companies reviewing your application for employment; companies that have a current account or relationship with you, and collection agencies acting on behalf of those whom you owe; for fraud detection purposes; and companies that wish to make pre-approved offers of credit or insurance to you.

FinancialStability.gov is now part of Treasury.gov and is the official government site providing information and data related to the 2008 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (EESA) & Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).

In addressing the Reserve Bank's responsibility for monetary policy, the Act provides that the Reserve Bank Board shall, from time to time, inform the Government of the Reserve Bank's policy.

The Bank subscribes to tenders when necessary for its own portfolio management purposes and provides registry services, but since October 2006 the Bank no longer acts as agent for the Australian Government in conducting tenders of Australian Government Securities.

A spokeswoman declined to answer a series of direct questions from CNBC about his case, instead providing a statement from Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department's Tax Division: «Bradley Birkenfeld was afforded due process of law and sentenced by a federal district court after full consideration of all relevant facts and circumstances, including his admission that he advised wealthy UBS clients on how to conceal their assets from the U.S. government,» she said.

The Canada Health Act is a case in point: the provinces deliver health programs, and the federal government provides resources and, to some degree, sets national standards.

The measures in this Act require that the Government notify potential clients of proposed fee increases and allow these clients to provide feedback on the proposals.

The government will return to its only bill introduced in the short spring sitting, the Workers» Compensation Amendment Act, to provide additional support to police officers, firefighters, emergency medical technicians, and peace officers dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Brazil's federal government must provide financial support to the nearly - bankrupt state of Rio de Janeiro in order to avoid the shame of a disappointing Olympics, according to a top official in the administration of Acting President Michel Temer.

Long before Civil War financing necessitated the National Bank Act to provide a means of recirculating government deposits into the banking system, the growing volume of Treasury finances necessitated compensatory activity following re-establishment of the Independent Treasury in 1847.

Because the birth control cases all focus on a 1993 federal law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, not the Constitution, the Justices will face questions about whether the mandate to provide free access to 20 forms of birth control drugs or devices, sterilization, screenings, and counseling imposes a «substantial burden» on religious freedom of nonprofit employers with religious objections to some or all contraceptives, whether the mandate in fact serves a «compelling interest» of the government, and whether an attempt to provide an exemption from the mandate satisfies the requirement that such an accommodation is «the least restrictive means» of achieving the government's policy interest.

In July 2017, a new bill co-sponsored by a bipartisan group of four lawmakers was introduced «to ensure effective implementation of the Child Soldier Prevention Act of 2008» and «to prohibit assistance from being provided to, or licenses for direct commercial sales of military equipment issued to, the government of a country whose police or other security forces recruit and use child soldiers.»

The Act provides for grants to be disbursed by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to eligible local governments for the purpose of acquiring, developing and / or rehabilitating lands for public outdoor recreation purposes.

were created by Public Act 096 ‐ 0820 effective November 18, 2009 to provide grants to be disbursed by the DNR to eligible local governments for park and recreation unit construction projects.

The act covers the government's reimbursements to school districts for school meals; food served at many day care facilities for children and adults; and the Women, Infants and Children program, which provided food to more than 8 million people in 2007.

The federal government made great strides in providing access to breastfeeding support and supplies for new moms who have private insurance through passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Each country's results are publicly displayed on the WBTi website, providing further impetus to government leaders to act decisively.

The USDA's Farm to School Grant Program — originally funded as part of the Healthy Huger - Free Kids Act of 2010 — provides resources on a competitive basis to schools, nonprofits, farmers and government entities to assist in implementing farm to school programs that improve access to local foods in eligible schools.

«MSI is also calling for healthcare professionals to provide women with comprehensive contraceptive information and access to the full range of modern methods via dedicated client consultations, and for more investment in training for healthcare professionals in fitting long acting reversible contraceptive methods (LARCs), which are a critical part of the Government's strategy to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and abortions in the UK.»

The London Government Act 1963 provided for the abolition of the former counties of Middlesex and London, the absorption of parts of Kent, Essex and Surrey, and their replacement with the county of Greater London.

Our excellent regional minister who acted as a catalyst and provided a link between business leaders, local and regional bodies and central government has also gone.

He said the government had to be alert to the way human rights legislation was applied, and provide the training and guidance necessary to protect against the act «becoming corrupted to produce perverse results».

He said it is the Government's role to provide the necessary infrastructure to support Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs), to invest in research and skills and to act as a «convener» to ensure work is not carried out in silos.

As a Council, we are appalled at some individuals within the ruling party, including a sitting Member of Parliament, whose tacit support and actions seems to be providing oxygen for these criminal elements to carry out these acts of impunity, having the potential of not only casting a slur on their own party leadership and government but undermining the authority of the Presidency, thus eroding the confidence and goodwill that Ghanaians have reposed in the new administration.

The Institution of Engineering and Technology acts as the voice of the profession, making submissions to government and providing advice.

According to the press release the Iran Divestment Act of 2012 would prohibit companies that provide goods, services or credit to Iran's energy industry from entering into or renewing state and local government contracts.

When the current coalition government introduced the Fixed - term Parliaments Act in 2011, the case appeared compelling: The Government believes that fixed - term Parliaments will have a positive impact on our country's political system; providing stability, discouraging short - termism, and preventing the manipulation of election dates for political government introduced the Fixed - term Parliaments Act in 2011, the case appeared compelling: The Government believes that fixed - term Parliaments will have a positive impact on our country's political system; providing stability, discouraging short - termism, and preventing the manipulation of election dates for political Government believes that fixed - term Parliaments will have a positive impact on our country's political system; providing stability, discouraging short - termism, and preventing the manipulation of election dates for political advantage.

Time to reject the ideological templates provided by the socialist left and the libertarian right and to embrace a new centre ground in which government steps up — and not back — to act on behalf of us all.

When the Act was introduced in 2011, the coalition government justified it by arguing that «fixed - term parliaments will have a positive impact on our country's political system; providing stability, discouraging short - termism, and preventing the manipulation of election dates for political advantage.»

The Act provides for a 14 - day period to form an alternative government in the event that a government suffers defeat in a no - confidence vote.

That this House notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian casualties, using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.

An Act to make provision for the setting up in India of two independent Dominion states, to substitute other provisions for certain provisions of the Government of India Act, 1935, which apply outside those Dominions, and to provide for other matters consequential on or connected with the setting up of those Dominions.

The government has no legally justifiable reason for refusing to provide SERAP with the information requested, and therefore, this Court ought to compel the government to comply with the Freedom of Information Act, as the government is not above the law.»

Private employers are mandated to provide lactation rooms under the Affordable Care Act, and government offices are beginning to catch up.

On Thursday, FHWA Acting Administrator Brandye Hendrickson sent a letter to DOT Acting Commissioner Paul A. Karas and New York State Thruway Authority Acting Executive Director Matthew J. Driscoll, notifying them that the federal government would be withholding an estimated $ 14 million from the nearly $ 1 billion it provides New York each year for use on such projects as bridge and highway improvements.

Section 5 of the Petroleum Revenue Management Act indicates that the Petroleum Holding Fund earmarked for transfer into the Ghana Petroleum Funds shall not be used to provide credit to the government, public enterprises, private sector entities or any other person or entity.

He urged his colleagues in Congress to pass the Puerto Rico Chapter 9 Uniformity Act (H.R. 870) which will provide the island's government with the tools needed to restructure parts of its debt under federal bankruptcy law.

That is why I have introduced the Defense of Property Rights Act — to protect citizens» property rights and better provide means for citizens to seek redress against an overreaching government.