Sentences with phrase «health committee chair»

Led by the bill's sponsor, Councilmember Rosie Mendez, and Health Committee Chair Corey Johnson, both of whom are longtime friends to animals, the Council overwhelmingly voted (43 - 6) to pass 1233 - A to ban wild and exotic animal performances in the city.

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Stec voted for state Assembly Health Committee Chair Richard Gottfried's original medical marijuana bill, but noted legalization may not create enough revenue to be a cash cow for the state.

But Health Committee Chair Kemp Hannon, a Long Island Republican, said he expects state senators to support provisions of the bill this year, depending on what action Congress takes on the Affordable Care Act.

On Wednesday, Assembly Health Committee Chair Richard Gottfried, D - Manhattan, said the regulations demonstrate «unjustified hostility» toward the medical marijuana program by the Cuomo administration.

The council's Health Committee chair, Corey Johnson (D - Manhattan), said he hopes to fast - track the bills for approval before summer.

But City Council health committee chair Corey Johnson said he was shocked to find out pet - sitting was illegal, and plans to draft legislation to allow it.

New York State Assembly Health Committee Chair Richard Gottfried, New York City Councilman Daniel Dromm and State Sen. Diane Savino were on hand to urge their colleagues to pass a medical marijuana statute.

Heastie said «stability» helped his conference enormously this past session, and he relied heavily on the experience of veteran members like Assemblyman Dick Gottfried (Health Committee chair), Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan (Education Committee chair) and Assemblywoman Deborah Glick (Higher Ed Committee chair)-- just to name a few.

At 12:15 p.m., Assembly Health Committee Chair Richard Gottfried and Sen. Bill Perkins will be joined by health care professionals, advocates, and unions for a rally in support of single payer health coverage plan, West Capitol Park, Albany.

Democratic Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, the Assembly's health committee chair, blasted state officials for ignoring information requests from state lawmakers for five months.

Council Speaker Corey Johnson, who as the Health Committee chair in 2016 initiated the study, released a statement saying, «I don't know what the holdup is.

«At this point in 2014, the governor as still saying no way, no how,» Assembly Health Committee Chair Dick Gottfried said.

The bill's sponsor, Assembly Health Committee Chair Richard Gottfried, conceded that the measure could have limited practical impact since the state's medical marijuana program is expected to get underway so soon.

Health committee chair Stephen Dorrell added: «The obligations on both care providers and the MHRA need to be urgently reviewed to ensure that proper safeguards exist around the use of devices intended for human implantation.»

The bill, A. 5389 / S.2078, was introduced by Assembly Health Committee Chair Richard N. Gottfried and Senator Bill Perkins and is co-sponsored by 83 other legislators.

Ritchie, who chairs the Agriculture Committee, was instead paid the Health Committee chair's stipend this year — a $ 2,500 increase.

He was elected to the Council in 2013 to represent the Village, Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen and Midtown and serves as the Health Committee chair.

Assembly Health Committee Chair Richard Gottfried, the prime advocate of single - payer healthcare in the legislature, agreed that single - payer healthcare is picking up support: «every day the news from Washington makes the need for and support of the bill stronger.»

Scottish leader Ruth Davidson said he had been «absolutely right», while Health Committee chair Sarah Wollaston said he had been «speaking the truth».

«In the case of medical marijuana, we were allowing production and sale, and in order to get a company to do that, you need to tell them that it's legal,» said Assembly Health Committee Chair Dick Gottfried, D - Manhattan.

Assembly sponsor and Health Committee Chair Richard Gottfried says his bill would take advantage of the burgeoning new industry of medical marijuana growing in other states, where new strains of the drug are being developed to treat more conditions.

Senate Health Committee Chair Kemp Hannon said, «Each year the wait list for organ transplants grows longer, with nearly 10,000 New Yorkers currently awaiting transplant.

Heastie joked during my last interview with him that pretty much every member of the conference wanted the job, though Assembly Health Committee Chair Dick Gottfried, the longest - serving member of the Assembly, insisted that he's perfectly happy where he has been for the past 30 years.

So, for instance, Sen. David Valesky is not being listed officially as the Senate Health Committee chair, but is being scheduled to receive the stipend for that job.

One of the seven senators involved in the stipend dustup, Patty Ritchie, said she would consider returning some of the $ 15,000 she was paid this year after being misidentified as the Health Committee chair.

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From 2001 through 2015, he served as a director of IDEX Corporation (NYSE: IEX), a global industrial company with key growth platforms in Fluid Metering Technology and Health & Science Technology segments, where he chaired the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and Audit Committee and served on the Compensation Committee.

From 2011 through 2017, Mr. Blumenthal was a Trustee of, and Chair of the Investment Committee of the UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust, a $ 60 billion fund that pays retiree health benefits for over 700,000 UAW employees of Ford, Chrysler and General Motors.

The plan, crafted by Senate Finance Committee Chair Orrin Hatch and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, would slash corporate tax rates permanently, offer temporary cuts for individuals, and repeal the individual mandate in Obamacare, a $ 338 billion health care cut that leaves 13 million more people uninsured by 2027.

As a former city councilor, Selina advocated for the rights of taxpayers, fought to protect the health of children and families by introducing a local ban on cosmetic pesticides and worked to improve access for people with disabilities as chair of the Coquitlam Universal Access - Ability Advisory Committee.

It never made it to the floor; it was voted down by the Health and Human Services Committee, which Obama chaired.»

CHAMPIONS INCLUDE: Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Gilbert Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Former White House Chef, Founder of TROVE and Venture Partner, Acre Venture Partners Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

In light of the recent regulatory changes across the industry, those in the know including Deputy CEO of the Australian Food and Grocery Council Geoffrey Annison, General Manager of FSANZ, Glen Neal: and Chair of the Health Star Rating Advisory Committee, Dr Kevin Buckett will discuss what these changes mean for both individuals and companies across the industry.

«Winning firms have demonstrated that they are able to keep workplace safety front and center, and the large number of applications for the award process shows that safety truly matters to IDFA's members,» said Dave Crowley, senior environmental health and safety director for HP Hood LLC and chair of IDFA's Environmental Worker Safety Committee.

She has been a public company director for more than 12 years in the financial services, building materials, resources, property and biotech sectors including chairing remuneration, nominations, audit and risk and health and safety committees.

Chair, Health, Nutrition & Scientific Affairs Committee Umit Subasi President — International Campbell Soup Company

Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Senior Food Analyst at NBC News and former U.S. White House Chef Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

«Annually, the NFHS Football Rules Committee has sought ways to better promote the health and physical welfare of the participants and cultivate the high ideals of good sportsmanship,» said Brad Cashman, executive director of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association and chair of the NFHS Football Rules Committee.

Additional Accountability Requirements: Statute 16 -2-9 (a)(25)(2005), Statute 16-21-28 (2005) and Statute 16 -7.1-2 (h)(2005) require the school committee of each district to establish a district - wide coordinated school health and wellness subcommittee, chaired by a member of the full school committee, to implement policies and plans to meet Section 204 requirements.

Carl Schlyter, Green Group, European Free Alliance (EFA), Vice Chair of ENVI Committee said: «Health claims on food products are there to help consumers to do healthier choices, not to mislead.

Geri is the current chair of the legislation and policy committee of the American Public Health Association's Food and Nutrition section.

Dr. Viehmann chairs the Physicians» Committee for Breastfeeding in Rhode Island, a group of health care professionals that successfully advocated for the new law and a 2003 law that requires employers to make a reasonable effort to provide a breastfeeding mother with flexible breaks and a safe, clean, private place to pump breastmilk or breastfeed her child.

Ms. Orlin's professional associations include the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, where she is immediate Past Chair of the Executive Committee of the Mental Health Professional Group, and RESOLVE, the national infertility organization, where she is a member of their Mental Health Advisory Board.

«A whole generation of young people in our cities will potentially have their health impaired by pollution before the government meets air quality safety standards,» committee chair Joan Walley MP said.

Wollaston became chair of the Health Select Committee in 2014.

Stephen Dorrell moved from secretary of state to a successful chair of the Health Select Committee.

Sen. Patty Ritchie, the deputy vice chair of the Senate Health Committee, said she did not expect to receive money for the post.

The chair of the Health Select Committee said she could not support the claim that the UK could get back # 350m per week from its EU budget contributions and spend the money on the health seHealth Select Committee said she could not support the claim that the UK could get back # 350m per week from its EU budget contributions and spend the money on the health sehealth service.

Sen. Patty Ritchie, too, told reporters this week that she did not know her title as deputy vice chair of the Senate Health Committee would provide her with a higher stipend.

Having worked in healthcare consultancy for McKinsey before becoming an MP, Whately «s first move in the Commons was to sit on the health select committee and she now chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group for Mental Hhealth select committee and she now chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group for Mental HealthHealth.