Sentences with phrase «house bill language»

Under the House bill language for Title I portability, Title I grant funding for disadvantaged students would follow the student to his or her newly selected public or charter school.

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«Both the House and Senate versions of the FAA re-authorization bill have very positive language on supersonics.

The House and Senate had voted to limit the exclusion, but they struck that language from the final bill.

Thereafter, the House Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee amended the bill changing the language of the exemption to exclude «persons who engage in the business of selling or issuing payment instruments or stored value solely in the form of convertible virtual currency; or receive convertible virtual currency for transmission to another location» from the licensing requirement.

Meanwhile, the House Appropriations subcommittee yesterday released its fiscal year 2015 agriculture appropriations bill, which included language that would allow any school district which operated its meal program at a loss for at least six months this past school year to seek a waiver from compliance in the coming year with the new, healthier school food standards.

As I reported here back in March, House lawmakers were able to insert language in the Congressional report accompanying the 2014 Omnibus Spending Bill advising USDA to grant schools a one - year waiver on two important new school food requirements: an increase in fruit served at breakfast and the implementation of the widely lauded «Smart Snacks in School» rules.

Neither version included the language on tomato paste, sodium or whole grains, which was added by House - Senate negotiators on the bill.

Yesterday the House Appropriations Committee approved the fiscal 2015 spending bill with controversial language, drafted by Rep. Robert Aderholt (R - AL), which would allow struggling schools to request a 12 - month waiver from complying with healthier school food standards.

Yesterday marked the beginning of House debate on the waiver language, with Rep. Sam Farr (D - CA) seeking to strip the waiver from the House spending bill.

In the last Congressional session, industry lobbying succeeded in getting language into the House Education and the Workforce Committee's draft Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill that would have allowed all FFVP schools to serve «all forms» of produce, expressly stating that the program is «no longer limited to only fresh fruits and vegetables.»

House Republicans, citing «overly burdensome and costly regulations,» added language to a budget bill in November to keep French fries and frozen pizza on the school lunch menu.

For instance, Republicans sent a few bills to Obama's White House that included language to repeal the Affordable Care Act, with the full confidence that Obama would veto them.

A failed House bill would have extended similar language to unions representing state workers but it didn't get through the Senate.

Either the House or Senate would have to mark up a bill, pass it and send to the other, agree with the other on language or convince the other to pass the bill as stands, and then send it to the president for a signature.

Due to language in the bill, it is up to the houses of worship to decide whether or not to perform same - sex marriage ceremonies, but those who choose not to may be missing out.

Senate Democrats challenged the problematic language, which was subsequently removed from the bill, necessitating another vote in the House.

Malloy's budget director, Ben Barnes, said that the legal language in the budget bill could cost the state as much as $ 1 billion over two years, but legislators in the House and Senate did not make any changes.

Members of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice held a news conference calling on the Senate to alter language in the House bill that places explicit restrictions on federal funding for abortion.

But deputy House Republican leader Vincent Candelora of North Branford said the current language of the bill is too expansive because it goes beyond bump stocks and instead covers any «rate of fire enhancement» that would include trigger cranks, levers, and other parts.

Washington (CNN)- House and Senate negotiators Monday announced an agreement on a giant $ 662 billion defense authorization bill, including modifications to its detainee language they hope will address White House concerns about that section and avoid a possible veto by President Barack Obama.

The legislation, which includes the amendment and the language of the bill sponsored by Katko, was approved Wednesday night by the House Homeland Security Committee.

The GOP house and most of the Senate does not allow Dems to insert language into legislative bills.

The plan calls for independent oversight of the city's Housing Preservation Department; establishing a public education campaign to inform tenants about HPD's role; empowering a new body or building inspectors to collect fines against landlords; having HPD make repairs not completed by the landlord in the specified amount of time and then billing the landlord; making inspectors carry citations in multiple languages and send out reports in multiple languages; forcing landlords to make repairs within 24 hours of emergency violations; establishing an East Harlem HPD oversight team as a pilot for other areas with at - risk low - income housing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violHousing Preservation Department; establishing a public education campaign to inform tenants about HPD's role; empowering a new body or building inspectors to collect fines against landlords; having HPD make repairs not completed by the landlord in the specified amount of time and then billing the landlord; making inspectors carry citations in multiple languages and send out reports in multiple languages; forcing landlords to make repairs within 24 hours of emergency violations; establishing an East Harlem HPD oversight team as a pilot for other areas with at - risk low - income housing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violhousing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violations.

Neither house has voted yet on the framework — which leaders have indicated could change — and bill language has yet to surface.

The language in its pending 2018 spending bill — approved last night by the appropriations committee for the U.S. House of Representatives — could also rekindle a smoldering debate over whether Congress should set parameters for how much NSF invests in specific disciplines.

As the appropriations bill heads for a possible House vote this week, Representative Ernest J. Istook Jr. (R - OK), who wrote the language, and House Labor / HHS subcommittee chair Ralph Regula (R - OH) are preparing to issue a statement on the House floor that would modify the directive.

The final version in the 2012 spending bill retains the prohibitory language, although it gives the White House an opportunity to engage in some collaborations if it can «certify» that they «pose no risk... of transferring technology, data, or information with national security or economic security implications to China or a Chinese - owned company.»

Unlike the earlier House proposal, the bill does not contain language opposed by research groups that would have required NIH to support a specific number of new grants at a minimum funding level.

Last week, as Glenn Hurowitz laid out, the White House appeared ambivalent on the EPA greenhouse gas language in the bill, with rumors that it was telling Democrats to accept the limitations on the agency as part of the budget negotiations.

A year later members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a bill that would strip federal protections from wolves in the Great Lakes region and Wyoming with language preventing any further judicial review — overruling two court decisions finding that the Fish and Wildlife Service had wrongly removed Endangered Species Act protections for the wolf.

Margaret Betts on «Novitiate»; Alexandra Billings on transgender negativity; Visual language of oppression; Curious pleasure of TV edits; Collapse of «House of Cards.»

Housed in a regular plastic Amaray case, As Good As Dead comes to DVD presented in what's billed as 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen but is actually 1.78:1 widescreen, with an English language 5.1 Dolby digital surround sound audio track, and optional English SDH and Spanish subtitles.

The Senate's bill does not contain language blocking President Obama's executive actions on immigration, which many House conservatives have insisted upon.

New language added to a bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act, approved by the House last month, would make sure that the states and not the secretary of education would decide who was eligible for new federal scholarships called Academic Competitiveness Grants.

The language of the house bill also reframed the issue, stressing students and «equity» over schools.

Students analyze language from the Constitution, compare the House and the Senate, and simulate the lawmaking process by reconciling two versions of the same fictional bill.

After a Senate bill he penned stalled in the House Education Committee, Schneider attached anti-Common Core language to legislation that had already passed the House.

When Rep. Bob Behning, R - Indianapolis, refused to hear the bill in the House Education Committee he chairs, Schneider worked to amend House Bill 1427 to include Common Core «pause» langubill in the House Education Committee he chairs, Schneider worked to amend House Bill 1427 to include Common Core «pause» languBill 1427 to include Common Core «pause» language.

Using the «gut and amend» process, Tillman shoved the complicated language into a House bill that was previously about school playgrounds a week and a half before the close of session.

In spring 2014, the Alaska Legislature passed House Bill 278, which included the following language in Section 52: «No later than June 15, 2015, the Department of Administration shall present to the legislature a written proposal for a salary and benefits schedule for school districts, including an evaluation of, and recommendations for, teacher tenure.»

-- Charter School Parent / Public School Alumni As legislators are looking at House Bills that will impact education in Georgia, there are many advocacy campaigns that are using negative language and messaging against traditional public schools in the name of school choice.

The legislation replaced language in a House bill that originally addressed the use of school playgrounds.

TOPEKA — After the Kansas House spent more than three hours Tuesday debating a bill that would have repealed the Common Core curriculum standards for English language arts and math in the state, it failed to receive first - round approval by a vote of 44 - 78.

Legislation passed by the 2012 General Assembly (House Bill 1181) and budget language in the 2012 - 2014 biennial budget (Item 139) increased funding for EIRI to provide reading intervention services to 100 percent of eligible students in grade three prior to promotion to grade four.

The House and Senate chambers approved separate bills earlier this session that would create commissions to rework the math and language arts standards.

This year's House bill would provide extra money for students who are poor, English language learners or live a long way from school, among other things.

While on the House floor, the bill was amended so that states and school districts would not be required to craft teacher evaluation systems based on student outcomes, as the bill's original language provided.

It also includes updated language following enactment of House Bill 3407 during the 85th Legislative Session.

The language for that scholarship program came from Senate Bill 405, which did not get through the House.

Although the overall House legislation is controversial and will not likely pass in its present form, this is an important step in getting social and emotional learning written into the language of the final bill.