Sentences with phrase «state mandates already»

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There are 28 states who already enacted state laws that require this mandate.

What is frustrating is that this is really a non issue as it is already the law in 28 states and it is not a mandate.

Are you aware that irrespective of what is going on with Obama today, that there are already 28 separate state laws that impose the same mandate?

What did you think of the 28 states that already implented this mandate at the state level years ago.

Bill Hammond: «As Albany lawmakers consider imposing costly new taxes and mandates on health insurance, a report from the New York State Health Foundation offers a timely reminder: The state's premiums are already among the highest in the country, and rising fast.&rState Health Foundation offers a timely reminder: The state's premiums are already among the highest in the country, and rising fast.&rstate's premiums are already among the highest in the country, and rising fast.»

Both federal and state law already required coverage of contraceptives, but this bill would expand the mandate in some respects — most notably by ordering plans to provide a 12 - month supply when filling prescriptions and banning copayments or coinsurance of any amount.

If enacted, the legislation would add to the dozens of mandates that the state already imposes on health plans, adding substantially to New York's high premiums.

As Albany lawmakers consider imposing costly new taxes and mandates on health insurance, a report from the New York State Health Foundation offers a timely reminder: The state's premiums are already among the highest in the country, and rising State Health Foundation offers a timely reminder: The state's premiums are already among the highest in the country, and rising state's premiums are already among the highest in the country, and rising fast.

City Hall says Cuomo's plan would simply expedite an already - underway process by the state Education Department to create guidelines for evaluating teachers but leave intact the legal language mandating layoffs be implemented based on seniority.

LaVigne added nine major state - mandated programs already eat up more than 99 percent of the county property taxes collected statewide.

While most of the projects in this plan are ones we were already developing or would have done in the future, it was a welcome opportunity to collaborate and brainstorm for new ideas, despite the bureaucracy of yet another state mandate.»

In his budget message, Breslin said the county was already running «lean» and said growth of state - mandated programs like Medicaid, which provides medical coverage for the poor, forced his budget to grow beyond the cap.

Local officials say that would force them to slash already thin services unless the tax cap exempts state mandates like employee health care and pensions, or is at least tied to relief from state mandates and regulations.

Federal and state law already mandates pay equity standards.

As Mayor Bloomberg said, â $ ˜ What we are urging you to do is provide our students with their fair share of state aid and our city with the tools and reform needed to end unnecessary mandates and crippling policy that otherwise will accelerate an already daunting situation,»» she said.

First, this bill doesn't send one nickel a religious school,» Bellafiore said «Second, New York State already sends hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars to religiously affiliated schools, via a very long - standing program that pays for services mandated by the state.&rState already sends hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars to religiously affiliated schools, via a very long - standing program that pays for services mandated by the state.&rstate.»

Erie County residents are already burdened by some of the highest taxes in the country due largely to state mandates and taxing districts.

«Unfunded mandates place further pressure on our county when we're already dealing with rising costs and declining revenues, we desperately need the state to stop passing the buck and provide needed relief for our communities,» said Erie County Legislator Ted Morton.

A new New York state mandate that all 109 industrial development agencies add a clawback provision before approving tax breaks or incentives may be redundant to what already exists here.

Rockland County already has a drug court in operation, however following a state mandate last year that court is now prioritizing felony cases.

«New York State would be the 4th of fifty states to have this kind of mandate, in a state where we're already depending on how you look at, the 3rd or 4th most expensive Worker's Compensation state in terms of premiums paid by emploState would be the 4th of fifty states to have this kind of mandate, in a state where we're already depending on how you look at, the 3rd or 4th most expensive Worker's Compensation state in terms of premiums paid by emplostate where we're already depending on how you look at, the 3rd or 4th most expensive Worker's Compensation state in terms of premiums paid by emplostate in terms of premiums paid by employers.

Aquario says local governments are already feeling the squeeze from the property tax cap, which is projected to grow at less than 1 % in 2016, and state mandated expenses.

Teachers recently received their scores under the state's new mandated rating system, and already hundreds are planning appeals.

«The Comptroller's report released today shows what we already know - local municipalities continue to struggle under the weight of unfunded State mandates.

They range from substituting dirty cookstoves with ones that use modern and clean fuels — something the State Department already is working on — to mandating diesel particle filters for vehicles.

The results, Barry adds, are important for states that have enacted such mandates to understand their impact, and also helpful for states considering whether to broaden mandates that are already in place.

In state after state, ballooning deficits that already have forced layoffs and other belt - tightening across state governments are hitting an education bureaucracy charged with carrying out a growing list of state and federal mandates.

The goals are already set by the mandate, with the valid definition when required by the federal or state law.

The lack of funding in many states to support federal mandates can exasperate an already unfair funding mechanism for most districts.

Today is this year's application deadline for the handful of states that have not already sought relief from some of the mandates of NCLB.

The state is already facing severe fiscal constraints, in part because of Amendment 23 of the state constitution, which mandates yearly increases in K - 12 spending.

The DOE already reduced the number of state - mandated tests to the federal minimum during the 2015 - 16 school year, Kishimoto said, and it no longer ranks schools under its Strive HI school accountability system.

Although 39 states have already adopted aspects of competency - based learning, the researchers report that too many districts continue to use the end - of - year assessments characterized by the outdated mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act, which technically expired in 2007.

Rather than simply add more and different assessments to what we already have, the time expended on state mandated standardized tests should be reduced and we should move to a broader array of performance assessments that are part of the curriculum.

Since then, a high - profile court battle ensued, resulting in a Superior Court judge finding that the program violates the state's constitutional mandate to use public funds only for public schools — but thanks to a Court of Appeals ruling last month, the state must disburse school vouchers that have already been awarded while the case winds its way through the state appellate courts.

Legislation or mandates have already been implemented in states including Texas, Washington, California, New York, and Wisconsin (Allington & Woodside - Jiron, 1998; Manzo, 1998b).

The school was already familiar with state mandates to improve or face the consequences.

And all of this is happening despite the fact that teachers and principals in this state of New York already, and democratically, created sound evaluation plans to which the majority had already agreed, given the system they created to meet state and federal policy mandates was much more defensible, and much less destructive.

Already, legislatures in 23 states have mandated that school systems use digital textbooks or digital resources as part of their textbook resources, thus shifting the definition and conceptions of the term textbook.

The third is an assessment of four important contextual matters for the state: its web of institutions responsible education governance and the interaction among them; its diversity of urban, suburban and rural locales; its capacity, along with the capacities of its communities, to carry out new policies; and its mandates already affecting principals.

Considering the fact that Connecticut is already mandated to develop much more aggressive evaluation systems, let's journey back to the February 8, 2012 State of the State Address and see how Governor Dannel Malloy could have handled the situation.

Private schools already commonly use tests like the Stanford 10 and Iowa Test of Basic Skills and I've yet to see anyone make a convincing case that these tests won't do just fine in providing transparency without saddling private schools with a state mandated curriculum.

Taxpayer money is tighter than ever; the 2 percent state - mandated spending cap has already forced many schools to eliminate gifted and talented programs, languages, elective classes and extracurricular activities.

An important question that political and climate analysts will be examining is how much bite is in the regulations — meaning how much they would curb emissions beyond what's already happening to cut power plant carbon dioxide thanks to the natural gas boom, the shutdown of old coal - burning plants because of impending mercury - cutting rules (read the valuable Union of Concerned Scientists «Ripe for Retirement» report for more on this), improved energy efficiency and state mandates developing renewable electricity supplies.

Electricity prices are already nearly 40 percent higher in States with renewable electricity mandates.

January hasn't even ended, yet ALEC has already planted its» Environmental Literacy Improvement Act» - which mandates a «balanced» teaching of climate science in K - 12 classrooms - in the state legislatures of Oklahoma, Colorado, and Arizona so far this year.

The case already has survived a demurrer (a California filing that argues failure to state a claim), although a Fresno County Superior Court judge dismissed the ACLU of Northern California's petition for a writ of mandate.

Shaw and Porter's study also provides further evidence of the inaccuracy and malleability of human memory, evidence that is already compelling enough to have persuaded the state supreme courts of New Jersey and Massachusetts to mandate that judges instruct juries that eyewitness testimony is inherently unreliable.

Six states — Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin — have already passed various versions of a life insurance disclosure requirement, legally mandating that insurance carriers notify seniors in certain circumstances of the alternatives to lapse or surrender of their policy (e.g., accelerated death benefit or available riders, assignment of policy as a gift, life settlement, policy replacement, etc.).

This online traffic school is already set at state mandated minimums, so it won't take you a second longer than it has to, but the answers to quiz questions are right here on this site.