Sentences with phrase «act as legislatures»

Most importantly, church assemblies should reclaim their role as representative assemblies chosen to deliberate thoughtfully on significant matters of Christian faith and life, rather than continuing to act as legislatures that reduce everything to stark alternatives and then make hurried decisions by forced choice majority voting.

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Republican Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who is president of the state Senate, listed what he called a «Women's Privacy Act» as one of his top 10 priorities when the legislature reconvenes in January.

In some instances the divestment has taken place voluntarily; in others, as in the case of Nebraska, it has required an act of the state legislature.

That's because, for one thing, abortion and marriage are issues to be resolved by the people acting through legislatures, and Catholic Americans, as citizens, are perfectly free to convince their fellow citizens of the truth of their view of who we are as free and relational beings.

In compliance with the breast - feeding promotion program established under the federal Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. Section 1771 et seq.), the legislature recognizes breast - feeding as the best method of infant nutrition.

For the Early Start Act as passed by both houses of the state legislature: http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2015-16/Pdf/Bills/House%20Passed%20Legislature/1491-S2.PL.pdf

As part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted by President Obama, many breastfeeding employees are provided rights and protected by law, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL).

This raises serious questions for those in the democracy promotion community about why legislatures trained in democracy and human rights issues have failed to act as bulwarks to authoritarian abuse — and what can be done about it.

But, as Professor MacLean noted in his paper, the Act of Union of 1707 was not simply a great political merger, creating a newly formed, British body of constitutional law, and a legislature to generate it in perpetuity.

And, as under the Human Rights Act 1998, the legislature may permit the courts to point out, but not to correct, inconsistency with entrenched law.

«If this became «All contracts have to be approved in the legislature,» the next act you'll see will be in 2040,» said Rosenberg, who has booked acts such as Taylor Dayne and the Billy Joel cover band Big Shot.

Cuomo appointed a Moreland Act Commission to essentially investigate the legislature and those probes are ongoing, setting up a potential conflict between the governor, the Senate and Assembly as 2014 begins.

-- The mothers of Eric Garner, Sean Bell and Ramarley Graham are pushing for the legislature to keep Barbara Underwood as acting attorney general for the rest of the year.

The UN's failures can be traced to the way the Security Council (SC) is currently able to act in a judicial manner in determining whether states have complied with SC resolutions, while also acting as the executive in drawing up those resolutions, and also as the principal legislature in voting on them.

Governor Cuomo says he will be announcing his Moreland Act commission to investigate the campaign donation filings of the legislature in the «immediate future», possibly as early as Thursday.

Benjamin Barnes, secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, warned that the rainy day fund — known as the «budget reserve fund» — will have to be used to pay down the deficit unless the legislature acts to reduce spending.

The Percoco conviction should serve as a wakeup call to the governor and the legislature that they must act to curb corruption at all levels of government, even in the offices of the governor himself.

Her warm - up act included several female firsts: State Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the first female legislative conference leader in the New York State, Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, the legislature's first openly lesbian member, and Public Advocate Letitia James, the first woman of color to hold citywide office in New York City, as well as city first lady Chirlane McCray and former congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who is now one of the country's best - known advocates for gun control.

Governor Cuomo in recent days has preferred to act through executive orders to achieve changes as an alternative to dealing with the legislature.

ROCKLAND COUNTY TIMES EXCLUSIVE Journal News at it Again: Newspaper FOILS New Gun Permit Data The... The so called NY SAFE act pushed through legislature in January, MUST be repealed as all it is, is -LSB-...]

Governor Cuomo, who described the mood in Albany as «miserable», says if this won't force the legislature to adopt anti corruption measures, he might do his own investigating and use what's called the state's Moreland Act to empower his own probe.

Giambra said if elected, he would try to institute the plan as quickly as possible, but acknowledged he may need the legislature to act on a legalization bill.

Rather than apologise as the Senate is demanding, Osinbajo recently said the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu — whose nomination was rejected and his retention pitched the executive against the legislature — would remain in office...

Gallagher says if what was previously known as the reproductive health act were introduced as a stand alone bill, it would fail in the legislature.

The legislature voted on September 19 to hold Brega as the lowest responsible bidder, pointing to Brega's prior transportation record in Rockland County, acting to end a protracted legal conflict between Brega, MV Transportation, and the legislature.

Terry Bernardo, chairwoman of the county legislature for two years, sat quietly rereading her acceptance speech as the convention wound down toward adjournment before goading her nominators into acting.

The Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency, created by an act of the state legislature in 1986 — then - assemblyman Maurice Hinchey was cosponsor — is one of those out - of - sight outfits we don't care much about as long as they empty the cans.

Pollster Mickey Carroll says the governor's numbers started dropping right after Cuomo convinced the legislature to pass tough new gun control laws, known as the New York SAFE Act, in mid-January.

But he says counties also need more relief from unfunded mandates, and will press the legislature to act, as soon as the budget is finished.

As New Yorkers we need to work together to protect the quality of life for all our people and we need our state legislature to act.

Although it is rare that a Private Member's Bill, such as this proposed amendment to the University of Ottawa Act, makes it through the many stages required before becoming law, putting the question on the floor of the legislature forces an open debate on the issue, in full view of the public and the press.

The culprit was indeed a doctor, Dr. Edwin J. Goodman and he hoped to profit from his brainchild as follows, from the preamble to the bill» A bill for an act introducing a new mathematical truth and offered as a contribution to education to be used only by the State of Indiana free of cost by paying any royalties whatever on the same, provided it is accepted and adopted by the official action of the legislature in 1897.»

It led to the state legislature's passage four years later of the Teacher Pay Equalization Act, which mandated that black teachers in the state were entitled to the same pay as white teachers.

Georgia teachers will receive a 3 percent pay raise and funding for the state's Quality Basic Education Act will be increased as a result of the legislature's adoption of the first major tax increase in 18 years.

The work by the Center on Education Policy (CEP) on the No Child Left Behind Act, high - school exit examinations, and other education policies uses exactly the same research methodologies as those employed by the U.S. Department of Education, state legislatures (controlled by both political parties), and other entities.

As I write, the National Conference of State Legislatures has just decreed that the federal No Child Left Behind act is an unconstitutional, unworkable, and undesirable federal power grab that should be rolled back - while the National Governors Association has made the contrary suggestion that NCLB's core principles and mechanisms be extended to cover high schools.

Courts remain willing to act as a constitutional check on the legislature's actions within the field of education if only plaintiffs can find a way to respond to concerns over remedies.

Amid fanfare around the billions of dollars being delivered to schools through the federal economic - stimulus package, members of the National Conference of State Legislatures are warning that the education agenda being pushed by the Obama administration is shaping up to be just as prescriptive and intrusive as the 8 - year - old No Child Left Behind Act.

Now consider that during the debate over the No Child Left Behind Act, the National Conference of State Legislatures sent members of Congress a letter criticizing the testing requirements as «an egregious example of a top - down, one - size - fits - all federal reform.»

However, because those efforts were unsuccessful, and your legislature is not scheduled to reconvene until January 2015, I can not extend Washington's authority to implement ESEA flexibility, and Washington and its LEAs must resume implementing the requirements of Title I of the ESEA, as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), as well as all other ESEA requirements that were waived under ESEA flexibility, for the 2014 — 2015 school year.

Mississippi's Third Grade Reading Gate Is A Success March 28, 2016 Last week, the Mississippi legislature passed a bill raising the bar on the Literacy - Based Promotion Act — commonly referred to as the third grade «reading gate» — to further ensure that Mississippi students learn to read by the fourth grade.

2015: A Great Year For Children In Mississippi December 21, 2015 by Brett Kittredge As we prepare to close the book on 2015, we can look back on a great year for children in Mississippi that included passage of the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act, the opening of the first two charter schools in the state, and the election of stronger education reform majorities in the state legislature.

The fiscal year encompasses 12 months, as mandated by the 1995 Amendatory Act enacted by the Illinois legislature.

ALEC gets 98 percent of its funding from corporations and sources like the Koch family foundations, and it acts as a conduit for special interest influence in state legislatures.

As the 2015 legislative session drew to a close, the Education Committee of the legislature passed Public Act 15 - 238, An Act Concerning Student Assessments.

«When the North Dakota legislature changed its eight - year - old hemp law to no longer require a DEA license this past April, it made it a matter of state law that the farmer who goes through the licensing process need not involve the DEA in any way since only the exempted portions of the plant, as described in the Controlled Substances Act, would enter commerce.»

With fundamental issues of trust such as those illustrated above still far from being resolved, and political will on financing performing a fine balancing act in Europe and the United States (with the former dealing with a snowballing resurgence of the financial crisis, and the latter with an incoming legislature planning to dissolve the House of Representatives panel on climate change), the time has truly come for wealthy nations of the world to fundamentally shift their modes of thinking.

SAFEGUARD fills a gap for communities, which are responsible for meeting the requirements of environmental laws passed by the legislature, such as AB 32, California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, but may not know where to start or how to proceed.

This culminates, in terms of the book's narrative, with the early eighteenth - century origins of intellectual property law: «An Act for the Encouragement of Learning,» otherwise known as the Statute of Anne 1710, the first modern author - based copyright legislature.

Copyright (as with all IP rights) involves a balancing act between promoting innovation and encouraging competition and for a court to restrict copying based on unfair commercial behaviour where the legislature has otherwise said should be permitted is to upset that balance.