Sentences with phrase «amendment passed»

Wichita, KS — Today, U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten issued a preliminary injunction from the bench in Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri's (PPKM) case against Governor Sam Brownback and the state of Kansas as it seeks to prevent the enforcement of the Title X family planning defunding amendment passed in the Kansas budget during the 2011 legislative session.

With concern escalating across the country over proposed restrictions on private health insurance coverage of abortion included in the health care reform bill passed by the House last week, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards joined Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D - NY) and other women leaders in denouncing this anti-women's health amendment passed by the House.

Drivers in Delaware with underinsured motorist coverage (UIM) who are injured in a crash are now more likely to be able to use that coverage, thanks to a legislative amendment passed there months ago that goes into effect today.

The same Congress that proposed the First Amendment passed a law criminalizing perjury.

John Gregory and I have commented more fully on these issues in his articles on Electronic Real Estate Transactions, Electronic Seals and Ontario's Electronic Commerce Act Amendment Passed].

The amendment passed out of committee and was even included in an earlier version of the House's budget.

An amendment passed this May made it so resource corporations working in Papua New Guinea are protected from any litigation related to environmental destruction, labor laws, and landowner abuse, essentially placing all environmental safeguards with a government that is cozy with industry and opening the door for environmental disaster.

An amendment passed by the House of Lords last year would have changed UK carbon accounting so that these actual emissions were used for compliance with the Climate Change Act.

Thanks to a last minute amendment passed by a single vote the budget for the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E), the DOE's flagship energy innovation program, was essentially restored to FY211 levels, receiving $ 180 million in the House appropriations bill.

The amendment passed, seven to one (Boonville Ward Four Councilman Henry Hurt voted against).

In 2006 the Ensign Byrd Amendment passed the Senate by a vote of 68 - 29 and the House by a vote of 269 - 158.

The amendment passed the House of Representatives unanimously, with all Democrats and Republicans voting yes, on June 4th, 2013 at 10:49 p.m.

First, the constitutional amendment passed to change the term of office for newly elected trustees to commence on July 1 in the year of their election.

With additional financial support from the Koch Brother's Americans for Prosperity StudentsFirst, the Walton Family Foundation and other major corporate education reform players, the amendment passed with proponents outspending the opposition by about ten - to - one.

First, the constitutional amendment passed with an 87 % yes vote.

Only one amendment passed — Representative Todd Rokita's (R - IN) proposal to reduce staff at the U.S. Department of Education to align with the bills» program eliminations.

The amendment passed with 58 percent.

The amendment passed by a hair, facing opposition from all Democrats and from two GOP senators — Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.

«There were predictions of doomsday for public education from all over the state if the Charter Amendment passed, but six months later, I have not seen any signs of the sky falling for district - operated schools,» says Tony Roberts, President and CEO of the Georgia Charter Schools Association.

Adding to that, thoughtful analysts ought to remember that in Florida, a statewide constitutional amendment passed that limited class sizes beginning in 2003 - 04.

While it is true that all school administrators and teachers — Except some of those working at charter schools — must hold state teacher certification, a legislative amendment passed just after midnight on the last day of the 2007 legislative session waived the certification requirement for one person — Steven Adamowski.

Sen. Whitehouse's amendment passed the Committee.

Although the so - called Gallegly amendment passed the House as a separate bill last week, it is likely to founder in the Senate, aides and lobbyists said.

As the 16th president fights to get the 13th Amendment passed, he makes compromises and exposes flaws.

Lincoln, the least passionate abolitionist (and never called himself one) ends up becoming president and must then pull a bait and switch on the pro-slavery population to get the 13th amendment passed.

Mainly, «Lincoln» focuses on what it took to get the 13th Amendment passed, and the multifarious players involved either in its blockage or its passage.

Instead it's a stately account of the behind - the - scenes legislative drama that Abraham Lincoln had to negotiate to get the slavery - abolishing 13th Amendment passed through Congress before the four - year Civil War's imminent end.

There is a surprising abundance of humor in Lincoln, and typically gruff Jones elicits plenty of chuckles as caustic, blunt Stevens, who tones back his abolitionist rhetoric to help Lincoln get the Thirteenth Amendment passed.

Adapted by Tony Kushner partly from Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 biography Team of Rivals, the two - and - a-half-hour film begins in 1865 when Lincoln (Daniel Day - Lewis) is urgently trying to get the 13th Amendment passed to abolish slavery.

This time the amendment passed, by 218 votes to 208.

The amendment passed, and as a result, «in Spain, working conditions have improved for doctoral researchers.»

A recent federal court injunction based on a congressional budget amendment passed years before the first human embryonic stem cells were isolated has thrown many of the field's ongoing projects into limbo

The amendment passed by a narrow margin, 218 - 209, with all 183 Democrats in opposition.

The amendment passed by Labour and the Liberal Democrats in the last Parliament requires the Commissions to deliver their report by 1st Oct 2018, but no earlier than September 2018, so once the revised proposals are published we'll probably hear nothing else till 2018.

Per a constitutional amendment passed in 2006, each town with 3,000 or more residents is guaranteed at least one representative of its own.

Once elected, incumbents have helped redraw their own districts to their and their party's advantage and regularly pass legislation benefiting the people and interest groups that help them stay in office (redistricting will be done differently in New York next time thanks to a constitutional amendment passed at the ballot by voters in 2014).

These comments were made in early December 2017, before Dominic Grieve's amendment passed in the Commons dealing with the «meaningful process» issue, but not the «no deal» scenario.

She says this amendment, that would put the UK in Efta (the European free trade association - which roughly, but not exactly, overlaps with the EEA), cuts across the amendment passed by the Lords recently saying the UK should be in the customs union.

It was a close verbal vote, Friday, in Washington County, however because the board's votes are weighted based on population the amendment passed.

Under a state constitutional amendment passed last year, a total of four casinos will be allowed on non-Indian land in three regions of the state: the Hudson Valley - Catskills, the Albany - Saratoga area and the Southern Tier.

Later that week the constitutional amendment passed.

The amendment passed 86 % to 14 %, the largest margin in any state.

Roberto Pickering of Leon County, who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, was one of three patients with a chronic illness who want to smoke medicinal cannabis under a state constitutional amendment passed in 2016.

Area landlords said they had mixed thoughts about the rental registry amendment passed by the Syracuse Common Council last month.

The crucial Republican amendment passed with 78 votes in the House and 21 in the Senate — well short of the override margin in both chambers.

Landlords in Syracuse have had mixed reactions to a recent rental registry amendment passed by the city's Common Council that will require certain landlords to allow interior code enforcement inspections of properties.

The amendment passed by Labour and the Lib Dems didn't reverse the changes that the government had made to the rules on boundary reviews, they just delayed the next review for five years.

Cuomo now says he wants to see the constitutional amendment passed first, then open up the bidding from gambling companies.

The Broadway Sherman rezoning proposal was the first private application filed under the Mandatory Inclusionary Housing zoning text amendment passed by the City Council in March.

Robert was a lead sponsor of Right To Life legislation and supported the North Carolina marriage amendment, [5] although he was not serving in the NC Senate when the North Carolina marriage amendment passed out of committee and was finally voted on by the North Carolina General Assembly in 2011.