Sentences with phrase «as drafting legislation»

And there's no doubt that writing a manual for a program is as difficult as drafting legislation.

As Campaign Manager of The Big Push For Midwives Campaign, Katherine has worked with advocacy groups in multiple states, providing guidance and other assistance on such areas as drafting legislation, building strong grassroots networks, and utilizing savvy legislative strategies to advance and pass legislation to license and regulate CPMs.

In 1973, our co-founder Claude Pensa provided his guidance and practical counsel to the Ontario government as it drafted legislation to create today's divisional school boards.

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«There's no draft legislation for the passive income proposals now and it will be an area that is complicated as well as difficult to change.

The debate over legislation to overhaul Obamacare is getting increasingly heated, with Senate Democrats reportedly planning to gum up the works in the Senate as much as possible to protest the GOP's secretive approach to drafting the legislation (there is still no bill text available).

Trump tapped Republican Representative Tom Price, an orthopedic surgeon who drafted legislation years ago to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), as head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

«Member states may prohibit and punish, as a matter of criminal law, the illegal exercise of transport activities in the context of the UberPOP service, without notifying the Commission in advance of the draft legislation,» the ECJ said in a statement.

The administration released its 53 - page plan Monday as a blueprint for Congress to draft legislation.

Yet that stop back home may have represented the most concrete outcome as Trudeau announced plans to draft legislation affirming federal jurisdiction over the pipeline and negotiations with Kinder Morgan for financial support for the project.

Notably, seven provinces opposed to the legislation, which, «in its drafting, if not in its intent, had serious and, in the view of the vast majority of witnesses, fatal flaws as to the constitutional violation of sections 92 and 91 of the British North America Act, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, freedom of speech, expression and association as protected by that very Charter of Rights and Freedoms,» Segal said.

Therefore, supplementing conventional estimates with some additional dynamic estimates on major pieces of legislation, such as Camp's tax reform draft, can help give lawmakers and the public more information, but the default score should be used for budgetary purposes.

His view emerged, by mistake, in the draft version of a speech in which he originally intended to describe as «bigots» all those who oppose the proposed legislation to redefine the nature of marriage.

He oversaw the drafting of the Commonwealth's initial athletic training legislation, served as liaison to the Pennsylvania Physical Therapy Association and sat on the Athletic Trainers» Advisory Committee.

«We feel that legislation as it currently exists is generally fit for purpose and doing the job, even though it was drafted before the social media were first invented.»

Joe Lentol, Assembly District 50, Greenpoint and Williamsburg (Incumbent)-- Joe Lentol is the second most senior member of the Assembly, and as chair of the Codes Committee, he drafted and passed legislation that increased penalties for driving without a license or with a suspended license.

As Scotland waits to see if Westminster can meet its deadline for producing draft legislation for extending more powers north of the border by January 25, English political leaders have become more aware than ever of the growing gap in devolved powers between England and the other home nations.

Draft legislation obtained by Politico shows that the Cuomo administration is working on a value capture plan that would tax building owners whose properties increase in value as a result of being near transit.

However, the law contains 17 exemptions, including for people who are «engaged in drafting, advising clients on or rendering opinions» on legislation, procurement contracts or other matters «when such professional services are not otherwise connected with state or municipal legislative or executive action» as well as communications after a procurement contract has been tentatively awarded.

Erie County is currently in the process of drafting legislation that proposes to establish new criminal standards for actions that endanger the welfare of children, provide for more robust and intensive CPS investigations, and update technology and reporting practices to better serve children and families, as well as focusing on other improvements to current CPS law.

This should be published as soon as possible, even if in draft, in order to minimise the uncertainty that the legislation has created.

As a result, Meng is drafting legislation that makes failure to report a missing child «within a timely manner» by a parent, legal guardian, caretaker or other responsible adult a felony offense.

Amidst a worldwide furor over proposed legislation that, in its early drafts, earned the moniker «Kill the Gays» bill, Cabrera himself turned up in Uganda, praising its leaders as «the righteous.»

Cleaning Up Albany Corruption as Slowly as Possible By Morgan Pehme Only in Albany is legislation targeted at making government more transparent drafted in the shadows.

Saying that members of the state Legislature were acting as «mercenaries,» Bharara said the charges accusing Stevenson of drafting legislation in exchange for money that would aid co-defendants Igor and Rostislav «Slava» Belyansky, Igor Tsimerman and David Binman, were a violation of his «core duty.»

Peoples - Stokes, who is drafting mayoral control legislation for Buffalo that is expected to be released this coming Monday, served as Cuomo's campaign co-chair last fall.

It is widely acknowledged that this legislation was rushed and poorly drafted, and as a result, the new CSA was left with a very complex maintenance formula to apply and inadequate administrative resources.

«As a legislator she helped draft the first Cap - on - Spending legislation in Suffolk's history and she sponsored legislation that requires an economic impact statement on all qualifying legislation.

A tax cap for New York City has never been a feature of major tax cap proposals — including Gov. Andrew Cuomo's draft legislation in 2011 — or mentioned as a budget possibility until the Cuomo administration proposed shifting Medicaid costs back to New York City earlier this month.

GOP Assembly members — who are outnumbered in the chamber more than 2 - to - 1 — say their names are being stripped from bills as co-sponsors even when they had a hand in drafting the legislation.

Not one of the Legislature's 213 members bothered to introduce Cuomo's draft bill as legislation.

Richard St. Paul, Louis Trangucci and Albert Tarantino, the three Republican members of the New Rochelle City Council have made a home rule request of New Rochelle's four Albany lawmakers — State Senators Jeff Klein and Suzi Openheimer and State Assembly Representatives Amy Paulin and George Latimer — requesting their assistance in «the drafting and filing of State legislation under Home Rule provisions to allow the City of New Rochelle to have full power to approve the New Rochelle Industrial Development Agency (IDA) decisions as it relates to granting benefits to IDA applicants.»

AIR STRIKE — Airbnb, hotel union preparing to do battle over pending City Council legislation, by POLITICO's Sally Goldenberg: «Airbnb and the hotel industry that opposes it are gearing up for a legislative showdown as the City Council drafts a bill that would take aim at the $ 30 billion online home - sharing company.

Gallo, who helped draft nuisance abatement legislation in his role as city assistant corporation counsel, hammered on themes like building code enforcement and holding social service agencies responsible for their clients» behavior in a bid to appeal to working - class residents of Midtown, where quality - of - life crime and neighborhood eyesores are irksome and perennial issues.

The back and forth came as Department of Investigation Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn, whose agency would have to provide the inspector general, wrote a letter to Quinn «questioning the draft legislation as unworkable for DOI, and its implementation at the NYPD as potentially problematic,» DOI Director of Communications Diane Struzzi later clarfied.

The expiration stamps also come as several lawmakers said they were drafting legislation that would change the policy, which was formally adopted by Cuomo administration in June 2013.

As drafted, the legislation would provide those carriage operators who qualify payments to obtain green taxi licenses.

The legislation was drafted in response to a BuzzFeed News investigation, which found that in the United States, Uber received five claims of rape and «fewer than» 170 claims of sexual assault directly related to an Uber ride as inbound tickets to its customer service database between December 2012 and August 2015.

They even drafted legislation that would require the state inspector general to refer cases to the AG, and confer subpoena power to that office in the process, any time a conflict of interest arises in a case — as it did in Troopergate, pitting the executive and legislative branches against one another.

Reducing scrutiny of delegated legislation might «encourage the Government to draft delegated powers [conferred by primary legislation] as broadly as possible, so that secondary legislation could [then] be used to pass measures which might otherwise face greater opposition in the Lords as primary legislation».

«The Bloomberg administration has flouted the rules and regulations as it related to public notification,» she told reporters Monday, adding that, «If we can't trust and rely on the mayor's office's fair and transparent implementation of the rule - making process, we have an enormous problem as it relates to drafting legislation.»

Primary legislation (the statutes enacted by sovereign legislatures, such as the British Parliament) provides a framework which is complemented by secondary law, in the form of rules drafted by government agencies and court rulings which establish legal precedents.

The Humane Society of the United States, which helped draft the legislation, claimed in a press release that chimpanzees have «historically failed as a research model.»

While at the AAS, Bethany managed the public policy activities including, creating and managing a federal and local grassroots advocacy program designed to work with association members to effectively communicate with policy makers and successfully leading a coalition, working with Congressional leaders, and drafting legislation to secure millions of federal dollars appropriated for the restarting domestic production of Plutonium - 238 as a fuel source for planetary exploration.

Key members of the House education committee are drafting legislation that would fold 11 federal education programs, including major initiatives such as Goals 2000, into a $ 1.4 billion block grant designed to spur reforms.

The proposal to create an «achievement school district» that wrests control of low - performing schools away from local school boards and into the hands of charter operators is being developed behind closed doors as the legislative session marches on, with numerous lawmakers and advocates working in tandem on successive drafts of the legislation.

Bryan authored a much - discussed draft of legislation last year that would have funneled five of the state's lowest - performing elementary schools into the state - controlled achievement districts as a pilot program, although the notion did not gain any significant traction during the General Assembly's long budget debates last summer.

On Tuesday, as part of a Democratic - led effort to allay the problem and incentivize teaching in North Carolina, lawmakers such as Meyer filed draft legislation to commit $ 38.5 million of lottery receipts for a teacher student loan repayment program.

«Newly adopted legislation, designed to increase charter school and authorizer accountability while respecting school autonomy, has been described in media reports as the most sweeping reforms of Ohio charter school law since school choice was first introduced 15 years ago,» a draft of the grant proposal said.

And in her spare time when she's not drafting legislation to attempt to kill every charter school in the Commonwealth, Senator Jehlen also likes to get on the anti-testing train as well.

The legislation as drafted does propose a provision for approving additional evaluation models, but the criteria for approval is extensive and rigorous.