Sentences with phrase «as the legislature passes»

A six - day walkout that shuttered classrooms across the state has ended, as the legislature passed an education funding deal.

This constitutional conversation proceeds as legislatures pass laws and courts respond and legislatures pass new laws.

Not exact matches

Proponents of the bill were hoping a passage by the legislature would have been a call to action for other states, as more than 20 others have considered passing their own Internet privacy bills.

Snyder, a former computer executive who had campaigned as a moderate in the 2010 election, had said for nearly two years that right - to - work was too divisive for Michigan, but said he would sign a law if the legislature passed it.

It's also grappling with systematic racial discrimination from hosts, facing a crackdown from the New York state legislature, and, as of Monday, suing San Francisco over short - term rental rules that the city's board of supervisors passed unanimously at the start of June.

By reading the Ninth Amendment as creating a general right to privacy, Black and Stewart suggested, the unelected justices of the Supreme Court had subst - ituted their own subjective notions of justice, liberty, and reasonableness for the wisdom and experience of the elected representatives in the Connecticut state legislature who were responsible for passing the birth control regulation.

The Ohio legislature responded by passing a statute known as the «Art Modell law,» named after the Browns / Ravens owner, forces an owner of a sports team that uses public resources to give six months notice of their intention to relocate and give local people and municipalities a chance to purchase the team.

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

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, there are 49 U.S. states that allow mothers to breastfeed in public, out of which two states, Virginia and South Dakota, exempt breastfeeding moms from public indecency or nudity laws, leaving Idaho as the only state that hasn't passed any comparable laws.

Governors have extraordinary leverage over the legislature to get policies passed as part of the spending plan.

As a constitutional change, the bill requires more work to pass than normal legislation: Changes must be ratified by two consecutively elected Legislatures and then by voters in the next general election (for example, casino gaming was approved by that process in 2013).

The Loophole was created in 1996 by a Board of Elections (BOE) decision, which wrongly classified LLCs as individuals, undermining the campaign finance laws previously passed by the legislature.

KINGSTON — As the clock keeps ticking, the likelihood of the governor calling a special session of the legislature diminishes and that means any hope of passing legislation to allow Ulster County to keep its sales tax at its current level fades.

In reality, the money was approved last week as part of an omnibus bill the legislature passed after the governor called members back for an extraordinary session.

It is also important to point out that a veto can only reject the full bill as it is written and passed by the legislature, even if there are parts of it the president likes.

As for the veto, yes, the president can veto any bill passed by both houses of the legislature before it has become law (the president can not veto an existing law), but the veto can be overruled by a 2/3 majority vote by both the House and Senate.

[19] Since 1984, New York State has only passed a budget on time once, in 2005, leading Paterson to call for an «end to the dysfunction in Albany» in his speech, echoing a 56 - page study from the nonpartisan New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice, which referred to the legislature as «the least deliberative and most dysfunctional in the nation.»

«In 2006, the Erie County legislature passed what is called the New York State Certified Training Program, which is often known as the apprenticeship law... It ensures taxpayer dollars that are paying for construction jobs associated with Erie County government are going towards Erie County residents who are working on these projects.

In a statement, Christie — whose appointees were responsible for Bridgegate — urged «New Jersey's legislature to introduce and pass this bill as well so that we can finally meet the standard for reform laid out by Governor Cuomo and me last year.»

The legislature drew particular ire for passing these bills as «emergency legislation,» circumventing any possible voter referendum.

Members of the legislature have threatened to pass legislation if the Regents don't go as far as many lawmakers are calling for.

The deal was hammered four days after the state legislature extended the deadline for passing the budget by two months as a result of the legislative body missing the original April 1 budget deadline.

We were skeptical about the commission when it came into being, and we're just as skeptical about whatever «new and improved» reform can pass a legislature still run by Shelly Silver.

The bill was amended on the day before it passed the legislature, so that parties not recognized by the FEC as national committees need a petition of 1 % of the number of registered voters.

Cuomo's campaign theme last week was, as he described in a radio interview, «to put together a coalition that can get an agenda passed by the legislature and overcome the institutional opposition that has stymied this state for a decade.»

Term limits would have to pass through both houses in the state legislature in two successive legislative cycles, meaning it could be placed on an election year ballot as early as 2019.

«As we've previously said, if these reforms are not passed by the legislature, the governor will sign an executive order appointing a special prosecutor for police - involved fatalities.»

As Governor and as a parent, I am proud to see this bill passed by the state legislaturAs Governor and as a parent, I am proud to see this bill passed by the state legislaturas a parent, I am proud to see this bill passed by the state legislature.

He says his staff is working with the legislature to get bills printed and passed as soon as possible.

As regards the aim of «public safety», the Court noted that the legislature had sought, by passing the Law in question, to satisfy the need to identify individuals in order to prevent danger for the safety of persons and property and to combat identity fraud.

$ 15 dollar an hour as minimum wage phased in over 5 or more years is not crazy, in fact polling here in NY show it to be quite popular, besides when and if it passes the legislature it most likely won't be as high as $ 15 an hour.

David released a statement bent on clarifying what he called the mischaracterization of the M.O.U., which reads, in part: «The memorandum can in no way supercede the law as passed by the legislature and further, there is nothing in the memorandum that is inconsistent with the letter, spirit or intent of the law.

«Avengers» actor Mark Ruffalo, left, cheers as folk singer and activist Pete Seeger performs a song during a news conference calling on the state legislature to pass a moritorium on «fracking» Tuesday July 20, 2010, at the State Capitol in Albany.

While the state Assembly passed bills to classify the water as hazardous waste, and to begin a health study, the Senate did not pass the bills, and the legislature left town with no agreements.

Republicans said they were being very cautious because of the state's projected $ 1.7 billion deficit and the resulting uncertainty that state funds to the town may be reduced next month as the legislature tries to pass a state budget.

The New York state legislature passed a bill that designates a Hudson Valley creek as an inland waterway.

In the end, the Governor and the state legislature came together in December and quickly passed a bill restructuring the tax code so that millionaire's wouldn't get as big of a break as they had been expecting — creating roughly $ 1.5 billion more in revenue.

To that end, one of the first things the legislature did in its 2013 session was to pass a tougher assault weapons ban that included restrictions on ammunition and the sale of guns, as well as provisions to keep guns from the mentally ill who make threats.

Education took center stage this budget season in Albany, with teacher evaluations, testing, and tenure the major points of debate as New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the legislature worked on the details of the spending plan, which passed this week.

Recently, the legislature passed a resolution observing February as American Heart Month in Erie County.

The legislature would have to pass that as a procedure or the state legislature allow the local boards of elections to go ahead with such a procedure.

[15] The 2014 regular session included a total of 515 votes in the State House and 396 in the State Senate, as well as 1,372 bills introduced total in the legislature and 237 bills passed.

If passed, the law would be the first in the state by a county legislature banning the use of the chemical - laden wastewater from fracking wells as a road deicer.

Last year he moved a staggered minimum wage increase and a paid family leave bill through the legislature only a few months after he and his staff rebuked the idea of passing both as flights of fancy.

It is very likely that the Ohio Libertarian Party will bring a new lawsuit, very soon, arguing that the new ballot access law passed by the 2011 legislature is just as unconstitutional as the old one that was declared unconstitutional in 2006.

As a legislature, we reserve the right to the steps that we need to take to preserve the policy initiatives that we passed originally.»

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.

Smith said there are 20 - 30 years of prior actions taken by Onondaga County legislatures that he will submit in his response as proof that the resolutions and raises were properly passed.

Mr. Wright said that he believed some version of the 421 - a abatement should pass both houses of the legislature, as he argued developers need incentive to build, especially to build affordable housing.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, on Tuesday said the House is ready to pass the minimum wage bill as the legislature...