Sentences with phrase «attached as an amendment»

The Assembly on Tuesday is scheduled to take up his proposal, attached as an amendment to a bill making technical changes to the state's new voucher program for students with disabilities.

If the AGA and Hoeven are successful in passing the Hoeven - Manchin bill, or attaching it as an amendment to the modest Shaheen - Portman energy efficiency bill, it will be a slap in the face of the U.S. Building Sector for its energy reduction achievements made to date.

Not exact matches

Democratic Senate lawmakers tried — and failed — to force a vote on gun control via a parliamentary gambit, attaching proposals to an existing bill, a move known as a hostile amendment, trying to make the Republican leadership to formally vote them down in an election year.

The Senate voted 30 to 29 to reject an attempt by Hoylman on Monday to attach the bill as an amendment to an unrelated bill.

Senate Democrats made a last - ditch effort to get legislation to make it easier for survivors of sexual abuse to seek justice as adults into the budget by trying to attach it as a hostile amendment to one of the bills.

Senate Democrats have sought to attach gun control legislation, much of it identical to what is backed by Assembly Democrats, as hostile amendments and were voted down.

The Colorado Supreme Court upheld the Colorado higher education grant program against a challenge brought under one of its Blaine Amendments (Article IX, Section 7) because the program benefits students, not their schools, because it is available to private as well as public school students, and because it eliminates any danger of indirectly supporting religious missions by attaching statutory conditions on the use of the money.

As one of the leading education groups on Capitol Hill, the federation lobbied heavily on President Bush's education plan, beating back attempts to attach pro-voucher amendments.

In other words, as the concurring Justices understand the opinion, Rothgery's Sixth Amendment rights attached when he appeared before the magistrate, but the state was only required to provide counsel to the extent necessary to guarantee Rothgery effective assistance at trial.