Sentences with phrase «before voting on any amendments»

«These two auditor positions are not warranted,» he said before the vote on the amendment failed, 25 - 13.

The Legislature then reviews the budget and holds discussions before we vote on any amendments to create the final budget.

The Budget Committee will be meeting with each department and elected office to review the proposed budget before voting on any amendments.

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After an official 20 hours of debate, the Republican - controlled Senate was expected to begin a potentially chaotic «vote - a-rama» on amendments from Republicans and Democrats before moving to a final vote late on Thursday or early on Friday.

This process was complicated on December 13, when several Conservative British MPs joined the opposition to vote for an amendment requiring British Parliament to debate and vote on any final deal with the EU before it can be approved.

North Carolinians will vote on the state's Marriage Amendment Act before North Carolina voters next Tuesday.

Asked this week whether he's made a decision on how he'll vote should an amendment come before him, Webb replied, «I think we need to respect the process that Secretary Gates and Adm. Mullen put in place.»

The proposed amendment to section 14 of Article 3 of the State Constitution would allow electronic distribution of a state legislative bill to satisfy the constitutional requirement that a bill be printed and on the desks of state legislators at least three days before the Legislature votes on it.

As a member of the committee, Legislator Dixon will vote on any amendments to the budget before a package is sent to the full Legislature for consideration.

Just minutes before the vote was due, justice minister Dominic Raab said the government would table its own amendment later during the bill's passage through the parliament to put into law the idea of a meaningful vote on the final deal.

In November, voters will be able to approve a constitutional amendment that will require district lines to be drawn by an independent, bipartisan commission and at least three members who were not appointed by the majority conferences in either house must approve a plan before the Legislature votes on it, a key barrier to partisan gerrymandering.

Its central amendment would have mandated that, before Article 50 could be triggered, Parliament must first vote on whether Britain should leave the single market.

The group announced its formation on Monday, more than a month before voters in New York are due to vote on the amendment to expand non-Indian casino gambing, with four casinos due to be built in the first phase of construction.

And that voters should know this before they vote on the constitutional amendment.

«The choice between those two wordings is the pivotal point of the legislation - the absolute foundation on which everything else hangs,» independent crossbencher Geoffrey Dear, who pushed yesterday's amendment to a vote, told peers shortly before the division.

A referendum on women's voting rights passed in New York in 1917, three years before the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote across the United States.

Labour's acting leader Harriet Harman has announced that the party's policy will be to vote in favour of its own amendment to the government's measures, before abstaining on the main vote should the amendment fail.

Earlier, the Montana Democrat said he wanted to address concerns of fellow Democrats and consider questions by Republicans before the panel starts voting on hundreds of proposed amendments to the $ 774 billion measure.

Even If the pension stripping bill is passed this year by both houses, the Legislature would have to pass it again in 2017 before voters could vote on the constitutional amendment.

The crossbench peer also backed a Labour amendment requiring a parliamentary vote on any final deal, specifying that it should take place before anything final is approved by either the European Commission or Parliament.

Even though the state Board of Elections did not make the new wording of the casino amendment public until three weeks after they voted on it, Snyder still waited another month before filing his claim.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- In effort to show fellow Democrats he hears their deep concerns about his health care plan, Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus plans to make changes to his own proposal even before the committee starts voting Tuesday on hundreds of proposed amendments to the $ 774 billion dollar plan.

The additional funds appeared in the capital projects budget bill in an amendment at 10:37 p.m. on Thursday — just over an hour before the budget deadline, and roughly four overnight hours before it cleared the State Senate by a 59 - 3 vote.

The language: «The proposed amendment to Section 14 of Article 3 of the State Constitution would allow electronic distribution of a state legislative bill to satisfy the constitutional requirement that a bill be printed and on the desks of state legislators at least three days before the Legislature votes on it.

If approved: Also a constitutional amendment, this proposal would remove the requirement that bills are printed before lawmakers may vote on them.

The need for prohibitory language, which does not mention NSF by name, was never brought up during any of the committee's 48 hearings on the legislation, nor was it proposed when the committee waded through 50 amendments before voting out the bill on 28 April.

A demand from Democrats for recorded votes on most of the 28 amendments before the committee prevented Smith from completing work on a bill that has provoked strong opposition from academic leaders, professional societies, and university - industry coalitions that advocate for science.

Before the board voted on becoming a district of innovation, Prado presented numerous amendments to the plan.

«Before the ink has even dried on Cook County's nationally praised law aimed at protecting both consumers and animal welfare by preventing the sale of dogs and cats raised in inhumane conditions, the pet industry and its allies have crafted an amendment that is designed to completely undo the good that was done when the Board of Commissioners unanimously voted to approve the animal rights legislation last month,» stated Commissioner John Fritchey, sponsor of the Cook County measure.

The cases include some interesting issues, such as the constitutionality of requiring voters to show a photo ID before they may vote; the constitutionality of execution by lethal injection where the procedure poses a risk of pain and suffering in violation of the Eighth Amendment ban on «cruel and unusual punishment»; and a Fourth Amendment case involving an unlawful search under state law that Volokh conspirator and Fourth Amendment guru Orin Kerr is interested in.