Sentences with phrase «bill language from»

Independent Democratic Conference Sen. Diane Savino in a radio interview on Monday called Gov. Andrew Cuomo's concerns over allowing a medical marijuana program inconsistent and complained that proposed bill language from his office hasn't been made available.

Heastie said his office has received proposed bill language from the governor, and it is currently being reviewed by staffers.

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Faced with boycott threats from giant businesses, including Nike, Apple, Angie's List and Salesforce.com, Indiana's Governor Mike Pence has vowed to alter the language of a controversial, religious freedom bill he signed into law just last week, to ensure businesses can't use it to discriminate against LGBT customers.

In 2014, Congress approved language in an appropriations bill that prohibits the Drug Enforcement Agency from raiding medical marijuana dispensaries that are compliant with state marijuana laws.

The House and Senate had voted to limit the exclusion, but they struck that language from the final bill.

Thereafter, the House Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee amended the bill changing the language of the exemption to exclude «persons who engage in the business of selling or issuing payment instruments or stored value solely in the form of convertible virtual currency; or receive convertible virtual currency for transmission to another location» from the licensing requirement.

Pretty strong language, but no stronger than the metaphor Daniel Mitchell of the Heritage Foundation used, in an op - ed article in The Washington Times, to «describe a bill designed to prevent corporations from rechartering abroad for tax purposes: Mitchell described this legislation as the «Dred Scott tax bill,» referring to the infamous 1857 Supreme Court ruling that required free states to return escaped slaves.

Number Three (Bill Dotson) called Him God and Lord — once again using language from the Bible.

Before he scratched out «God» in favor of his «as we understood Him» compromise language, Bill was telling the story far differently, far more accurately, and far more consistently in terms of what he had learned from his sponsor Ebby Thacher, from Dr. Bob, from Anne Smith and her journal, from Shoemaker, and from Oxford Group writings and talks.

Meanwhile, the House Appropriations subcommittee yesterday released its fiscal year 2015 agriculture appropriations bill, which included language that would allow any school district which operated its meal program at a loss for at least six months this past school year to seek a waiver from compliance in the coming year with the new, healthier school food standards.

Check out this new report reviews existing and emerging opportunities to document food insecurity screening, assessment, intervention, and billing for each part of a patient visit using discrete codes and language from standardized EHR medical vocabularies.

Yesterday the House Appropriations Committee approved the fiscal 2015 spending bill with controversial language, drafted by Rep. Robert Aderholt (R - AL), which would allow struggling schools to request a 12 - month waiver from complying with healthier school food standards.

Yesterday marked the beginning of House debate on the waiver language, with Rep. Sam Farr (D - CA) seeking to strip the waiver from the House spending bill.

So, if Cuomo's bill language had been in effect at the start of the year, it would have authorized a transfer from the infrastructure fund into the general fund of «such amounts as the director of the budget deem (ed) necessary to meet the requirements of the state financial plan.»

Though SUNY has also been the subject of Albany raids, language to prevent the state from raiding tuition funds didn't make it into the final bill.

32BJ's involvement in drafting the legislation was so close that union officials jointly edited a Microsoft Word document with the proposed bill language with officials from the city's Department of Consumer Affairs.

As for bill language in the agenda from the governor's office, Miller said progress is being made on that front, but there's still no timetable for its release.

The two sides agreed on doctors who treat workers being reimbursed at 140 percent of Medicaid (the Republicans had hoped to lower this to 125 percent, but the Democrats refused), a 10 percent cap on lawyers fees and strong language to prevent people from getting cash both through this bill and the recent 9/11 lawsuit settlement.

Charles Lavine (D - Glen Cove) sponsored, and Kaminsky co-sponsored, a bill that differs from Martins» primarily by excluding language that would apply the law to any person or business who promotes BDS or encourages others to support the movement.

«There is absolutely no legitimate reason to include language from bill A-1157B into state budget bill A-9055C», said NYSRPA President Tom King.

Supported amendment in committee which removed LTC from Transparency bill; Opposed harmful CON legislation in committee; Supported language in Senate budget to repeal Medicaid rate freeze and provide nursing centers with Medicaid rate increase.

«According to the sponsors of A-1157B, there is no fiscal impact on state government, so why has language from that bill been cut - and - pasted into budget bill A-9055C?»

First, Senator Greg Ball fired one of his staffers after it was revealed that language from a bill memo was plagiarized.

However, Klein's bill does have differences from what Cuomo initially proposed, including additional language that would allow oversight of procurements for state affiliated non-profits so there would be oversight of money spent by SUNY and CUNY research foundations.

Bills for issues ranging from rent control for New York City and the surrounding area, as well as a $ 1.3 billion property tax rebate program, a real - estate tax abatement and mayoral control for New York City schools are yet to be printed as language continues to be haggled over.

«In this situation, the then - governor became omnipotent and the members of the state Legislature constitutionally helpless as it had no power to remove the purely legislative, non-appropriation language from the Article VII bills.»

Not only is the bill language murky on what is actually required, but it's unclear if counties have the statutory ability to shift functions like tax collection, for instance, from town to county control.

Also under the bill, English language learners would have three years — up from one under current law — before they had to take the standardized tests, he said.

The bill language states that «royalties from the sale of a book» shall not count against the outside income cap «provided, however, that no advance fees shall be permitted.»

State Sen. Mike Ranzenhofer, a Republican from Erie County, introduced a bill seeking to change the state's definition of gambling to incorporate language from the federal government, carving out draft fantasy sports companies.

The Democratic governor confirmed Tuesday that several of his policy proposals would be dropped from the spending plan, which must be agreed to by March 31 and in which Cuomo has a higher degree of leverage over lawmakers by inserting language they can not change into appropriation bills.

Included in that bill was language forbidding public hospitals from entering into transfer agreements with abortion clinics.

NYPIRG researcher Bill Mahoney pointed out this evening that language from the 200 - page plus bill for the so - called enabling legislation expand casino gambling in New York that would have blocked political contributions from casino interests seeking to build in New York to candidates was quietly remoBill Mahoney pointed out this evening that language from the 200 - page plus bill for the so - called enabling legislation expand casino gambling in New York that would have blocked political contributions from casino interests seeking to build in New York to candidates was quietly remobill for the so - called enabling legislation expand casino gambling in New York that would have blocked political contributions from casino interests seeking to build in New York to candidates was quietly removed.

Ball's growing concerns over the religious exemptions in the governor's bill was met with a statement from Cuomo spokesman Josh Vlasto, who said the Hudson Valley Republican was wrong about the language.

The second is a straight - up amendment, which would require the Assembly to call the bill it passed back from the Senate and re-pass it with new language.

Senate Democrats challenged the problematic language, which was subsequently removed from the bill, necessitating another vote in the House.

The Senate bill would increase the cap to 460 schools from 200 schools and establish new standards for accountability and services to special education students and English language learners.

NUKE BILL OUTCRY — POLITICO's Danielle Muoio: The latest draft of a controversial nuclear subsidy bill is drawing widespread concern from wind and solar leaders who say the newest language would hurt programs designed to expand renewables in New JerBILL OUTCRY — POLITICO's Danielle Muoio: The latest draft of a controversial nuclear subsidy bill is drawing widespread concern from wind and solar leaders who say the newest language would hurt programs designed to expand renewables in New Jerbill is drawing widespread concern from wind and solar leaders who say the newest language would hurt programs designed to expand renewables in New Jersey.

The bills are taken from language provided by the State Committee on Open Government, the state's open government ombudsman.

* The governor has called for a constitutional amendment to strip public pensions from legislators convicted of crimes, and yet this bill supports making the proposed language available only on obscure websites few voters will ever see.

Savino said she and Klein had not yet received language from the governor's office about the particular changes to the bill's language they'd like to see before signing off on it.

It was clear from the earliest stages of the development of this Bill that this new legislation needed to ensure that the Welsh language needed a stronger status within the planning system.

The language of the so - called «Big Ugly,» the 72 - page bill with all the legislative changes from this session, allows for 50 slots from the overall cap to be «granted to a charter for a school to be located in a city having a population of one million or more.»

Legislation enabling ride - hailing services like Uber and Lyft to operate outside of New York City will be included in the budget's Article VII bills, as will the government ethics proposals Cuomo announced last week and language to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 16 to 18.

The post, first reported by The New York Times, was taken down and Loeb issued an apology, saying, «I regret the language I used in expressing my passion for educational choice,» but that didn't stop Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray from calling for Loeb's resignation from Success, the city's largest and most controversial charter school chain, in separate tweets posted Friday.

It's routine for staff who write the bills to copy and paste language from the year before.

ALBANY — Top lawmakers emerged from a private meeting with Governor Andrew Cuomo today saying they might consider proposals to change the state laws on ethics and education as standalone bills, despite Cuomo's attempt to bake language into his $ 141.6 billion spending proposal.

But Senate officials said that the total size of the cuts had shifted significantly from day to day, with the language of the final bill and specific cuts — like those proposed for different hospitals and nursing homes — only emerging on Monday.

What makes this bill even more silly is its vague language: A «disruptive demonstration» is a broad, objective term that could include everything from a quiet belch to a screeching fog horn.

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