Sentences with phrase «budget amendment passed»

A recent federal court injunction based on a congressional budget amendment passed years before the first human embryonic stem cells were isolated has thrown many of the field's ongoing projects into limbo

Nearly 99 percent of our budget amendments passed unanimously, and the overall amended budget was given unanimous support for the first time in the recent history of Erie County government.

Under the seven budget amendments passed this month in the Texas House, there will be very little left to fund reproductive health services at all.

Not exact matches

He favors passing a balanced budget amendment, as well as giving Congress audit authority over the Federal Reserve.

The so - called Rohrabacher - Farr amendment was passed as part of the broader resolution on the federal budget — and it could get tangled up once more in the upcoming fight over federal spending.

The House failed to pass a balanced budget constitutional amendment.

1) Repeal Obamacare; Pursue Patient - Centered Care 2) Stop the Tax Hikes 3) Reverse Obama's Spending Increases 4) Scrap the Code; Replace It with a Flat Tax 5) Pass a Balanced Budget Amendment 6) Reject Cap and Trade 7) Rein in the EPA 8) Unleash America's Vast Energy Potential 9) Eliminate the Department of Education 10) Reduce the Bloated Federal Workforce 11) Curtail Excessive Federal Regulation 12) Audit the Fed

The people under the most pressure are the Senate Republicans, all of whom signed Koch's three - pronged pledge (it also included budget and ethics reform), only to turn around and pass a constitutional amendment that would overhaul the process in time for the 2022 elections but leave it in all it's partisan and un-independent glory this year.

The claim is that they want to pass a balanced budget amendment.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), today will offer an amendment to reform the rules of the New York State Assembly to stop major legislation like pension reform, teacher evaluations, the SAFE Act and state budgets from being passed in the middle of the night away from public viewing.

But either way, it is worth recording briefly that a Government motion relating to future EU budgets was passed yesterday evening without a Tory backbench amendment.

Assemblyman to bring to the Floor of the Assembly a Rules Reform Amendment to stop major legislation like Pension Reform, Teacher Evaluations, SAFE Act & state budgets from being passed in the middle of the night

«The minor alterations submitted before the Legislature today involve the re-allocation of approximately $ 1.5 million out of the nearly $ 1.7 billion county budget, and if passed in full as presented today without any further amendment, will be signed into effect by me,» Poloncarz said in a statement.

The Legislature unanimously passed Mr. Romaine's proposed budget amendment to use about $ 37,000 from the county's Suffolk County Drinking Water Protection Program, which are funds slated for drinking water and open space preservation, to restore Cornell's pest management program.

In the Legislature's 2012 budget, which passed 16 - 2 prior to Mr. Romaine's proposed amendments, about eight positions — including the one chief deputy — in the county executive's office will be eliminated next year.

An amendment to a highway bill recently passed by the House of Representatives may lead to budget cuts for bus company Centro, which could potentially affect the partnership Centro has with Syracuse University.

The Legislature passed an amendment to HCRA that granted the leaders of each house the ability to spend up to $ 8.5 million on discretionary grants, none of which had to be disclosed or explained or go through a review process in the state's budget.

Cuomo has sought to challenge lawmakers this year to pass new ethics reform measures by tying the proposals to spending in his 30 - day budget amendments.

«They may have to come back sooner and pass an amendment to the budget that makes some changes and brings the budget into balance.

The 2017 budget, which was passed by the Board of Legislators on Monday by a slim margin of 10 - 7, and modifies a previous budget submitted to the legislative chamber by Astorino last month, will retain the county executive's proposed flat tax rate, but will also add four additional engineering positions to the county's depleted Department of Public Works roster, in addition to injecting $ 1 million to the county's Title XX child care program as a result of legislators» amendments.

Meanwhile, the Senate is going to pass a constitutional amendment redistricting bill that is being carried by Sen. John Bonacic, a Hudson Valley Republican who also said last week he'll propose a millionaire's tax extension bill that raises the assessment threshold to $ 1 million — just like the Assembly Democrats» one - house budget proposes to do.

«I am pretty sure, and I am sure Gerry (Morrow) can back me, we've all been here almost three decades, that this is the first time we have passed a budget without amendments to the tentative,» said acting chairman Tom Scozzafava (Moriah) at the Dec. 5 meeting of the board.

The House and Senate each consider these budget resolutions, and are expected to pass them, possibly with amendments, by April 15.

The Wisconsin Assembly passed the state budget Wednesday after Democrats decided against offering any amendments or prolonging debate, saying the $ 70 billion spending plan is so bad it can't be fixed.

Schumer said he wasn't certain whether the amendment would be allowed by the Senate parliamentarian, who must decide whether each provision of the bill impacts the federal budget before Republicans can pass it through reconciliation, a procedural move that requires only 51 votes.

An Investigative Post report, co-produced with WGRZ, finds Erie County legislators pass few laws, make few budget amendments but pass hundreds of resolutions honoring residents, both dead and alive, that have nothing to do with the operation of county government.

Lawmakers would have to pass a balanced budget amendment in two sessions of the General Assembly before it could go to the voters.

Scott has delayed the implementation of two new redistricting amendments passed by voters, released an ambitious education agenda, pushed for $ 2 billion in tax cuts in the midst of budget troubles and, most recently, inflamed state legislators by rejecting a plan to build a high - speed rail system between Tampa and Orlando.

Republican Majority Leader on the county legislature Brian Marianetti says his caucus passed an amendment to the budget Tuesday which will increase child care funding by $ 52,000 in addition to the $ 100,000 included in the 2017 budget.

Before the Republicans passed their Contract with America, the Reform Party already proposed a balanced budget amendment.

The Legislature unanimously approved a plan to create the Opioid Response Hotline, committed funding for hazardous lead abatement, and passed a budget balancing amendment package that invests in Erie County while sending millions back to fund balance that the County Executive wanted to spend on various items.

Under state law, Paterson may submit amendments to whatever budget bill is passed within 30 days of submission, Sampson and Silver said in a statement.

It retained this provision, known as the Rohrabacher - Blumenauer (formerly the Rohrabacher - Farr) amendment, in subsequent budgets and continuing resolutions, including the temporary government funding bill passed just before Christmas, which extends it through the middle of this month.

On 22 March, Senator Chuck Grassely (R - IA) got the Senate to pass an amendment to the 2008 budget resolution that froze the $ 17 million increase slated for the Smithsonian until reforms in ethics and accountability were put into place.

California's public schools received a record - high 12.5 percent funding increase in the first state budget passed since voters approved Proposition 98, a constitutional amendment that governs education spending.

The Texas House Thursday overwhelmingly passed an amendment to the Senate budget prohibiting any state funds to be spent on vouchers.

Along with the budgeting process, HB 313 Charter School Funding Amendments passed out of House Education Committee this week.

On Thursday, the House overwhelmingly passed an amendment to the Senate budget prohibiting any state funds to be spent on a «school choice» program.

Regardless, and recently, stakeholders in Massachusetts lobbied the Senate to approve an amendment to the budget that would no longer require such test - based ratings in teachers» professional evaluations, while also passing a policy statement urging the state to scrap these ratings entirely.

Department of Public Instruction spokesman Tom McCarthy said when the amendment was introduced that lawmakers passed specific budget language outlining how the calculations would work.

After successfully passing a budget amendment back in May that basically forbids the Pentagon from acknowledging climate science — despite the fact that the Department of Defense considers doing so to be vital to national security — his newest effort prohibits both the U.S. Department of Energy and the Army Corps of Engineers from spending «to design, implement, administer or carry out specified assessments regarding climate change.»

Thanks to a last minute amendment passed by a single vote the budget for the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E), the DOE's flagship energy innovation program, was essentially restored to FY211 levels, receiving $ 180 million in the House appropriations bill.

The legislation would cut the budgets of each of the DOE's major energy innovation offices, stripping the most funding from the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), even after an amendment to the legislation passed late last week to restore $ 10 million to the EERE's solar research program.

The amendment passed out of committee and was even included in an earlier version of the House's budget.

After the government introduced implementing amendments to the Patent Act in omnibus budget Bill C - 43, the statutory amendments passed into law a mere 54 days later in December 2014.

When the Ontario government passed Bill 127, the Stronger, Healthier Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2017 («Bill 127») in May 2017, it introduced significant amendments to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act (the «WSIA»), which we initially wrote about in an earlier blog post.

On December 10, 2015, the Ontario government passed Bill 109, the Employment and Labour Statute Law Amendment Act, 2015 and Bill 144, the Budget Measures Act, 2015, two pieces of legislation that implement a number of reforms to various workplace laws.

When the Ontario government passed Bill 127, the Stronger, Healthier Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2017 («Bill 127») in May 2017, it introduced significant amendments to the Workplace Safety and -LSB-...]

MEMPHIS, TN — Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region (PPGMR) sharply criticized the Tennessee General Assembly for passing a budget with an anti-women's health care amendment that would end family planning funding for Planned Parenthood patients in Tennessee.

Wichita, KS — Today, U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten issued a preliminary injunction from the bench in Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri's (PPKM) case against Governor Sam Brownback and the state of Kansas as it seeks to prevent the enforcement of the Title X family planning defunding amendment passed in the Kansas budget during the 2011 legislative session.