Sentences with phrase «by legislators acting»

For these and other reasons, conservative and libertarian intellectuals who embrace what is known as «free market environmentalism» have long argued that pollution is a trespass on private property that is best dealt with whenever possible by common law action — not by legislators acting to referee such trespasses via sweeping environmental laws with (heavily politicized) utilitarian calculations in mind.

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Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe signed the act officially on Tuesday, enacting the bill that was initially approved by state legislators in February.

That is the reason I wrote the members of the New York Senate and Assembly to join legislators from Kansas, Georgia, North Carolina, Washington and Wisconsin by sponsoring the New York Jump - Start Our Business Start - ups (NY JOBS) Act to help local small businesses raise capital through Equity crowdfunding!

Legislators responded by introducing the Honest Ads Act, and publicly grilled the legal counsel of some of Silicon Valley's largest digital platforms.

In other words, individual liberty is defined not merely by the kind of act or decision that one is free to engage, but by immunity from a certain kind of motive or purpose on the part of the legislator.

Right now, legislators in Albany are considering the public infrastructure act, sponsored by Buffalo Assembly Member Sam Hoyt, Westchester County Senator Suzi Oppenheimer, and Brooklyn Senator Velmanette Montgomery.

The acting - attorney general, a member of Congress and two Assembly members are on the list that was distributed to legislators on Saturday afternoon by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.

De Blasio, with House members Charlie Rangel, Carolyn Maloney and Joe Crowley at his side, also announced he had sent a letter to Ryan that was signed by a bipartisan group of 24 mayors and local legislators from around the country calling for reauthorization of the Act.

(Felder said «Here» when the acting president took attendance on the first day; Sorvino corrected the pronunciation of his wife's name when he was honored by the New York Conference of Italian - American Legislators).

After years of pressure from advocates, legislators expanded the Clean Indoor Air Act by adding e-cigarettes to indoor spaces where smoking is banned, including bars, restaurants, movie theaters and office buildings.

Currently, the future of Playland's pool is under scrutiny by the Board of Legislators, which will consider several bond acts to either renovate the pool — which continues to leak significant amounts of water daily — or to remove it completely.

TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the legislative law, in relation to prohibiting outside work by a legislator during the term of office

And by stuffing so many substantive decisions into budget bills — which he and the legislative leaders will inevitably hash out as Albany's infamous three men in a room — Cuomo is enabling the Assembly and Senate's bad habit of never allowing rank - and - file members to act like real legislators.

The worldwide push for government entities to drop investments in fossil fuels comes home to roost in the Empire State: this week New York legislators, led by Senator Liz Krueger, introduced the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act, which would require Comptroller Tom DiNapoli to divest the Common Retirement Fund's holdings in the top 200 fossil fuel companies by 2020.

By Dan Murphy Last week, the Westchester County Board of Legislators passed the Immigrant Protection Act with a bipartisan vote...

The fact that parts of this act were already ruled unconstitutional by a NY judge, with more still being appealed shows how much real thought was put into it; within the first few weeks of passing this debacle almost all police, armed guards etc. were violating the law because the legislators in their infinite wisdom forgot to exempt law enforcement, not to mention all the people who went to bed and then the next day — due to the fly - by - night method of governing — people woke up breaking the law without having done anything.

Legislators get around this annoying requirement by waiting until after election, like now, to act.

Kriss tried to distinguish between a car accident and a willful act by a legislator who had undergone training to prevent such a misdeed.

Legislators must act now to close the LLC loophole created by the board of elections.

(White Plains, NY)-- Westchester County Executive George Latimer signed the bi-partisan Immigrant Protection Act flanked by law enforcement, immigration advocates, legislators and Westchester County residents.

By and large, New York State legislators act that way.

The Orleans County Legislature joined a growing voice of upstate New York counties in opposing many of the provisions of the New York SAFE Act, a gun control measure that legislators say was rushed into passage by the state Legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

On Monday, he offered the proposal as an amendment to his state budget plan, which legislators are supposed to act on by April 1.

The Democratic governor offered it as an amendment to his state budget plan, which legislators are supposed to act on by April 1.

The mayor shot back by pointing to his pre-kindergarten plan, which was acted on and passed by Albany legislators after he had first floated a similar tax to pay for it.

Greenberg, who was abused as a child in 1966 by a hospital aide while visiting his sick father, said Eachus, an Orange County legislator, recently put in a resolution in support of the Child Victims Act.

The Orleans County Legislature joined a growing voice of upstate New York counties in opposing many of the provisions of the New York SAFE Act, a gun control measure that legislators say was rushed into passage by the state Legislature... Continue reading →

By asking your legislator to support the Furthering Access to Stroke Telemedicine Act (FAST Act), you could help work to give patients in remote areas better access to stroke experts.

Members of the Citizens Council on Women's Education (ccwe), a project of the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education, also endorsed the civil - rights act of 1984 — the measure tabled by the Senate last week — and urged participants to vote against legislators who failed to back that and other legislation affecting equity in education.

The apotheosis of educational romanticism occurred on January 8, 2002, when a Republican president of the United States, surrounded by approving legislators from both parties, signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act, which had this as the Statement of Purpose for its key title:

Abuse of School Meals Funds Target of Cannella Bill Acting on the financial abuses by school districts that «literally take food from the mouths of children,» a state legislator has introduced the School Lunch Protection Act.

By contacting your legislators on key education issues, staying in the loop for future opportunities to act, attending a ConnCAN event or supporting us financially, you can be a critical partner in our work for Connecticut kids.

By contacting your legislators on key education issues, staying in the loop for future opportunities to act or supporting us financially, you can be a critical partner in our work for our state's kids.

It needs to be read and acted upon by governors, chief state school officers, state higher education executive officers, legislators and professional associations.»

Spurred on by new flexibility under the Every Student Succeeds Act and revenue shortfalls, and amid one - party control in most states, legislators this year tackled longstanding questions over who should be in charge of education policy, how to better spend K - 12 dollars, and what school success should look like.

If you would like to take this action a step further, you can schedule a meeting with your state legislators to discuss implementing a recommended amendment drafted by the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) which would «enable prosecutors to charge dogfighters under the respective state's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (commonly referred to as «RICO») statue.

More Information: Further details of Mr. Vaad's deep and substantive ties with ALEC, details of IRS 501 (c)(3) tax fraud charges filed against ALEC by Common Cause and ALEC model legislation calling for repeal of state Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards (RPS) and the ALEC Market - Power Renewables Act that directly seeks to influence state legislators and public utility commissioners to weaken clean energy regulations can be viewed at the website of: Friends of the Colorado PUC

According to Salon.com, which obtained over 300 emails of personal messages between lobbyists and Canadian officials, the CEA is part of a sophisticated public affairs strategy designed to manipulate the U.S. political system by deluging the media with messaging favorable to the tar - sands industry; to persuade key state and federal legislators to act in the extractive industries» favor; and to defeat any attempt to regulate the carbon emissions emanating from gasoline and diesel used by U.S. vehicles.

Ministers in their role as Union legislators are legitimated to act both in accordance with the constitutional requirements of their own domestic legal order (in the UK the Royal prerogative to conduct international relations) in addition to being legitimated to act from the perspective of the Union legal order by the constitutional Treaty, specifically Article 16 (2) TEU's stipulation that «The Council shall consist of a representative of each member state at ministerial level, who may commit the government of the Member State in question and cast its vote.»

Therefore, the situation you propose would probably not qualify as a valid grant of citizenship for Australian legal purposes unless it was voluntarily accepted by the legislator in question, or by someone with the legal authority to act on that legislator's behalf at the time the citizenship was granted.

This lesson was clearly learned by the Quebec legislators as An Act Respecting End of Life Care explicitly addresses and strengthens palliative care in Quebec (including, for example, the establishment of a right to palliative care).

Besides the successful introduction of the Dutch Collective Settlement of Mass Claims Act in 2005, the Dutch legislator in 2017 proposed new legislation to introduce the ability to claim monetary compensation by way of a representative action.

On the basis of a rather detailed analysis of the extent of delegation contained in the basic act (paras 41 - 51), the Court concluded that the choice made by the EU legislator to confer an implementing power on the Commission under Article 291 could be considered «reasonable for the purposes of ensuring uniform conditions for the implementation of that system within the European Union».

This panel will discuss the possibility for a bill similar to the Modernization of Derivatives Act to emerge this Fall, the process for such a bill to move forward, and the substantive issues under consideration by key legislators.

You can also act RIGHT NOW by heading to our Legislative Action Center to contact state legislators and ask them to pass compensation legislation now!

The grammatical and ordinary sense of the words used in s. 233 of the Criminal Code supports the conclusion the legislator did not intend to restrict the availability of infanticide to situations where the psychological health of the woman was substantially compromised or where a mental disorder was established; the statutory language also shows there is no requirement for a causal connection between the disturbance of the accused's mind and the act or omission causing the child's death; but there is, however, a required link between the disturbance and not having fully recovered from the effects of giving birth to the child or of the effect of lactation consequent on the child's birth ̶ in either case the disturbance must be «by reason thereof».

Insurance companies acting as quasi legislators by creating additional hoops is another thing.

It is important to also keep in mind that the Act has always represented a pragmatic compromise by the legislators of this country, in which the recognition and enjoyment of native title rights are already subjugated to other rights and interests in relation to land and waters.