Sentences with phrase «changes to laws governing»

In Florida, there have been several amendments and changes to laws governing dog owner liability.

Constant changes to the laws governing the attendant care benefit can make it confusing to understand whether you qualify for attendant care benefits and whether the assistance you receive meets the criteria for being reimbursed your attendant care expenses.

Cuomo has said he wouldn't approve a budget without certain changes to laws governing legislators» outside incomes.

The NYC Council voted to create a new city office of nightlife, as well as an advisory board to recommend changes to the laws governing the city's nightspots.

Not exact matches

Libel is something that is regulated at the state level, which means that to change it, the president would have to either convince all of the states to change the way they handle libel prosecution or pass a new federal law specifically governing libel.

Soon, President McKinley and the ruling Republican party changed their tune and advocated for Puerto Rico to remain a colony, with only token representation in Congress and governed by different tax laws than the mainland.

The universe seems to be governed by consistent laws that don't change.

If the fundamental laws of connection changed altogether with variations, for instance, in the shape or size of bodies, or if the laws governing the behavior of a complex had no relation whatever to the laws governing the behavior of its parts when belonging to other complexes, there could hardly be a limitation of independent variety in the sense in which this has been defined.

According to the IRS, there has been no change in policy or interpretation of the laws governing the practice.

Unfortunately, the construction will be far more disruptive than it needs to be, and far more expensive, unless Albany changes an outdated law that governs projects like this one.

The background to the controversy is a change in the law governing universities.

The law governing mayoral control of the schools, however, must be changed to protect schools like Wadleigh, she said.

Laws governing abortion in America have changed over time, from no laws in Colonial days — when it was considered a medical issue — to the various state restrictions seen toLaws governing abortion in America have changed over time, from no laws in Colonial days — when it was considered a medical issue — to the various state restrictions seen tolaws in Colonial days — when it was considered a medical issue — to the various state restrictions seen today.

«The ability to choose who governs us, and the freedom to change laws we do not like, were secured for us in the past by radicals and liberals who took power from unaccountable elites and placed it in the hands of the people.

The recent changes made in their constitution in favour of the ruling government to continue to stay in power is a denial of the citizens» sovereign rights to choose who should govern them within globally accepted terms / periods within the framework of democracy and rule of law.

Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito (D - Manhattan) would need the Legislature's approval to change the fare - evasion charge — one of the six relatively minor offenses she wants reduced — because it's a state - governed law.

The legislation would not grant legal authorization to work or change any other regulations governed by federal law.

«It is of particular interest to me, therefore, that the Government are seeking to change the law governing trade unions.

If the current laws that govern federal taxes and spending do not change, the budget deficit will shrink this year to $ 642 billion

Assemblywoman Monica Wallace, D - Lancaster, wants to change the law that governs public authorities in New York so that public authority employees who serve at will, such as Water Authority Executive Director Earl L. Jann Jr., would be able to collect no more than three months of severance pay, not years» of severance as Jann's pact allows.

In addition, the Board of Elections is governed by state law, and it was not clear how it might be altered through changes to the City Charter.

She wants to change the law that governs public authorities in New York so that public authority employees who serve at will, such as Jann, would be able to collect no more than three months of severance pay.

For the law governing how to count water to change now, the Legislature would have to vote on it.

And when it comes to particles, the laws and forces that govern their behaviour do not change if you swap the future for the past.

Among its 14 recommendations, the panel suggests specific changes to a host of laws now on the books, including state legislation governing wetlands protections, hazardous waste handling and shoreline erosion prevention.

An important bottom line in all this is that the big - picture changes proposed to the discretionary budget will face a major uphill battle in Congress this year, for the fact that changing the spending caps requires changing the underlying law governing them (the Budget Control Act).

The members of the governing board of NAEP have been very active ever since NCLB was passed to make whatever changes are needed to accommodate the new law and to make sure they do it in a way that the NAEP test really is the kind of benchmark we want it to be.

Washington — Although more than three months have passed since Education Department officials announced their intention to seek major changes in the federal law governing the education of handicapped children, the Administration has thus far failed to send to the Congress specific proposals to amend the law.

The governing body of the LA teachers union last night voted to seek out a state lawmaker to sponsor legislation that rewrites California's parent trigger law, which allows for wholesale changes at a school if a majority of parents want them.

This year, Peterson helped get a law change through the Legislature that allows local school boards to create new «innovation» schools that operate independently from many of the state and local rules that govern schools.

Palm Lane parents, disheartened by the school's abysmal academic record [1] and the governing district's resistance to change, sought relief by attempting to exercise the Parent Trigger Law, an option that enables them to petition the school district to transform the failing institution into a newly created public charter school.

One change to New Jersey's charter school law passed the legislature yesterday, while talk mounts that a broader rewrite of the state's 15 - year - old statute governing the semi-autonomous schools may be in the offing.

The State Legislature is making good on its promise to change laws that govern charter schools.

To meet European laws governing the size of exposed components several changes became necessary including a modified hood and a retractable Flying Lady mascot; obeying emission legislation in Japan as well as in the United States had resulted in fuel injection been fitted.

The law governing benefit amounts may change because, by 2034, the payroll taxes collected will be enough to pay only about 77 cents for each dollar of scheduled benefits.

This is why I am working to change the laws governing student loans in bankruptcy.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has enacted temporary changes to the administrative law governing federal VA home loan modification.

The law governing DAS has changed several times since DAS debt payment programmes began to be approved.

The Agreement is governed by the laws of Nevada and the United States and is subject to change.

The Problem With Puppy Mills Hundreds of «breeders» have gone out of business thanks to changes in the laws governing commercial breeders - some 1,200 puppy mills, in fact.

They worked diligently with attorneys and state legislators in getting the laws changed so that Illinois then represented the first state in the country to have the best laws governing the protection of hooved animals.

I believe we need to look at the laws governing warfare because warfar has changed and Viet Nam changed it.

Nate conflates problems of prediction in the realm of human behavior — where there are no fundamental governing «laws» and any «predictions» are potentially laden with subjective and untestable assumptions — with problems such as climate change, which are governed by laws of physics, like the greenhouse effect, that are true whether or not you choose to believe them.»

«Turning to the larger scale, the density is a state variable of a gas and the change in density during a process is governed by the laws of thermodynamics.

In 2007, legislative reauthorization introduced substantial changes to the Magnuson - Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the primary federal law that governs conservation of fisheries in U.S. federal waters.

Only climate change in the N. Atlantic is one governed by Law of Nature http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/CET-NV.htm and suggest rapid cooling in decade to come.

Some of these changes include: drafting social media policies to govern employees» postings on the Internet; more vigorous enforcement by the EEOC; new laws that the NLRB makes that affect non-unionized workforces; changes to U.S., state, and international laws that global companies face; and changes that occur due to the current state of the economy.»

A statute that governs the construction industry in Ontario is set for a major overhaul for the first time in nearly 35 years.The proposed changes to the Construction Lien Act, which could become law later this year, are an attempt to modernize the payment and dispute resolution systems in the industry and bring the statutory framework in line with jurisdictions in other countries.

At one end of the scale, it seems that the world is changing radically to the extent that law is going to be governed by machine - oriented legal practice in a very short space of time.

But the question has become more prevalent now as governments and laws struggle to keep up with dramatic changes in the type of technology they're designed to govern.