Sentences with phrase «committees considering bill»

Read the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers» submission to the House of Commons and Senate committees considering bill C - 24.

Buffalo Assembly member Crystal Peoples - Stokes chairs the Assembly committee considering the bill.

Committees consider bills in detail, and may make amendments.

DiPietro urged firefighters to contact their legislators, the sponsors of legislation they are supporting and the chairmen of the committees considering the bills.

Earlier, the Senate Education Committee considered a bill that would allow siblings of current Choice Scholarship recipients to qualify for a voucher without first attending public school.

This session, the legislature's Education Committee considered a bill that would have placed a moratorium on charter school approvals.

As the Senate committee considered the bill Tuesday, Scott said he opposed allowing teachers to carry firearms, but he would not say whether he would veto the bill.

1998 The New Jersey Senate Health Committee and Assembly Health Committee consider a bill proposing a mandatory 24 - hour delay for women seeking abortions.

Not exact matches

Pennsylvania Representative Bill Shuster, the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has encouraged his Republican colleagues to consider raising the gas tax as a way to keep the Highway Trust Fund — which funds road, bridge and transit projects — solvent after 2021.

Meanwhile, the Senate begins considering a bill that would, in the words of Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus, «improve upon» (read: «completely upend») the package that passed the House of Representatives yesterday by a vote of 385 - 35.

Democratic legislators, who are far outnumbered in the House and Senate and wield no power over which legislation gets considered, tried repeatedly over three committee hearings on Monday and Tuesday to amend the gun control bills to include an assault weapons ban and other, more stringent policies.

The president has responded harshly toward Republican congresspeople whom he considers insufficiently supportive of his agenda, even going so far as to meet with their primary challengers, while a pro-Trump political action committee at one point purchased, then withdrew, campaign ads against a senator who was wavering on the Senate GOP's health - care bill.

She is against a Louisiana state bill, HB 727, which has been approved in committee and if passed, would considerably strengthen penalties against pipeline protesters and landowners, like herself, who consider standing in a pipeline company's way.

This provides the applicable standing committees with sufficient time to consider the Main Estimates in detail and the Government funds to pay its bills.

Finland: 03-19-2013: The citizens» initiative overrides the committee's decision, and thus the bill must now be considered by the Parliament.

Note, the bill (as subsequently introduced into Parliament) was considered as part of the House Standing Committee on Economics Inquiry into the Competition and Consumer (Price Signalling) Amendment Bill 2bill (as subsequently introduced into Parliament) was considered as part of the House Standing Committee on Economics Inquiry into the Competition and Consumer (Price Signalling) Amendment Bill 2Bill 2010.

But the Washington Post reports that when the full Senate appropriations committee considers that bill, an amendment will be offered which makes permanent the USDA's whole grain waiver and which would also postpone upcoming requirements that sodium in school food be further reduced.

gives MPs an opportunity, on the floor of the House, to consider further amendments (proposals for change) to a Bill which has been examined in committee... Report stage is normally followed immediately by debate on the Bill's third reading.

The Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday will consider a bill that would re-establish power to Comptroller Tom DiNapoli to oversee procurement in certain economic development projects.

A Senate version of the bill is set to be considered on Tuesday before the chamber's Finance Committee.

Backbencher Nadine Dorries then revealed she had written to the 1922 Committee calling for a leadership challenge to Cameron and veteran Tory MP Sir Bill Cash indicated that he was considering following suit.

In addition, the rally yesterday was not about the looming government shutdown, but rather a stand - alone bill that was scheduled to receive a hearing in the Rules Committee (on which Slaughter sits), but was considered «so extreme» that the hearing was canceled.

Similarly, English - and - Welsh - only bills would be considered at committee stage only by MPs from England and Wales.

The standing committee system in India severely limits the extent of such scrutiny: committees are constrained to consider only those bills referred to them by Parliament, which effectively lets the executive decide the legislation that is reviewed by them.

When the bill was announced for consideration at the Committee of the Whole, only 30 members of the House of Representatives considered and passed the PIGB within 23 minutes (2:19 p.m., to 2:42 p.m).

The Assembly never moved the bill out of committee and despite numerous comments about reviewing, discussing, considering, and conferencing the legislation, ultimately didn't change the bill from the Senate amended version and only amended the bill in the final week of the legislative session.

The Chairman, NUPENG and PENGASSAN Petroleum Industry Bill Committee, Mr. Chika Onuegbu, said in a statement, «This is indeed a milestone achievement, especially when you consider that the PIGB is not an Executive Bill.

1 p.m. the Committee on Veterans will meet to consider a bill creating a taskforce to study veterans in the Criminal Justice System

On the health committee's agenda this afternoon is a bill the county is considering to ban plastic bags.

Senate Democrats protested the bill on the floor, many arguing that the bill should have been considered by the chamber's education committees rather than being «rushed» through the Rules Committee.

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Off topic question topics included whether the mayor and his wife have smoked marijuana inside Gracie Mansion, a Daily News call for the mayor to «accept responsibility for inflaming the police», whether the mayor believes he should apologize for comments on the police, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns about current mayoral / police friction as it considers Brooklyn as a site for the 2016 Democratic Convention, whether the mayor supports the recent Cuomo / Christie veto of legislation on the Port Authority, a pending state legislative bill on police disability pensions, the expected special election in the 11th Congressional District, whether the mayor believes there is a police slowdown, the dismay of the recently shot and wounded police officers at Mayor de Blasio's hospital visit, the possible change in the Staten Island Chuck / Groundhog Day ceremony, the meeting today between Police Commissioner Bratton and union leaders and how Mayor de Blasio envisions the current mayoral / police friction ending.

Faso is the New York Republican on the House Agriculture Committee, which is considering SNAP provisions at a meeting Wednesday as part of broader deliberation on this year's must - pass Farm Bill.

Thursday's City Council schedule will include a meeting of the Committee on Governmental Operations for its preliminary budget oversight hearing; a meeting of the Committee on Veterans to consider a resolution «calling upon the New York State Legislature to pass and the Governor to sign S. 752, the Veterans» Education Through SUNY Credits Act»; and a meeting of the Committee on Education to consider multiple resolutions, including one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to reject any attempt to raise the cap on the number of charter schools,» one «calling upon the Department of Education to amend its Parent's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to include information about opting out of high - stakes testing and distribute this document at the beginning of every school year, to every family, in every grade,» and one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to eliminate the Governor's receivership proposal in the executive budget for New York City.»

The governor's rival, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, is reportedly considering a launch of yet another independent committee that would provide him with a platform to speak on progressive issues.

The Nassau legislature's Rules Committee is scheduled to consider the bill May 7.

The Commons will consider the human fertilisation and embryology bill in its committee stage tomorrow and on Tuesday.

Squadron, a Brooklyn Democrat, pushed this week have a vote in the Senate Corporations Committee to consider his bill, which would reclassify limited liability companies as corporations under the campaign finance law in order to close what many campaign finance advocates see as a major loophole in the current law.

Miner shared her concerns about Syracuse's «infrastructure crisis» in written testimony she submitted to a U.S. Senate committee considering the reauthorization of a multibillion dollar bill to help maintain and rebuild transportation infrastructure.

At 1 p.m., the NYC Council Committee on Finance considers a bill that would reauthorize the city's tax lien sale program for another four years, Committee Room, City Hall, Manhattan.

The amended code also calls for committee members to prioritize parcels of land being considered for purchase every six months, rather than once a year — to be drawn up in a comprehensive master list submitted to the County Legislature, according to the bill.

Committees are permitted to hold hearings and collect evidence when considering bills.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton on Monday took aim at a slew of laws a City Council committee is considering, calling them unnecessary and saying they would handcuff cops trying to...

Once appropriations committees pass their bills, they are considered by the House and Senate.

NEWBURGH — Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney's Agricultural Advisory Committee has completed its report listing priorities for the Hudson Valley, one week before the House Agriculture Committee will consider the 2013 farm bill.

A bill to legalize marijuana passed a legislative committee this session — the furthest the issue has ever gotten — but the House and the Senate never seriously considered the matter.

July 26, 2011: North Carolina Ballot Access Bill Advances July 24, 2011: Free the Vote Update: Senate will consider H.B. 32 July 23, 2011: North Carolina Ballot Access Bill Expected to Pass Senate Committee Next Week

During the legislative process, most bills are sent to a Committee stage when a group of at least 11 MPs consider the proposed Act clause by clause in detail.

Stewart - Cousins was in Orange County to give the keynote address at the committee's annual gala, an appearance that comes as Democrats have stepped up their criticism of Republican Sen. Bill Larkin, whose seat they consider to be a potential pickup opportunity next year.

The Assembly's committee will consider its version of the bill Thursday.