Sentences with phrase «comprehensive reform legislation»

«However, we feel it should be included as part of comprehensive reform legislation,» she said in a statement.

The Texas Legislature should tie to a new school finance system that meets the needs of equity and adequacy bold, comprehensive reform legislation to take Texas to the next level of accountability.

This bipartisan, comprehensive reform legislation to modernize the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), was signed into law by President Obama on June 22, 2016.

Not exact matches

Senate Republicans have expressed skepticism about the House's version of health care reform, the American Health Care Act, and have struggled to unite disparate moderate and conservative factions on comprehensive legislation.

Venue reform was the one piece of comprehensive legislation that had broad support in Congress, so while the court's decision frees up capacity for patent reform advocates to tackle other problems with the patent system, the hard fights are still to come.

«Today's House vote is a major milestone towards passage of the first comprehensive tax reform legislation in more than 30 years.

Last year Congress acted on a bipartisan basis to pass child care legislation that includes much - needed reforms to improve the quality and safety in child care settings, including requiring training for providers to prevent sudden infant death syndrome, instituting annual inspections of child care facilities, and comprehensive background checks of all providers.

«I'm here because I think it's really important for Asian Pacific Americans to show solidarity for immigrant communities to pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation,» said law school graduate Michelle Lee, 25, who lives in Manhattan.

«I want to make sure that we have a bill that's actually tracking through the legislation so that we have the time needed to do what we need to do in terms of reforming the Port Authority,» Lanza said, adding, «We're going work with him to make sure that the bill that gets to his desk this time around is even more comprehensive.»

Rubio initially won his U.S. Senate seat with strong Tea Party backing, but his 2013 support for comprehensive immigration reform legislation led to a decline in that support.

Joe also works to achieve comprehensive reform of chemicals policy in California and in the United States, which involves intensive study of the REACH legislation in the European Union, the proposed U.S. Kid's Safe Chemicals Act of 2008 and the California Green Chemistry Initiative.

It's been a long road to comprehensive charter reform in Ohio, but the legislation that overwhelmingly passed last week drew bipartisan support and praise from editorial boards across the state.

The experiences stand in contrast to a national push (e.g., the 17 programs listed in the Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration Program legislation; see Herman, 1999) for off - the - shelf reading intervention programs and school reform models (American Federation of Teachers, 1997; Herman & Stringfield, 1997; Slavin & Fashola, 1998; Wang, Haertel, & Walberg, Reform Demonstration Program legislation; see Herman, 1999) for off - the - shelf reading intervention programs and school reform models (American Federation of Teachers, 1997; Herman & Stringfield, 1997; Slavin & Fashola, 1998; Wang, Haertel, & Walberg, reform models (American Federation of Teachers, 1997; Herman & Stringfield, 1997; Slavin & Fashola, 1998; Wang, Haertel, & Walberg, 1998).

Harkin's rewrite, the first comprehensive reform to the legislation, came out of negotiations with Sen. Mike Enzi (R - Wyo.)

The legislation also indicates that one purpose of the recognition program is to help spur systemic collaboration and coordination within and beyond schoolhouse doors and to promote a shift from narrowly defined student achievement and traditional education reform to broader, more comprehensive efforts that recognize the crucial out - of - school factors that influence teaching and learning.

And earlier this year, the Obama administration abandoned a provision in its landmark student - loan reform legislation that would have created comprehensive state systems to improve the quality of child care and early education for children from birth through age 5.

The first bill introduced was comprehensive tort reform legislation, which eventually became 2011 Wisconsin Act 2.

The most effective solution to this problem is to enact federal legislation, such as the BRIDGE Act, a bill with broad bipartisan support in Congress, with an amendment that would extend DACA protections until comprehensive immigration reform is enacted.

The February issue of Wolters Kluwer's Blue Chip Economic Indicators suggests that Congress is likely to pass — and President Trump is likely to sign — comprehensive legislation aimed at reforming the tax code this year.

The February issue of Wolters Kluwer's Blue Chip Economic Indicators suggests that Congress is likely to pass — and President Trump is likely to sign - comprehensive legislation aimed at reforming the tax code this year.

«The consensus anticipates comprehensive tax reform legislation, but fewer than one third of panelists believe that a border adjustment component will be included as part of any tax reform that is approved,» said Randell E. Moore, executive editor of Wolters Kluwer's Blue Chip Economic Indicators.

In his recent commentary published by The Hill on February 16, Green wrote: «When the Republican - controlled Congress moves forward with drafting comprehensive tax reform legislation to put on President Donald Trump «s desk, one item ought to be high on the list of provisions but probably isn't yet — repealing the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)... It's time for the Trump administration and the bicameral GOP leadership to honor the party's pledge to get rid of this senseless, invasive, dictatorial, and costly burden.»

That is why it is so important that Congress not abandon efforts to pass comprehensive patent reform legislation that will protect productive businesses and rein in the patent trolls.

The bipartisan authors of the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act are preparing to reintroduce their comprehensive legislation to review prison sentences for certain nonviolent drug offenders, reduce recidivism, and save taxpayer dollars.

I share the author's interest in «comprehensive, meaningful criminal justice reform,» especially any form of federal legislation that «eliminates mandatory minimums, reduces the prison population, and addresses the disparate impact of our criminal justice system on communities of color.»

This Week in Biotech was notable for the passage of comprehensive health reform legislation in the U.S..

President Obama has signed into law comprehensive healthcare reform legislation that contains a program known as the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act (CLASS Act).

Only strong, comprehensive patent litigation reform legislation can solve the patent troll crisis that plagues America's innovators, startups, and main street businesses.

Provenzano said comprehensive patent reform legislation is needed to make it more difficult for bad actors like eDekka to target retailers and other businesses.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As President Obama prepares his remarks for the 2014 State of the Union Address on January 28, the Coalition for Patent Fairness asks him to address the need for comprehensive patent reform legislation during the current Congress.

Only strong, comprehensive patent litigation reform legislation will truly solve the patent troll crisis that plagues America's innovators, startups and main street businesses.

«The member companies of the Coalition for Patent Fairness are stunned and deeply disappointed by the decision to remove comprehensive patent litigation reform legislation from the Senate Judiciary Committee's agenda.

CPF supports comprehensive and fair patent reform legislation that will foster job creation, support innovation, protect patent integrity, speedily resolve disputes and curb abuse of the patent system.»

Without legislation addressing the venue problem, the reforms in the more comprehensive bill could be compromised.

Comprehensive patent reform legislation should require patent trolls to include enough information in demand letters to give its targets necessary information they need.

NAR is concerned that without a comprehensive plan for reforming the secondary mortgage market, proposed legislation to quickly constrain Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac before an adequate replacement secondary mortgage market mechanism is established will further disrupt the still fragile housing market recovery.

While there hasn't been a Senate companion bill introduced, CAI expects members of the House of Representatives in states with a large number of community associations — such as Florida, California, Texas, Illinois, North Carolina, New York and Massachusetts — to support the legislation and continue a dialogue that leads to inclusion of the tax deduction in comprehensive tax reform legislation.