Sentences with phrase «draft legislation included»

We will be reviewing draft legislation included with the Governor's 30 - day amendments, including the proposal for an employer opt - in to pay a new payroll tax,» said Business Council President Heather Briccetti.

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Scott, a Republican, said he would work with state lawmakers in the coming weeks to draft legislation, adding that it would include some exceptions for members of the military and law - enforcement officers.

MacCharles also told the legislature that the government legislation was drafted «in response» to two previously proposed private members» bills, including one from Liberal MPP Arthur Potts.

Some big ones are: (a) whether the draft PROMESA legislation raises retroactivity issues that make it unfair to bondholders (including mutual funds and their investors) who may be subject to restructuring ex post without having had notice of that possibility ex ante; (b) relatedly, whether creating a bankruptcy - like restructuring process for Puerto Rico is bad for bondholders because it prevents holdout creditors from holding up restructuring negotiations, (c) how much oversight and sovereignty Puerto Rico should cede (for example, different stakeholders feel differently about the installation of an oversight board); (d) the extent to which austerity measures are feasible and should be imposed [fn1], and (d) and what substantive reforms should be put enacted going forward.

The legislation, which was drafted by the Americans United for Life explicitly includes several provisions that require fetal death certificates, proper burials and fetal death reporting.

I've even helped many states draft legislation on this topic, including bills requiring rear - facing until at least age 2.

A paradigm shift is needed in western cultures, especially for the policymakers who draft important maternal healthcare legislation, including maternity leave and health insurance benefits.

Alas, in recently approved draft legislation, the Romanian government declared the Canadian company's private project to be of public utility and of overriding public interest, which it is not, given that the Romanian Constitution stresses that «public interest riches», including underground resources, are the exclusive object of public property, meaning that they solely belong to the Romanian people.

However, the law contains 17 exemptions, including for people who are «engaged in drafting, advising clients on or rendering opinions» on legislation, procurement contracts or other matters «when such professional services are not otherwise connected with state or municipal legislative or executive action» as well as communications after a procurement contract has been tentatively awarded.

Two state senators and two assemblymembers, including Republican Jim Tedisco, say they are drafting legislation after two New York City police officers were gunned down in their car over the weekend.

The PWD community must be included in drafting legislation in the Council to ensure this large community is affected positively and supported by new legislation, zoning and funding.

New Jersey state Sen. Bob Gordon, chairman of a powerful oversight committee that has looked closely at the Port Authority after the George Washington Bridge lane closure scandal, said he was aghast to learn what changes are included in the draft legislation.

The county lawmakers, including Nassau Legislature's minority leader, Kevan Abrahams, also vowed to draft legislation that would give the legislature a role in deciding how to spend forfeiture funds.

In the coming weeks, the Government will finalise the arrangements and process leading to this referendum, including the establishment of a referendum commission to ensure adequate public information is provided, a referendum Bill which will be debated in the Oireachtas, and draft legislation to provide for the implementation of the treaty's provisions will be published.

CIOT has warned that draft legislation concerning the devolution of tax powers to Scotland could result in a broad swathe of unintended complexities, including forcing many more taxpayers into self - assessment.

Cuomo would be given vast new power over the Port Authority, including the authority to unilaterally remove and appoint commissioners, under draft legislation that has been privately circulating among Albany lawmakers this week.

The draft legislation contains a number of caveats for assessing individual cases, including the proportionality of the force used to the perceived threat, the time taken to consider options and whether concerns for personal safety are involved.

A tax cap for New York City has never been a feature of major tax cap proposals — including Gov. Andrew Cuomo's draft legislation in 2011 — or mentioned as a budget possibility until the Cuomo administration proposed shifting Medicaid costs back to New York City earlier this month.

He said his office has drafted legislation that lawmakers could pass to enact his reform proposals (though one would require a constitutional amendment), which is included in his report.

«It's an old bill draft and any final legislation will contain what we believe will be the best plan to fight opiod and heroin abuse and include recommendations from the Heroin Task Force,» spokesman Rich Azzopardi said in an email.

That's left Dorego and the company's stable of lobbyists (which includes two former state senators, Nick Spano and Carl Andrews) to mix with politicians at fund - raisers and check in when major legislation is being drafted in nondescript rooms tucked into the Capitol's upper floors.

Other changes include a shift in the way legislation will be introduced at the council, and the creation of a legislative drafting unit designed to help members speed up the bill writing process.

In court papers, the government said Stevenson accepted about $ 20,000 in bribes in exchange for drafting, proposing and agreeing to enact legislation to aid his co-defendants» businesses, including an adult day care center in the Bronx, the «Westchester Avenue Center,» which opened a month ago.

Here my responsibilities included drafting the report that became the basis of the German legislation on embryonic stem cell research.

While at the AAS, Bethany managed the public policy activities including, creating and managing a federal and local grassroots advocacy program designed to work with association members to effectively communicate with policy makers and successfully leading a coalition, working with Congressional leaders, and drafting legislation to secure millions of federal dollars appropriated for the restarting domestic production of Plutonium - 238 as a fuel source for planetary exploration.

Reville played a primary role in the drafting and passage of the Achievement Gap Act of 2010 — the most sweeping education legislation since the landmark Education Reform Act of 1993 - which included the nation's first «smart cap» lift on charter schools and created the pathway for more than 44 Innovation Schools that are now up and running across the state.

Key members of the House education committee are drafting legislation that would fold 11 federal education programs, including major initiatives such as Goals 2000, into a $ 1.4 billion block grant designed to spur reforms.

April 10, 2012 For the first time ever, both houses of Congress have included social and emotional learning in drafts of the federal government's bellwether education legislation.

The General Attorney occupation covers professional legal positions involved in preparing cases for trial and / or the trial of cases before a court or an administrative body or persons having quasi-judicial power; rendering legal advice and services with respect to questions, regulations, practices, or other matters falling within the purview of a Federal Government agency (this may include conducting investigations to obtain evidentiary data); preparing interpretative and administrative orders, rules, or regulations to give effect to the provisions of governing statutes or other requirements of law; drafting, negotiating, or examining contracts or other legal documents required by the agency's activities; drafting, preparing formal comments, or otherwise making substantive recommendations with respect to proposed legislation; editing and preparing for publication statutes enacted by Congress, opinions or discussions of a court, commission, or board; drafting and reviewing decisions for consideration and adoption by agency officials.

CIBC Wealth's Jamie Golombek says the Budget included draft legislation that allows for an increased TFSA dollar amount for 2015 to $ 10,000, up from $ 5,500, the current 2015 TFSA dollar amount.

Since 2013, the subcommittee has orchestrated several successes and positive outcomes, some of which include: • Collaborating with the PIJAC Zoonosis committee to update the Healthy Herp Handling poster promoting healthy reptile and amphibian handling practices; develop the Zoonotic Disease Prevention Series for Retailers; draft informative store signage on how to prevent zoonotic diseases; participate in meetings on rodent and reptile disease transmission with the Centers for Disease Control; and produce and revise best management practices (BMP) documents; • Collaborating with the United States Association of Reptile Keepers on past and current attempts to pass legislation, ordinances, and regulatory activity that may impact herp ownership and related businesses; • Attending Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) meetings with reports and summary of actions affecting import and export of reptiles; • Addressing the 2013 Center for Biological Diversity petition to list 53 herp species under the Endangered Species Act; • Reviewing and commenting on the recent US Fish and Wildlife status review on the proposal to list wood turtles under the Endangered Species Act; • Submitting comments on proposed listing of flat - tailed tortoise and spider tortoise under the Endangered Species Act; • Introducing federal legislation in 2013 to allow for the export of certain constrictors listed as injurious in air shipments with aircraft that land in a state for refueling; • Providing volunteer support for auctions at 2013 National Reptile Breeders Expo and several North American Reptile Breeders Conferences; • Providing extensive consultation on constrictor caging standards in Ohio.

She drafted and analyzed federal and state legislation to protect animals and children, including being the author of the 2009 - 10 legislative bill to ban pound seizure in Michigan (which passed the House and ran out of time in Senate) and a bill to ban gas chambers in Michigan shelters.

Barbara has drafted, consulted on and secured amendments to provincial and federal legislation, including updates to the Criminal Code, the Migratory Bird Act and the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.

The latest draft of the Senate legislation includes a system somewhat different from the House bill's to ensure that the price of emissions permits does not rise or fall too quickly.

WASHINGTON — A draft of a climate bill that Senate Democrats will formally introduce on Wednesday suggests that the legislation will include a more ambitious greenhouse gas emissions target than one passed by the House.

To resolve this question, leading environmental groups and major U.S. corporations (including some of the biggest greenhouse gas emitters) like American Electric Power and Duke Energy convened a negotiating process through Avoided Deforestation Partners, while the Waxman - Markey legislation was being drafted.

The findings come as the European Commission prepares legislation to tackle plastic pollution, with a number of measures including a draft law on single - use plastics expected before the summer.

The draft bill had amendments proposed for it by a parliamentary committee — to include the government's own definition of low carbon, to guarantee the independence of the Climate Advisory Council, and to include the principle of climate justice — none of which were included in the final legislation.

The draft legislation proposed by the Law Commission would include a maximum sentence of ten years imprisonment or a fine (or both) for an individual or an unlimited fine for companies found guilty of a bribery and corruption offence.

Our legislative counseling experience includes preparing and drafting legislation and amendments, providing analyses of pending legislation, preparing testimony and client position papers, as well as monitoring and evaluating committee hearings at state and federal level.

Hadef & Partners continues to work on some of the region's most high profile and complex matters, including drafting some of the UAE's most significant pieces of legislation.

The projects potentially include: legislative drafting at both the state and federal level; legal research, amicus briefs and testimony on relevant legislation and significant cases; collaboration with tech industry leaders on anti-harassment policies; community outreach, victim support, and training programs for law enforcement and educational institutions; and fundraising efforts.

There, the visitor learns that LexPop offers two options for bill drafting: «WikiBills», the original unstructured approach used at writethebill [and «WikiBills» includes all of the legislation originally drafted at writethebill]; and a new, more structured method, called «Policy Drives».

This obligation would likely impose a need to discuss the financial and operational impacts of environmental protection and climate change legislation on the issuer's business, which may include such things as the recent legislation and proposed legislation in B.C. (see a summary of climate change legislation here), Ontario (see, for example the proposed Environmental Protection Amendment Act) and in the U.S. (see, for example the draft American Clean Energy and Security Act colloquially known as Waxman - Markey) all, therefore, need to be taken to account.

Submission Requirements: Submissions should be drafts of articles relating to legislation and the law of the political process, including articles related to legislative structure, the legislative process, the budget process, statutory interpretation, and deliberation.

I have acted for most of the major professional regulatory organisations during my career in various roles, including investigation and advocacy in disciplinary tribunals, dealing with appeals and judicial reviews, design and presentation of training to disciplinary bodies and their panellists, drafting of policy and of legislation and other aspects of legislation projects, undertaking fitness to practise audits and review of regulatory policy and procedure.

Justice Canada has some additional material on 40 Years of the Official Languages Act, including a history of amendments to the legislation, links to a A Brief History of the Evolution of Language Rights Before the Supreme Court of Canada as well as an article on the bilingual and bijural drafting of bills and legislative instruments.

Submission Requirements: Submissions should be drafts of articles relating to legislation and the law of the political process, including articles related to legislative structure, the legislative process, statutory interpretation, and deliberation.

As most legislation includes text voluntarily drafted by interested parties and their representatives, the text covered by the Court ruling represents the majority of Federal and provincial legislation in Canada.

On 5 December 2016 the Government published draft legislation for transitional reliefs which it proposes to include in the Finance Act 2017.