Sentences with phrase «draft legislation which»

It is drafting a legislation which would expand its authority and enable it to shut down entities that solicit customers abroad, as currently its authority is limited to the country's borders.

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Supporters of the Senate's SOPA, lead by Hollywood, shelled out $ 118 million to support the draft legislation, eight times the measly $ 14 million contributed by opponents of the bill (which were mostly tech companies), according to campaign - finance tracking website MapLight.

And at least four Republican Senators — Rob Portman, Shelley Moore Capito, Cory Gardner, and Lisa Murkowski — said Monday they wouldn't vote for a bill which significantly undercuts Medicaid (a criteria that this draft legislation appears to fit).

The resolution, which contains instructions for key health care - related committees to begin drafting legislation to undo the health law, must also be passed by the House of Representatives (and is expected to get a vote there this week).

For instance, Trump has previously asserted that there will be insurance for «everyone» under a replacement plan; but that's at odds with the current draft legislation in Congress, which would roll back Obamacare's Medicaid expansion and shift the ACA's benefits structure.

So the current draft of the legislation would probably need 60 votes instead, meaning significant Democratic support, which Republican leaders haven't been even trying to court.

Notably, seven provinces opposed to the legislation, which, «in its drafting, if not in its intent, had serious and, in the view of the vast majority of witnesses, fatal flaws as to the constitutional violation of sections 92 and 91 of the British North America Act, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, freedom of speech, expression and association as protected by that very Charter of Rights and Freedoms,» Segal said.

Regardless of the «he said, she said» narrative, it takes time, potentially years, for the wheels of legislation to turn; a bill would require drafting, after which it would need to win a majority vote from the National Assembly before it could become a law.

Regardless, it takes time, potentially years, for the wheels of legislation to turn; the bill will require drafting, after which it will need to win a majority vote from the National Assembly before it could become a law.

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.

Plaintiffs» attorneys may then offer help in drafting new legislation from which they themselves hope to benefit.

His view emerged, by mistake, in the draft version of a speech in which he originally intended to describe as «bigots» all those who oppose the proposed legislation to redefine the nature of marriage.

Tomorrow, the House Education and the Workforce Committee will hold a markup of its school food bill, the process through which committee members debate and amend draft legislation.

According to WHO, which drafted the International Code of Marketing for Breast - milk Substitutes in 1981, just 37 of the 199 (19 %) countries that report to it regarding the Code have passed legislation reflecting all its recommendations.

An open invitation to all made it needless to invite representatives from special interest organizations to express their views, a clear departure from common parliamentary practice which has been, and remains, to invite special interest groups to influence, or even draft, legislation of interest to them.

*** UPDATE *** The Cuomo Administration says waiting until Saturday was «strategic,» since they wanted the EO to ensure that the spirit of the bill take effect immediately, but the larger goal is to draft more comprehensive legislation to make the legislature subject to FOIL, which it currently is not.

The new legislation, which is being drafted, will make it a felony for intentionally failing to provide adequate shelter for a dog.

The Lee Newspapers State Bureau examined fundraising data for Baucus, Grassley, Sen. Ted Kennedy (who chairs the Senate Health Committee, which is drafting health - reform legislation), the other two members of Montana's congressional delegation, and President Barack Obama.

Tedisco, Boyle, Golden and Malliotakis's legislation, which is being drafted, would have the bullet proof glass installed in police cars over a phased - in period starting with the NYPD.

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.

The legislation, which is being drafted, is a response to the numerous public corruption scandals that have rocked the state Capitol to its core over recent months.

Tedisco and Murray's legislation, which is being drafted, would bring fairness to the Governor's proposal for state workers by requiring the Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General, Comptroller and all 213 state legislators to be in good standing with their state and local taxes before they can take office.

Sen. David Valesky, D - 53, and Assemblyman Bill Magee, D - 121, drafted the legislation, which was passed by both houses.

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.

Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer said there's «very, very strong» sentiment among Democrats in the chamber to oppose GOP - drafted legislation to keep the government's doors open, which could indicate the chances are increasing that the government could shut down at midnight Friday.

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.

He said he used a model resolution and added language specific to the city of Kingston to draft the legislation adopted by the Common Council, adding that while the resolution does not «have teeth» with which to be enforced, the legislation adds Kingston to the list of other municipalities opposed to the pipeline.

There are a few drafts of legislation limiting the use of drones by law enforcement in Syracuse floating around city hall, one of which was drafted largely by the Syracuse Peace Council.

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.

«It should also look at the huge amount of legislation it introduced on actions which are already illegal but that they were drafted with the sole intention of grabbing a few headlines,» said David Howard, Lib Dem shadow solicitor general.

The expiration stamps also come as several lawmakers said they were drafting legislation that would change the policy, which was formally adopted by Cuomo administration in June 2013.

All useful stuff — though many matters kicked into the long grass, and we'll need to see how the UK Government turns the recommendations into draft legislation by the end of January, to assess the actual package which an incoming UK Parliament might want to consider.

The legislation was drafted in response to a BuzzFeed News investigation, which found that in the United States, Uber received five claims of rape and «fewer than» 170 claims of sexual assault directly related to an Uber ride as inbound tickets to its customer service database between December 2012 and August 2015.

Reducing scrutiny of delegated legislation might «encourage the Government to draft delegated powers [conferred by primary legislation] as broadly as possible, so that secondary legislation could [then] be used to pass measures which might otherwise face greater opposition in the Lords as primary legislation».

Primary legislation (the statutes enacted by sovereign legislatures, such as the British Parliament) provides a framework which is complemented by secondary law, in the form of rules drafted by government agencies and court rulings which establish legal precedents.

Tedisco caught up with POLITICO by phone from his office in Clifton Park, where he lamented the state of talks and the effect of a 2004 court ruling, Silver v. Pataki, which confirmed the governor's exclusive power to draft budget legislation.

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.

The City Council is in the preliminary stages of drafting legislation to create the program, in negotiations with Mayor Bill de Blasio, which the city is hoping will help resolve a long - standing dispute over who drives the school buses, which was at the root of the 2013 strike.

The legislation, which is being drafted, comes in response to a bizarre case out of Hartsdale, N.Y., in which the Hartsdale Pet Cemetery & Crematory told a man's sister earlier this year that the -LSB-...]

Three years ago, scientists had embraced the commission's initial draft of the legislation, which strives to harmonize privacy rules for data collection, storage, and exchange across the continent.

Second, the administration would prepare draft legislation, on which the experts on the roundtables and the general public would be invited to comment through Web - based submissions.

Beeker was on the committee that helped draft the legislation, which acknowledged the value of historic wrecks and clarified the ownership and management of them on federal, state and tribal submerged lands.

The Humane Society of the United States, which helped draft the legislation, claimed in a press release that chimpanzees have «historically failed as a research model.»

But its draft of the Farm Bill, which sets food and agricultural policy and funding, is less generous: The $ 348 million of research appropriated over 5 years by the 2008 Farm Bill would be cut to $ 200 million in the new legislation.

The warm glow of an old electric light - bulb, which has been banned in many countries because it is so energy inefficient, may soon be making a comeback All 12V MR16 lamp bulbs will be phased out from 2013 if draft legislation is approved.

The public should also have a chance to comment on draft legislation, which must be consistent with Cambodia's international human rights obligations.»

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.

It drafted legislation incorporating money follows the child, which was introduced in the 2011 session.

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.