Sentences with phrase «drafting bills before»

Legislation division is responsible for drafting bills before the Legislative Assembly and preparing consolidations of enacted territorial legislation.

We are told that legal aid proposals are going to be published with a draft bill before the Easter recess.

Not exact matches

The bills, drafted before Trump became president, «would prohibit the President from launching a nuclear first strike without a declaration of war by Congress,» according to a January 2017 press release.

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.

Reports indicate that Hong is working with at least ten other representatives from the Korean government to draft a final bill before the end of 2018.

The draft Modern Slavery Bill was published in December and is due to go to Parliament for consideration before Easter.

Bill had many a talk with Sam Shoemaker before he (Bill) drafted AA.

Health Minister Simon Harris was given permission to draft a bill to be put before the Dail in the event of the Eighth Amendment being repealed.

«There's nobody like him in football today,» said Bills general manager Bill Polian before the draft began on Sunday.

has been so bad... you're telling me the giants take a G at No. 2, Baker Mayfield goes before Chubb, and now the Bills draft a CB?

Most draft projections have three quarterbacks going in the top five picks, so the Bills will need to give the New York Giants a call if they're hoping to get a passer before the New York Jets take one at No. 3 overall.

I think they will move off of this # 4 pick come draft day or before draft day, likely to the Bills once it becomes clear who will still be there at # 4 for the Bills.

Before we get to the mock draft, co-host Matthew Fairburn, Buffalo Bills beat writer for the Syracuse Post-Standard, and I discussed the situation involving Ohio State cornerback Gareon Conley and where his draft status stands.

The Conservatives were supposed to release a draft of the proposed new Bill of Rights before the election, but this never materialised.

With just a few days before an anticipated vote, Senate Republicans released a revised version of their Obamacare repeal legislation that adds a continuous coverage requirement to the draft bill they unveiled last week.

We were told that a draft Bill would be published before Christmas.

It is expected that before the Bill is passed into Law the Nigeria Police Legal Section, will work with the Committee to make some drafting inputs.

Once the bill was drafted, and just two days before it was laid in parliament, Theresa May wrote to the council asking for its input.

Just before last week's unanimous passage of a Senate bill making it easier for 9/11 families to sue Saudi Arabia and other foreign terror sponsors, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer and other proponents of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act stuffed an amendment into the final draft allowing the attorney general and secretary of state to stop any litigation in its tracks.

Order 120 (1) of the Standing Orders of the House, which is premised on Article 106 (2) of the Constitution states that «Except as provided in Orders 119 and 112 no Bill shall be introduced unless the text of the Bill, with no variations other than such as, in the opinion of the Parliamentary Draftsman, are of a trivial or drafting character, has been published in the Gazette fourteen days before the date of its introduction in the House.»

There could be a draft Lords reform Bill — Mr Straw favours an 80 per cent elected second chamber — but there wouldn't be time to push it through before the general election.

Giving evidence to the joint committee on the draft House of Lords reform bill, Dr Rowan Williams suggested a particular clause be dropped so that women bishops would not have to wait «until 2025 or something» before they were eligible for a seat in the upper house.

The joint committee is due to deliver what is expected to be a highly critical verdict on the draft bill by the end of March before the government publishes the final version of its bill in time for the Queens speech in May.

«Just as Congresswoman Stefanik worked to improve the House bill before it came up for a vote, we expect senators to debate and possibly amend this draft before it is finalized.»

Williams, who is in his third and final term, said he has been drafting legislation for several years since testifying before the City Charter Revision Commission in 2010 and is planning to introduce the bill «very shortly» with the hopes of it passing in the next session.

A former Attorney General, Martin Amidu has suggested that the government's efforts to create a special prosecutor office will be a wasted venture if sections of the draft Bill currently before Parliament are not removed.

Contrast this with your approach to House of Lords reform, where a draft bill will be published before the end of the year, which will then be subject to full pre-legislative scrutiny by a joint select committee over several months before a bill is formally presented to Parliament.

Senator Cory Gardner (R — CO), a key player in drafting the bill, told ScienceInsider yesterday that he hopes the long - awaited COMPETES revision will be introduced before Congress recesses next month for the political conventions.

Lawmakers late Tuesday canceled planned debate in the Assembly on the state budget bill after delays in drafting amendments, but not before removing a plan to cut $ 37 million in federal money for the UW System for a statewide Internet provider.

As reported in today's CTMirror, it wasn't even two hours after Governor Malloy signed the «education reform» bill into law before the three groups representing the school superintendents, principals and school boards went back on their word, claiming that the new law gave them the right to implement policies that student's standardized test scores can account for 50 percent of a teachers evaluation rather than the 22.5 percent that was listed in the draft bill and agreed to by all of the parties last January.

Malloy's bill required that school governance councils be given the opportunity to; (1) to review the fiscal objectives of the draft budget for the school and provide advice before it was submitted, (2) participate in the hiring process of administrators, (3) work with school administration to develop and approve a school compact, (4) be involved in developing and approving a written parent involvement policy outlining the role of parents in the school, (5) participate in analyzing school achievement data and school needs relative to the improvement plan for the school, (6) assist the principal in making programmatic and operational changes for improving the school's achievement and the list goes on.

The bill before the chamber, a state Senate draft authored by a staunch charter supporter would have bound traditional K - 12 schools to grant charters access to more pots of public funding.

Prior to the bill going before the House, TCTA's Washington, D.C., lobbyists distributed a TCTA - drafted memo to the Texas Congressional delegation and House education committee members.

None was available to speak to the BBC before the draft regulations setting out the detail of the bill about how this will work.

IASBO is very active in legislative initiatives involving school business management issues, including the review of bill drafts and testifying before various legislative committees.

Rep. Weyler drafted a floor amendment to make clear what everyone already knew before DOE's dueling interpretations created confusion — that the bill didn't affect the virtual funding.

You may be able to stop a HCB ONLINE bill payment paid by paper draft by contacting us by telephone before the paper draft has cleared.

Since these situations have lawmakers scrambling to address a problem, and since proposals tend to pass with very little debate once they are offered, it is essential that we engage these lawmakers before a bill has been drafted.

For instance, the «web march» organised by Friends of the Earth before and during the drafting of the UK Climate Change Bill, demanded a «strong climate law», seemingly in lieu of a popular movement to legitimise it.

About a week before the Senate climate and clean energy jobs bill is expected to be released, the 5th US Climate Action report has been drafted by the State Department, according to Reuters.

Before the Bill received second reading, three draft regulations for public consultation were tabled at the Ontario Regulatory Registry to support the implementation of the Employment Standards Act and Labour Relations Act amendments under Bill 148.

For example, before document automation, you might recover six hours for a document that took you ten hours to draft, whereas with document automation and an AFA, you can bill the equivalent of four hours for a document that now takes a fraction of that time to prepare.

Seven drafts were prepared before a bill satisfaelory to the delegates of the confederating provinces was presented to the British Parliament for enactment: see Pope, Confederation Documents, 125 ff.; O'Connor Report, Annex I, pp. 5 - 6.

The full article goes into some detail about why the history had not been available before (parliamentary privilege under the 1689 Bill of Rights — the courts must not criticize Parliament) and why it might be a bad idea now (it would be too much work for lawyers giving advice or drafting to have to wade through Hansard... [more]

The regulations under Bill C - 25 are still in draft form, and still have to go through a public consultation process before they are finalized, mostly in the next 18 to 24 months, and there may be changes made, she adds.

(1) That Senator Di Natale should address the technical and other issues raised in evidence to the committee, and seek the advice of relevant experts before drafting the final Bill.

During his employment at the North Dakota Office of Attorney General, Doug drafted and reviewed legislation, testified before legislative committees, and assisted legislators and legislative committees with rewriting bills.

As for divorce lawyers who hope to make use of this data, watch out, because it's a double - edged sword: It won't be long before clients figure out that they can challenge your billing records by showing that you were cruising over the Bay Bridge at the same time that you claimed to be drafting a brief.

He appeared as a witness before The Joint Committee on the Draft Mental Health Bill (see the committee's final report, HL Paper 79 — I HC 95 — I, session 2004 — 05), and is the author of The Nearest Relative Handbook, which is forthcoming from Jessica Kingsley Publishers.