Sentences with phrase «earlier version of the bill»

Some opponents also pointed to provisions in earlier versions of the bill that could make it easier for drug companies to obscure their financial contributions to hospitals and doctors under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, which is part of Obamacare.

Earlier versions of the bill established a new 25 percent rate for income from «pass - through» firms that send their earnings to their owners to be taxed as individual income.

An earlier version of the bill was so broad that it threatened to bar not only religiously - grounded codes of conduct and statements of faith for faculty and students, but also a host of other religious elements essential to many faith - based colleges such as mandatory chapel attendance or required Bible or religion courses.

That had followed the failure of an earlier version of the bill last month.

(For legislation nerds: the memorandum for this bill was likely copy and pasted from past sessions, as the legislative history portion fails to note the earlier versions of the bill.)

An earlier version of the bill would have included traffic stops and encounters with the public where the officer is less certain of criminality, but has some reason beyond a whim for questioning, a so - called Level 1 encounter.

Key to the issue advancing in the Senate was 86 - year - old Sen. Bill Larkin, a retired Army colonel who approved an earlier version of the bill, then known as the Compassionate Care Act, in the Senate Health Committee.

An earlier version of the bill was estimated by the Congressional Budget Office to result in 24 million Americans losing health insurance due to increased costs.

The living wage bill, which passed later Monday afternoon 45 - to - 5, is expected to boost wages for about 600 workers — far fewer than earlier versions of the bill.

The Council settled on a 5 - cent minimum fee after an earlier version of the bill called for 10 cents; stores, which will collect and keep the fees, can charge more if they choose.

The congressman had planned on voting in favor of an earlier version of the bill back in March after touting a provision that would shift Medicaid costs from counties to the state, which he said would save money.

He has parted with GOP leaders over an earlier version of the bill.

An earlier version of the bill gave owners 60 days, not 30, to register cooling towers.

Oil industry officials objected to an earlier version of the bill, which would have required oil producers to only use recycled water during times of drought, a move they said would be tantamount to a moratorium on oil production in the state.

An earlier version of his bill also cleared the committee in November 2011, but it never came up for a vote by the full House.

Following Montana's political outcry, Washington's new law doesn't outline a timeline to close Colstrip's two older units, unlike earlier versions of the bill.

Bipartisanship was the order of the day, although all three Democrats noted how far the two sides had come since last year when sharp political divisions on an earlier version of the bill resulted in tense party - line votes in committee.

Goldthwait, himself a friend and sort of a protégé of Crimmins, has gathered an impressive array of people to talk about a man who sometimes feels like an early version of Bill Hicks or Jon Stewart.

An earlier version of the bill required firing principals at low - performing public and private schools, and removing ineffective teachers and possibly replacing them with unlicensed ones.

Earlier versions of the bill required the use of state test scores, drawing opposition from teacher unions.

Early versions of the bill proposed eliminating the deduction (which stands for «state and local taxes»), which didn't sit well with some key Republicans in high - tax states.

Although earlier versions of the bills would have required shelters to conduct a criminal background check, and prohibited adoption of animals by individuals with recent animal cruelty convictions, the language was watered down to allow rather than require, in what Rep. Paul Muxlow, sponsor of HB 4355, called «a compromise.»

Earlier versions of the bill would have placed regulation over puppy mills under a new agency called the Kennel Control Authority, funded by fees and penalties imposed on the breeders.

An earlier version of the bill had been blocked last year by (surprise, surprise) builders and local government organizations, which had objected to its stringent provisions granting more powers to state officials.

An earlier version of the bill was proposed last year, but never got to former Governor David Paterson's desk.

An earlier version of the bill contained a provision that would let companies challenge suspicious «business method» patents — many of which cover basic software practices — at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, but a powerful lobby of old - guard firms (notably Microsoft (s msft) and IBM (s ibm)-RRB- lobbied to crush that part of the law.

An earlier version of the bill was introduced in 2014 and died in committee.

The earlier versions of the bill would have made that exemption harder to take and added limits on higher - income households.

Not exact matches

The Senate bill, like an earlier version that barely passed the House, eliminated mandates and taxes under Obamacare, and unraveled an expansion of the Medicaid health care program for the poor and disabled.

Monday night's retreat was the second straight failure for McConnell, who had to cancel a vote on an earlier version of his repeal - and - replace bill last month when defeat became inevitable.

An earlier version of the table with this article described incorrectly the deduction for classroom expenses under the G.O.P. bill.

An earlier version of the table with this article described incorrectly a provision for the overall limit on itemized deductions in the G.O.P. bill.

Despite early efforts from the House, which passed a version of the tax bill that condensed the current seven tax brackets to four and cut many of the deductions — like those for teachers» supplies and high medical expenses — the final draft of the tax bill does no such thing.

The Senate passed the corrected version of the bill in the early morning hours of December 20, voting 51 - 48 along party lines.

(That said, some online critiques of the bill are based on its earlier version.)

The food companies that produce frozen pizzas, salt and potatoes have lobbied Congress for changes and now the final version of the bill released last Monday would block or delay school lunch standards the Agriculture Department proposed earlier this year, according to the Associated Press.

The final version of a spending bill released late Monday would unravel school lunch standards the Agriculture Department proposed earlier this year, which included limiting the use of potatoes on the lunch line and delaying limits on sodium and delaying a requirement to boost whole grains.

The Republican - led Senate earlier this year previously passed a version of the tax credit bill.

Randi Weingarten, president of the United Federation of Teachers, criticized the Senate version of the bill for cutting about $ 40 billion from money «targeted to help states avoid drastic education cuts and teacher layoffs,» as well as $ 20 billion from construction aid to schools and colleges and $ 1 billion from new aid for Head Start and other early childhood education programs.

Earlier this week, however, the 24 Senate Democrats who had been sponsoring the act all pulled their names off of it in a show of protest to the amended version of the bill.

Cuomo said the Senate version is no better than the House bill passed earlier this month that would end state and local tax deductions, which would particularly hit high - tax states like New York, though it does retain property tax deductions of up to $ 10,000 a year.

Although the Assembly passed a version of the bill earlier this year, it must do so again because the Senate amended some language.

Some conservatives had earlier expressed concern about the sheer size of the Sandy bill — the Senate - passed version exceeded $ 60 billion, at a time when lawmakers were trying to find a way to deal with spending cuts as part of a fiscal - crisis package.

Public - sector unions representing non-school employees have been seeking the same sort of «protection» for years, but earlier versions of the Lanza bill were vetoed by Govs. George Pataki, Eliot Spitzer and Paterson.

«Among other items, the agenda will include a revised version of the Education, Labor and Family Assistance Article VII bill that I was forced to veto earlier this year to prevent an unaffordable increase in school aid, an appropriation bill to authorize distribution of $ 607 million in federal Education Jobs Fund money to school districts, and necessary legislation to reorganize the New York City Off - Track Betting Corporation.»

The Senate version of the tax bill cleared a key hurdle in that chamber earlier this week.

He blasted the mayor for paying «lip service» in his plan to close Rikers in 10 years and called called the Raise the Age bill, passed earlier this year and backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a «watered - down» version of the one advocates wanted.

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated which construction - related bills passed the City Council vote.

The Senate's version of the transportation bill, passed earlier this year, would not cut the current funding high density areas like New York receive.

An electronic headline on some earlier versions of this article misidentified the earmarks Governor Paterson was vetoing as special - interest bills.