Sentences with phrase «enact spending bills»

Because it is increasingly rare for legislative bodies to enact spending bills before the beginning of the fiscal year on July 1, school districts, worried about their financial vulnerability and needing to comply with personnel notification deadlines (usually in April or May), issue layoff notices and hold mandatory public hearings, even if the probability of actual personnel layoffs is slender.
It is increasingly rare for legislative bodies to enact spending bills much in advance of this date.
In contrast, the federal government can engage in deficit spending, enacting spending bills that exceed available revenues.

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The omnibus spending bill signed in March may be the last «major» policy enacted this year, experts said.
Since most districts do have to spend more to pay for healthier food, such a bill, if enacted, would be the death of the HHFKA.
Considering that the 14th Amendment would take precedence over appropriation bills and suchlike mechanisms in laws enacted by the legislature: Yes, the government would have to prioritise debt repayment over spending initiatives.
He must spell out immediately his entire plan for enacting spending cuts in a series of weekly bills that are generally used to maintain state operations in the absence of a fully approved budget.
The Assembly member — who said he is interested in seeing the elimination of backdoor borrowing and term limits enacted in both houses, among other changes — has spent the last five years campaigning with Con Con advocates like SUNY New Paltz professor Gerald Benjamin and government reform activist Bill Samuels, participating in countless town halls and panel discussions to help get the word out.
After the Senate's bipartisan 91 - to - 9 vote in a favor of a bill that keeps federal agencies open through March 18 while enacting $ 4 billion in new spending cuts, Mr. Obama urged House and Senate leaders to meet with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and two top aides to work out a longer - term budget agreement.
In another important spending bill that funds science programs that Senate appropriators have not yet taken up, the House Appropriations Committee approved July 13 the fiscal 2018 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies measure that would give NASA a $ 219 million boost above 2017 enacted levels.
Since most programmatic, or authorization, bills are never enacted, Poe chose something that eventually Congress must pass — an annual spending bill — and tweaked his legislation to fit its narrower scope.
The cuts were necessitated by a $ 209 million reduction in total spending within the bill below FY 2017 enacted levels, coupled with the billion - dollar NNSA increase.
Yet the state legislature is prepared to enact a bill that would virtually ensure that the state loses out on $ 40 million dollars through Race to the Top, and a much - needed ESEA waiver that would bring flexibility for state spending of $ 350 million in federal dollars on behalf of students statewide.
The Truth in Sentencing Act (Bill C - 25) enacted by the Conservative government in October 2009 did away with the notion that an accused person would typically receive two days» credit for each day spent in jail from the presiding judge.
The National Association of REALTORS ® (NAR) asked Congress to take swift action to enact the proposed bill before Friday, when the current stop - gap spending measure expired:
NAR President Elizabeth Mendenhall says Congress must now do their part to enact the bill before the current stopgap spending measure expires on March 23.
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