Sentences with phrase «enacted rules reform»

As an Assemblymember, he passed landmark legislation on domestic violence, and enacted rules reform to make the State Assembly more transparent and efficient.»

Under her leadership, the City Council will enact rules reform, become a more inclusive and effective voice for all our communities, and pass progressive policy to create a more just, compassionate and equal New York City.»

One frequent gripe of Republicans is the failure to enact any rules reforms.

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The 849 - page Dodd - Frank financial reform legislation, enacted four years ago in 2010, mandated 398 new rules; just 208 of those rules, or 52 percent, have been enacted and none of them seem to be reining in excesses on Wall Street.

Cuomo, who doesn't face re-election until 2014, has pledged to enact broad new campaign finance reform laws, including the public financing of campaigns and stronger disclosure rules that target independent expenditure groups.

The Assembly should therefore take concrete steps to overhaul the rules that keep it from functioning effectively as a legislative body, and make clear to New Yorkers that it is serious about enacting comprehensive and much - needed reforms to its ethics laws.

Although the clock on this legislative session is winding down, reform advocates remain confident that New York's legislators will enact new campaign finance rules in the near future.

While a Con Con, as it is often called, would provide a chance for enacting reforms on things like government ethics, term limits for elected officials, modernized voting and voter registration rules, and more, it would open up the entire state constitution to change.

These rules have existed since 1986 and were enacted as part of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 as a way of placing owners of offshore investment funds on a similar footing to owners of U.S. investment funds.

BlackRock added the problematic waiver provision in October 2011 after the SEC adopted its whistleblower program rules as part of the Dodd - Frank market reforms which were enacted in 2010.

If a particular common law rule or body of law is in need of reform, a legislature can enact legislation to repeal or modify that rule or laws.

As a result, the reforms are basically being undertaken on a wing and a prayer and are dependent on «the judiciary as certain changes will need to be enacted through Procedure Rules Committees».

Following a ruling in EFF's lawsuit that NSL gags are unconstitutional, Congress enacted reforms in 2015 that require the bureau to review NSLs to determine whether the gag orders are still necessary, and terminate those that are not.

A rollback of rules under Dodd - Frank, the major financial services reform law enacted after the mortgage crisis, might well lead to an increase in lending on both the residential and commercial sides, Yun says, noting that community banks are the biggest source of loans for home construction and small commercial transactions.

Romney's goal for lenders to return to more normal lending standards is something NAR has been calling for quite a bit in the past year, and the paper cites as one of the roadblocks to this some of the rules to come out of the big Wall Street reform law enacted two years ago, including the qualified mortgage (QM) rule, which is being drafted by the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

The Tax Reform Act of 1986 eliminated preferential capital gain treatment so that all capital gains were taxed as ordinary income, enacted «passive loss» and «at risk» rules, and eliminated accelerated depreciation methods in favor of straight line depreciation consisting of 39 years for commercial property and 27.5 years for residential property.

Obama also echoed real estate industry concerns over the qualified mortgage (QM) and qualified residential mortgage (QRM) rules, which federal banking regulators have been working on since passage of the big Wall Street reform law that was enacted two years ago.

The rule is a part of the «qualified mortgage» concept in the Dodd - Frank banking reform law enacted in 2010 and it would require lenders to retain 5 percent of the loan value for loans they package into securities for sale to investors.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is the first of six financial regulators to release the final version of the long - awaited qualified residential mortgage (QRM) rule, which stems from the big 2010 banking reform bill the federal government enacted after the financial...