Sentences with phrase «existing policies adopted»

The Democratic Caucus» pending legislation was submitted in order to codify those existing policies adopted under Spano while also drawing from model ordinances put in place by the New York state attorney general's office to alleviate concerns about the treatment of immigrants living in Westchester.

The pending legislation was submitted to codify existing policies adopted under the administration of former County Executive Andy Spano, a Democrat, while also drawing from model ordinances put in place by the New York state attorney general's office in order to alleviate concerns about the treatment of immigrants living in county.

Not exact matches

«From centuries - old companies to those that have existed for just a few years, major employers have adopted LGBT + inclusive policies and benefits at rates that continue to outpace lawmakers and lead the way forward.»

Furman and Stevenson note that while DOL's plan allows businesses to «continue using existing, conflicted business models,» it requires that they adopt «additional consumer protections such as ensuring advisors follow a best interest standard, enacting policies and procedures to manage and mitigate conflicts, and refraining from certain self - dealing transactions.»

The Board recommends a vote AGAINST a stockholder proposal seeking to have us adopt a policy requiring that senior executives retain a significant percentage of stock acquired through equity pay programs until reaching retirement age because our existing stock ownership guidelines and other compensation policies already effectively facilitate significant stock ownership by our executives, and establishing holding requirements based on a particular retirement age would not be in the best interests of our stockholders.

(1) to protect and promote breastfeeding, as an essential component of their overall food and nutrition policies and programmes on behalf of women and children, so as to enable all infants to be exclusively breastfed during the first four to six months of life; (2) to promote breastfeeding, with due attention to the nutritional and emotional needs of mothers; (3) to continue monitoring breastfeeding patterns, including traditional attitudes and practices in this regard; (4) to enforce existing, or adopt new, maternity protection legislation or other suitable measures that will promote and facilitate breastfeeding among working women; (5) to draw the attention of all who are concerned with planning and providing maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the joint WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary support;

«By autumn this year, schools will have introduced new safeguarding advice in staff recruitment, ensured their practices comply with new freedom of information policies, made decisions on new pay policies, adopted new codes of practice for special needs pupils, introduced an entirely new curriculum, redesigned assessment and ensured every primary school is ready to offer free school meals to infants regardless of existing kitchen facilities,» he said.

Support for eliminating existing exemptions, except for medical reasons, from immunization laws was among the policy recommendations adopted last weekend at the summer meeting of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians (ACP).

Newly available data on «reduction - in - force» (RIF) notices received by teachers in Washington State shed light on the consequences of existing layoff policies for student achievement as well as the consequences of adopting alternatives.

«You had dozens of states adopting before the standards even existed, with little or no discussion, coverage or controversy,» said Frederick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute, which has received $ 4 million from the Gates Foundation since 2007 to study education policy, including the Common Core.

State policy makers and education leaders in states with existing ESA programs or those considering adopting an ESA program should develop comprehensive evaluation systems that determine the impact of ESA programs on students, families, schools, districts and states.

The study group also concluded that more effective implementation of existing policies should be attempted before new policies are adopted.

Would consolidate existing teacher - quality programs and offer states flexible block grants if they adopt policies to advance and reward teacher quality and establish evaluation systems that focus on helping teachers advance student achievement.

Shelters usually spare animals from life on the streets or from euthanasia by providing them temporary housing and trying to find them new owners, while ACE recommended charities tend to spare animals from life in industrial agriculture by reducing the size of the factory farming industry (preventing new farmed animals from coming into existence) and reducing the suffering of existing farmed animals by, for example, getting companies to adopt cage - free or other similar policies.

Urges legislative bodies and governmental agencies to interpret existing laws and policies, and to adopt laws and policies that allow the implementation and administration of trap - neuter - vaccinate - return programs for community cats within their jurisdictions so as to promote their effective, efficient, and humane management.

Existing energy infrastructures would have to be replaced quicker and policy instruments that could make such improvements feasible would need to be adopted earlier.

Policies exist to address market failures in R&D, but the effective use of technologies can also depend on capacities to adopt technologies appropriate to local circumstances.

Gleick testified that Pacific Institute work on urban and agricultural water efficiency show that existing, cost - effective technologies and policies can reduce state demand for water by 6 - 8 million acre - feet, or around 20 percent, findings that have been adopted in the California Water Plan, and new work details effective solutions in conservation and efficiency that can save one million acre feet of water in the shorter term.

Through the Solar PEIS, the BLM considered whether to establish a new Solar Energy Program to supplement or replace existing policies, and to amend land use plans in the six - state study area to adopt the new Program.

The NIPCC authors conclude that existing climate models «are unable to make accurate projections of climate even ten years ahead, let alone the 100 - year period that has been adopted by policy planners.

Decision - makers, by contrast, need to understand how climate change may interfere with their plans and compromise their objectives, so they can adapt existing policies and adopt new strategies to stay on track — whether to protect life, health, and well - being, sustain economic growth, preserve natural resources, ensure continued performance of critical infrastructure, or maintain national security.

The first is that by 2018 all countries are committed to making improvements to their existing pledges to cut carbon, which still gives sufficient time to adopt the necessary policies to take effective action.

Some nations including the United States have selected baseline years such as 2005 which represents the year of its peak emissions, 13 years after the United States agreed in the 1992 UNFCCC to adopt policies and measures to prevent dangerous climate change that would return ghg emissions to levels that existed before 1992 by 2000.

Questions included the following: Where large up - front financial barriers to the adoption of energy - efficient technologies exist, what policies most effectively persuade consumers to adopt those technologies?

Advice on public powers, including statutory interpretation and prerogative powers, constitutional and public law requirements, and advising on adopting new policies and ways to deliver public services within existing statutory frameworks.

While this proposal might have been considered a breakthrough, the House of Delegates adopted it in February, 2016 with a significant caveat: «that nothing contained in this Resolution abrogates in any manner existing ABA policy prohibiting non lawyer ownership of law firms or the core values adopted by the House of Delegates -LSB-...] on July 11, 2000.»

... nothing contained in this Resolution abrogates in any manner existing ABA policy prohibiting non lawyer ownership of law firms or the core values adopted by the House of Delegates.

In the many cases where neither state law nor professional ethical standards exist, the only privacy protection individuals have is limited to the policies and procedures that the health care entity adopts.

I commend the approach adopted by the South Australian Government as an approach consistent with important human rights standards, in particular, that there be effective participation by Indigenous peoples in the development of policies that affect their rights.5 Moreover it is consistent with General Recommendation VIII of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (the CERD Committee) which states that «group membership shall, if no justification exists to the contrary, be based upon self - identification by the individual concerned.»

The government's Department of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE)(now the Department of Sustainability and the Environment) adopted an Indigenous Partnership Strategy to assist in building effective relationships with Victoria's Indigenous communities, to enable the Department to examine its existing policy and service frameworks, and to provide opportunities for the Indigenous community to be involved in the management of Victorian natural resources.

The «efficient proximate cause» doctrine, which has been adopted in some states but not Arizona, provides that coverage exists when an insured suffers a loss from an event which was «proximately» caused by a covered event, even if the loss would otherwise be excluded from policy coverage.

Some municipalities may use the information to adopt policies that increase density such as encouraging infill development to make more efficient use of existing infra - structure, but they may also use it to determine whether they can afford continued low - density development as well, says Sobel.