Sentences with phrase «for legislative bodies»

Plastic PlasticBagLaws.org is a great resource for legislative bodies considering laws limiting the use of plastic bags.

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.

Researcher Developer Dr Rachel Westwood, Research Fellow Mr Sam Toon, and Emeritus Professor Peter Styles from Keele's School of Geography, Geology and Environment — together with Professor Nigel Cassidy who is now at Birmingham University — have published their study advising on hydraulic fracturing safety guidelines for legislative bodies, including governments, environmental agencies, health and safety executives and local planning authorities.

The NYC Council's Committee on Finance voted to increase the Council's operating budget to $ 81.3 million, an increase of nearly 27 percent from the current budget, following through on Speaker Corey Johnson's promise to increase internal resources and produce a stronger role for the legislative body in areas such as land use and oversight.

That's going to mean changes for legislative body of government that, along with the Assembly, makes laws and approves the budget for New York state.

«We followed suit in the State Senate by putting (ridesharing legislation) in our one house budget which sets the priorties for that legislative body,» Jacobs said.

But it was a tide shift for the legislative body — a clear message from newly elected lawmakers that they won't be a rubber stamp for Mahoney's administration.

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Plus, once one breed has been banned, it's easy for the legislative body to add one or more breeds.

Not exact matches

Venezuelan crisis intensifies after vote, arrests Following a disputed election for a new legislative body last weekend, in which voting tallies were reportedly manipulated, and the arrest of two high - profile opposition leaders, Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro faces increased pressure both from within Venezuela and without.

France's legislative bodies have been debating the introduction of stricter say - on - pay rules for a the past few months (see blog post), but last Tuesday the final text of the amendment emerged (Amendment 161); its final -LSB-...]

For those who do not know, the European Commission is the executive body of the EU, in charge with legislative initiative, budget management and control over other EU institutions.

Ayesha Khan, legal director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which represents Galloway and Stephens in the lawsuit, said in a statement that «legislative bodies should focus on serving the community and stay out of the business of promoting religion.»

The American democratic procedures that have shaped the practice of Presbyterian polity were developed for ongoing legislative and judicial bodies, not for a one - week - and - done meeting of persons unfamiliar with both the matters at hand and each other.

That clause has a long history of interpretation that I shall not review here, but it certainly does not mean and has never meant the American state has no interest in or concern for religion, or churches either, for that matter, and it certainly does not me and politics have nothing to do with each other.8 To the extent the «wall of separation» image leads to those conclusions it distorts the entire history of the American understanding of religion and leads to such absurd conclusions as that religious congregations should have no tax exemption and legislative bodies should not be opened with prayer.

But for the past thirty - four years, the people of Virginia's 10th Congressional District, and indeed the people of the United States, have had a true public servant in Frank Wolf, whose convictions graced the office he held and ennobled the legislative body in which he served.

«While we as an organization can not comment on how or when legislative bodies will define clean label, what we can do is work to formulate clean ingredient offerings and help to educate our customers about what their consumers are asking for,» she said.

«That this House has no confidence in the ability of the Football Association (FA) to comply fully with its duties as a governing body, as the current governance structures of the FA make it impossible for the organisation to reform itself; and calls on the Government to bring forward legislative proposals to reform the governance of the FA.»

Public policy via state statute is not, and that is the direction our legislative bodies will take if we do not assume responsibility and provide some form of assurance for those who view homebirth as unruly and rogue.

To safeguard and advance the interests of its members by presenting the profession's viewpoints, concerns, and other important information to the media and to appropriate legislative, administrative, regulatory, and private sector bodies, and by developing a working relationship with appropriate governmental and private sector not - for - profit and for - profit entities.

In 2014, 300 million eligible voters across the European Union (EU) will have the opportunity to cast their vote in the elections for the second - largest legislative body in the world: the European Parliament.

As I said previously, I will speak from a generic viewpoint, we must keep in mind that the «legislative framework» for election is a composite of four key authorities, namely and in order of hierarchical authority: The Constitution, the Electoral Act, judgments of courts of records particularly the Supreme Court; and the derivative guidelines for election approved by the election management body and l'm talking of INEC.

Speaking on Peace FM's Entertainment Review on Saturday concerning his issue with Parliament, Blakk Rasta said after he apologised to the legislative body for his alleged claims that about 80 % of them use marijuana, he was asked if he will continue talking about the leaf.

It could represent a compromise between those wishing to create a strong democratic mandate for the second chamber, those wishing to ensure Commons supremacy, and those wishing to maintain a deliberative and «expert» - influenced revising and scrutinising legislative body.

It is quite likely that political factors, for example the influence of powerful economic actors on legislative bodies, played a role in causing, or exacerbating, this crisis, as Daron Acemoglou, for example, has recently argued.

Once the three men do reach an agreement, their legislative bodies then vote for the agreement.

Matthew Masterson, legislative liaison for the county legislature, said that the body had no comment on the sexual harassment allegations against McLaughlin.

Albany insiders said Senate Republicans want to slow down approval in order to teach a lesson to de Blasio, who campaigned last year for Dems trying to regain control of the legislative body.

I'm pursuing an office for which less than 20 percent of the legislative body is comprised of women, and that quite frankly is unacceptable,» she said.

After lawmakers consented to his steep cuts to health care and school spending this year, he held a news conference to call the New York Legislature — for years the butt of late - night comics and a target of editorial pages — «the best legislative body in the nation.»

«He is one of the natural leaders for the entire legislative body — Democrats and Republicans, both houses,» Mr. Cuomo said.

A win for Mr. Kaminsky would mean that Democrats have gained a seat in the State Senate, as Mr. Skelos was a Republican, though the win will not flip control of the legislative body.

Similarly, complaining about the shortcomings of Congress is a hard argument to make for a member of a legislative body once called the most dysfunctional in the nation.

«For years, the board has made decisions and then dumped those decisions on educators and parents and students and then come to us as a legislative body and say, «you need to fund what we've mandated,»» Libous said.

The deal was hammered four days after the state legislature extended the deadline for passing the budget by two months as a result of the legislative body missing the original April 1 budget deadline.

A Kaminsky win on April 19 would set the tone for November, giving Democrats a shot to take power cleanly in what has been a messy and beleaguered legislative body.

Even if Mr. Gianaris and his team succeed, questions remain over how Ms. Stewart - Cousins will adjust to the powers and responsibilities of the majority leader role, where it will fall upon her to appoint committee chairs and set the legislative agenda for the body with Mr. Klein.

The panel recommended «a legislative change that provides for decision by a simple majority of the total voting body.»

A spokesman for the Senate did not immediately respond to an email asking if the legislative body would approve those nominations before the end of session.

The eight City Council members, all Democrats, who are competing to lead the 51 - member legislative body as speaker for the next four years must convince numerous constituencies of their viability, including some combination of county party leaders, labor unions, the mayor, and other influential politicos.

Leading member of pressure group, Occupy Ghana, Sydney Casely - Hayford has apologized to Parliament for some comments he made against the house which has angered some in the 275 - member legislative body.

Seggos and Hutton were at the press conference with Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney, who announced legislative action he is taking to ensure the Department of Defense pays for the remediation of PFOS contamination at Stewart Air National Guard Base and halts PFOS - laden discharges from the base into area water bodies, including the city's main drinking water source, Washington Lake.

Sadly, the sting in the tail for public sector bodies is that they will no longer be able to hire lobbyists to support their budget and legislative programmes.

So while tens of thousands of New Yorkers go to their cabinets tonight looking for food to put on the table for their kids, and while tens of thousands of senior citizens by pass dinner tonight so that they may have enough left from their social security checks to pay for the December heating bill, our esteemed legislators, who least we forget have been awarded the distinction of being the most dysfunctional legislative body in the nation, feast and toast themselves in the capital city's Crown Plaza.

The members of our esteemed legislative bodies have for years used their time away from home as nothing more than an excuse to act like they live in college frat houses.

«The plain reading of the Constitutional text contemplates the authority of an «other body» which could submit a plan for legislative action.

Cuomo's plan to spend $ 60 million for police vests and body cameras in high crime areas went instead to pay for new snow plows and a handful of other major expenses — including last summer's manhunt for two escaped murderers and the state's response to a Buffalo snowstorm in 2014, legislative sources said.

State Sen. Thomas K. Duane, the first openly gay and openly HIV - positive member of the legislative body, announced today he will not be running for re-election this year, opening up his seat in the important 29th State Senatorial District that runs from the Upper West Side to Greenwich Village.

«Having been in Albany for just over a year now, I know first hand how much we've been able to accomplish as a Legislative body in partner with the governor,» he said.