Sentences with phrase «from enacting bills»

But Vaughn Jennings, spokesman for Airlines for America, an industry lobbying group, said federal law prohibits states and localities from enacting bills dealing with airlines» rates, routes and services.

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A job that entails fundraising and strategizing for a political party is very different from a job that entails managing the vast federal bureaucracy to enact policy, or working with Congress to get bills passed.

If passed, the Bill would enact the Virtual Currency Act that would require virtual currency businesses to obtain a license from the Commissioner of Business Oversight («Commissioner») in order to operate within the state.

The Christian peer Baroness Cox — who in 2011 attempted in the House of Lords to enact legislation called the Arbitration and Mediation Services Equality Bill, to protect women living here from the effects of Sharia as it is already allowed to be practised in this country — reacted to this démarche with some alarm.

Vermont's law, which went into effect on July 1, is now superseded by federal regulations, the Stabenow - Roberts bill, that prohibits states from enacting their own GMO labeling regulations.

«Today, the New York State Senate acted on an important bill sponsored by Senator Felder that will protect hardworking New Yorkers from $ 1.5 billion in new and higher taxes, and prevent the state from receiving a windfall from recently enacted federal tax changes,» Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan said.

The Constitution Act, 1867 -LSB-...] expressly confers upon the Queen or the Governor General the power to withhold the royal assent from a bill that has been enacted by the two Houses of Parliament (s. 55), but a convention stipulates that the royal assent shall never be withheld.

Cutting nearly $ 1 trillion from Medicaid will give states the freedom to tailor the program to suit their needs, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said, as he defended a narrowly passed House bill that aims to undo parts of the health care law enacted by the previous administration.

This Bill, if enacted, wold make provision for the award of asylum - seeker status in the United Kingdom to certain unaccompanied children from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Eritrea displaced by conflict and present within the European Union.

``... ORDERED, that each and every Defendant, pursuant to Federal Rule of Procedure 65, is enjoined from submitting, enacting, or implementing emergency appropriations bills containing the furlough and wage provisions challenged in these actions.»

If enacted, the bill would move the critical H - 2A visa program from the Department of Labor to the Department of Agriculture.

The bill (A. 6994, Kavanagh) would enact a court process to allow a judge to issue an order to prevent individuals found likely to engage in conduct that would result in serious harm to themselves or others from having access to guns.

A formal announcement from Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders is yet to be announced, but the bills enacting major portions of the state's 2014 - 15 budget were introduced either just before midnight Friday or Saturday morning.

After these breaks were enacted, Michael McKee, treasurer of the Tenants Political Action Committee wrote a column for the Metropolitan Council on Housing's website that the renewal passed the Assembly smoothly after «a clear message from the Speaker that he was pushing this bill through, even though many members were unhappy with pieces of it.»

But he said his group, which has been under intense pressure from progressives to return to the fold since the election of President Trump, is «ready to move forward,» but only if any final agreement is based on a legislative agenda that includes passage of a bill to strengthen abortion laws, enact a state DREAM Act, create a public campaign finance system, and adopt a single - payer health care program.

Due to public concern, the provision to pay physicians for providing voluntary counseling was removed from the Senate bill and was not included in the law that was enacted, the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

In fact, even after Silver and Skelos were indicted and their relationships with Litwin's Glenwood Corp. revealed, Cuomo and new legislative leaders delivered a blow to tenant groups by enacting what many see as a real - estate - friendly renewal of the rent laws, deflecting pressure from advocates and Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Clinton urged Silver's Assembly to «absolutely» pass a Senate bill that would more than double the cap to 460 from 200 — and «not just because of the federal funding» (the up to $ 700 million that New York could win in a competition for states that enact education reforms).

The State Senate unanimously approved a bill Tuesday to «decouple» the state's income tax from federal returns, which would save residents an estimated $ 1.5 billion if enacted.

The bill places a one year moratorium on the fee from being enacted, but will likely kill the surcharge in its current iteration.

Councilor At - Large Khalid Bey tried to enact changes in the city's Rental Registry two years ago, but fierce pressure from landlords stopped the bill in its tracks.

Klein, who is also fending off pressure from his left flank, has steadily pushed for a campaign finance bill beyond the pilot program enacted in this year's state budget.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Bill de Blasio says his landslide in this month's New York City mayoral election entitles him to support from Albany to enact sweeping reforms to the city's schools.

Democrats worked for more than two years on the bill, which would have enacted recommendations from Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle's climate change task force.

Called the Post-9 / 11 GI Bill, the legislation is a throwback to the first GI Bill enacted in the»40s, which allowed thousands of U.S. soldiers returning from World War II to get a college education.

Both the House and the Senate bills demonstrate a move away from earlier, more draconian attempts to enact a moratorium on issuing student visas.

The French parliament voted on June 30 to ban the controversial technique for extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the web sites of Le Monde and other French media reported.The bill had already passed the National Assembly, the country's lower chamber, on June 21, and on June 30 a Senate vote of 176 to 151 made France the first country to enact such a ban, just as New York State is preparing to lift a moratorium on the same method.The vote was divided along party lines, with the majority conservative party voting in favor and the opposition voting against the bill, according to Le Monde.

The Assembly Education Committee deferred for one week a vote on the 69 - page bill by Senator Gary K. Hart, a Democrat from Santa Barbara who offered a school - finance reform measure that is more sweeping than that enacted last year.

The bill preempts a local municipality from enacting a local living wage, fair scheduling standard, and a host of other measures that would improve the lives of working people.

The 3rd Edition of the Guide incorporates updates from bills enacted by the Regular Session of the 85th Texas Legislature affecting charter school student discipline, including an entirely new section addressing changes to the state's bullying laws.

This budget assumes that the State will enact education funding reform along the lines of Senate Bill 1, which is the only evidence - based funding model that has won approval from the General Assembly.

Should Mississippi ever enact a charter - school bill, Crudup wants to start a charter middle or high school with early input from prospective student's parents.

If enacted, the funds would be transferred from an energy loan guarantee program enacted as part of the $ 787 billion stimulus bill.

The Bill 59 contained some of the provisions that were not enacted in the old Bill 156, so they kind of copied from the old one to put it into the new one.

In 2014, when Utah - based fighting dog advocates, Best Friends Animal Society, fiercely lobbied Missouri legislators to pass a state preemption bill barring municipalities from enacting pit bull ordinances, the group used false constitutional arguments.

«Assembly Bill 110 bans breed discriminatory laws from being enacted anywhere in Nevada,» said Assemblyman Ohrenschall.

Mayor Bill DeBlasio has just enacted a bill into law that prohibits NYC pet stores from purchasing puppies from commercial puppy brokers or USDA - licensed breeders with severe Animal Welfare Act ViolatiBill DeBlasio has just enacted a bill into law that prohibits NYC pet stores from purchasing puppies from commercial puppy brokers or USDA - licensed breeders with severe Animal Welfare Act Violatibill into law that prohibits NYC pet stores from purchasing puppies from commercial puppy brokers or USDA - licensed breeders with severe Animal Welfare Act Violations.

To defend pet owners against uninformed underwriting practices, some states have enacted laws or proposed bills to prevent insurers from denying, canceling or refusing to renew coverage to consumers after being notified of a new companion animal.

If enacted, the effects of Senate Bill 1240 would quickly be felt across the aquarium industry; yellow tangs, which have stable and plentiful populations in the wild, are difficult to aquaculture and come almost exclusively from Hawaii.

In Sandy Liddy Bourne's bio on the Heartland website, she boasts that «Under her leadership, 20 percent of ALEC model bills were enacted by one state or more, up from 11 percent.»

If the state General Assembly and Governor Tom Wolf enact the bill, which enjoys support from utilities, vehicle manufacturers, electric vehicle (EV) charging service providers, business associations, renewable energy companies, faith - based organizations, and environmental organizations, Pennsylvania will pave the way for a bold, modern, and clean transportation future.

For this reason, it can be safely concluded that in order to enact the Great Repeal Bill, it will not only be necessary for Parliament to debate the terms of the future Act, but also to consider in great detail what amendments to existing law may be necessary in order to secure an effective withdrawal from the European Union legal order.

The phrase «principles of fundamental justice» had been borrowed directly from section 2 (e) of the Canadian Bill of Rights, Canada's proto - Charter enacted in 1960, and had been interpreted by the Supreme Court to mean that everyone was entitled to a fair hearing before an impartial tribunal.29 Put another way, fundamental justice incorporated a procedural guarantee synonymous with «natural justice,» meaning that the state may certainly deprive an individual of life, liberty or security of the person, but only if procedural safeguards have first been met.

Most states have enacted Victim Compensation laws which pays for bills and expenses that result from certain violent crimes or have been injured or have been threatened with injury.

Successfully led a Real Estate Bar Association task force that worked with the justices of the Land Court on a bill, enacted in 2014, giving property owners the right to voluntarily withdraw land from the Massachusetts Torrens registered land system (2012 - 2014).

Bill 148 will enact a new provision that prohibits employers from paying different rates of pay to their employees because of a difference in employment status, where the employees perform substantially the same kind of work in the same establishment, the performance of the work requires substantially the same skill, effort and responsibility, and the work is performed under similar working conditions.

Seyfarth Synopsis: Florida's recently - enacted House Bill 727 gives businesses a way to deter serial plaintiffs from suing them in Florida courts.

Bill 94 is squarely within this colonial tradition — enacted by an ex-colonial country on ex-colonials from a different country

By contrast, the Withdrawal Bill, when enacted, will preserve the «legal fiction» created by the Regulation in relation to use by EU - based subscribers who are temporarily in the UK of online services provided from EU Member States.

These common law principles (in our Bill of Rights), derive from the Magna Carta (The Great Charter) 1215 enacted to protect fundamental human rights from oppressive arbitrary abuses.