Sentences with phrase «funding bill language»

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Spearheaded by more than two dozen lenders and small business advocacy organizations, including Lending Club, Funding Circle, the Aspen Institute, and the Small Business Majority, the bill requires transparency about pricing and fees, fair treatment of borrowers and responsible underwriting, as well as clear language and easy - to - understand terms.
(The proposed language to block both the potato and pizza restrictions is here; the mechanism would be depriving USDA of any funding for their implementation, via amendments to a spending bill up for a vote this week.)
Wilson's spokesman Bill O'Reilly reminded me that the former hedge fund manager's first language is Greek, which reminded me that I ran into Wilson at the LCA show and he offered to come in and discuss the ongoing economic meltdown in Greece on «Capital Tonight.»
So, if Cuomo's bill language had been in effect at the start of the year, it would have authorized a transfer from the infrastructure fund into the general fund of «such amounts as the director of the budget deem (ed) necessary to meet the requirements of the state financial plan.»
Though SUNY has also been the subject of Albany raids, language to prevent the state from raiding tuition funds didn't make it into the final bill.
The bill language is reminiscent of a pot of «multi-modal» funding to be earmarked by lawmakers.
However, the actual language of this bill has the $ 127 million being deposited into the state's general fund, while the state's overall spending on alcohol and drug treatment will only increase by $ 18 million.
There is a key asterisk, however, not fully clear in the language of the budget bill: If the money does not flow to the state, funds do not flow to the localities.
In a radical bid to slash Britain's benefits bill, the Prime Minister intends to stop printing welfare paperwork in foreign languages and prevent claimants using taxpayer - funded translators at benefits offices.
Members of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice held a news conference calling on the Senate to alter language in the House bill that places explicit restrictions on federal funding for abortion.
«The present language in the Senate bill provides a tremendous loophole for federal funds of abortion and will eventually expand abortion services,» he said.
He's also pushed legislation designed to appeal to Hudson Valley residents including increased funding for Lyme Disease research, Superstorm Sandy recovery funds and language in the Farm Bill that will help the region's organic farmers better market their products.
AAAS letter to the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee to resist any effort to undercut the National Science Foundation's ability to support research across all fields and concern on language in a pending innovation bill that seems to require awarding 8 percent of research funding outside the usual peer - review.
Because final program - by - program allocations of R&D funding are not available until several months after appropriations actions, AAAS estimates of R&D are based on agency data, historical trends for R&D within appropriations, appropriations bill language, committee report language, and other supplementary data, and should be considered estimates at all times.
Similar language was added to the funding bill for the National Institutes of Health in 2012 and the end result is today the U.S. government invests very little in research on firearms and public health (SN: 5/14/16, p. 16).
NSF isn't saying much, but the move «appears to reflect an impasse between NSF's desire to preserve its highly regarded peer - review system and the need to abide by language in a government - wide funding bill that restricts NSF's ability to support research in the discipline,» Mervis writes.
But the funds will go to construction projects, she said, despite the fact that the language in the final bill didn't specify just how the Science Office should spend the money.
Appropriators have signaled their support with language in the 2014 omnibus bill that funded NIST and every other federal agency.
The detailed report that accompanies the Senate version of the so - called energy and water bill, which funds DOE, contains several passages in which Senate appropriators express their objections to cuts in unusually frank language.
The bill retains language, however, making much of the ITER funding contingent on the project's willingness to make management reforms.
The ban had been extended a year at a time as part of USDA funding bills, but the language was omitted in 2011.
Unlike the earlier House proposal, the bill does not contain language opposed by research groups that would have required NIH to support a specific number of new grants at a minimum funding level.
Congress ruled out all human embryo research funded by the entire Department of Health and Human Services, NIH's parent agency, in language in the 1996 and 1997 appropriations bills.
Amy Comstock Rick, CEO of the Parkinson's Action Network, says her group isn't too concerned about language in the spending bill that states that NCATS can not fund clinical trials that go beyond a certain stage.
She also foresees language attached to science agency funding bills that prevents them from spending money on certain areas or types of projects.
The omnibus fiscal 2016 budget bill (H.R. 2029 - Consolidated Appropriations Act 2016) passed in December 2015 contained language prohibiting the government from using funds for experiments that genetically alter human embryos.
Senator Terri Bonoff (DFL - Minnetonka) says that's a scary thought, but anti-cloning language Republicans have introduced into Minnesota's Higher Education funding bill would prevent life - saving stem cell research at the University of Minnesota and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester.
While it is an improvement over the original ESEA legislation posted at the beginning of the week, concerns remain over the language within the bill that allows 21st CCLC funds to be used for expensive, whole scale school redesign — an initiative that is also funded elsewhere in the bill through School Improvement Grants.
Section 4105 of the bill being considered makes changes to the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) program, including language that would drastically alter funding for the initiative by allowing these funds to be diverted to support whole scale school reform.
Note: This post was updated to clarify that the Senate budget bill for the Department of Education also includes language seeking to block state funds for Common Core.
I feel strongly about this bill personally because the additional funding will benefit my children, Rachael and Keely, who are not just learning languages at ICSAlanta.
Legislation passed by the 2012 General Assembly (House Bill 1181) and budget language in the 2012 - 2014 biennial budget (Item 139) increased funding for EIRI to provide reading intervention services to 100 percent of eligible students in grade three prior to promotion to grade four.
Under the House bill language for Title I portability, Title I grant funding for disadvantaged students would follow the student to his or her newly selected public or charter school.
Despite the pledge, the Senate worryingly voted down an effort by Sen. Jay Chaudhuri to include that funding pledge in the bill's language.
The bill completely eliminates funding for history, civics, economics, foreign languages, and technology.
Please tell the Florida Legislature to vote NO on the «Schools of Hope / High Impact Charter Networks» language, SB 796, SB 1552 and HB 5105 with its $ 200M slush fund and block its inclusion in the Senate Budget and prevent it from being slipped by either chamber into a «train» bill.
Readers will recall that earlier this year, despite a $ 9 billion short - fall in Connecticut's Teacher Pension Fund, Governor Malloy slipped language into his «Education Reform» bill to retroactively enlarge Adamowski's teacher retirement pension by giving him credit for the years he served as the Superintendent of Schools in Hartford, despite the fact that he was not certified to be the superintendent.
Administrators and school boards were willing to walk away from the entire school finance bill when the language included in the legislation indicated that traditional schools must equitably share their funding with public charters in their districts.
Worst of all, Speaker Corcoran has added proviso language to the bill that effectively holds all of the state's education funding hostage unless this trainwreck is passed.
The Governor and the legislature also passed a local control funding bill which gave local districts more say in how they are run but also gave more money to districts that have a higher proportion of low - income students or second language kids.
The bill would also allow funding for early learning programs for our dual language learners in pre-school!!
«The money should follow the child,» said Sen. Chad Barefoot, talking about one provision of a House bill he presented to Senate Finance members on Monday afternoon that previously dealt with school playgrounds — but was gutted and jammed with language that would change the way charter schools receive money by allowing them to receive millions more in sales taxes, property taxes, grant funds and federal appropriations, and more.
The letter asks for the upcoming FY15 funding bill to include language that prohibits the U.S. Secretary of Education from requiring states and districts to implement common academic standards — including the Common Core State Standards — as a condition of approval or competitive preference for an award of federal funds.
«The bill's language is confusing,» said Hollamon, who pointed out several provisions within the legislation that contradict one another, like how funds for pre-kindergarten should be excluded from having to be shared with charters, yet there still is a mandate that all federal appropriations, such as those for Head Start, a federally - funded pre-kindergarten program, must be shared with charters.
The approved bills remove language found in previous iterations that set aside 10 percent of the Local Academic Flexible Grant funding for private school voucher programs and limited the U.S. secretary of education's authority to address state standards, assessments, and accountability.
The language of this bill and the precedence it sets aims to mandate that South Carolinians either get their pet's medical services from a private clinic, if they earn more than $ 12,000 a year, or their pet goes without care if they do not have the funds readily available.
Now I read that even if a piece is sold, the artist: 1) Isn't informed about shipping addresses; 2) Isn't assured that they have or will be paid; 3) Is responsible for paying the buyer's sales tax bill; 4) Presumably is required to forward sales tax funds to the buyer's state department of revenue; 5) Has money / time invested in shipping a parcel to a potential buyer who may or may not return the art a week later (like a toaster oven); 6) Has language like the following within their user agreement: royalty - free, sub-licensable through multiple tiers, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide right and license to use, reproduce, distribute, modify, translate, create derivative works from, publish, publicly perform and publicly display such User Content and any names, likenesses or trademarks depicted in such User Content, in any media now known or later developed, only for the purposes of developing, promoting and providing the Site.»
For example, House Republicans have also inserted language into the spending bill that prevents to the Energy Department from moving ahead with its incandescent light bulb ban by barring funding for efficiency standards.
Last week, language was inserted into Ohio's Mid-Biennium Review budget bill that would have restricted Planned Parenthood from federal family planning funds as well as funds from the Violence Against Women Act, the Breast and Cervical Cancer Mortality Prevention Act, the Infertility Prevention Project, and the Minority HIV / ADS Initiative.
The final bill, which provides fiscal year 2000 funding for HUD and other agencies, includes NAR - sponsored language on fair housing accessibility, Section 8 housing grants, lead - based paint regulations, multifamily FHA loan limits, and elderly housing programs.
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