Sentences with phrase «government enacting bill»

I look forward to our current federal government enacting Bill - C11 the new Modernization Copyright Act.

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Undoubtedly, the Brexit government has a lot on its plate, so every initiative has to justify its place: the legislative log - jam is much anticipated and will begin with the Great Repeal Act, but just as challenging is likely to be securing time for the secondary legislation to pass regulations even for matters that have already had their bills enacted.
The Chartists might have been surprised to find that it was a Conservative - dominated government which first tried to enact equal representation, in the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill 2010 (PVSCB in civil servantese).
He said the state should also enact a single payer health care plan that would eliminate the counties» contribution to the Medicaid program as well as the private health insurance bills that local governments and school districts now pay for their employees.
He said, «Ekiti Government is reasonable enough to enact a law that will ensure safety of lives and property of its people by sponsoring this bill.
«The Government's Trade Union Bill, if enacted, will place supply teachers and other agency workers in an invidious situation and is a clear attempt to set one group of workers against another.
After 97 % of those surveyed by Siena indicate they desired real ethics reform measures be enacted we get Beagle bills, cat declawing legislation, Daily fantasy sports, the right to drink on Sunday morning and a lot of sorry excuses and finger pointing concerning ethics in government.
The smaller parties would agree to support any bills necessary for the government to receive money to enact its policies.
«The CR [Continuing Resolution] that we had before us only hours before the government closed was a very reasonable bill that should have been enacted.
I look forward to working with Bill de Blasio as his partner in state government to enact the changes necessary to keep our city the most dynamic and exciting place in the world.»
Considering that the 14th Amendment would take precedence over appropriation bills and suchlike mechanisms in laws enacted by the legislature: Yes, the government would have to prioritise debt repayment over spending initiatives.
In the light of that, requiring the Government and the House of Commons to override the Lords by means of enacting primary legislation under the Parliament Acts seems entirely fitting and proportionate, not least because such a course of action would ensure that the disputed provisions would receive an appropriate degree of scrutiny by means of their inclusion on the face of a Bill.
Most parliamentary democracies require an annual state budget, an appropriation bill, or occasional financial measures to be passed by parliament in order for a government to pay its way and enact its policies.
The Assembly member — who said he is interested in seeing the elimination of backdoor borrowing and term limits enacted in both houses, among other changes — has spent the last five years campaigning with Con Con advocates like SUNY New Paltz professor Gerald Benjamin and government reform activist Bill Samuels, participating in countless town halls and panel discussions to help get the word out.
If enacted, the bill would enable businesses that are part of the Women Owned Small Business program to get sole - sourced government contracts already available to other small business contracting programs.
Research Serv., R42647, Continuing Resolutions: Overview of Components and Recent Practices 1, 13 (2015)(noting that 1997 was the most recent year that the twelve regular appropriations bills that fund the government were all enacted before the end of the fiscal year on October 1 and that since that time, continuing resolutions have been enacted on average six times per fiscal year, for an average duration of almost five months, with full - year continuing resolutions enacted for FY2007, FY2011, and FY2013).
«Criminal background checks provide users of online dating with a false sense of security,» said Bill Ashworth, director of state government affairs at Yahoo! No federal law imposes Internet restrictions on convicted sex offenders, but Florida and Nevada have enacted such measures.
In contrast, the federal government can engage in deficit spending, enacting spending bills that exceed available revenues.
These bills provide a roadmap for state policymakers seeking to fight government interference within the patient - provider relationship, promote women - centered approaches in the provision of abortion and other reproductive health care services, and enact legislation that emphasizes the need to expand access to abortion.
In 2013, the government enacted a student loan bill that tied federal loan interest rates to the 10 year Treasury note, and as Chopra explains in his post, a bond auction next month will determine the interest rates for federal student loans.
Every time a bill is proposed to enact Breed Specific Legislation (BSL), a legal suit against the community government should be filed for negligence for lack of enforcement of the responsible ownership laws that already exist.
There has been press comment that wider political issues may result in the Bill's progress being delayed and left to the next government to enact.
On February 8, 2018, the Canadian federal government proposed a new Impact Assessment Act in Bill C - 69, An Act to enact the Impact Assessment Act and the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, to amend the Navigation Protection Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts.
The argument will be that enacting the «Great Reform Bill» will be a far more difficult task for the UK government and Parliament than its announcement suggests.
However, in 2015, the Harper government enacted legislation entitled the Victims Bill of Rights Act.
If enacted, the Bill would allow central government to make regulations which will effectively modify existing legislation about the provision of social welfare services.
On November 1, 2017, the Ontario government tabled Bill 174, Cannabis, Smoke - Free Ontario and Road Safety Statute Law Amendment Act, 2017, which would, if enacted, create the Cannabis Act, 2017 to provide the provincial framework for the upcoming federal Bill C - 45, Cannabis Act that will legalize cannabis in Canada in July 1, 2018.
On November 1, 2017, the Ontario government tabled Bill 174, Cannabis, Smoke - Free Ontario and Road Safety Statute Law Amendment Act, 2017, which would, if enacted, create the Cannabis Act, 2017 to provide the provincial framework for the upcoming federal Bill C - 45, Cannabis Act that will legalize cannabis in Canada in July 1, 2018... [more]
In November of 1996 the benefits were decreased as part of the Bill 59 insurance scheme enacted by the former Progressive Conservative government.
On November 1, 2017, the Ontario government tabled Bill 174, Cannabis, Smoke - Free Ontario and Road Safety Statute Law Amendment Act, 2017 omnibus legislation which would, if passed, regulate the cultivation, sale, distribution and consumption of cannabis in Ontario, enact the Smoke - Free Ontario Act, 2017 and make amendments to the Highway Traffic Act relating to impairment by cannabis and road safety.
«When we enacted that Victims Bill of Rights, it really was a landmark moment, an accomplishment — I think — of our government, and it marks an evolution in the way the justice system, going forward, will treat victims when it comes to how we provide them with all of the support.»
The federal government has not enacted the Canadian Bill of Rights Notwithstanding clause into the criminal code, thus, again, the RIDE stops are unlawful.
The announcement was made as part of the Government's Budget and is expected to be enacted as part of a budget implementation bill to be tabled in Parliament within the next few days.
The problem was becoming so rampant, in fact, that the Ontario government was prompted a few years ago to enact Bill 152, which changed the relevant real estate statutes (including the Land Registration Reform Act, the Land Titles Act, and the Registry Act) to close a legal loophole that could be exploited by mortgage fraudsters.
The Quebec government tabled Bill 59, An Act to enact the Act to prevent and combat hate speech and speech inciting violence and to amend various legislative provisions to better protect individuals on June 10, 2015.
The First Amendment forbids our federal Congress from enacting laws that restrict freedom of speech or of the press (with reasonable exceptions, of course) The 14th Amendment is understood to extend the prohibitions outlined in the Bill of Rights to all other governments in the US and, by further extension, K - 12 public schools.
This is why, in the Bribery Bill, the government wants to enact a new corporate offence of failure to prevent complicity in bribery to which the only defence is proof that there were «adequate procedures» to prevent it.
The Truth in Sentencing Act (Bill C - 25) enacted by the Conservative government in October 2009 did away with the notion that an accused person would typically receive two days» credit for each day spent in jail from the presiding judge.
Some have speculated that a future government could enact new legislation to repeal a «tax lock» bill but in Walsh's view, that wouldn't be required.
This was after the Japanese Diet enacted a bill on Wednesday that mandates the government's Financial Services Agency (FSA) to regulate virtual currency exchanges and their operators in the country, a Japan Times report revealed.
The short timeframes allowed for consultations gave the appearance that the Australian Government believed that the Amendment Bill (No 2) should be enacted as a matter of urgency.
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...
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