Sentences with phrase «helped draft the bill»

To prevent those loopholes, Tubiolo — who consulted health professionals, researchers and law enforcement to help draft the bill — said lawmakers attempted to broadly define substances, casting the widest net possible.

He will also receive help drafting his Bill.

Walker's office helped draft a bill to repeal the Common Core standards that failed earlier this year.

CFHS helped draft this bill and we have been meeting with MP's for months and talking to the Canadian public but our voice now needs to be even louder.

Drafted with the help of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, which also helped draft the bill in Licking Township, goes beyond just banning natural gas drilling, it takes some very important steps towards reigning in the legal rights of corporations more broadly.

He even helped draft bill C - 560, a 2013 piece of proposed federal legislation that would have altered Canada's Divorce Act to enshrine the principle of equal parenting responsibility as the starting point for family restructuring after a separation.

Not exact matches

A new encryption bill draft could force Apple to help the FBI, among other law enforcement agencies,

Also drawn to fintech is Andrei Cherny, a former speechwriter for President Bill Clinton who later helped Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren draft a plan for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

After drafting several resignation letters in the wake of the march, Cohn decided he would stay to help drive through the big tax cut bill that passed last year.

Copied on API's communications with the board was Bill Whitsitt, a Devon Energy executive who helped draft letters for then - state attorney general Pruitt.

When you draft a 1,300 - page «financial reform» bill, various special interests get language tucked into the bill to help their agendas.

I've even helped many states draft legislation on this topic, including bills requiring rear - facing until at least age 2.

The text of the bill will now be drafted, with the help of Parliament's legal experts.

«Taxpayers would be helped further if HMRC could publish updated draft guidance on the Bill's provisions over the summer.

With then - Councilmembers Bill Perkins and Brewer, and dozens of their colleagues on the Council, Brian helped to draft and secure passage of Council Resolution 549, opposing the imminent invasion of Iraq.

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a prominent liberal advocacy group that last week criticized Baucus over his vote on the gun bill, helped launch a «Draft Schweitzer» campaign on Tuesday.

«I helped draft a law that gave path to citizenship to million and helped draft campaign finance reform bills,» Hochul said of her work as an aide to Moynihan.

«From sponsoring the veterans» buyback bill and fighting until it became law, to drafting and helping pass legislation ensuring our utility workers are safe from horrific assault, I'm committed to making sure all the working men and women in my communities receive the advocacy they need in Albany.

Western New York has missed out on being the setting for a major motion picture, but Republican state Senator Patrick Gallivan hopes the loss of the movie «Draft Day,» starring Kevin Costner, will help push along a bill that would offer tax credits for films to be shot in New York state.

Other changes include a shift in the way legislation will be introduced at the council, and the creation of a legislative drafting unit designed to help members speed up the bill writing process.

Below is a DRAFT of a bill we feel will help parents, students, educators and all New Yorkers re-establish educational excellence and antiracist democracy.

Mr. Himes helped draft the Dodd - Frank bill and other legislation to reform...

The senator said Queens District Attorney Richard Brown is in favor of the bill and his office helped with the drafting of the bill.

The senator said she will use the farmers» concerns to help to draft a new Farm Bill two years from now.

The City Council is in the preliminary stages of drafting legislation to create the program, in negotiations with Mayor Bill de Blasio, which the city is hoping will help resolve a long - standing dispute over who drives the school buses, which was at the root of the 2013 strike.

The draft bill also includes a public interest defence, which will help scientists.

The group included Nobel laureate and virologist Françoise Barré - Sinoussi and others who last year helped lead a national consultation on the draft bill.

The idea behind the measure is to help attract foreign students to France and to better prepare French students for a globalized world, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research explained in a document accompanying the new draft bill, which was presented by science minister Geneviève Fioraso on 20 March.

In the wake of the octuplets» birth, some legislators made hasty bids to enact regulation at the state level — and one bill was drafted with the help of antiabortion advocates.

«It took a lot of talking to sell the EPA on that and there are still a lot of people that don't like it,» said Bill Bryson, a geologist and former head of the Kansas Corporation Commission's Conservation Division, who lobbied for and helped draft the federal rules.

Asked by the Knoxville News Sentinel's Tom Humphrey where he got the idea for the bill, Brooks readily admitted that a K12 Inc. lobbyist helped him draft it.

Senator Lamar Alexander, chairman of the HELP Committee, has released a draft bill.

He or she drafts a bill, with research and technical help from the nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency (LSA).

The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP)-- a bipartisan group of lawmakers — drafted the bill after finding a remarkable consensus among both parties in regards to the urgent need of — and solutions to — a fix of it's outdated No Child Left Behind (NCLB) counterpart.

As Chicago's environmental initiatives picked up steam behind the mayor's «greenest city» rallying cry, Daley and former DOE Commissioner, Bill Abolt (now in the City's Budget Director), hired William McDonough + Partners to help draft its new principles.

If you want comfort and health instead of mould, drafts, high power bills, being too hot and too cold, we can help.

Friends of the Earth had succeeded in drafting and helping a bill through parliament, but had failed to hold the government to its promises to eradicate fuel poverty.

But did you know the famous man who invented electricity, helped draft the Declaration of Independence, and appears on the 100 dollar bill lived to be 84 years old?

The private member's bill, which Ludmer helped draft, called for changes to the Divorce Act, with the primary proposal being a rebuttable presumption that equal shared parenting would support the best interests of the children unless a parent can establish based on evidence that another parenting plan would substantially enhance those interests.

Stopping air leaks around doors and windows through weatherstripping is a fast and inexpensive way to help lower energy bills year - round, while stopping drafts and making the home more comfortable.