Sentences with phrase «identical house bill»

Sullivan's identical House bill was killed in the House energy subcommittee.)

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The House will now have to vote on this latest version so that both chambers pass an identical bill.

An identical bill has been introduced in the House by Reps. Derek Kilmer, D - Wash., and Mike Coffman, R - Colo.

NYPIRG has released its annual review of the state legislative session in Albany, finding this year was among the sessions that saw the least number of legislative agreements as evidenced by identical bills passing on the floor of both houses, otherwise known as «same - as» measures.

«Right now it doesn't look good,» New York Republican Rep. Peter King told CNN, summing up the chances that his bill - identical to the bipartisan compromise developed in the Senate expanding background checks for many gun sales - could pass in the House.

Whether the text is identical to last year's other than updating the budget figures is not clear, but Smith said «this bill was approved unanimously» by the committee and «passed in the House» in the last Congress, suggesting that it must be very close.

After the conference committee produces a reconciled version of the bill, the House and Senate vote on the bill again, but this time on a bill that is identical in both chambers.

Senate leaders and political observers, however, predict that the chamber will probably pass a version of the bill essentially identical to the House - passed measure.

The initial bill, passed by the House, was identical to the federal amendment, which bars schools from involving children in certain federally sponsored programs of research or psychological testing without parental consent.

In a show of administrative support, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos praised a virtually identical amendment in the House bill saying, «This is a good step forward, reflecting that education should be an investment in individual students, not systems.»

The business - backed, conservative American Legislative Exchange Council has crafted model bills similar to the one (SB 1718, HB 1191) now on its way to the Senate floor in Florida; the House approved an identical measure last week along partisan lines.

The House passed a nearly identical bill in 2013, but discontent with the Common Core academic standards and concerns about federal government intrusion have grown, and conservatives have said they want to get more out of an education bill in the newly Republican - controlled Congress.

Charter school advocates and operators hosted a conference calls with reporters this afternoon to outline their objections to two identical bills in the Pennsylvania House and Senate that would overhaul the state's special education funding.

Both the Michigan House and Senate introduced identical bills today.

The legislation passed in the Senate is identical to a bill passed in the House, and now requires the signature of President Barack Obama, who has indicated he will sign it.

An almost identical bill was introduced in the House by Rep. Jack Kingston, vice-chair of the Republican Conference and 25 co-sponsors, 21 of whom are Republicans.

Tonight staff for the bill sponsors said identical bills would still be introduced in the Senate and House on Thursday, but they conceded that there was little hope, at least for now, that such measures could succeed.

In the current Legislature, a majority of Democratic lawmakers has co-sponsored identical bills in both the House and Senate to increase the mandate to 20 percent.

The Virginia General Assembly has adopted the proposal in a pair of identical bills, Senate Bill 1269 and House Bill 1946.

Is it common for similar - if not identical - bills to be introduced in both the House of Representatives and the Senate at the same time?

Identical versions of a bill need to pass both the House and Senate before it goes to Gov. Rick Scott for his consideration.

But an identical bill (H.B. 4163) was introduced soon thereafter, and it is now progressing through the house.

A similar, but not identical bill, has been introduced in the House of Representatives — H.R. 363, the «Housing Opportunity and Mortgage Equity Act of 2011,» introduced by Representative Dennis Cardoza (CA - D).

However, identical bills were introduced in the 114th Congress in both the House and Senate that would limit the use of the like - kind exchange deferral as a way of partially offsetting the cost of provisions that would shore up multiemployer pension plans.

Representatives Michael Grimm (R - NY) and Maxine Waters (D - CA) have introduced the identical bill in the House (H.R. 3370).

The bill is identical to legislation under consideration in the House and that passed both houses of Congress last year but was never enacted.