Sentences with phrase «identical bill»

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.

A nearly identical bill passed the House in 2013, but this time around, NCLB faces significantly more pushback from the right: Groups including The Club For Growth and Heritage Action are pushing lawmakers to vote the bill down, and grassroots opposition to federal control in education has boomed among constituents.

Conklin noted it's up to lawmakers to change voter registration laws, and automatic registration would require amending the state Constitution, which means two straight sessions of the Legislature would have to pass identical bills before it would go to voters on the ballot.

Both the Michigan House and Senate introduced identical bills today.

«Senator Tom Harkin (D — IA) and Representative Rosa DeLauro (D — CT) have sponsored identical bills that would designate NIH as «emergency spending» and boost its authorized budget by 10 % annually in 2015 and 2016 and by 5 % for each of the next 5 years,» Mervis wrote.

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.

Identical bill Companion bills that are identical word - for - word, not including titles.

A pair of identical bills in Illinois (one for the House another for the Senate) would prevent communities in Illinois from banning sales of dogs and cats.

The latest are identical bills filed Tuesday by state Rep. Katie Edwards, D - Plantation, and state...

Two identical bills currently before the state Legislature would return NYRA to private non-profit control before the end of this year.

The Senate Education Committee also passed a nearly identical bill on Wednesday afternoon.

A nearly identical bill reached Cuomo in 2011, -LSB-...]

«However, I have repeatedly vetoed similar or identical bills because they offer additional pension benefits without any funding.»

In 2010, a virtually identical bill got all the way to Democratic Gov. David Paterson's desk, where it was surprisingly vetoed.

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.

In Oregon and Washington, only law enforcement or humane officers have legal authority to break into a hot car, but nearly identical bills pending in both states could change that.

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.

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).

House Republicans are so eager to strip federal family planning funds from Planned Parenthood that two of them have introduced identical bills to do so in the first days of the new Congress.

sessions that saw the least number of legislative agreements as evidenced by identical bills passing

Identical bill Companion bills that are identical word - for - word, not including titles.

In Tennessee, a pair of identical bills by DeBerry and State Sen. Brian Kelsey, R - Germantown, would lower the parent signature requirement from a minimum of 60 percent to 51 percent.

The latest are identical bills filed Tuesday by state Rep. Katie Edwards, D - Plantation, and state Sen. Gary Farmer, D - Fort Lauderdale, that give new teeth to Florida's Long - Term Care Ombudsman program, which records show has regularly turned up fewer complaints each year under Gov. Rick Scott.

That's why, after issuing a statement criticizing Governor Andrew Cuomo's supposed plan to re-privatize NYRA last week, Shimkus and fellow Concerned Citizens of Saratoga group members are now backing two identical bills currently before the legislature that would return NYRA to private non-profit control before the end of this year.

Senator Tom Harkin (D — IA) and Representative Rosa DeLauro (D — CT) have sponsored identical bills that would designate NIH as «emergency spending» and boost its authorized budget by 10 % annually in 2015 and 2016 and by 5 % for each of the next 5 years.

Congratulations also goes to the large coalition of labor unions, business groups, transit and environmental advocates and good government groups that supported passage of the bill this session, and identical bills in 2011.

A nearly identical bill was introduced as program legislation by Cuomo in early June, after the union's leadership helped Cuomo secure the Working Families Party ballot line at that party's convention.

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.

A bill has been introduced in the Senate (S. 3217) and an identical bill has already been introduced in the House, titled Startup Act 2.0 which,... Continue reading →

Conservative former minister Dame Caroline Spelman, the Church of England's official representative in the Commons, has moved an identical Bill as the campaign for change seeks to achieve its aim as quickly as possible.

The law — a version of which was sponsored by Sen. David Valesky, D - Oneida, in the state Senate, and an identical bill, written by Assemblywoman Francine DelMonte, D - Lewiston, in the Assembly — would allow the state Department of Environmental Conservation to create standards for a legalized crossbow hunting season, as well as allowing the use of one on private property during any deer hunting season.

Assemblyman Bill Magnarelli, D - Syracuse, is sponsoring an identical bill in the Assembly this year that is stuck in the Assembly transportation committee.

In New York, since the session ends tonight, Brennan intends to introduce next week an identical bill to the one that was vetoed.

But Assemblyman James F. Brennan, a Brooklyn Democrat and a sponsor in New York, said on Tuesday that he intended to introduce next week an identical bill to the one that was vetoed.

Strategists expect the legislation to sail through the assembly, which already passed an identical bill in 2007 by a vote of 85 to 61.»

An identical bill had been introduced in the Senate by James Seward, R - Milford, but his office said Thursday that the Senate would not take the measure up regardless of the Assembly's action.

In the Assembly, an identical bill is sponsored by Assemblywoman Margaret Markey, D - Maspeth, and co-sponsored by Assemblyman Bill Magnarelli, D - Syracuse, and Al Stirpe, D - Cicero.

In the latest twist in the protracted debate over the use of chimpanzees in biomedical research, U.S. senators on 3 August introduced the Great Ape Protection Act, an identical bill to one that has been stuck in a House of Representatives committee for more than a year.

Six senators introduced an identical bill.

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.

In December, the Senate passed the Strengthening Education Through Research Act (SETRA), but the legislation has stalled in the House (though the House passed a nearly identical bill the year before).

These identical bills are eligible in the General Assembly's 2018 short session in May and should be passed.

An identical bill — H.R. 4423 — was introduced in the 114th Congress.

An identical bill was interduced in the New York Senate (S. 2976) by Western New York Republican Senators George D. Maziarz and Michael F. Nozzolio.

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

Identical bills in that are not altered in the legislative process may be approved and «conjoined,» Skinner said.

«An identical bill is currently pending in the Senate's Finance Committee.»

Identical bill Companion bills that are identical word - for - word, not including titles.