Sentences with phrase «imposed federal mandates»
Past governors have imposed federal mandates through executive orders.
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The move comes as almost 30 states have considered imposing privacy rules on Internet service providers similar to the now - revoked federal rules, which, among other mandates, required that companies get permission from customers before collecting sensitive data.
There are two caveats about rates on government student loans to keep in mind: First, the formula mandated by the Higher Education Act imposes an 8.25 percent cap for federal direct loans to undergraduates, and 9.5 percent for direct loans to grad student loans.
Because the birth control cases all focus on a 1993 federal law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, not the Constitution, the Justices will face questions about whether the mandate to provide free access to 20 forms of birth control drugs or devices, sterilization, screenings, and counseling imposes a «substantial burden» on religious freedom of nonprofit employers with religious objections to some or all contraceptives, whether the mandate in fact serves a «compelling interest» of the government, and whether an attempt to provide an exemption from the mandate satisfies the requirement that such an accommodation is «the least restrictive means» of achieving the government's policy interest.
Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled an $ 89.06 billion executive budget proposal for the 2019 fiscal year on Thursday, decrying new spending that the city must undertake to meet shortfalls and unfunded mandates imposed by the new state budget approved last month, and cautioning of federal actions that could affect the city's fiscal future.
The bill's major provisions would, among other things, impose a national renewable electricity standard, overhaul federal financing for «clean energy» projects, establish a suite of efficiency measures, mandate new federal electricity - transmission siting power, and allow wider oil and gas leasing in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
One telling sign is that the federal government does not impose minimum standards for gifted education, even though the No Child Left Behind law imposes all sorts of mandates to bring up the bottom.
The No Child Left Behind Act imposes the wrong kind of testing on schools, educators need better systems to interpret the test data they get, and the federal government should help pay for the mandates it imposes, according to several advocates who last week addressed a private panel studying the education law and how to improve it.
Federally mandated system in which states create standards, assess performance, and impose sanctions for low - performing schools based on federal requirements
The regulation would impose Education Department - mandated accountability measures promulgating federal government oversight over student and school achievement.
E4E is calling on leaders in Albany to not delay any further and impose an evaluation system now so that planning can start immediately and the system can be in place by the start of 2013 school year, as mandated by state and federal requirements.
NSBA is in support of this legislation which offers school districts relief from costly and onerous mandates imposed by the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 and subsequent federal regulations.
A proposed upgrade to the U.S. standard covering head restraints would impose new geometric requirements and bring federal mandates in line with RCAR ratings for a good design (see diagram).
There are two caveats about rates on government student loans to keep in mind: First, the formula mandated by the Higher Education Act imposes an 8.25 percent cap for federal direct loans to undergraduates, and 9.5 percent for direct loans to grad student loans.
The «100 × 50» Act would impose new federal mandates requiring «zero carbon» vehicles, while barring federal approval of oil and gas pipelines.
However, a court may reduce (modify) to include any of the requirements relating to probation and community control, a legal sentence imposed by it within 60 days of its imposition; after the receipt by the court of a mandate issued by the appellate court upon affirmance of the judgment and / or sentence upon an original appeal; after receipt by the court of a certified copy of an order of the appellate court dismissing an original appeal from the judgment and / or sentence; or if further appellate review is sought in a higher court or in successively higher courts, after the highest state or federal court to which a timely appeal has been taken under authority of law, or when a petition for certiorari has been timely filed under authority of law, has written an order of affirmance or an order dismissing the appeal and / or denying certiorari.
The formal mandate of 3553 (a) requires a federal judge to impose a sentence in each case that is «sufficient, but not greater than necessary» to serve the traditional purposes of punishment set forth in 3553 (a)(2).
The mandate is also a means of ensuring that employers that offer employee coverage currently do not «dump» their employees into the Exchange, or if they do, that the additional cost imposed on the federal government is repaid.