This is the time for bills from lobbyists (who help with campaign money and elections) to sneak
favors into state law.
«Now that twisted logic is being heard in New York State as Richard Funke tells us he opposes codifying Roe v.
Wade into state law because «women need to be protected.»
Cuomo announced he will advance legislation
codifying into state law an agreement between organized labor and developers on a lucrative tax incentive program for developments that include a certain percentage of affordable units in New York City.
The Women's Equality Act would simply codify the over 40 - year - old Roe vs. Wade
decision into state law, and to say that it would do anything else is a lie.»
In fact, 42 states and the District of Columbia now have teacher evaluation policies
written into state law or regulations, meaning that these policies would need to endure substantial political scrutiny in order to be revised once again.
Some conservative lawmakers were uncomfortable with backing the legislation because of a provision that would codify the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision on
abortion into state law.
The agenda seeks to address women's health issues with the passage of the Comprehensive Contraceptive Coverage Act and codifying abortion
rights into state law.
The system,
enacted into state law in 2010, was created, in part, to make it easier to identify which teachers performed the best so their methods could be replicated, and which performed the worst, so they could be fired.
The Financial Control Board reviews the city's four - year financial plan quarterly to decide whether the city is complying with fiscal guidelines passed
into state law in 1975.
That included requiring tenants to pay rent into an escrow account during disputes with landlords, making it easier for tenants to get evicted and perhaps most significantly
enshrining into State law vacancy deregulation.
Rather than appropriate specific amounts for each of these, the Legislature writes
formulas into state law — sending each district so many dollars for each elementary - school pupil, each hospital so much for a day of care for each patient, and so on.
The bill's text, if
passed into state law, would protect teachers from discipline if they «help students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories covered in the course being taught,» namely, «biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming, and human cloning.»
The new poll comes in the aftermath of Brewer's decision to enact a controversial immigration
bill into state law making it a crime to be in the country illegally.»
Major Property Tax Relief for Seniors & Individuals with Disabilities Expands to Help Thousands More Live Affordably After SCHE / DHE
signed into state law, City Council acts New York, NY — Members of the Independent Democratic Conference applauded the New York -LSB-...]
It
incorporates into state law recent changes made to the federal Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), the federal educational privacy law) by the Uninterrupted Scholars Act.
Earlier this week, the state Senate passed one bill requiring utilities to obtain 100 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2045 and another folding Obama - era water, air and endangered species
standards into state law, preserving them in California, regardless of reversals at the federal level.
Gov. Rick Scott signed bills requiring nursing homes and assisted living facilities to have alternative power sources Monday,
placing into state law the emergency rules he put in place following the tragedy at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills.
Rather, they will have 18 months for the EU laws to be
transposed into state law, yet it usually takes longer than this, especially with controversial matters.
In 2002, Yemen became one of 37 countries worldwide to turn every recommendation of the
code into state law.
Adding the definition of sexual
harassment into state law would bolster its current status as a definition under the state Division of Human Rights, but it is only used administratively.
Among the bills popular with the Democrats» liberal base that won passage this year was a ban on bump stocks, add - on devices that allow semi-automatic rifles to shoot at near full - automatic speed; a bill enshrining the women's health care provisions of the Affordable Care
Act into state law; and a measure that prohibits employers from asking job candidates about their salary history.
Under this local law, Erie County
opted into a State law (The Neighbor Notification Law - Article 33 Title 10 of the Environmental Conservation Law) regarding the sale and use of certain lawn pesticides by:
Democratic state lawmakers, meanwhile, have called to set the protections for transgender New
Yorkers into state law through the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, which has stalled in the state Senate.
And here's the Cuomo administration, eager to see more state contracts go to the sort of companies so long and so routinely shut out of the procurement business that such preferences had to be written
into state law more than 30 years ago.
Senate President Pro Tempore David Long says if lawmakers want to take another shot next session at adding civil rights protections for the LGBT
community into state law, they should start in the House.
Some state lawmakers have sought to codify certain exempting medical
conditions into state law, but their efforts were unsuccessful this year.
The letter concludes by stating the Borough President is working with Assembly member Jeffrion Aubry to introduce legislation that would codify many of the changes recommended in her
letter into state law.
When pressed whether she agreed with criticism of the mailing, Stewart - Cousins sidestepped the question and criticized Republicans for not passing all 10 points of the women's equality agenda — especially the plank that would write federal abortion
protections into state law.
Cahill opposes a provision backed by many Democrats to codify the abortion rights in the U.S. Supreme Court Roe v. Wade
ruling into state law.
The grant, which is now
chaptered into state law, provides funds to support CSPP and Family Child Care Networks participating in their county's QRIS.
These enhancements, like those in the new CAEP standards, should go beyond independent
accreditation into state law and policy that includes transparent data linkages of students with their teachers and the preparation program from which they graduated, and with meaningful «teeth» for accountability.
Ohio is in the final stages of making an Exxon trojan horse on
hydrofracking into state law, and it appears that the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) connected Exxon's lawyers with co-sponsors of Ohio Senate Bill 315: at least 33 of the 45 Ohio legislators who co-sponsored SB 315 are ALEC members, and language from portions of the state Senate bill is similar to ALEC's «Disclosure of Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Composition Act.»
... and then a pile of Ohio legislators used ALEC's model to mold Exxon's Ohio fracking disclosure
loopholes into state law!
Like Washington's law, his legislation directly regulates ISPs by essentially making the 2015 Open Internet
Order into state law.
Democrats say it merely
codifies into state law the protections in the federal Roe v Wade decision, Republicans contend that it would expand abortion rights in some unacceptable ways, and could lead to abortions in the ninth month of pregnancy, which supporters deny.
They were there in support of legislation to codify the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade
decision into state law and legislation to provide for insurance coverage of FDA - approved contraceptive drugs, devices and products.
Watering down their collective bargaining rights by
putting into state law the mandatory dismissal of teacher's who are rated ineffective.
The GOP has blocked passage of bills including the Dream Act, to help children of undocumented immigrants get college aid, a measure to codify the abortion rights in Roe v.
Wade into state law, and campaign finance reform.
He said he traveled to every county in the state, working on marriage equality, putting abortion
rights into state law, banning hydrofracking and raising the minimum wage, among other issues.
While not all leaders of other private religious institutions have embarked on lobbying campaigns to get school vouchers
enacted into state law, it's worth highlighting another one of those schools that stands to gain from the Opportunity Scholarship Program as an example of the lengths to which taxpayer funds will fund religious education.
As the teachers unions dig in, hundreds of thousands of school kids — poor and otherwise — are victimized by their work rules which have been
enshrined into state law.