Sentences with phrase «lawmakers advanced a bill»

Last month, a committee of House lawmakers advanced a bill that would help companies like GM and Google seek more exemptions to federal safety rules, perhaps allowing them the ability to test as many as 100,000 experimental self - driving cars in the United States.

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Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives quickly advanced four bills that would make it easier for small businesses to line up capital.

Kansas lawmakers have advanced a bill to regulate alcoholic candy in a similar way to other alcoholic beverages, the Lawrence Journal World reported.

But as the decades passed, lawmakers increasingly passed bills to raise their salary as far in advance of the next election as possible to reduce the likelihood of voter backlash.

In the last days of the 2014 legislative session, Cuomo negotiated with New York State United Teachers for a temporary solution, introduced a program bill creating a «safety net» for educators whose ratings were detrimentally affected by students» low Common Core test scores and advanced the legislation with a «message of necessity,» allowing lawmakers to pass it before gaveling out for the summer.

However, speaking on condition of anonymity, the aide said that it makes sense for lawmakers to plan in advance on the handling of bills on which several committees might feel a need to hold a public hearing — and, rather than each committee holding a separate hearing, there could be one hearing by members of the various panels.

SAN JUAN, P.R. — Latino lawmakers are tweaking their strategy to pass the Dream Act after Republicans won the State Senate on Tuesday, calling on Governor Andrew Cuomo to put it in the budget rather than advance it as a stand alone bill.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a New York Democrat who has prioritized response to sexual assault both in the military and in higher education, is among lawmakers who hope to advance legislation as part of the higher education bill.

In announcing the bill signing, Murphy called on lawmakers to advance legislation raising the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour.

That promise came on March 12, as state lawmakers began advancing bills to upend a state policy that automatically deletes employee emails after 90 days if they are not proactively saved.

It responded aggressively to legislators who advanced bills that would require the state to keep emails for at least seven years, like the federal government does, by wondering why the lawmakers exempted themselves from the state's Freedom of Information Law.

Womick joined several other lawmakers Tuesday to advance House Bill 675 out of the House Education Administration & Planning Committee.

Lawmakers are facing an important deadline to advance the below bills by this coming Wednesday.

TRENTON, NJ — To clean energy advocates and the solar industry's delight, New Jersey lawmakers approved companion bills today that will significantly advance New Jersey's clean energy economy.

TRENTON, NJ — State and national solar energy advocates today thanked lawmaker leadership for approving bills to advance New Jersey's clean energy economy.

We're glad to report that last week, lawmakers advanced two bills supported by Planned Parenthood Advocates in Missouri.