Sentences with phrase «lawmakers did»

In 1990, lawmakers did away with one of the tax reform law's signature accomplishments, the top income tax rate of 28 percent (it was raised to 31 percent).

The lawmakers did meet in early September to discuss how to deal with digital currencies, and they came up with several measures such as making cryptocurrency exchanges conduct due diligence and implementing stricter verification processes.

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. - Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School families are on their way to St. Petersburg to push again for tougher gun restrictions after they say state lawmakers did not do enough with the gun reform law passed late last week.

It is shameful that lawmakers did nothing after 49 largely gay and Hispanic young people were similarly massacred at Orlando's Pulse nightclub two years ago.

In 2011, the Illinois Supreme Court invalidated part of the identity theft law, because lawmakers did not specify a criminal intent.

That's what lawmakers did in 2005.

Collaboration between the industry and lawmakers didn't stop with the approval of the test centre.

Lawmakers did not anticipate the globalization of the pet industry and could not have imagined the mass movement of dogs into the US for adoption and sale in the underground pet industry.

He added lawmakers did pass legislation to provide debt relief to large animal veterinarians who work in underserved areas.

Members of Congress have tried to help in recent years by passing legislation that would have required greater disclosure from both lenders and schools to students when they take out loans, but the lawmakers didn't get very far.

Last year, lawmakers did away with language allowing the local school district to submit impact statements, but Office of Charter Schools director Joel Medley indicated to board members yesterday that his office would continue to accept them and forward them to board members for their consideration during the review process.

It's a line President Obama could easily use in a re-election campaign should he choose to run based on what lawmakers didn't do during his tenure.

Lawmakers did agree to one change, reinstating the right to sue for employment discrimination in state court, but have retained the anti-LGBTQ bathroom provisions that have spurred lawsuits from transgender residents, the ACLU of N.C. and the U.S. Department of Justice, which Tuesday asked a federal judge to block the law's implementation in the state.

However, lawmakers did not make changes to that system in either the 85th legislative session or the special session that followed.

She says the fact that lawmakers didn't act on the A-F grading system plan is a «positive,» because now MDE can move to develop an accountability system for schools that goes beyond test scores.

Padilla said he was disappointed that lawmakers did not feel more urgency last year to update dismissal procedures.

Although opponents were not able to muster the votes in Congress this time to overtime the policy, lawmakers did include requirements that the U.S. Department of Education begin collecting state, local and federal data about the distribution of teachers in training who are working in classrooms.

Some advocates said they suspected House lawmakers didn't realize they'd be hurting charters by making these changes, and it was simply a last - minute numbers game to find enough funding to offset the larger corporate and individual tax cuts that are included in the bill.

Back in 2013, lawmakers did away with paying teachers more for obtaining advanced degrees — a move that many said would hurt North Carolina's ability to attract and retain high quality teachers to the state's classrooms.

Critics said they are hopeful that Congress will reject many of Trump's ideas, as lawmakers did this month when they reached a bipartisan deal to fund the government through September.

At a Friday morning press conference held by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and others at a charter school in the Anacostia neighborhood of D.C., lawmakers didn't talk about the Student Success Act and didn't hold scheduled press availability.

Lawmakers did shrink K - 3 class sizes, which is where research shows it does the most good.

Unfortunately, your lawmakers did not vote to support the Tax Credit Scholarship program in Illinois.

If state and federal lawmakers didn't leech away that big a percentage of what teachers earn, that money could go to the teachers who earned it without having to take even more from the taxpayers who provide teacher salaries.

Other key lawmakers did not address the NOAA proposal directly, but did say they would be giving the plan a serious look.

Lawmakers did significantly restructure and shrink the program in the new Senate legislation, however, which is officially known as Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP - 21).

The good news from lawmakers didn't calm worries among the more than 100 bus riders and community leaders at a public hearing this afternoon.

At an earlier meeting, three lawmakers did show up.

While lawmakers did not have time to agree on ethics reforms or some other items, including extending mayoral control of the New York City schools, or even extending long established sales tax authorization for the state» counties, they apparently did have time to party.

Unshackle Upstate's Greg Biryla, says overall GOP lawmakers did better than Democrats, when ranked on issues business groups care about, including holding the line on taxes and spending.

While lawmakers did not have time to agree on ethics reforms or some other items, including extending mayoral control of the New York City schools, or even extending long established sales tax authorization for the state's counties, they apparently did have time to party.

Lawmakers did pass some long - sought bills on Wednesday, including creation of the new Justice Center.

Lawmakers didn't receive the 702 - page budget until 11:48 p.m., Stec said — just four hours before the vote, and before legislators had a chance to read it.

Lawmakers did agree to medical marijuana but only after a series of weakening amendments demanded by Governor Cuomo.

At the same time, he says, lawmakers did not approve a number of environmental measures that his group was pressing.

Azzopardi greeted the proposals with a suggestion that lawmakers didn't really want to get into a fight over transparency with the administration, marking the second time in several days Cuomo officials have responded to reform proposals with a sort of public knuckle - cracking.

ALBANY, N.Y. — State lawmakers did not change the botched system of delivering school tax relief money that made many homeowners miss the deadline to pay their school tax bills last year.

Then he brought up the Legislature, and the persistent problem (which lawmakers did nothing to solve in the months after Silver and Skelos became felons) of side jobs that conflict with official duties.

Several lawmakers did identify information about their outside legal work in 2014.

Lawmakers did, however, agree to the creation of the panel last December.

Cuomo threatened to withhold an increase to school aid if lawmakers did not comply with an extensive overhaul of the state's education system.

New York State lawmakers did not retreat from their commitment to public schools in spite of the cap on state and local tax deductions in the federal tax overhaul.

Indiana's Superintendent of Public Instruction Jennifer McCormick and the head of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, Kevin Brinegar, offer their perspectives on what state lawmakers did, didn't and have yet to do regarding the 2018 legislative session.

He made it clear he did not care if the lawmakers didn't meet the April 1 deadline.

The measure is seen as considerably bad optics as lawmakers did not take up a minimum wage increase in this year's budget — a fact that hasn't escape liberal critics who had pushed for the wage hike.

Still, lawmakers did not approve any deadline extensions for school districts adopting new teacher evaluations, which is tied to a boost in state funding.

An effort to create a system of publicly financed campaigns was a non-starter in the state Senate this year, and lawmakers did not take up any changes to the existing campaign finance laws.

Last week, lawmakers did back legislation designed to provide better oversight of independent expenditure committees when it comes to coordination with candidate campaign committees.

The biggest disservice New York State lawmakers did to themselves — and to local school districts — when they passed the tax levy increase cap in 2011 was to call it a 2 percent cap.

Lawmakers did act on issues of gambling and booze — legalizing fantasy - sports sites and lifting the blue law that banned alcohol sales before noon on Sundays.