Sentences with phrase «legislating on»

So neither the Uniform Law Conference nor Ontario have yet to draft anything on some of the subjects that seemed to Quebec to be worth legislating on in 2001.

And perhaps the gov» t could avoid legislating on matters when they don't actually know what they're doing and just let consumers decide.

Legislating on this issue in haste — and without meaningfully engaging with educators — hurts educators and students alike.

He believes that fear of a veto by former president George Bush kept Congress from legislating on animal patenting until now.

Sasiadek argued that if Congress bars states from legislating on the gun issue, a future Congress might decide it has to take matters into its own hands and pass far - reaching national gun control legislation.

Dratel noted that outside law firm income is legal in New York, funding things such as cancer research is not a crime, and legislating on issues campaign donors are interested in — a small step removed from what Silver allegedly did — is standard operating procedure.

We spoke of how reporting needed to be improved, including legislating on the recording of healthcare - associated infections on death certificates.

But it's also a fair gauge of how much weight each party gives to the importance of lawmakers knowing the substance of the issues they are legislating on.

Yet they're finding arguments that legislating on Lords reform was in the Tory manifesto, or even the coalition agreement, are being undermined by the awkward fact they're not entirely true.

Graham Brady, the chairman of the Conservatives» backbench 1922 committee, says that legislating on Lords reform was NOT a Conservative manifesto commitment.

The crux of the report is Paolantonio alleges the new catch rule — passed by a unanimous vote Tuesday — was «already in place» for Super Bowl 52 and officials were «basically legislating on the fly» during the game instead of sticking to the standards of the 2017 season.

But speculation that officials were «legislating on the fly» and using the new catch rule doesn't seem to hold much water, because both rules would've had the same result.

Doubtless if he had to legislate on this subject for the nascent churches, this was the only prudent legislation he could suggest, since any other would have wrecked the reputation of his movement.

Good thing we don't legislate on feelings.

The non-binding postal ballot began in September but the government will not legislate on the issue without it.

Voters will be asked whether they want to repeal the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, which gives equal right to life to the mother and the unborn, and replace it with new wording to allow parliament to legislate on abortion in the future.

They don't have the political courage to allow a free vote and legislate on marriage equality, but they have plenty of time for union bashing and tax concessions for the wealthiest.

But rather than going on the offensive, we examine what the Conservative Party is actually proposing to do to legislate on expanding technologies, improve efficiency and drive down costs.

McKay proposes to beef up the territorial extent statements on each bill; and to improve the discussion of «Sewel motions» received from the three devolved parliaments, permitting the UK parliament to legislate on their turf.

If the UK government wanted to devolve the right to legislate on extradition to Scotland, it would have to pass primary legislation to that effect.

Extradition is a reserved area, which means that the parliament can not legislate on it.

Occasionally, it makes sense for the UK government to legislate on devolved issues - for example when limited provision in a UK bill would affect Scotland.

Parliament is free to legislate on privacy whenever they want to, and the judges have repeatedly dropped hints in judgments that maybe parliament should do so.

This gives shadow constitutional reform minister Wayne David to attack him on the issue, which is currently being legislated on (not quite as glamorous as Lords reform, admittedly).

«I can't reasonably be expected to endorse a strategy which I don't think makes either much sense in practice and confounds and contradicts what we have solemnly legislated on earlier on in this parliament.»

«Last year, the Supreme Court ruled that while it is willing to consider whether the lack of a right to die breaches the European Convention on Human Rights, it thought that Parliament should first have the opportunity to legislate on the matter.

The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has welcomed the Government's commitment to legislate on employment intermediaries facilitating false self - employment.

Their possible intervention emerged after former Liberal Democrat Cabinet minister Michael Moore tabled a private member's bill proposing to legislate on the issue.

The government intends to legislate on the plans during the current parliament to allow construction to proceed.

The only sensible solution to all the imbalances and over population problems — in a representative democracy — must surely be for the electorate to decide who is most suitable to legislate on their behalf, irrespective of age!»

We also believe that there is an urgent need for Parliament to legislate on the matter, and to introduce a law which legalises assisted dying while also imposing safeguards to protect the vulnerable.»

The government plans to put a «binding motion» before the Commons within days, then legislate on fixed - term parliaments and the new dissolution powers.

Also, the Acting President said he withheld assent to the National Lottery (Amendment) Bill 2016 due to «the existence of pending legal challenge to the competence of the National Assembly to legislate on the subject matter.»

In the next session of parliament there should be a commitment to legislate on the basis of whatever the Leveson inquiry recommends, he says.

On the police fund bill, Buhari said it lacked clarity on whether the National Assembly could legislate on funds meant for the 36 states and the 774 local governments in the country.

Ms Cunningham said Scottish ministers had submitted a legislative consent memorandum (LCM), a motion normally used to give Westminster permission to legislate on devolved matters.

But they also said that as he increased his fundraising, an unusually large share of the money he raised came from the health care industry — which has a stake in Collins» work on a congressional subcommittee that legislates on health care issues.

The Sewel convention applies when the Westminster parliament legislates on a matter normally dealt with by the Scottish parliament and can happen only if Holyrood has given its consent.

The executive is unable to legislate on his (or her) own, and is thus limited in important ways.

The time frame was tight, but it would keep them from running into any issues with the 2016 elections making it difficult or toxic to legislate on education.

The Post reports that Governor Ducey was there to warn billionaire donors that if universal vouchers lose in Arizona they won't be able to legislate on the topic in the future.

Congress is focused on UAS matters, has recently legislated on the topic and is expected to again in the near future.

As a second - term president who knows the GOP House will not legislate on carbon control issues, Obama and his people are now speaking mainly to and for environmentalists,» said Theda Skocpol, a Harvard government and sociology professor.

Regardless of who has legislated on the meaning of the expression «climate change», it is a bit like the expressions «air breathing» and «water drinking».

Unless Congress steps up and legislates on this front (preferably via a carbon tax), it will continue to stand impotently on the sidelines while administrative actors make all of the important decisions for decades to come.

A highly critical letter from Sadiq Khan MP, the Shadow Lord Chancellor and Justice Minister to the Deputy Prime Minister, reportedly deconstructs the Minister's claims as «misleading» and the rush to legislate on this issue as «misguided».

Question: is there any point, in the light of this decision, for a province or territory that has not legislated on court jurisdiction — enacted the Uniform Act, probably — to do so?

Massachusetts has now legislated on this particular activity.

Areas that the Assembly has no jurisdiction to legislate on — excepted matters — are defined fully in NIA 1998, Sch 2 and include: the Crown; the UK Parliament; Parliamentary elections; the franchise; international relations; defence; nuclear weapons; nationality; immigration; asylum; UK tax law; national insurance contributions; the appointment and removal of judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland and other judges; elections; and national security.

Congress was not given authority to legislate on the right punishment or how the punishments are applied for the most part by the states.