Sentences with phrase «legislation did»

Unfortunately, this legislation did not move forward.
While the legislation didn't face much resistance in the House, it's likely to face more of a challenge in the Senate, where the bill's high - profile detractors, including Oregon Senator Ron Wyden and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, have already pledged a bipartisan filibuster effort.
With House action and White House backing, patent reform appeared possible, even in a political environment where nearly no other legislation did.
For this reason, the legislation did not minimally impair lawyers» and clients» section 7 rights.
Originally the legislation did link the maximum protective award in s 189 to the length of the consultation period in s 188 but that link was broken by amending legislation in 1999.
The Federal Court appeal of that decision found that the U.K. legislation did not apply in Canada and ought not to be applied as a matter of comity to exclude this evidence.
The Supreme Court of Canada held that BC's human rights» legislation did not apply to the applicant's circumstances and could not be used to invalidate the requirement.
In Lankhorst the court rejected the German government's arguments that the thin capitalisation rules were justified as a measure to prevent tax losses and tax evasion because the legislation did not have the specific purpose of preventing «wholly artificial arrangements».
The majority also found that the language of the provision at issue read within the context of the legislation did not limit an «error» to mere typographical or similar errors.
Judicial review would remain available for questions of jurisdiction and for those instances where legislation did not provide for a statutory appeal to the courts.
Child Welfare authorities in Edmonton asked the Provincial Court to make an order for the withdrawal of medical care based upon the opinions of the doctors, but that Court found that its own enabling legislation did not permit it to do so.
However, the legislation did not define what constitute suitable work and a reasonable job search.
In an earlier decision, Sechelt Indian Band v British Columbia (Manufactured Home Park Tenancy Act, Dispute Resolution Officer), 2013 BCCA 262 (CanLII), leave to appeal dismissed, 2014 CanLII 62242 (SCC), the Court of Appeal had found that the legislation did not apply by virtue of the IJI doctrine (see a post on that case here).
Polish and Italian legislation did not allow them to impute their losses.
Justice Garston found that the roommate was «neither trained in the field of healthcare nor has any prior work experience in the field» and that, while her work supporting the plaintiff was admirable, the legislation did not allow for her to be paid for the attendant care services that she provided.
Because the Republicans in power at the time that passed this legislation did not have sufficient votes in the Senate to make the repeal permanent, EGTRRA «sunsets» on December 31, 2010.
The first member of the royal family to marry in a civil ceremony in England and Wales was Prince Charles in 2005, and questions were raised as to whether the legislation did in truth permit such an option.
The Court noted that the legislation did not define «income continuation plan» or «income replacement plan», and that the term «income continuation plan» only appeared in a subsection regarding prescribed plans of this nature.
The Comprehensive Energy Strategy (CES) and original legislation did away with net metering, replacing it with a «buy - all / credit - all» concept.
The legislation did not mandate free annual credit scores, however, and the earliest free credit reports are not expected to be available until late this year.
The legislation did not provide additional state funding for this salary increase, leaving districts to reallocate existing funds.
While the legislation did not set a national benchmark for test scores, it did require states to annually assess students in math and reading in grades 3 - 8 and one year in high school.
Though the final legislation did include a working group on quality, none of these groups have since spoken out in its support.
The legislation did, to be sure, specify that subgroups — defined by income, minority status and proficiency in English — must meet the same achievement standard.
The previous form of the proposed legislation did not apply to academies, but Mrs Morgan put forward an amendment to allow «robust action» for all types of school.
While the legislation did not directly impact FLVS's supplemental programs or funding, it presented another, possibly more dangerous, issue.
But there were other problems as well: NCLB did not itself provide sufficient incentives for students to work hard, as only teachers were held accountable for failure, and the legislation did not end the enduring inequalities of educational opportunity for low - income and minority students that underlie the achievement gap.
The legislation didn't exempt the Davidson Academy from state reading and math tests or core - curriculum requirements; it didn't provide any funding, either.
Unfortunately, the legislation did not pass, and it does not appear that any such research has been done.
Although legislation did not specify that bots be autonomous, Peter Singer, director of the Brookings Institution's 21st Century Defense Initiative project and author of a recent book on military robots, Wired for War, calls the push toward autonomy real and pressing.
Two years later, the legislation did even worse in a 38 — 60 vote.
«The legislation did two things: it protected our waterways and it also nudged the state and federal governments to take action.
Cuomo pushed this year to raise the age of criminal responsibility, but his proposed legislation did not advance through the Legislature.
Several individual items of legislation did receive A grades from the League of Conservation Voters, including the Community Risk and Resiliency Act — one of its priorities — invasive species mitigation, and incentives for local wine and beer production.
U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley (D - Jackson Heights) hopes a proposed bill allocating $ 70 billion to teachers and first responders around the country will pass with presidential support, although a nearly identical piece of legislation did not gain enough support to even come to a vote in the Democratically led U.S. Senate last year.
The final legislation did not accomplish what was equitable and fair.
After «design - build» legislation didn't make this year's state budget, AbTech suspended its $ 10,000 monthly payments to Adam Skelos, but had already paid him a total of $ 198,000 since late 2012, federal prosecutors said.
The comptroller also has the option to review contracts worth more than $ 1 million before they are awarded, under a recently passed law, but the legislation didn't provide more funding for that task, according to Freeman, the comptroller's spokeswoman.
The legislation did not provide a dollar amount that this new class of hospitals would receive or provide any direction on where the increased funding would come from.
But the mayor's legislation did not get an entirely warm reception in the Council on Friday, after a demonstration on the steps of City Hall by the unions, so he tweaked it again.
Please note that previous legislation did not formally prohibit the offering of free wireless hot spots.
In June 2011, the state Senate, which has a narrow Republican majority, passed a bill to repeal the MTA payroll tax, but the legislation didn't pass in the Democratically dominated Assembly.
ALBANY — Cardinal Dolan has revealed for the first time that New York's gay marriage vote caught the Catholic Church flat - footed — insisting it was «burned» by Senate Republicans who claimed the legislation didn't have a prayer.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has never signaled a willingness to let municipalities set their own rates, although the state's recent minimum wage legislation did set the rates based on regions.
«This legislation did not move in either house last year.»
Those two pieces of legislation did not see the light of day.»
The new legislation didn't just squeak by with a majority vote, it passed by a landslide, 73 - 4.
Other, more conservative Republicans (known as the Freedom Caucus) who opposed the bill had the opposite reasoning: The proposed legislation didn't offer enough change for their tastes.
But the proffered legislation does something more remarkable: It incorporates provisions that outrage not only the so - called «moderate» Republicans in the Senate, but also infuriates a hard - line conservative faction led by Kentucky's Rand Paul.
A large share of Italian debt issued under domestic legislation does not have any contract terms and is regulated by an Italian law that gives the Italian Treasury ample latitude to restructure the debt... The composition of Italian public, however, is changing rapidly because in January 2013, Eurozone members started issuing bonds with standardized contract terms.
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