Sentences with phrase «legislation mandated»

Canned tuna companies were pressured through consumer boycotts to end fishing practices that endangered dolphins before governmental legislation mandated such.

Legislation mandated a 10 per cent reduction in the «average carbon intensity» of fuels used in B.C. by 2020.

Thirty - five years ago, legislation mandated that public schools had to provide a free, appropriate education for all children, including the disabled.

High school lunch programs have offered students a choice of foods since federal legislation mandated it in 1975.

The legislation mandating the price hike includes a new payment plan to help seniors get a lifetime pass.

With the passage in 1968 of federal legislation mandating decidedly lowered rent ceilings, court rulings limiting discretion in tenant selection, and pressure from the civil rights movement to put an end to racial bias in tenant selection and assignments, this percentage increased.

** While all of this shuffling was going on, I inserted legislation mandating geographically sensible divisions.

Named for a boy who was permanently disabled after he suffered a concussion playing football and returned to the game, the legislation mandates that youth athletes displaying symptoms of a concussion must be cleared by a licensed professional before returning to action.

«Legislation mandating IVF insurance coverage may improve the delivery and outcomes of fertility treatments.»

Congress did pass legislation mandating that nutrition standards be written for competitive foods in schools but Big Food (the companies that brought you «Pizza is a vegetable») is lobbying overtime to ensure that these standards are weakened and delayed.

Schumer pushed for legislation mandating universal background checks for gun buyers during a swing through Western New York yesterday.

A coalition of diverse organizations in New York City has banded together to escalate the conversation regarding paid sick days for workers, with an emphasis on getting the NY City Council to pass legislation mandating paid sick days.

By eliminating the single largest expense in county budgets, federal legislation mandating a state takeover of local Medicaid costs promises relief for property taxpayers across New York.

Hutton says the legislation mandates that the Department of Health require testing for PFOA, PFOS and 1,4 - dioxane, for starters.

Police Commissioner William Bratton is opposed to legislation mandating the changes and said at a hearing last year that the bill represents «unprecedented intrusions into the operational management» of the police department.

Hamilton has introduced legislation mandating the teaching of black history instruction in New York schools.

Martins» legislation mandates that any developer receiving the 421 - a abatement would have to pay workers the prevailing wage for projects with more than 50 units where less that 50 percent of the units are priced as affordable.

The legislation mandates that developers provide a certified payroll of general contractors and subcontractors within 90 days of getting their certificate of occupancy.

Davies was on the temporary state commission on local government ethics in the early 1990s, which proposed legislation mandating local ethics boards and dictating how they would operate.

Tuesday the group called on lawmakers to pass legislation mandating that guns be stored in a safe or equipped with a gun lock, along with another proposal that would require all semi-automatic handguns sold in the state to be equipped with a device that stamps a unique code into a shell casing each time the gun is fired, making it easier for authorities to track guns used in shootings.

Assemblyman Dinowitz Introduces Legislation Mandating Flu Shots for Children to NYS Assembly

In December, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone signed legislation mandating elected officials, department heads, their deputies and aides involved in labor relations to receive four hours of training every two years.

So for nuclear to gain ground, President Barack Obama will have to back up his tough talk about legislation mandating carbon cuts with economic incentives.

Last year the Senate passed legislation mandating a 10 percent standard, but the House opposed the plan and Senate Republicans agreed to keep it out of the energy bill this year.

«Casinos are often exempted from legislation mandating smoke - free environments, putting employees and patrons at risk for heart attacks, strokes, asthma attacks and other adverse events triggered by secondhand smoke,» Glantz said.

«Legislation mandating IVF insurance coverage may improve the delivery and outcomes of fertility treatments.»

But such practices began in other industries in the 1920s — before there was any national legislation mandating collective bargaining — and were part and parcel of the mass - production workplace.

Simply passing legislation mandating a little more of the same PE just isn't going to do.

Kentucky legislation mandates that all schools must meet the goal of 100 points in all subjects by the year 2014.

Without legislation mandating a formal process, we needed to meet and discuss like adults.

Article 9B Article 9B, Academically or Intellectually Gifted Students [N.C.G.S. § 115C -150.5-.8 (Article 9B)-RSB- is the current legislation mandating identification and services for gifted education K - 12 in North Carolina.

Does your state have legislation mandating or supporting character education?

Even if the formula changes for A-F school letter grades, however, what many may still be left scratching their heads over, however, is that the legislation mandating the letter grades for all schools comes with no path forward.

An increasing number of states are passing legislation mandating annual evaluations of teachers and school leaders, based upon multiple measures including state test scores, local assessments, classroom observations, climate surveys and other factors.

In at least 15 other states around the nation, lawmakers have passed legislation mandating A-F school grades.

Legislation mandating full disclosure of the potential implications of using all dog training methods;

Legislation mandating transparency of animal training methods used by all dog professionals;

The AVMA does not support regulations or legislation mandating spay / neuter of privately owned, non-shelter dogs and cats.

I am not the one who wrote the legislation mandating that the rules be approved by the legislature, nor the time frame.

So, one year after Hurricane Katrina, Congress passed legislation mandating that domestic animals be included in states» disaster - evacuation plans.

To date Turneffe Atoll Trust has contributed nearly one - half million dollars towards this mission with key successes being the passage of legislation mandating catch and release fishing for bonefish, permit and tarpon in Belize, a law which is now being emulated by other countries.

President Bush signed federal legislation mandating a decades - long shift toward more efficient vehicles, and rejected states» separate efforts to set stricter, quicker standards on their own.]

Mr Bush signed federal legislation mandating is good thing, but rejected states separete efforts is wrong thing.

In 2016, Gov. Rick Snyder signed legislation mandating the state get 15 percent of its energy from renewables by 2021.

Qld needs legislation mandating that all new development of residential, commercial and industrial land be sited above the 1 in a 100 years flood level (at least).

* Adopt legislation mandating BEVs [battery - electric vehicles] for short - and medium - distance government transportation and use incentives and rebates to encourage the transition of commercial and personal vehicles to BEVS.

The legislation mandates that the higher earner pays the difference between what each spouse would otherwise pay.

Ct.), Linda Rothstein and Rob Centa acted for the College of Nurses of Ontario in successfully defending the constitutionality of legislation mandating the revocation of a health practitioner's licence where the practitioner sexually abused a patient.

In California, one of the first states to enact legislation mandating that drivers use handless devices, cell phone carriers such as AT&T, T - Mobile and Sprint all lobbied against the law.

We also now have legislation mandating evidentiary hearings in Family Law cases.