Sentences with phrase «legislative debate on the bill»

The veto came amid public and legislative debate on the bill, which opponents claimed would have unconstitutionally provided public funds for religious institutions and overburdened already struggling school districts by forcing them to pay for private special education.

Not exact matches

His argument on the legislative history of the Fourteenth Amendment, for example, rests on a strained parsing of the Reconstruction debates intended to show that the Privileges and Immunities Clause (which the Supreme Court effectively eviscerated shortly after the Amendment's adoption) was intended to make the Bill of Rights operative against the states.

As significant welfare reform and housing bills make their way through parliament this legislative year, debates on cutting housing benefit for 18 - 21 year olds, and the security and affordability of the private rented sector will all come to play — with potentially dire consequences for people at the cusp of becoming homeless.

Kavanagh is a strong proponent of every bill in the legislative package, which included several laws he introduced and debated on the Assembly floor.

The budget had passed second reading at the senate without a debate on November 24, when Senate President Bukola Saraki referred the bill to the committee for further legislative treatment.

With those central issues still percolating on Thursday night, smaller bills moved along amid the steady stop - and - go legislative process of debate, vote, stand at ease, conference, eat take - out, repeat.

WCBS reports: «While the governor can't force senators to vote on or debate bills, the New York Constitution grants him the power to call a special legislative session — and experts say he can even keep the senators in the state house with the help of state police.»

The judge based his conclusion largely on legislative debate preceding the passage of the bill last spring.

With the legislative session scheduled to end on March 18, lawmakers last week were debating a new fiscal 1990 budget, after Gov. Garry Carruthers vetoed an appropriations bill.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., officially scheduled the bill for floor debate on Wednesday morning, just one day after 10 major education groups joined forces to demand senators prioritize the reauthorization, which had been languishing in the legislative queue for weeks.

As Laura Nirenberg, legislative analyst for Best Friends» Focus on Felines campaign, pointed out to me, the bill's language already addresses many issues brought up in the debate.

see for example, assurances by the Hon. J. W. Shaw, NSW Attorney General and Minister for Industrial Relations in the Second Reading Debate on the Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Bill - Legislative Council Hansard of 20/06/2000 p 7101