Sentences with phrase «legislative efforts»

Join the fight by getting involved in legislative efforts in your community or by joining forces with a local animal protection organization in your area.
He can adopt an executive - branch strategy to complement the next round of legislative efforts.
The committee is hopeful that these relationships will be beneficial in legislative efforts on behalf of gifted kids in the years to come.
They also support legislative efforts to ban the retail sale of dogs, cats, and rabbits in pet stores, transitioning those stores to humane models.
We fight for these policies on both a city and state level, as well as federal legislative efforts that affect our communities.
To encourage the adoption of pit - bull - terrier - like dogs and help keep them in their homes, Best Friends is fighting breed discrimination through legislative efforts nationwide.
This fifth and final item in a series of posts looks at legislative efforts to change the civil jurisdiction thresholds in state limited and general jurisdiction courts in the last decade.
There have been several legislative efforts to tighten the gap between the deadline and primary voting.
Too robust a view of s. 96 or of the principle of separation of powers would call such legislative efforts into question.
The article highlighted successful legislative efforts in several states regarding media literacy.
Several states have seen legislative efforts to change the composition and role / function of their judicial disciplinary bodies in 2011.
Despite legislative efforts in the past two decades to clarify and reduce the duties of dual agents, agents and consumers are still confused about agents who represent both sellers and buyers.
Like so many legislative efforts, this was a two - year process, building on momentum from the 2016 session for a win in 2017.
Legislative efforts ensure our concerns and expertise factor into local, state and federal regulatory decisions.
And we use litigation and advocacy to block legislative efforts to fast - track tar sands infrastructure.
The market tends to recover as investors quickly realize that most legislative efforts are likely to prove ineffective.
But the intense legislative effort made one thing clear: There are times when it makes sense for an association to have the additional support of a government affairs specialist.
Public owners need to be aware of legislative efforts that may disrupt reasonable contract requirements that provide for the orderly administration of construction contracts.
But, what's the alternative if we don't call for, contribute to and support legislative efforts to protect the dogs?
Through legislative efforts and education there has been some success but something unexpected happened.
This fourth in a series of posts looks at legislative efforts to change the civil jurisdiction thresholds in state limited and general jurisdiction courts in the last decade.
Past legislative efforts have failed, but the new proposal looks to have a lot of bipartisan support.
She led successful legislative efforts to establish clean energy programs and accompanying funding sources, clean vehicles and fuel technology standards, air and water quality rules, and natural resources protection programs.
The SDVMA also plays an active role in legislative efforts by informing members and influencing governmental representatives in the interest of its members.
Recent legislative efforts include working to repeal pound seizure where publicly funded shelters and pounds are required to provide unclaimed dogs and cats for experimental and educational purposes.
A number of recent state legislative efforts highlight the importance of course rigor in preparing students for college and beyond.1 In addition, the State Board of Education has approved a preliminary college and career readiness indicator, which leans heavily on student participation and performance in rigorous courses, such as a — g courses, advanced placement exams, International Baccalaureate courses, and dual enrollment in high school and college courses.2
I have been president of the Landlord's Self - Help Centre, am on the Board of Directors of the Paralegal Society of Ontario and am a member of and involved with legislative efforts through the Federation of Rental Property Owners of Ontario.
ALBANY — Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said he sees no future for legislative efforts to legalize medicinal marijuana this year.
Others say that Obama's speech marked an important firewall against legislative efforts to roll back everything from EPA's upcoming climate rules to future regulations to reduce methane emissions in the natural gas sector.
Surprisingly, many of the major veterinary professional associations, including the Chicago Veterinary Medical Association, have opposed legislative efforts taking place across the country to prohibit the retail sale of dogs and cats from puppy mills in pet stores — laws that would help animals and have a significant impact in fighting the mass cruelty of the puppy mill industry.
(4) Churchmen should give active support to legislative efforts designed to provide increased mental health education, research, and treatment.
Reed focused on the future, as Democrats from the state reveled in watching the implosion of the first major legislative effort of the Republican Congress under President Trump, a Republican.
Ben Boychuk and Julie Cavanagh debate new legislative efforts that enable parents to take over failing schools
In addition to backing every sound effort to provide better treatment for the mentally ill, churchmen should throw their weight behind legislative efforts to prevent mental illness.
As a former advertising lawyer and a kid - and - food blogger, I'm a bit embarrassed that I only just learned of ongoing legislative efforts to create industry standards for the advertising of foods to children.
This was an action the governor promised to take after a broader legislative effort was blocked earlier this year by Republicans in the state Senate.
One of Rep. Chris Collins» first major legislative efforts took a big step forward, as the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology approved his bill establishing a grant program that aims to fund innovations being created at the nation's universities, research institutes and laboratories.
The drastic increase in political donations points to the fact that high frequency traders are growing in number and are concerned over possible legislative efforts to mitigate their algorithmic trading.
A bipartisan legislative effort to ban bump stocks last year fizzled out.
In direct opposition to Duke Energy's position on climate, ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture task force continues to advance legislative efforts that attempt to deny the realities of climate change.
Previously, she served as director of research & policy at the Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access (IDEA) at UCLA where she oversaw public policy and legislative efforts focused on education equity and access, student and parent engagement, and school transformation.
Skype enables lawmakers to hold meetings with their constituents who are unable to travel to the Congressional office, participate in virtual town hall meetings when the Member is not in her District, and build relationships and collaborate more effectively with other Members on important legislative efforts.
Inclusion of the required content and time elements into a full day or multi-day new member orientation program (which includes other topics such as legislative efforts, MLS, fair housing, antitrust, etc.).
Among other legislative efforts, we continue to push for passage of the SAFE Act, which would create a permanent ban on horse slaughter and prohibit the dangerous transport of horses across our borders for slaughter.
Legislative efforts concerning workers» compensation should focus not on further eroding the rights of the injured, but on improving workplace safety and providing meaningful oversight of workers» compensation insurers.

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