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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.

Among other contents: a snapshot of NAR's legislative efforts in Washington, D.C., and a rundown of recent victories such as the $ 8,000 first - time buyer tax credit and the bill that permanently bans banking conglomerates from entering the real estate business.

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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.

While Congress» legislative efforts in regulating «usury», lenders leapt on an end - around tactic to boost balance transfer fees and most likely will drop easy offers to consumers with less than excellent credit scores.

The article highlighted successful legislative efforts in several states regarding media literacy.

(For more on legislative efforts in Texas, see «Cultivating Community Schools.»)

Even though thousands of voters were clear in their message to Lansing on several extreme legislative efforts in the November election and during December's lame duck session, a force in Lansing is intent on -LSB-...]

Yesterday I was contacted by Susan Haigh who wrote to say she was the statehouse / political writer for The Associated Press in Connecticut She told me she was working on a national story about the legislative efforts in CT and other...

About Blog GovInfoSecurity.com covers the latest news, laws, regulations and directives related to government information security, focusing on the White House's cybersecurity initiatives, the latest legislative efforts in Congress, as well as thought leadership from top government CISOs.

About Blog GovInfoSecurity.com covers the latest news, laws, regulations and directives related to government information security, focusing on the White House's cybersecurity initiatives, the latest legislative efforts in Congress, as well as thought leadership from top government CISOs.

Corcoran, a Land O» Lakes Republican, appeared Tuesday on Laura Ingraham's nationally syndicated talk - radio show to discuss legislative efforts in response to the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

Any legislative effort in New York has to go through the Assembly speaker, Senate leader and the governor.

While not anticipating a comprehensive ESA reform legislative effort in 2017, NAR continues to pursue «rifle shot» opportunities as they arise.

Not exact matches

It will be a long week in Washington with a lot of moving parts that could overshadow the tax reform effort, which Republicans hope will be the first major legislative win since Trump took office.

With Republican efforts to «repeal and replace» Obamacare in legislative limbo, and with potentially enormous changes in federal budget outlays on the horizon, the outlook for healthcare policy is cloudier than it has been in years — adding yet another challenge to those who want to invest and innovate in this area.

April 6: Facebook says it will require admins of popular pages and advertisers buying political or «issue» ads on «debated topics of national legislative importance» like education or abortion to verify their identity and location — in an effort to fight disinformation on its platform.

TALLAHASSEE — Three months after 13 elderly residents in a South Florida nursing home died because of sweltering conditions following Hurricane Irma, lawsuits and legislative inaction are holding up efforts aimed at preventing such deaths in the future.

In this way, the letter encouraged SEC chair Jay Clayton and CFTC chair J. Christopher Giancarlo to follow through on efforts to collaborate with the U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve on legislative actions.

So it was a little strange to see Will publish an article last week praising Brown's legislative efforts to shrink America's largest banks in order to remove any systemic threat that their failure might pose to the U.S. economy.

Susan Westrom, D - Lexington, received the first «100 Proof Award» for her tireless efforts in the 2010 legislative session to modernize Kentucky's Bourbon sampling laws

This message is in conflict with the efforts of President Donald Trump, who has made a series of anti-immigration proposals and legislative moves ranging from the Mexican border wall to the travel ban against seven Muslim countries.

Among these layers are a variety of tax rules, which encourage religions to reshape themselves so as to be eligible for tax benefits, and the recent legislative efforts, certainly constitutional but perhaps of dubious value to religion, to allow religious groups to share in the rather substantial largesse of the programmatic side of the welfare state.

Clearly then, «Dignity in Dying» (formerly, the Voluntary Euthanasia Society), the lobby group at the centre of efforts to introduce assisted suicide, believed that the Falconer provisions contained the winning legislative formula that would have allowed them to get them this first crucial foothold in the law.

But it is also referenced in a recent Arizona legislative effort to prohibit abortions after twenty weeks, which includes the language, ««Gestational age» means the age of the unborn child as calculated from the first day of the last menstrual period of the pregnant woman.»

Direct - entry midwives have been legal in Colorado since 1993 due to the efforts of the CMA, and the CMA continues to be the legislative force behind maintaining and updating the regulation of direct - entry midwifery in Colorado.

She was an active member of both California Association of Midwives and California Nurse Midwives Association, working as a liaison to the boards of both during the licensed midwife practice act legislation in the 1990s, and lobbied extensively for both CNM and LM legislative efforts.

The most immediate threat is posed by legislative efforts to include language in the pending Agriculture Appropriations bill which would weaken or remove various school food requirements.

National LAC Meeting Scholarship In an ongoing effort to help its members develop professionally, the Georgia School Nutrition Foundation is offering a scholarship to attend SNA's Legislative Action Conference (LAC) 2017.

Secretary Matthew Beaton of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EOEEA) and the Plymouth region's legislative delegation have been particularly supportive in this effort.

SNA members can participate in SNA's advocacy effort by attending SNA's Legislative Action Conference, utilizing SNA's Policy Resources, and supporting SNA's Political Action Committee.

Some of these efforts include: annual «Hike to Harrisburg» to thank legislators for a great legislative year for athletic trainers in PA and to educate the legislature about the profession.

and putting real muscle behind legislative efforts to rein in the marketing of junk food to -LSB-...]

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Fruscher ominously notes that a «much more significant downsizing of our entire workforce lies ahead,» but the OTB is awaiting legislative approval for an early - retirement incentive program and a joint effort with the union that represents most of the operation's workforce in accordance with a MOU.

Tonight kicks off what will be biweekly sessions in an effort to pass marriage legislation by the end of the 2011 legislative session.

But now Republicans in battleground legislative and congressional campaigns are tying Democrats to the fundraising issues surrounding de Blasio and the 2014 effort to apparently funnel donations through county committees to individual candidates.

Republican lawmakers in the chamber have for the past several legislative sessions pushed for an ease to regulations in the state, and this year the GOP conference renewing that effort after ultimately backing an increase to the state's minimum wage in the budget, with the floor growing to $ 15 in some parts of the state over the next several years.

Klein and the IDC faces primary challenges this year and the relationship to achieve legislative victories like minimum wage increases and efforts to strengthen abortion rights in New York added strains over the years.

An effort to curtail LLC political giving legislatively stalled in the Senate at the end of the legislative session, which concluded last month.

New York's Democratic lawmakers and gun - control advocates have won an important new ally in their effort to push a legislative ban of bump stocks, which turn semi-automatic rifles into virtual machine guns: Acting ATF Director Thomas Brandon.

At 10:30 a.m., Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry, state Sen. Kevin Parker, survivors of solitary confinement and others host a panel discussion on solitary confinement in New York and efforts to stop the practice, Legislative Office Building, Hearing Room B, Albany.

As The NYT reported today, the coalition of wealthy business types, which seemed strikingly similar to the Committee to Save New York when it was first announced earlier this year, are mobilizing an effort on removing money from politics with mailers in swing legislative districts.

Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle on Tuesday introduced an alternative version of a bill designed to legalize mixed - martial arts in New York in an effort to pass the measure in the final days of the legislative session.

So we've been talking about this effort by this group, the Republican State Leadership Committee, to put not huge amounts of money, but enough money to make a difference in a few dozen state legislative races, hoping that Republicans could then control statehouses, and after the 2010 census draw the new congressional lines.

Other question topics included how Cuomo's love of cars and motorcycles affects his actions on mass transit, the ongoing investigations of Mayor de Blasio's fundraising efforts in the 2014 senate elections and whether Cuomo has been questioned in those investigations, current legislative efforts at retroactively extending the statute of limitations in child sex abuse cases, the developing troubles of Suffolk County District Attorney Tom Spota and whether Cuomo will act to remove Spota, the likelihood of «ethics reform» passing in this legislative session, the timing of an inspector general's report on the 2015 Dannemora prison escape and Cuomo's planned trip to Italy.

In essence, the effort to replace Schneiderman — whose resignation became official at 5 p.m. — will be on two separate tracks: the legislative and the ballot box.

He's also got strong relationships with both Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill which could come in handy in future budget talks or legislative efforts on immigration and infrastructure.

Outerborough opposition to congestion pricing remains a key obstacle to legislative approval, and it's unclear how much political capital Cuomo wants to invest in the effort.