Sentences with phrase «legislative language»

He noted that it's easy to come out in favor of tax reform in the abstract, but now that concrete reforms are on paper in legislative language, the discussion can begin.

Specific legislative language should be vetted by the parties most directly affected, in this case the religious communities.

• Requires experience focused on R&D Policy and the landscape on which R&D is conducted, in order to effectively analyze and interpret proposed legislative language and policy guidance.

Our efforts haven't yet resulted in strong legislative language to move forward — but there's still time.

Second, at this time there is no proposed legislative language that is bad for charters.

He also proposes changes in statute to make the budget — a multi-part document that can be difficult to decipher without a intricate knowledge of legislative language — more readable and digestible for the public.

The bill, expected to be taken up by the U.S. Senate as early as next week, contains specific legislative language on local governance that restores the balance between federal and local government and provides states and school districts the flexibility needed to support student learning and achievement.

Over the next several years funding was completely frozen, followed by a few thaw years when all funding increases to charters came from legislative language negotiated during the state budget process, not through the formula.

The hailstorm of press releases, as usual, preceded the release of actual legislative language by several hours.

[52] In sum, the Court finds that, absent clear legislative language prohibiting class action waivers, it must give effect to the parties» agreement to arbitrate.

In legislative language drafted this week, it is seeking to require financial firms that offer customized derivatives to maintain higher capital cushions.

Ride - hailing services can begin operating in new parts of the state as soon as July 9, but with all the wonkish provisions lawmakers dumped into the final legislative language, the industry will see differences that may lead to impacts on consumers.

Legislative language like that would have allowed the state and towns to circumvent contracting requirements when handing over public schools to third parties.

Officials of three major «health sharing» organizations say they are watching the Capitol Hill discussions closely, and suggesting legislative language to ensure they qualify if Congress requires a «mandate» that all Americans carry health insurance.

In response to the Governor's 19th State of the State proposal and the Assembly and Senate's budget proposals; we encourage the Legislature to consider legislative language that would allow for the following:

The «school runs» — tabulations that transform legislative language into dollar amounts for each school district — will be available Sunday evening.

Lawmakers were reviewing legislative language on a bill that would rebuff Mayor Michael Bloomberg and make teacher evaluations available only to parents, not the wider public, the people said.

The AAAS has joined 140 medical, public health, scientific, and academic organizations in urging Congress to drop legislative language that has restricted research on gun violence through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Weighing in at more than 800 pages of dense legislative language, the bill is very difficult to understand for those who are not lawmaking experts.

Last week, Stephen Sawchuk reported that delegates to this year's NEA Representative Assembly approved a resolution which directs the union to draft model legislative language that would prevent districts from punishing students who opt out of standardized tests.

The department was accused of being a «national school board,» and, finally, eight years after NCLB was supposed to be rewritten, it has been — with some of it a direct rebuke to Education Secretary Arne Duncan, as seen in legislative language such as this:

And now, thanks to a handful of moderately conservative GOP Senators, including former Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander, we have actual legislative language bringing this commonsense approach to life.

The Forum on Educational Accountability (FEA) has submitted legislative language based on the Joint Organizational Statement on NCLB to the U.S. House and Senate Education Committees that would remake the law into an effective tool for school improvement.

To that end, we would suggest that legislative language capturing the following items be located in the reauthorization of NCLB.

common sense trumps legislative language, in effect.

When Connecticut's School Climate Report was finally issued, there were simply no recommendations, despite the specific legislative language mandating that recommendations be provided.

The thing that Berger and Moore say is there (funding for the class - size mandate) isn't there, and legislative language admits as such.

There is, as far as I could find, no think tank putting a bill [on climate change] together or thinking through legislative language.

In addition to providing legislative language, Neihaus provided talking points for the Senator's testimony on the bill, potential questions for opponents of the pro-chemistry industry bill, and background documents written by ACC staff and consultants attacking LEED green building standards.

The Hill notes that the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a conservative group that drafts legislative language favoring corporate interests that fund it, is working to overturn the EPA's finding.

On the one hand, asking the Supreme Court for its opinion, but, on the other hand, introducing new legislative language to tell the Supreme Court what its opinion must be?

Much clearer legislative language would be necessary to persuade me that the legislative drafter intended that Attorneys General — who represent broader interests, potentially the interests of millions of members of the public — should face more impediments to intervention than private parties.

Yet for all wonkish provisions that lawmakers dumped into the final legislative language, expansion of ride - hailing services outside of New York is what the public overwhelmingly asked them to accomplish during the legislative session this year.

But when it comes time for Congress to get down to actual legislative language, members will have to choose whether to open the door to all comers, including states with pitifully low standards (compared to those of the National Assessment of Educational Progress), deficient data and student - tracking systems, and a poor track record on including English language learners and students with disabilities.

The Supreme Court has also relied on broader instances of legislative language, such as concurrent jurisdiction on questions of law, to apply a correctness standard: see Rogers.

Sources have indicated that legislative language on a number of topics is privately circulating, including Cuomo's proposals to change oversight of state procurement and fund an anti-hate crimes task force.

The Executive Budget also reflects extensive work done by the Department of Taxation and Finance staff over the past several years in developing specific legislative language; efforts informed by a significant amount of input from the interested public.

And the challenges created by policing individuals from converting higher - taxed wages into lower - taxed business profits, both from a legislative language perspective and an enforcement perspective with the limited resources of the IRS, would be near impossible.

More importantly, the legislative language explicitly states that «microstamp - ready» firearms must put unique codes on spent cartridge cases on at least two places.

Legislative language has been circulating privately for several weeks; on Tuesday, POLITICO New York published some drafts of the ride - hailing bill.

Saland agonized over this issue with his gay - marriage - supporting wife, but one acquaintance said his decision seemed to grow out of his immersion in the legislative language.

Even as some legislators were learning the outlines of the proposals, legislative language was still circulating — out of public view — among a small circle of people close to the governor, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, Senate Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.

Veering too far from the legislative language could prompt lawsuits or other action.

We are grateful for Congress's foresight to include legislative language from the PALS Act in the Consolidated Appropriations Act.

Astonishingly, however, the legislative language and departmental pronouncements enabled — actually, all but guaranteed — this $ 75 billion investment in the status quo.

This book could have gone deeper into the kind of research that NCLB and other legislation require, how the legislative language on required research and assessment was derived, how it is being interpreted and specified by the federal agencies, and the specific weaknesses in the research that passes administrative muster.

Assume that, with a Republican Congress writing the legislative language and the Trump Treasury Department writing any necessary regulations, the feds somehow thread this needle effectively, and apply a light touch from Washington.