Sentences with phrase «legislative language on»

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.

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.

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Sources on Friday afternoon indicated the agreement had been reached and language was being haggled over between legislative aides.

One legislative leader is calling on the Erie County Water Authority to eliminate language that makes it possible for politically connected people with no public utility management credentials to serve as the agency's executive director.

Progress on a new state budget limped along a day after Cuomo and legislative leaders held a private meeting that was described, in its most generous terms, as explosive in tone and language.

A meeting with the legislative leaders on Wednesday afternoon concluded with Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Senate IDC Leader Jeff Klein hopeful the Assembly would pass a version similar to the Senate's amendment that has languished over concerns the language was too broadly written.

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

Perhaps the more interesting thing will be to see where the Assembly stands on the challenge from the Senate regarding changes made through budget language to how prisoners are counted for legislative districting, where the Assembly likely sides with the governor on the policy outcome but with the Senate on institutional prerogatives and procedure.

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

Both the Senate and Assembly adjourned on Wednesday night without coming to a conclusive end to the legislative session and without bill language being printed.

Speed cameras have less legislative momentum, but language was included in the Assembly's budget priorities that would allow them to be placed in 290 school zones — double the existing authorization, which expires at year's end — and allow cameras within a quarter - mile of schools, not just on adjacent streets.

The language in the Moreland Commission's report on legislative corruption is scathing, and validates what crusading journalists, watchdog groups and prosecutors have been saying for years: Albany is a place where laws are bought, and nothing will change until the «dysfunctional electoral and political systems» are reformed.

«I would like to meet with legislative leaders and the attorney general's office first, before a special session is called,» said Fasano in a letter to Aresimowicz, «so that I can better understand the proposed language you referenced in your statement today and learn more about where the tribes stand on this issue.»

ALBANY — The Cuomo administration and legislative leaders have reached agreement on language to protect religious institutions from obligations to recognize same - sex marriage, two people involved in the negotiations said on Friday afternoon, potentially paving the way for a vote on the marriage legislation.

The language: «The proposed amendment to Section 14 of Article 3 of the State Constitution would allow electronic distribution of a state legislative bill to satisfy the constitutional requirement that a bill be printed and on the desks of state legislators at least three days before the Legislature votes on it.

But then, late on the final night of the 2014 legislative session, her reform bill's language was weakened and inserted into a massive budget bill.

This «final» product is weak on ethical standards and comprehensive oversight, and despite language that made my key issues — term limits, an enhanced «two hat» rule and special elections for legislative vacancies — more palatable, they were still ignored.

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).

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.

However, at the board's last meeting in November, Patricia Rucker, a board member who is a former teacher and now a legislative lobbyist for the California Teachers Association, expressed concern that California started testing students on the Common Core math and English language arts standards last spring before many teachers had fully implemented a new Common Core - aligned curriculum or received adequate training in it.

The conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, which helps lawmakers write model legislation, released model policy language on Education Savings Accounts in 2016.

The model statutory language details how legislative bodies can act on the policy recommendations.

The conservative group American Legislative Exchange Council, which helps lawmakers write model legislation, released model policy language on Education Savings Accounts this year.

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.

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.

Ohio is in the final stages of making an Exxon trojan horse on hydrofracking into state law, and it appears that the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) connected Exxon's lawyers with co-sponsors of Ohio Senate Bill 315: at least 33 of the 45 Ohio legislators who co-sponsored SB 315 are ALEC members, and language from portions of the state Senate bill is similar to ALEC's «Disclosure of Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Composition Act.»

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.

Thus, the position of AG Bot and the Court was that any allegations that the substantive measure on language requirements conflicted with the treaty was both premature and inadmissible as the legislative negotiations had not been concluded.

In the wake of the Quebec government tabling Bill 14, An Act to amend the Charter of the French language, the [Quebec] Charter of Rights and Freedoms and other legislative provisions to improve yet again the eminence of the French language in Quebec (which I discussed on Slaw last December here), the Conseil supérieur de la langue française (CSLF) is of the opinion that the government needs to take a hard - line approach if it wants French to really be the common language of all Quebecers.

The opinion also analyzed at length the language and legislative history of the Kentucky informed consent statute, KRS 304.40 - 320, and held that it did not affirmatively impose a duty on a physician, but rather created a «safe harbor,» compliance with which should absolve the physician from liability for an alleged lack of informed consent.

On the basis of an ontological characterisation of legal language DALOS — Drafting Legislation with Ontology - based Support Project intend to provide law - makers and European citizens with linguistic and knowledge management tools to be used respectively in the phase of legislative drafting and in the retrieval procedures.

In public regulation of this sort there is no such thing as absolute and untrammelled «discretion», that is that action can be taken on any ground or for any reason that can be suggested to the mind of the administrator; no legislative Act can, without express language, be taken to contemplate an unlimited arbitrary power exercisable for any purpose, however capricious or irrelevant, regardless of the nature or purpose of the statute.

• 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.