Sentences with phrase «legislature approved»

The legislature approved the appropriation bill on March 9, 2006.

Taubman Centers was saved when the Michigan legislature approved a law making the family's B - class common shares legal, giving them the votes they needed to veto the proposed takeover.

Encouraged by the success of Sixpence in improving children's preparedness to learn and achieve in Nebraska schools, the state legislature approved additional Sixpence investments in 2013.

In May, bipartisan majorities in the legislature approved policies that strengthen the state's ability to get the full, cost - saving benefits of voluntary home visiting.

As Jalopnik reported in December, when the Nevada legislature approved a bill to secure Faraday's...

This year, however, the Oklahoma legislature approved, and the Governor has now signed, an increase in judicial salaries for trial judges only (i.e. District Court Judges, Associate District Court Judges, and Special District Court Judges) as HJR 1096 of 2014.

The next year, Barrett says, Nixon actually cut the indigent defense budget by $ 3.47 million, the same amount as the increase the legislature approved.

Also, it is worth monitoring a very recent development in Oregon where the state legislature approved a bill that would provide free tuition to state colleges for students who agree to repay the government about three percent of their future earnings over roughly 20 years.

Though the state legislature approved a ban on the natural gas extraction process at the end of June, governor Chris Christie has vetoed the bill, sending it back to

Connecticut's state legislature approved the necessary regulations to establish the program with the Department of Environmental Protection on Saturday.

After the legislature approved the credits, Exelon said it would keep the plants open at least another 10 years; the utility said that would save 4,200 jobs.

Just yesterday, in fact, two committees in the Washington legislature approved different bills calling for 100 % fossil - free electricity.

In 2002, the California legislature approved Senate Bill 1078, which created the state's renewable portfolio standard (RPS), one of the most ambitious of its kind in the country.

The Vermont legislature approved a bill legalizing the possession of small quantities of recreational marijuana.

In April, the state legislature approved charter - school expansion, merit pay and limits on collective bargaining.

They argue that since the legislature approved the use of public funds to support charter schools in 1992, charters have become firmly a part of the education community.

This announcement comes after the legislature approved and the governor signed a bill to eliminate SBAC testing for eleventh graders earlier this year based on the recommendation of a committee made up of education stakeholders.

In the nation's largest city, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been in charge of the nation's largest school system since 2002, when the state legislature approved legislation putting the 1.1 - million - student system under control of the New York City mayor.

In 2012, the state legislature approved the Dyslexia Scholarship.

The legislature approved House Bill 520 during the 2017 regular session of the General Assembly paving the way for charter schools in Kentucky.

Attendance Awareness Month Resolution: On September 11, 2014, the California legislature approved Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 149, authored by Assemblymember Shirley Weber and declaring September 2014 as School Attendance Awareness Month.

In 2012, the state legislature approved by the Dyslexia Scholarship, Mississippi's first private school choice program and the nation's first school choice program designed exclusively for students with dyslexia.

The state legislature approved the Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship program in 2012 to provide a new educational option for students with dyslexia.

To understand why, you have to look at the details of the plan that the legislature approved, and consider how it will likely play out in the years ahead.

The Louisiana legislature approved a 2008 measure requiring the state board to develop methods of targeted intervention or to identify other appropriate existing methods for districts with a four - year cohort graduation rate below 70 %.

Last spring, as part of an education - reform package, the South Dakota legislature approved a «family option» measure allowing parents in districts with high - school enrollments of fewer than 45 students the option of sending children to larger schools in neighboring districts.

When the legislature approved the state budget in July, it plugged a deficit by cutting $ 2 billion from its spending plan and by adding projected revenue from new video - lottery terminals, similar to slot...

After much debate, the Maryland legislature approved such a bill last week, and legislators in Oregon, Illinois, and Hawaii, among others, are now debating similar — and equally controversial — legislation.

The legislature approved $ 9.1 billion of its $ 46 billion state budget for education July 24.

In a last - minute move at the end of its session, the Washington legislature approved a measure that would «deregulate» the state's schools.

The state's legislature approved the ban last February, setting the stage for a challenge to the 1973 Supreme Court abortion ruling Roe v. Wade.

The legislature approved that budget — therefore giving its de facto approval to selling this building.

Last year, Cuomo proposed and the state legislature approved reducing pension benefits for new state workers.

On April 30, 2012, the state legislature approved state legislative district lines.

The county legislature approved the overall $ 1billion budget in a partly line vote, 19 to 10.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the legislature approved a plan in the state budget to encourage local governments and schools to merge and share services over the next few years, in an attempt to lower property taxes.

Further clouding our budget concerns is the county legislature's recent decision to join a lawsuit to stop the closure of the nursing home — even though the legislature approved the closure in the budget, and then took the expected savings to fund its discretionary spending.

Antonacci filed suit in January after the legislature approved pay raises for County Executive Joanie Mahoney and all 17 legislators.

The legislature approved the county's 2014 $ 1.2 billion budget Tuesday night.

Nassau has paid Looks Great about $ 35 million of $ 68.8 million that the county legislature approved for Sandy cleanup work.

The Suffolk legislature approved the contracts overwhelmingly.

The revised budget includes $ 16 million in new mortgage recording fees and tax map verification fees that the Republican - controlled legislature approved last week.

In addition, the legislature approved several items related to law enforcement and emergency preparedness.

[A] t the Ways and means meeting, the legislature approved a resolution to deny the use of County insignia on any material concerning the SAFE Act.

With 16 of 21 legislators in attendance voting in favor — a veto - proof majority assembled through executive lobbying — the Ulster legislature approved a series of Hein policy initiatives, to wit:

The Onondaga County legislature approved $ 50 million in funding for the amphitheater in November 2014.

The county legislature approved it by a 10 - 5 vote, with five Democrats voting against it.

The legislature approved a bill to eventually fund the counties» costs by 2023, but it was vetoed by Governor Andrew Cuomo on New Year's Eve.

At Tuesday night's meeting, the Tompkins County legislature approved an agreement with a company

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the legislature approved a plan in the state budget to encourage local governments and schools to merge and share services over the next few years in an attempt to lower property taxes.