Sentences with phrase «legislature as»

The goal of the Task Force was to issue a white paper summarizing findings and issuing recommendations to the CA legislature as well as other public and private entities.

On October 4, 2017, Bill 164, The Human Rights Code Amendment Act, 2017 («Bill 164») was introduced in the Ontario legislature as a private member's bill

On October 4, 2017, Bill 164, The Human Rights Code Amendment Act, 2017 («Bill 164») was introduced in the Ontario legislature as a private member's bill by Nathalie Des Rosiers, MPP (Ottawa — Vanier).

The s 159 amendments will neutralize the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal (WSIAT) and give the management of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) absolute power to decide what benefits they will allow injured workers to have, regardless of the intention of this legislature as expressed in the Act.

At issue in this latest case was the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, which is designated by the Georgia legislature as the official version of the state's laws.

The elimination of the constitutional guarantee that judicial salaries can not be cut by the legislature as part of a public officer compensation system is almost identical to what occurred in 2013 in Arkansas.

The goal of the statutory interpretation exercise is to decipher the intention of the legislature as to the meaning and effect of the words in question.

Rather they invoke the intention of the legislature as the authority for their position.

said Andrew Weaver, a Canadian climate scientist and lead author of the IPCC's section on climate projections, who was elected in May to British Columbia's provincial legislature as a Green Party member.

It is also clear that the economic interest involved have significant influence in our legislature as at each session a bill is introduced to make it a felony to record or take pictures in any of these facilities.

Ritz's biggest ask of the legislature as it finishes its session for the year deals with the state's expansive voucher program.

The laptop idea, says Silvernail, was sold to the state legislature as a way to raise test scores.

The action was part of several being considered by the legislature as it tried to improve the state's chances of receiving $ 700 million in federal funds under the Obama administration's Race to the Top competition (RttT).

Kolb, in turn, wrote to the majority leaders of each conference in both houses, asking them to jointly invite Bharara to address the legislature as a whole.

In coming weeks, said Osborne, educators and parents need to continue to apply pressure to the governor's office and the legislature as budget details continue to be hammered out before the March 31 deadline.

He has distinguished himself in the legislature as a thoughtful and effective representative of the district.

Saraki who is also the Chairman of the National Assembly, further noted that it has not been easy for Nigerians to appreciate the various roles of the legislature as an arm of government being the youngest of the three arms of government.

Under a new plan pressed by Governor Andrew Cuomo and adopted by the state legislature as part of the budget, half of a teacher's performance review could be based on how well the students do on the exams.

Two years after turning down a run for Congress, Dr. William Petit Jr. has set his sights on the state legislature as the Republican Party's nominee in the 22nd House District.

It has become fashionable in the age of county executive government to demean the old legislature as myopic, dysfunctional, parochial and ineffective.

Faced with the possibility of being expelled from the state legislature as soon as next week, State Assemblyman Vito Lopez, a Democrat from Brooklyn, today said he would resign on June 20th at the end of the legislative session and run for a seat on the New York City Council.

And the legislature as a whole, already deeply weary of being demonized, could greet the new governor's arrival as an opportunity to work toward the greater good for a change.

While some think John Quigley too young for the job, others point to Ken Ronk successfully running for legislature as a senior at SUNY New Paltz a half dozen years ago.

Some town and city legislators view the county legislature as a promotion.

At the invitation of Assemblyman Mark Gjonaj the President of Albania, Bujar Nishani, addressed the members of the NY State legislature as well as religious and community leaders from New York.

The Political and Constitutional Reform Committee looks forward to the government's support as it pursues its work on making the legislature as effective as possible.

He often spoke before the legislature as Comptroller, I would hope he is willing to hold same standard as Executive.

«A few weeks ago, nearly 100 caseworkers showed up to the legislature as a cry for help.

The news comes after Bharara criticized Cuomo, saying the governor bargained away another ethics panel that was actively probing the legislature as part of a budget deal.

Camp Anchor families and other special - needs advocates announced the lawsuit at a news conference Sunday morning outside Town Hall with Democratic supervisor candidate Laura Gillen, who previously volunteered at the camp, and attorney Jeff Gold, who is running for the county legislature as a Democrat.

A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Ghali Na'aba on Monday said described the continued friction between the executive and legislature as...

The NDC lost its majority in Ghana's legislature as well as the presidential poll.

She's said he she's been in the county legislature as long as I have longer than I have.

Under informal agreement between the executive and the new legislature, the legislature as a body was to name its three.

He sees the major roles of the county legislature as both setting policy and providing oversight, including the county's budget.

He is a former state assemblyman in New York, who was elected by the state legislature as New York State Comptroller on February 7, 2007.

Disagreements that have roiled the state's education community in the wake of new teacher evaluation laws approved by Governor Andrew Cuomo and the legislature as part of the budget were highlighted at a day long summit called by education officials.

«As to the legalities of it, well that's some of what we'll seek to explore with the MTA and potentially the legislature as we go forward,» Bratton said.

[19] Since 1984, New York State has only passed a budget on time once, in 2005, leading Paterson to call for an «end to the dysfunction in Albany» in his speech, echoing a 56 - page study from the nonpartisan New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice, which referred to the legislature as «the least deliberative and most dysfunctional in the nation.»

Even in Rivers state, the governor's wife imposed her pet project on d legislature as their constituency project, no house of Assembly member came out to cry that Mrs Amaechi was doing X and Y.

Similarly, Delta State Governor, Senator Dr Ifeanyi Okowa congratulated the Senate President, Dr Olubukola Abubakar Saraki just as he lauded the remarkable contributions of the Senate President to the development of Nigeria and the legislature as Chairman of the 8th National Assembly.

On Tuesday afternoon, a spokesman for the governor indicated that Cuomo is now looking more broadly at revising procurement contracts in New York State, and going beyond the scandal in the executive chamber to address problems highlighted in recent corruption cases in the legislature as well.

«It's unclear what rules they will be following, it's unclear how fair that process will be,» said Bharara, who says he's had some experience dealing with the state legislature as a prosecutor.

The issue is expected to be one of the first to surface in Alabama's state legislature as lawmakers there head back to session this week, and a colorful standoff is likely.

Said the Chamber of Commerce head Hoan: «We are awaiting the details of the proposal by the governor and state legislature as they work towards restructuring our tax code to adapt to the loss of [that] deduction.

The Liberals won 17 seats and 29 percent of the vote, returning to the legislature as the province's Official Opposition (CBC, Alberta Votes).

Dogwood's Strategy Director Will Horter reflects on this historic day It looks like British Columbians may finally get a government ready to fight for what's right in B.C. Today, Christy Clark announced her intention to bring back the B.C. legislature as soon as possible in June, face a confidence vote and hand over power to -LSB-...]

But this might at least serve as a marker of how far we have to go to establish the legislature as an effective and responsible scrutinizer of the nation's business and the affairs of the state.

Former federal minister Jason Kenney is newly installed in the legislature as United Conservative opposition leader, and should he win, as widely expected, he says he would set the province on a more aggressive fiscal reordering, eliminating deficits one year more quickly.

Given the benefit of modern technology, would the creators of the American political system have sculpted so unwieldy, so wasteful, so antiquated a legislature as that which we are now stuck with?