Sentences with phrase «legislature at»

Nevertheless, general rules of statutory construction dictate that the courts must ensure that statutes are implemented in accordance with the «intent» of the legislature at the time they were enacted.

Nor does it abate the community appetite for retribution and risks putting the legislature at loggerheads with the judiciary.

Sandy Rosenberg, D - Baltimore, outlining the task force's recommendations, will be introduced to the legislature at the start of the next session, which begins on Jan. 14, said Dumais, who plans to co-sponsor the bill.»

Another critic of the legislature at the State Board of Education meeting was Connecticut Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor.

State - level voters would have grounds to fire the governor or legislature at the next election and to vote for higher or lower education taxes in the next referendum.

Former Republican leader of the County Legislator Frank Fornario was in the legislature at the time.

In the meantime, Cuomo says instead of negotiating with the legislature at the Capitol, he plans to focus instead on building infrastructure, including airports roads and bridges, and the long awaited upgrade of New York City's Penn station.

Cody was not on the legislature at the time of the vote.

The county charter mandates that the law creating the referendum clear the legislature at least 60 days before the public vote.

When he was told by a reporter that the firm does indeed have several clients with business before the state, Flanagan talked of past attempts by the legislature at fuller disclosure, that have yet to be completed.

Scharff says Cuomo does not need to deal with any opposition in the legislature at all.

The State University of New York, «the largest comprehensive system of postsecondary education in the country,» now serves 600,000 students each year, Chancellor Nancy Zimpher told the state legislature at a budget hearing in January.

He similarly canvassed for the allocation of 51 per cent of the gross income of all members of the executive and legislature at Federal, state and local government levels to the same cancer cause, saying, «you will see the wonder these deductions will do in early detection of cancer and its management».

«I think the members of the legislature at the time reacted to the information they had,» Dinolfo said.

Republicans hold the slimmest of majorities in the legislature at 12 - 11, and the Democrats, who outnumber their rivals countywide by almost 10,000 votes, are bullish on their chances for the majority.

The state constitution appears to say the governor must address the State of State to the Legislature: «The governor shall communicate by message to the legislature at every session the condition of the state, and recommend such matters to it as he or she shall judge expedient.»

Lawmakers came back to the state Capitol at the command of Governor Andrew Cuomo, who called an extraordinary session of the legislature at 1 p.m. Wednesday to deal with unfinished business.

The report of the budget committee to the legislature must lay on the table of the legislature at least 48 hours prior to the annual meeting to adopt the budget.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone will venture out next week to deliver his State of the County speech at Newfield High School in Selden, despite a 2010 law that says he should make his annual report to the county legislature at a regularly scheduled meeting.

Fitzpatrick worked briefly for the county legislature at the beginning of this year.

An ethics reform measure approved by the New York legislature at the end of the legislative session still hasn't been signed by Governor Cuomo.

The bicameral legislature at the moment is essentially saying «I'm thinking of a number between 0 and 100.

On Friday afternoon, the governor's office released 259 individual vetoes for the appropriation budget bills, which were passed by the state legislature at the end of March.

The museums plan to seek a one - time waiver from the legislature at this fall's veto session.

While Canada has two legislatures at the federal level, the House of Commons constitutes the centre of political power.

In November 1992, the voters of Colorado, in a referendum, foreclosed to legislatures at all levels the authority to treat gays and lesbians on the same plane as groups that have suffered discrimination based on race, religion, and gender.

Marguerite Roza gave this presentation on November 10, 2011 to members of the National Conference of State Legislatures at «Reallocation of Scarce State Resources: A Seminar for Education Committee Chairs.»

· Personnel in departments of education and legislatures at the state and federal levels must understand that only classroom teachers can directly impact instruction and learning.

Or Tawhida Ahmed's piece on the Roma, particularly commendable for seeing through the formalism and hypocrisy which mark the work of many legislatures at the national and the European levels regarding the Roma.

While paralyzing partisanship, elections and fiscal throwdowns had most lawmakers spending 2012 doing a good impression of rats caught in a coffee can, legislatures at the state level did appear to find a bit of unexpected common ground.

Not exact matches

We've seen that before: The bill that averted a debt - ceiling crisis earlier this year — by temporarily suspending the borrowing limit — would have frozen Congressional pay if the House or Senate had failed to pass a budget by April 15 (lawmakers would have received their salaries anyway at the end of the current legislature).

«Let's compare the (maximum) $ 5 million in a fine versus the billions of dollars of investment and the thousands of jobs,» Bilous told reporters at the legislature Tuesday.

The legislature resumes at a time of political upheaval, with both opposition parties dealing with significant changes in their ranks.

ALBANY, N.Y., March 31 - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature agreed late on Friday on a $ 168 billion budget for fiscal 2019, including measures aimed at offsetting damage to taxpayers from new federal tax changes.

Horwath recently removed her chief of staff and campaign director after he was accused of not taking seriously sexual misconduct allegations brought to him during his time at Manitoba's legislature.

The District of Columbia clocks in with the highest hourly pay rate at $ 10.50 per hour, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

This week, China's legislature «cleaned up the law by bringing laws into synch with one another,» says Keith Hand, a senior fellow at Yale Law School's China Law Center.

Elena Sidorenko, who heads an interdepartmental working group on cryptocurrencies at the State Duma, the lower house of Russia's legislature, said it is widely known that Chinese traders use cryptocurrencies to send their revenues abroad.

Wildrose Leader Brian Jean spoke at the Saturday rally at the legislature to protest Alberta's upcoming carbon tax.

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.

But I ran into blogger extraordinaire Warren Kinsella at the legislature and note -LSB-...]

The PQ government holds just a slim majority of seats in the legislature, so it would need support from at least one opposition party for the budget to pass.

Quebec Premier Pauline Marois responds to Opposition questions on economy and the upcoming budget speech, Tuesday, February 18, 2014 at the legislature in Quebec City.

James and New Democrat MLAs Adrian Dix and Jane Shin met with franchisees at the B.C. legislature on Wednesday before introducing the Franchise Act in the house.

The state of Arizona is currently at the forefront of cryptocurrency tax acceptance, as a bill is making its way through the state legislature that would allow Arizona residents to pay their taxes with Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies.

For anyone who missed it, here is Selina speaking about her activities in the community and at the legislature:

It's also grappling with systematic racial discrimination from hosts, facing a crackdown from the New York state legislature, and, as of Monday, suing San Francisco over short - term rental rules that the city's board of supervisors passed unanimously at the start of June.

Ric Dolphin is president of Dolphin Media Inc., an Alberta company based at the provincial legislature in Edmonton, from where it publishes Insight Into Government, a widely read, politically and financially independent, weekly newsletter about politics in Alberta.

VICTORIA — B.C.'s New Democrats stood up for residents of coastal communities Tuesday as several hundred British Columbians gathered at the legislature to protest the B.C. Liberals» reckless cuts to ferry services.

Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, known as the «notwithstanding clause,» has just about acquired the status of a zombie law in recent decades, left largely untouched by legislatures (at least in the Rest of Canada).