Sentences with phrase «legislature calling»

A resolution in the county legislature calling for a repeal of parts of the state law was passed last month.

Republican leaders of the Nassau County legislature called on County Executive Ed Mangano to resign.

Democrats in Nassau's legislature called Friday on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate what they called an «ongoing civil rights crisis» involving inadequate medical care at the county jail after a series of inmate deaths.

In 2005, the couple convinced the Nevada legislature to let them launch a public school for what the legislature called the «profoundly gifted» on the Reno campus.

As Wisconsin moves forward to expand the state's voucher program, a bill has been introduced in the state legislature called the Wisconsin Voucher Taxpayer Transparency Bill.

Schools in more than 20 Kentucky counties were closed Friday as teachers across the state, frustrated by a pension reform bill passed by the legislature called in sick.

A recent review of the state of the Common Core by Education Week found, «a spate of bills in state legislatures calling for the slowdown or abandonment of common - core implementation, or withdrawal from the state assessment consortia designing aligned tests.

In an attempt to address the state's education funding problem, in 2006 the legislature called for an independent Costing - Out study to determine the resources needed to help students achieve state academic standards.

We will therefore next look at another scam created by the legislature called Ghost Money before reviewing how two poison pills inserted into the Levy Swipe Scam will cause dramatic declines in school funding in the coming years.

Defensive driving classes — or driving safety courses, as the Texas legislature calls them — were begun to make Texas drivers better trained and Texas roads safer.

In 2014, California's legislature called for the formation of a multi-stakeholder task force, the California Task Force on Maternal Mental Health Care to study maternal mental health barriers to diagnosis and care as well as best practices.

Not exact matches

Jonah Schein, an NDP member of the Ontario legislature, tabled a private member's bill in early March calling for greater legal protection for unpaid interns, along with improved tracking.

Proponents of the bill were hoping a passage by the legislature would have been a call to action for other states, as more than 20 others have considered passing their own Internet privacy bills.

He called the measure passed by California's legislature «a well - balanced bill.»

So Walker has thus far held off on signing the budget into law and has called the legislature back for a second special session, beginning July 11.

Republican Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who is president of the state Senate, listed what he called a «Women's Privacy Act» as one of his top 10 priorities when the legislature reconvenes in January.

Some Democratic lawmakers have called for a special session of the legislature to censure LePage, who earlier this year fought off an impeachment effort.

In February, after female reporters complained that lawmaker Leonid Slutsky had harassed them in parliament, not only were there no demands that he step down, but a deputy speaker of the Duma, Igor Lebedev, called for these journalists to be barred from covering the legislature.

Illinois's solar market under the Future Energy Jobs Act is just getting started, but a business group is calling for the next governor and state legislature to provide less restriction and more action in community and distributed solar programs.

A day after the Parkland shooting, the Oregon state legislature closed what was called the «Boyfriend Loophole» in its laws about gun ownership among those convicted of domestic violence.

With Marois widely expected to call an election, the legislature may never get the chance to vote on the budget.

Missouri House and Senate leaders are expected to announce Thursday night that they have gathered enough support from lawmakers to call the state legislature into a special session for impeachment proceedings against Gov. Eric Greitens.

Prior to the election being called, the Progressive Conservative Party held a majority government with 31 of 52 seats in the Nova Scotia legislature.

Kahlon asked the premier to stop the political games, delays and distraction and call a confidence motion in the legislature so the new John Horgan government can give seniors, like Mr. Mohoney, the support they deserve.

Prior to the calling of the 2008 general election, the party standings in the provincial legislature were as follows:

Regulators in Missouri, Utah, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere have called for greater scrutiny of Google and others, citing antitrust concerns; some critics have suggested that our courts and legislatures need to go after tech firms in the same way the trustbusters broke up oil and railroad monopolies a century ago.

He makes a big deal about the fact that one of the paths to amendment that Article V allows is a proposing convention called for by 2/3 of the state legislatures, and then ratified by either 3/4 those legislatures themselves or 3/4 of special state - ratifying conventions.

Sadly, this call for episcopal discretion in political matters is belied at every turn by the bishops» heavy - handed lobbying, in the parishes and in the legislatures, for a particular program of immigration reform.

In his effort to obtain governmental support for his total national and world mission, the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has made personal appearances before legislatures in Iowa, Illinois and Michigan, calling upon them to assist him in «the alleviation of human suffering.»

In 1973 the American Bar Association called on state legislatures to repeal all laws which place homosexual activity between consenting adults in private in the category of a crime.

It can, in other words, position itself as a pedagogue, upstream of the actual member state legislatures, declaring as a matter of Europe - wide policy what is or is not a human right, and «calling on» member states to bring their legislation into line with what are now the human rights norms that every civilized nation agrees on.

In the State of Colorado in 1944 a special session of the legislature was called to consider a bill to outlaw the holding of property by all persons of Japanese origin.

The Florida state legislature — at least the key committees controlled by Democrats — refused in a special session called by the governor to consider abortion restrictions.

By the 1830s, bills calling for abolition of capital punishment were being regularly introduced, and defeated, in several state legislatures.

Where Gibson is private, McLain, 49, holds the most public of jobs in the 1990s: He hosts a radio call - in show in Detroit, discoursing during morning drive time on everything from the state legislature to the state of the world.

The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress

The Arizona state legislature has just passed a bill called SB 1062, designed to protect religious liberty.

The State Health Department has spoken with advocates and opponents of letting people who were adopted access their original birth certificates, and will issue a report that may push the state legislature to pass what is called a clean adoption reform bill.

Members of Nassau County legislature's Republican majority called on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to extend deadlines for homeowners seeking state disaster recovery funds to rebuilding their homes after superstorm Sandy.

The state legislature is considering the Save New York Call Center Jobs Act, which would hold corporations like Verizon accountable for keeping jobs in New York.

«We also need a real independent monitor, because the legislature's so called, «self policing», obviously, hasn't worked.

With homelessness rising throughout New York state, a coalition is calling on the legislature to expand tenant laws and other protections.

The chorus of New York politicians calling for the legislature to leave the acting state attorney general, Barbara Underwood, in place is growing.

Another group, Reclaim New York, called the practice a «deliberate defrauding of New Yorkers, and another stain on a state legislature tarnished by corruption.»

StateWatch Guru Mike Poulopoulos, who has more than a decade of experience at the Capitol, explains how the governor calls these sessions, outlines possible responses from the legislature, and forecasts the potential agenda for the extraordinary session in 2017.

The Republican leader of the state Assembly is calling for the legislature to return for a special session to wrap up some unfinished business.

Albany, New York — In a move that veteran lawmakers called «unprecedented», Governor Andrew Cuomo sent his Lieutenant Governor, Robert Duffy, to defend his proposed school aid cuts to a joint hearing of the legislature's education and fiscal committees.

Join Democracy Action as we call for a special election in the Missouri state legislature.

Nebraska also has a unique provision: Although the legislature can call a special statewide election to vote on a proposed amendment, an 80 % affirmative vote is required.

The New York State legislature's Black, Hispanic and Asians Caucus is reacting to events in Baltimore and is calling for swift action on a package of criminal justice reforms that have been stalled in the state Senate.