Sentences with phrase «legislature of a nation state»

Companies are only subject to legal sanctions for failing to abide by the Code where it has been incorporated into the legislature of a nation state.

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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.

If the legislature revises the final version of the amended bill to reasonably narrow the scope of the bill's coverage, California will be the first state in the nation to achieve a strong balance between regulation, innovation, and consumer protection with respect to virtual currency.

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.

Birmingham, Alabama (CNN)- When the Alabama legislature approved what is considered the nation's toughest anti-illegal immigration law, much of the state's religious community was quick to condemn it.

CNN: Latino evangelicals challenge Alabama brethren on immigration When the Alabama legislature approved what is considered the nation's toughest anti-illegal immigration law, much of the state's religious community was quick to condemn it.

Since the founding of the nation, it has been customary for both national and state legislatures to open their sessions with prayer, and the oaths taken in court and by judges end with the words, «So help me God.»

See Nation Council of State Legislatures, almost all states take efforts to purge voter registration rolls of ineligible persons, including those persons who are ineligible because of citizenship.

«We must turn this crisis into an opportunity to fundamentally remake our state into the progressive capital of the nation,» Governor Cuomo said in his message to the legislature.

[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.»

One year after state lawmakers, urged on by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, passed one of the nation's most restrictive gun laws, impacts from the NY SAFE Act continue to reverberate through the state's courts, legislature, law enforcement and shooting sports community.

The 24 - year - old, Williamsville resident says, he's one of the youngest candidates in the nation for state legislature.

That's the message that some progressives have for colleagues like Netroots Nation's Raven Brooks, who called for a boycott of the political software startup NationBuilder, and Matt Browner Hamlin, who says he'll stop recommending the software to clients, all because NationBuilder has struck a deal to provide software to Republican candidates for state legislatures.

In each of his State of the State speeches Cuomo has used the capitol building as a metaphor for something that was once glorious and can be restored; he has said he wants to re-establish New York «the progressive capital of the nation»; he has touted the number of on - time budgets he and the legislature have delivered (this year he'll say four in a row and counting); he has demanded more teacher accountability but explained new changes he's seeking; and, he has stressed a need for ethics rules overhaul and campaign finance reform while mentioning unsavory headlines.

[5] In a letter to his supporters, Ball stated that the job of reforming Albany had not been completed, saying, «From property tax reform to corruption in government, the job I set to do in 2006 is still incomplete, and it can only be accomplished by continuing to tackle our nation's most dysfunctional legislature.»

BUT If the attention paid to LeBron's free agency, actually if only a fraction of the attention paid to LeBron's free agency, were focused on what goes on in state houses across the nation, perhaps we would have legislatures that are a little more accountable to the people they represent.

If the Democrats in the state Senate were all to come together, New York would become the seventh state in the nation to have the Democratic trifecta, meaning a Democratic governor and both houses of the legislature controlled by Democrats.

Democrats have a greater opportunity to gain seats in 2016 due to their position as the minority party in most of the nation's state legislatures.

A veteran of the sharp - elbowed politics of New York's infamously dysfunctional state legislature (called the worst in the nation by the Brennan Center for Justice in 2004), Carroll assembled a team of equally determined and savvy colleagues, most of whom had honed their political skills in those same tough trenches.

The nation's schools will not improve substantially until local school boards and state legislatures set concrete goals and then get out of the way.

H aving served fourteen years in the Wisconsin state legislature before coming to Congress, I had a front - row seat to witness the growth of the nation's first and largest taxpayer - funded voucher experiment.

«The teacher shortage in our state... was exaggerated by the fact that we were dead last in teacher salaries — 51st in the nation,» Secretary of Education Melody Schopp commented in a webinar on building a strong and sustainable teacher workforce, hosted by the Learning Policy Institute, the Council of Chief State School Officers, and the National Conference of State Legislatstate... was exaggerated by the fact that we were dead last in teacher salaries — 51st in the nation,» Secretary of Education Melody Schopp commented in a webinar on building a strong and sustainable teacher workforce, hosted by the Learning Policy Institute, the Council of Chief State School Officers, and the National Conference of State LegislatState School Officers, and the National Conference of State LegislatState Legislatures.

In the majority of state legislatures, though, parent - trigger laws have not generated the major education movement that former California state Sen. Gloria Romero envisioned in 2010 when she authored the nation's first law dubbed the «parent trigger,» with help from Parent Revolution Executive Director and former Clinton administration official Ben Austin.

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.

Then in 2010, a year after Schwarzenegger and the Democrat - controlled state legislature took advantage of the leverage given to them by the federal Race to the Top initiative and passed a series reforms (including the nation's first Parent Trigger law and requiring the state's teacher database to be tied to its student data system in order to allow for the use of student data in evaluating teachers), the NEA and AFT spent big to back once - and - future governor Jerry Brown's return to the top office, and successfully back traditionalist Tom Torlakson as state schools superintendent (while defeating longstanding Gloria Romero, the former state senate honcho who worked with Schwarzenegger to pass the reforms).

At a pivotal time for state education policy, half the nation's state legislatures have at least one new education committee chairperson this year, and a quarter of state schools chiefs are less than a year into the job, according to an Education Week analysis.

Leading up to Algebra Nation's launch, we've had great partners — from the legislature, to the Michigan Department of Education, to the math education professors from Grand Valley State University, Michigan State University, and University of Michigan - Flint who helped us align our content to the state's standards — and now we're eager to get into schools to introduce Algebra Nation's many benefits as a «virtual co-teacher» and tutoring State University, Michigan State University, and University of Michigan - Flint who helped us align our content to the state's standards — and now we're eager to get into schools to introduce Algebra Nation's many benefits as a «virtual co-teacher» and tutoring State University, and University of Michigan - Flint who helped us align our content to the state's standards — and now we're eager to get into schools to introduce Algebra Nation's many benefits as a «virtual co-teacher» and tutoring state's standards — and now we're eager to get into schools to introduce Algebra Nation's many benefits as a «virtual co-teacher» and tutoring tool.

State legislatures, state boards of education, local boards of education, unions, and countless other organizations demand action to correct the real and imagined failings of our nation's public education syState legislatures, state boards of education, local boards of education, unions, and countless other organizations demand action to correct the real and imagined failings of our nation's public education systate boards of education, local boards of education, unions, and countless other organizations demand action to correct the real and imagined failings of our nation's public education system.

With fundamental issues of trust such as those illustrated above still far from being resolved, and political will on financing performing a fine balancing act in Europe and the United States (with the former dealing with a snowballing resurgence of the financial crisis, and the latter with an incoming legislature planning to dissolve the House of Representatives panel on climate change), the time has truly come for wealthy nations of the world to fundamentally shift their modes of thinking.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Vote Hemp, the nation's leading grassroots hemp advocacy organization working to change state and federal laws to allow commercial hemp farming, has successfully worked with the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) to secure the inclusion of a pro-hemp farming position in the conference's permanent agriculture postate and federal laws to allow commercial hemp farming, has successfully worked with the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) to secure the inclusion of a pro-hemp farming position in the conference's permanent agriculture poState Legislatures (NCSL) to secure the inclusion of a pro-hemp farming position in the conference's permanent agriculture policy.

Lawmakers in state legislatures across the nation have proposed hundreds of bills this year relating to clean energy.

In a backward leap of anti-Copernican proportions, North Carolina's state legislature recently passed what may be the nation's first state - wide global warming denial legislation.

Reflecting on the signing of Act No. 382 into law, Brian J. Donovan, CEO of Renergie, Inc. said, «I am pleased that the legislature and governor of the great State of Louisiana have chosen to lead the nation in moving ethanol beyond being just a blending component in gasoline to a fuel that is more economical, cleaner, renewable, and more efficient than unleaded gasoline.

In 2010, he chaired for Washington Governor Christine Gregoire her Higher Education Funding Task Force, and in 2011 he helped advocate for the successful adoption by the legislature of the task force's recommendations, including tuition - setting authority and increased accountability for the state's public universities and for the nation's first private - public funded endowment to enable more students to attend college.

Billy could form a «Let Billy show up to every meeting» party, run candidates for the legislature in every State and federally, lobby hard, raise funds for lawyers to run test cases, change the constitution, take control of the armed forces, pass a resolution through the United Nations General Assembly, etc etc..

And with no fault states having some of the highest insurance rates across the nation, it is little wonder that many politicians and private citizens alike are calling for changes to no fault law in many of these states, notably in the New York and Michigan legislatures in recent months.