Sentences with phrase «legislature pass»

Here the question is would the legislature pass a law forbidding conduct that is impossible.

Or more generally, can a legislature pass a law saying «The law shall be understood as X», where X is some principle of intepretation that is not specific to the law in which it is contained, but is meant to constrain interpretations of all other laws (or some subset of other laws)?

How did the Louisiana legislature pass this proposal when so many other states were rejecting similar programs?

Because the «super-committee» is intended to help the legislature pass a bill by Feb. 28, the legislative leaders said they would get whatever preliminary information they can from Malloy's panel by then.

The state's legislature passed a bill Tuesday outlawing the sale of two particular chemicals — oxybenzone and octinoxate — found in many sunscreens, according to BuzzFeed.

This year, our legislature passed several pieces of legislation which easies the regulatory burden on those who seek to create jobs in our state.

Snyder, a former computer executive who had campaigned as a moderate in the 2010 election, had said for nearly two years that right - to - work was too divisive for Michigan, but said he would sign a law if the legislature passed it.

Contrast that with Illinois, where the legislature passed a bill in 2005 that imposed a number of restraints on payday loans.

The ECPA however, was the first time the legislature passed an omnibus privacy law.

In the past two months the state legislature passed a bill that slowed crypto from state property taxes and rozluźniały the securities laws.

After an all night legislative budget session the legislature passed the new education spending portion of...

The legislature passed a deal early on Friday to raise spending by several hundred billion dollars, just two months after a $ 1.5 trln tax cut.

In just one month since the Parkland shooting, the gun control movement has made some small gains: The Florida state legislature passed new firearm regulations, and the federal spending bill signed by President Trump on Friday contains modest steps toward tightening the nation's gun laws, including the Fix NICS Act, which strengthens the background - check system for gun purchases.

A six - day walkout that shuttered classrooms across the state has ended, as the legislature passed an education funding deal.

Meanwhile, a series of tax breaks and other goodies that Walker and the Republican legislature passed just after his inauguration dramatically increased the deficit that Walker now says he's trying to close.

• In North Carolina, the state legislature passed a new law allowing magistrates and other officials to turn down gay couples, if those officials have a religious objection to performing a same - sex wedding.

The Oregon state legislature passed the original law in 1923, during a wave of Nativist sentiment fuelled by the Ku Klux Klan and other groups.

The law was one of several Nativist measures, aimed at Catholics and immigrants, that the state legislature passed at the time.

This constitutional conversation proceeds as legislatures pass laws and courts respond and legislatures pass new laws.

Even if Mississippi's legislature passed the bill, which it probably won't, its enforcement would be impractical.

Last week the legislature passed a special resolution permitting Allen to remain on the KU payroll for three years past the mandatory retirement age of 70, which he reaches next November.

That's why I was pleased to learn yesterday that the Texas state legislature passed a bill to expand the breakfast program in my state.

But after the district's 2004 budget was adopted, the state legislature passed an early retirement incentive law that gave the district a reprieve of $ 5 million a year for the 2004 and 2005 fiscal years.

The Hawaiian legislature passed a resolution requiring the state auditor to conduct a sunrise analysis to determine if licensure for CPMs is warranted.

Mayoral control of New York City schools is set to expire, threatening to plunge the school system into chaos, unless the state legislature passes a law extending the program.

It's been 20 months since the state legislature passed an MTA funding package with a conspicuous missing piece.

The legislature passed bills to provide voluntary firefighters with the same disability benefits that professional firefighters receive and increase disability pensions for airport firefighters.

In reality, the money was approved last week as part of an omnibus bill the legislature passed after the governor called members back for an extraordinary session.

Last summer the New York State legislature passed a bill, sponsored by Sen. Daniel Squadron and supported by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, that established a task force to address the problems that may have led to the incident.

«The legislature passed several pension bills that sweetened pension benefits for employees.

If the legislature passes those, Cuomo says he's willing to increase education funding by more than one billion dollars.

«In 2006, the Erie County legislature passed what is called the New York State Certified Training Program, which is often known as the apprenticeship law... It ensures taxpayer dollars that are paying for construction jobs associated with Erie County government are going towards Erie County residents who are working on these projects.

But DeFrancisco says the education funding and reforms the legislature passed is basically a good plan.

Without getting into the details, Mayor de Blasio last night revealed that he and Governor Cuomo spoke after the state legislature passed a budget that put a leash around the city.

The state legislature passed that measure unanimously in June.

They point out that last year Cuomo and the legislature passed gun control legislation on the very first day of their session, a full week before the budget presentation was due.

In 2013, the state legislature passed an amendment to allow casino gambling and voters approved it.

The state legislature passed the first of the two measures this year.

Despite some scary revenue shortfalls, the legislature passed a $ 5.8 billion budget bill...

The Nevada legislature passed an automatic voter registration bill in March, but Gov. Brian Sandoval vetoed it.

In 2010, the New York legislature passed an executive budget proposal offered by Cuomo's predecessor, Democratic Gov. David Paterson, that was supposed to end the «carried interest» loophole — which allows hedge - fund and private - equity managers living in other states and working in New York to avoid paying state income taxes on investment profits.

Back in 2010, the legislature passed a bill requiring prisoners to be counted in their home neighborhoods for redistricting purposes.

Until April 2, 1821, the village of Buffalo was part of and the seat of Niagara County, until the legislature passed an act separating the two.

In 2011 Cuomo and the legislature passed a law to stop the state comptroller from reviewing contracts for economic development projects that are now the focus of a federal probe by Bharara's office.

If the state legislature passes Cuomo's education reforms, it will mean a $ 1.1 billion — or 4.8 percent — increase in state spending for education reform.

Deductions have been indexed to inflation since Cuomo and the legislature passed new tax law in 2011.

The legislature passed a local law during the budget season this year, which puts the increase in place legally for next year.

Onondaga County Comptroller Bob Antonacci said the attorneys representing the county executive and legislature will now have to address whether the resolutions the legislature passed in December giving pay raises to themselves and the county executive were legal.

This week the State legislature passed and the governor signed into law a far - reaching set of prohibitions, restrictions, and tracking mechanisms regarding guns, making New York the first state to change its policies in reaction to the Sandy Hook school shootings.

The legislature passed nearly all of those recommendations, which included the creation of a more powerful ethics commission, mandatory ethics training, anti-nepotism laws and greater transparency in state contracts.