Sentences with phrase «legislature provides»

The state's legislature provides three means of doing so.

The legislature provides the general legal framework.

«Clearly, he's going to sign whatever the legislature provides,» said Jewell.

The 1949 legislature provides for distribution of both equalization and «flat» aid.

The National Conference of State Legislatures provided baseline information for this analysis.

The term full - service school was first used in 1991 when the Florida legislature provided funding to support a system of interagency collaboration with mandates to make a comprehensive package of human services available in school buildings.

In order to alleviate some of the pressure on Texas schools with a high number of dropouts and to shadow the concerns about the accuracy of dropout data reported by the state education agency, the Texas legislature provided a special allocation of $ 85 million to finance special intervention programs for ninth grade students identified as at - risk of dropping out (Cortez, 1999).

In order to ensure that the products authorised under Article 3 (1) of the basic regulation and all the products not made from seals, but which might not be easily distinguishable from similar goods made from seals, or products which might include elements or ingredients obtained from seals without this being clearly recognisable, are able to circulate freely on the internal market of the Union, the legislature provided, in Article 4 of the basic regulation that «Member States shall not impede the placing on the market of seal products which comply with [the basic regulation]».

Mr. Rust has appeared before the United States Congress and several state legislatures providing testimony on healthcare delivery and managed care.

The University of Hawaii is working with state and federal agencies to control the frog population, and NAR is supporting bills in the state legislature providing financial support for coqui population control.

Not exact matches

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.

Tesla previously promised to provide 6,500 jobs as a part of the tax incentives package of $ 1.4 billion, which the state legislature approved in September 2014.

The Pennsylvania legislature recently passed a bill that will ensure borrowers are up - to - date on their student loan debt.The average Pennsylvania college student graduates with $ 35,000 in student loans, which is higher than any other state in the U.S. And within three years of graduation, 10 percent of Pennsylvania student loan borrowers default on their debt.In order to combat this problem, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would ensure students stay informed about how much debt they are accumulating.HB 2124 would require all colleges and universities to provide annual notices to students about their outstanding student...

The issue is that free speech was provided for anti choice proponents, but an alternative plate giving the same right to free speech to pro choice proponents was voted down by the legislature.

Each year, more Targeted Regulation of Abortion Provider (TRAP) laws are introduced into state legislatures to further restrict medical professionals from providing safe, legal abortions.

If a belief can not be established as demonstrative fact, any legislature based on that unsubstantiated belief can not provide equality.

The rationale for the test is that the more exemptions or accommodations a law provides, the less generally - applicable the law is, and the less likely the legislature viewed the law's purpose as a truly compelling interest.

is my adopted state of VT. they became the first to legalize it by legislature (well done), but then provided no mkt place.

From 1994 - 2008 she served on the Board of Directors of a Joint Underwriting Association created by the Washington State legislature to provide medical liability insurance to midwives providing out - of - hospital birth services.

For years now, Republican - led state legislatures have been chipping away at abortion rights, making the process more difficult and expensive, regulating clinics that provide the procedure into oblivion.

This provides funding for the state to implement the Early Start Act, which passed the legislature with bipartisan support.

As part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted by President Obama, many breastfeeding employees are provided rights and protected by law, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL).

When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.

In what led to a rowdy session Leo Ogor, the minority leader of the House, who equally sponsored the bill maintained that it will provide immunity for the leadership of the national assembly and, as such, guarantee the independence of the legislature.

The Erie county legislature hereby finds, declares, and determines that farming is important to Erie county because it is a major occupation within the county, providing a livelihood and employment for thousands of residents; farming remains the single - largest industry in New York state; farming provides locally produced, fresh commodities; agricultural diversity promotes economic stability; agriculture promotes open space and promotes environmental quality; agricultural land does not increase the demand for services provided by county or local governments.

It's an election year for all 212 members of the legislature, and unions often provide support for field campaigns in the form of volunteers to staff phone banks and to drop off campaign literature door to door.

Further, it is the intention of this legislature to provide for a waiver of the item pricing requirement for certain stores which maintain a very high degree of computer - assisted pricing accuracy and which provide certain other services to permit consumers to record and verify individual item prices.

The legislature largely accepted Cuomo's plan to provide an optional pay roll tax to substitute for the state income tax for businesses who adopt the program.

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

The county legislature finds, declares and determines that chapter 797 of the laws of 1992 provides an important foundation for achieving the right to farm protection sought in Erie county and that in order to address the unique circumstances facing agriculture in Erie county, it is necessary to provide for more comprehensive local right to farm protection.

The legislature doesn't provide that era of legality to that which is illegal.

A Database of Deals providing data on the benefits received by each company was the subject of discussions between the legislature and advocates periodically during the session, and a bill reflecting those discussions was introduced in the last week and a half of the session -LRB-(A8175) Schimminger / S6613 - A (Croci)-RRB-.

A Manhattan Supreme Court judge has ruled that the Bloomberg administration overstepped its bounds when it created a fund to help taxi drivers navigate the Affordable Care Act and provide support to disabled cabbies, an act that she found is more rightly, «a function for the legislature.»

The legislature largely accepted Cuomo's plan to provide an optional payroll tax to substitute for the state income tax for businesses who adopt the program.

So they are asking the legislature to increase aid to SUNY and CUNY schools and also expand the tuition assistance program, which provides grants to students to help cover the cost of classes.

As for possibility of providing more sunlight when it comes to the budget, Peters said: «We continue to engage the legislature towards a variety of ethics reform proposals.»

The comptroller's office said it was withholding the rest of the money because ESD had failed to provide all the necessary information mandated by the governor and the state legislature.

The majority conferences in NY legislature have too much power and become very corrupt... I hope the information provided in the Siena Poll is accurate and that NY will move forward with a Constitutional Convention.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

With all the relief we provided [via Safety Net welfare costs and election cost takeover], the widespread property - tax reductions that the legislature and I, as well as our citizens, had anticipated did not happen.»

A repeal bill introduced in light of the advisory opinion failed to clear the legislature, as did a bill providing for partial implementation (for those offices not affected by the advisory opinion) and a bill providing for a constitutional amendment to allow for full implementation.

If a member of the legislature be elected to congress, or appointed to any office, civil or military, under the government of the United States, the state of New York, or under any city government except as a member of the national guard or naval militia of the state, or of the reserve forces of the United States, his or her acceptance thereof shall vacate his or her seat in the legislature, providing, however, that a member of the legislature may be appointed commissioner of deeds or to any office in which he or she shall receive no compensation.

In the veto message provided to Observer by the governor's office, Cuomo states the bill contains «several fundamental flaws» they were unable to resolve with the legislature «that make the bill legally specious and practically unenforceable.»

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

«I certainly think we're better off raising legislative salaries,» said Schneiderman, who believes per diem payments provide the wrong financial incentives, since it encourages lawmakers to stay in Albany instead of their home districts when the legislature is not in session.

The Board of Trustees approved the new School earlier this year, and the governor and legislature are providing critical financial support.»

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.

The plan, if approved by the state legislature, would provide an additional scholarship to supplement current state and federal aid so that students of qualified New York families could attend two - and four - year state colleges tuition - free.

Senator DeFrancisco says the legislature in those years approved a bail out for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, but did not provide and funds to repair roads and bridges upstate.

Namdas said that the legislature also queried an omnibus allocation of N20 billion in the ministry's budget whose details were not provided by the minister.