Sentences with phrase «making legislative changes»

Finance Minister Joe Oliver wrote his Ontario counterpart earlier this month warning Ottawa would not help implement the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan or make any legislative changes to allow it to be treated like the CPP for tax purposes.

And Sousa says the federal government has a co-operative agreement with the Quebec Pension Plan and made legislative changes to the Income Tax Act to allow higher contributions to the Saskatchewan Pension Plan.

«I'm not willing to spend an irresponsible amount of money and I'm unwilling to do a budget and then find out a month down the road, two months down the road, the federal government made a legislative change that costs us $ 2 billion.»

A number of states, including Massachusetts and Michigan, were hurrying to make legislative changes before the first submission deadline in January, and others, including Maine, Maryland, Nevada, and Washington, were planning to apply in the second round to give their legislatures time to pass reform laws.

Formed for the purpose of taking actionable measures to ensure equitable school funding across economic and geographic lines, PARSS has led the charge to make legislative change.

The province has already made legislative changes to allow sexual violence survivors more latitude in filing civil claims and in getting out of leases without penalty.

«IIROC continues to encourage provincial and territorial governments across the country to make legislative changes that will strengthen our ability to protect investors — Canadian investors and our capital markets deserve nothing less,» added Kriegler.

There is clearly a need to reassess the common law and, where appropriate, make legislative changes.

She has distinguished herself as a champion on the issue in pushing Congress to make legislative changes and in educating Governors and Mayors on how to advance such a delivery approach which can save advance infrastructure projects faster, cheaper and with greater performance over the long - term.

Not exact matches

Despite broad agreement that change is necessary, continued conflict over the best approach to the student loan debt crisis could be making legislative action difficult.

Moore said the legislative changes will be in place until the CRTC, which is already investigating roaming rates, makes a decision on roaming rates.

The Cooney Committee recommendation resulted in legislative change in 1992, returning the test to one of «substantial lessening of competition» and introducing a non-exhaustive list of matters the Court must consider in making this assessment (s 50 (3)-RRB-

With the pronouncement of the Supreme Court in a ruling on LI 1983 to the effect that changes made to a Legislative Instrument that is laid before the House was unconstitutional, the House thought the Publication is in bad taste.

Cuomo wants the power to shift money after the budget is approved and without legislative consent, ostensibly in order to make it easier for the state to respond to federal health care law changes.

There was not legislative text presented at the meeting as lawmakers continued to debate what changes would be made.

Local government and school district officials have been pushing for changes to make it easier to budget within the cap, though that is unlikely to occur this legislative session.

While the Legislature has been loathe to surrender powers over making changes to the budget after its approved to Cuomo, the legislative leaders were also skeptical Cuomo's consolidation plan would remain intact.

The measure would make changes to the state's lobbying laws, campaign finance limits for state legislative candidates, and legislative redistricting process.

That's going to mean changes for legislative body of government that, along with the Assembly, makes laws and approves the budget for New York state.

Government reform groups are split over whether an amendment on the November ballot to change the way legislative district lines are drawn is an improvement, or will make only make gerrymandering worse.

Some legislators sought to make some changes to the law, but they were unsuccessful during the legislative session that ended early Saturday.

These changes, which will be phased in, are the result of the recommendations made by the Assembly workgroup appointed last year and charged with the examination of existing processes and ongoing efforts to improve and strengthen the Assembly rules, operations and legislative processes.

There's a three - way agreement between the legislative houses and Gov. Andrew Cuomo on regulating fantasy sports, Senate Racing and Wagering Committee Chairman John Bonacic said on Wednesday after changes were made to the bill.

Democratic Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie was less confident legislative changes will be made in the wake of the trial.

Assemblymember Francisco Moya said, «These new measures build upon the changes we have made over the last year to make the legislative process more technologically advanced.

Lawmakers this year granted the administration the power to make changes to the budget that could be countered with legislative action.

Perhaps the more interesting thing will be to see where the Assembly stands on the challenge from the Senate regarding changes made through budget language to how prisoners are counted for legislative districting, where the Assembly likely sides with the governor on the policy outcome but with the Senate on institutional prerogatives and procedure.

Goldfeder noted New York's deadline is actually closer to the first state primary in a presidential election year: Those seeking to change their party affiliation for the September state legislative primary have to make the switch more than 11 months before heading to the polls.

It also means somehow getting around a Senate rule that requires a super majority to make a leadership change before the end of the legislative session.

«Every cycle, for the past several cycles, Democrats have talked about how this is the cycle when it's going to change, this is the year they're going to make gains at the state level,» said Matthew Walter, president of the Republican State Leadership Committee, a group that assists GOP state legislative candidates across the country.

The governor and legislative leaders skipped the traditional end of session news conference and announced the deal in a press release, avoiding any questions about the demise of the proposals to make bigger changes to address corruption.

The governor gave up on a plan to immediately reform the drawing of legislative districts known as redistricting, instead waiting until ten years into the future to make some changes.

Lerner, with Common Cause, says New York State should enact reforms and make changes to its laws so that the actions by the former legislative leaders are clearly prohibited.

Horner cited several changes that might improve the commission's efficiency, such as creating a smaller commission that includes members appointed by the attorney general and comptroller and making sure executive directors have not been «recycled through the legislative and executive branches.»

Maybe the legislative leaders will push Cuomo too far by refusing to make any further changes to their very obviously flawed bill, and the governor will refuse to sign off after all.

I don't think you can find another year in the state's history where you saw the number of changes and the major changes that were made in the legislative year, the change in leadership, etc..

If the Conservatives win the next election, then it would be the lobbyists» job to suggest legislative changes and make budget submissions which are in tune with the new administration's thinking.

This can be changed by having multi member legislative districts with ranked choice voting so that voters can make meaningful choices among a broad range of candidates.

The reporters in the Legislative Correspondents Association refused to meet these terms and they were later changed to make it a more open presentation.

But in close legislative races — at least one of which on Long Island remains an open question — these changes could potentially make a big difference.

«I'm unwilling to do a budget then find out a month down the road, two months down the road, the federal government made a new legislative change that costs us $ 2 billion.»

Education policy issues are due to dominate the legislative session once again next year after lawmakers and Cuomo agreed to changes in the state's teacher evaluation the state's teachers unions deeply opposed in part due to the weakening of tenure and making it harder to obtain.

DiNapoli's reform package also aims to make the state's notoriously opaque budget process more open and transparent by requiring the overall impact of legislative changes to the budget to be disclosed before the budget is adopted and the cost of new and existing programs to be included.

The governor was criticized for using messages of necessity, long a staple of backroom deal - making at the Capitol, when he brokered agreements to reduce pension benefits for new public employees and change legislative district lines.

Schneiderman, who began his campaign for reform May 27, said there's enough time in a legislative session that ends June 17 to make all of the changes.

It's still too early to say how Clinton's presidential candidacy might change a state legislative culture seen as regressive, but history indicates there's an impact to women making news in the high - level political arena.

But a representative for Mr. Felder's office said he reintroduced his bill in the current legislative session because changes had not yet been made in the wording of the fee law.

Silver had said he would wait for the Board of Regents to propose changes to the implementation before forcing legislative action, and a subcommittee of the policy - making panel is due back with a report next week.

Just this past year, legislative changes show New Yorkers can make a difference: by raising the age of criminal responsibility, enacting bail reform, ensuring access to a speedy trial, improving witness identification procedures and requiring video - taped police interrogation for serious offenses.

The New York City Council on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution amending its rules to require the Council Speaker to make available legislative tracking information data and discretionary funding data to the public in a machine - readable format, and City Council members and open government advocates see the changes as a basis for making legislative information available through an open API.