Sentences with phrase «means the state legislature»

The state oversight required to issue licenses means the state legislature will have to approve it, which is unlikely.

That means the state legislature has authorized the program, union contracts have been modified to allow it, data systems have been updated to support it, and a state disbursement process is prepared to allocate funds as soon as the federal grant arrives.

Not exact matches

Any budget must receive two - thirds support from the Democrat - controlled state legislature, meaning the Republican governor has plenty of negotiating to do before July 1, when the new fiscal year begins.

This latter norm prohibits the exercise of arbitrary power by state legislatures, and means that not every law that they enact is by that fact alone constitutional.

State legislatures may not be in session, which means it would be impractical for them to change their laws this quickly.

Her policy work in the state legislature also means she's ready to hit the ground running for her constituents, and knows as well as anyone how and why the system has to change.»

This means that the Democratic Party is in a position of heightened vulnerability when it comes to retaining control of partisan dominance in state legislatures, compared to the degree of vulnerability of the GOP.

Under state law, governors have extraordinary leverage over the legislature to pass an on - time budget, which could mean added pressure on the Senate's Republican majority to accept the measure.

It means that liberal Democrats in the state legislature can't pass bills and force Cuomo to take potentially unpopular positions.

Term limits would have to pass through both houses in the state legislature in two successive legislative cycles, meaning it could be placed on an election year ballot as early as 2019.

Meanwhile, the commission contended that the word «legislature» ought to be interpreted to mean «the legislative powers of the state,» including voter initiatives and referenda.

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.

But the legal definition, we are technically a part - time legislature meaning we can earn income outside of our state government salary, as being a member of the Senate or the Assembly.

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.

Mr. Cuomo anticipated resistance to the plan, but said he would force the state legislature's hand — even if it meant shutting down the state government.

The Senate GOP also complained about the process laid out in the state's constitution for choosing Regents members, which in recent years has meant that the legislature's largest faction, the Assembly Democrats, has had nearly sole control in choosing candidates.

That could mean same - sex marriage, or it could mean Vermont - style civil unions, and the Court gave the state legislature 180 days to decide which.

«It's not that state legislatures or mean presidents are getting rid of tenure,» says William G. Tierney, a professor of education at the University of Southern California.

And it means to governor and the legislature, regardless of political party, working together to prioritize both teacher education and effective teaching across the state.

The reasoning is excruciatingly detailed (e.g. «the key here is the use of the qualifier «other,»» he writes), but Lynch would seem to be right in concluding that the legislature meant «other locally selected measures» to mean something different than the state tests.

That meant some budget cuts, and the legislature did cut deeply (too deeply, in my view) into state education initiatives.

The plaintiffs took great pains to explain away the previous provision of the state constitution, which explicitly authorized the legislature to «encourage» education «by all suitable means.»

This means that the next president and congress (as well as governors and state legislatures) have the opportunity to use education for bipartisan policy efforts that will unify, rather than fracture, diverse groups.

While the two massive victories mean a great deal to the education justice community who've been demanding the legislature fully fund public schools, the state education funding formula bill will now have to be passed in the House where it faces a serious uphill battle.

While this didn't mean that schools received no funding, the extreme decrease in state and federal funding, (as well as later freezes and sequestrations as the legislature attempted to deal with the state budget), meant that Kentucky's school districts were forced to rely on their other source of income: property taxes.

As state legislatures make mandates claiming to secure recess in schools, it is important to nail down what they mean when they define recess.

Supporters of Initiative 42 liked to say the state's priorities are not in the right place, meaning the legislature did not allocate a large enough share of your tax dollars to K - 12 education.

The lightning speed at which our infamously slow state legislature is trying to pass a statewide teacher evaluation framework can only mean one thing — lawmakers don't want anyone to understand what's really in there.

We see that our state legislature is the same legislature who had a big push on over testing our children, I mean it turned into a testing regime, and we had to fight back against that.

The issue even made it to the ballot box in 2016 when HISD added a measure meant to put pressure on the state legislature to change its school funding system after lawsuits failed to do the same.

(Colo.) As lawmakers take a stronger role in defining school success, more and more legislatures and state educational agencies are also trending away from setting certification goals around operations and programs as a means of communicating competence to the public, according to new research.

New Gov. Chris Sununu, a Republican, combined with Republican control of the state legislature, means the state has the opportunity to expand that program.

Given the well - documented negative psychosocial and economic effects on the outcomes of teenage parents (Kiselica & Pfaller, 1993; Coren et al., 2003; Freudenberg & Ruglis, 2007; National Conference of State Legislatures, 2013; Einhorn, 2015), we believe it is vital that school systems offer some means of providing the resources they need to mitigate these effects.

State legislatures began recognizing the CGC program as a means of advocating responsible dog ownership and 34 states now have a Canine Good Citizen resolution.

«Capitol» is a odd US word which specifically means the buildings where the Federal or State legislatures meet.

Rather than a bill proposed by a state legislature, in 2009, the Texas School Board passed an amendent calling for the «balanced» teaching of climate change, meaning both science and «skepticism.»

During floor debate in the legislature, however, Republican State Sen. Beau McCoy, a candidate for governor, amended the bill to direct scientists to focus only on so - called «cyclical» climate change — a term that has no legitimate scientific meaning.

In short, it appears to be risky to assert that, by means of a provision such as Article 273 of Directive 2006/112, the legislature was anticipating the transfer of all the constitutional guarantees governing the exercise of the Member States» power to impose penalties — including the collection of VAT — from the Member States to the Union.

If there is no legitimate government interest behind a policy enacted by, say, a state legislature, that doesn't necessarily mean they were pursuing a government interest and that interest was illegitimate.

It should be noted that the legislature may define the content of notions used in laws, however, the requirement to heed the hierarchy of the legal acts which stems from the Constitution, inter alia, the constitutional principle of a state under the rule of law, implies that the content of the notions used in laws may be defined (inter alia, construed) only by means of a law and not by means of a legal act of lower legal force.

Recently, the Missouri state legislature attempted to block contact between students and former students under age 18 and their teachers via social networking sites that provide «exclusive» access (a private, one - on - one means of communication).

Many states define «driver» explicitly, but as I said in another comment, if the legislature doesn't dictate the meaning, the court decides.

As she notes, however, the bar often loses to «the state» — meaning legislatures, administrative agencies, and courts applying common law doctrines.

«The federal constitutional requirement that both houses of a state legislature must be apportioned on a population basis means that, as nearly as practicable, districts be of equal population, though mechanical exactness is not required,» the Chief Justice wrote.

This was one of five bills passed by the legislature in Wyoming recently which are meant to optimize the the legal grounds of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology use in the state in order to facilitate the establishment of related business ventures there.

In some jurisdictions, state legislatures have yet to address the issue of grandparent custody rights, which means it's up to the courts to decide.

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

When Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota (the only provider of safe and legal abortions in the state of South Dakota) announced that they would begin implementation of a previously enacted 72 - hour waiting period, the South Dakota state legislature passed a bill that exempts weekends and holidays from the 72 hours, which means that a woman could be forced to wait as long as 5 or 6 days for an abortion.

In fact, because so many chose a condominium as a preferred type of home ownership in Florida has meant that our state legislature has had to address countless unique legal issues related to this type of real estate ownership.