Sentences with phrase «measures passed during»

Fresh from attending the Paris Climate Change Conference, State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli went to Buffalo last night to help launch the NY Renews campaign, which will press to get climate - related measures passed during the next session of the Legislature in Albany.

Shaw is referring to a measure passed during this past Session ordering courts, prisons and other justice system entities to collect data and in turn use it to craft policy.

Not exact matches

For example, starting in 2008, Congress passed a measure as part of the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 that let businesses deduct the full price of qualifying equipment purchased or financed during that tax year.

Property taxes in Oregon are limited by two laws passed during the 1990s: Measure 5 and Measure 50.

I do remind folks that NCLB had its origins in legislation passed in Texas during the 1980s (under then - Gov Mark White) where, in exchange for teacher raises / bonuses, standardized tests were instituted to «measure» teacher «effectiveness».

«This is an excellent compromise and an example of intergovernmental cooperation,» said St. Charles Republican Karen Steve as the forest preserve passed the measure on an 18 - 8 vote Tuesday during its monthly meeting in Geneva.

The process of amending the state Constitution is cumbersome and takes several years: two successively elected crops of lawmakers have to pass a measure that must then be ratified by voters during a November election.

Gillibrand said Congress has a «moral obligation» to pass the measure, which she called the «clearest example of right versus wrong» she has seen during her short tenure as a senator.

New Jersey's Democrat - led Assembly passed a measure that would force the governor's beach house to close during a shutdown, while a second measure they approved would keep state parks open.

This year, proposals to require the state parole board to post information about its appeals decisions online and order the state to develop a plan for delivering medicine to hospitals during emergencies were among the measures that passed unanimously, but were vetoed.

But the bill was a component of Cuomo's larger Democracy Agenda, measures including voting and campaign finance reform that otherwise fell by the wayside during budget negotiations and seem unlikely to pass in the remaining months

The Democratic governor is effectively using his proposal as a threat to compel the Republican - led Senate — which has voted down two measures in recent weeks giving the attorney general the ability to review instance where civilians die during police interaction — into passing his police monitor measure.

Also passing the Senate last night, after considerable back and forth during which its sponsor, Capital Region Republican Sen. Kathy Marchione, twisted herself into a political pretzel, was legislation changing the statute of limitations for cases of personal injury caused by pollution — a measure intended to help Hoosick Falls residents who are struggling to deal with PFOA contamination of their drinking water.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo insisted on Tuesday during a stop to inspect a barge crash in Catskill there was no great rush to pass the remaining measures under the state budget.

The Committee has the authority to do virtually anything during the course of consideration of a measure, including deeming it passed.

The measure — passed in the state budget on Sunday — is the first of its kind in the nation, and an idea brought to the fore during the Democratic presidential primary by both Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Another wave of corruption allegations could provide further momentum for government watchdog groups and elected officials — including Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo — who are pushing for the Legislature to pass new anticorruption measures during the current legislative session.

But the bill was a component of Cuomo's larger Democracy Agenda, measures including voting and campaign finance reform that otherwise fell by the wayside during budget negotiations and seem unlikely to pass in the remaining months of the legislative session in Albany.

To measure the albedo of WASP - 12b the scientists observed the exoplanet in October 2016 during an eclipse, when the planet was near full phase and passed behind its host star for a time.

The spacecraft measured Enceladus» gravitational tug at various points during three passes just 30 to 60 miles from the surface.

For now, though, superstring theory lacks the sort of dramatic demonstration that propels radical theories into prominence, such as Einstein's famous precise prediction of how much starlight would be deflected when passing by the sun as measured during a solar eclipse.

During those passes, astronomers measured how the intense pull of Saturn's gravity deforms Titan during its 16 - day revolution around the ringed pDuring those passes, astronomers measured how the intense pull of Saturn's gravity deforms Titan during its 16 - day revolution around the ringed pduring its 16 - day revolution around the ringed planet.

But Daya Bay's nuclear reactors produce billions of trillions of electron antineutrinos every second, emitted by neutrons during a process called «beta decay,» and scientists have finally been able to measure their metamorphosis as they pass through a series of detectors positioned outside the reactors.

In tanks in the lab, they simulated the sun passing over the ocean during the course of a day, and they used a custom - built polarimeter to measure how the lookdowns reflected the polarized light.

But because no spacecraft had ever passed through the region before, Cassini engineers oriented the spacecraft so that its 13 - foot - wide (4 - meter - wide) antenna pointed in the direction of oncoming ring particles, shielding its delicate instruments as a protective measure during its April 26 dive.

In a stellar occultation, a body such as a planet passes in front of a relatively bright star, and measuring the gradual dimming of starlight during such an event, scientists can amass a wide array of information about a planet, including its size, whether it has rings or if an atmosphere is present.

The Michigan legislature, during a special session last month, passed a new charter law designed to address the judge's concern that the state board of education did not have adequate oversight of charter schools under the previous measure.

The Senate passed the measure last week, and in recognition of the urgent need to move quickly before the start of the school year, members of the House returned from their summer recess and passed the bill during a special session today.

The general assembly failed to pass the legislation during the regular session earlier this year and brought it back with a handful of other measures.

Even state Superintendent Tom Torlakson told me during his re-election campaign that he opposed the cap, but he believed the best strategy for dealing with it would be to try to get it changed after the measure passed.

2015 Florida Legislative Session: State of FL: 0, Greyhounds: 0 This year the State of Florida had the opportunity to pass two important measures that would help greyhounds during their 60 - day legislative session which was set to end on April 30th.

Enlightenment essentially functions as experience (though it is supposed to be a measure of how much they have learned during their punishment and whether they have become worthy of redemption), and there are five levels for each character to pass through.

Researchers from Ohio State University who measured carbon while a typhoon was passing through in full force in Taiwan — essential since sediment washes away very quickly after a storm — found that more than 400 tons of carbon was being swept away for each square mile of watershed during the storm.

According to a Bloomberg report today, Measure B passed with 56 percent of the vote, meaning adult - movie actors will need to wear condoms during shoots.

Property taxes in Oregon are limited by two laws passed during the 1990s: Measure 5 and Measure 50.