Sentences with phrase «model legislation passed»

The new bill, which has passed through the MEC committee and is headed for ratification in the State House of North Carolina, included a requirement to use the FracFocus website, following the ALEC fracking model legislation passed in multiple states.

Seitz's opposition to the AFV resolution may make its revival at the New Orleans meeting less likely, as the ALEC board has the final say over resolutions and model legislation passed out of task forces.

Not exact matches

If BFI and the IFA does not succeed in convincing Congress to pass legislation that will oppose the NLRB's decision, franchises are going to have to examine their business model and see where they fit under the expanded definition.

By an overwhelming margin, the Republican - controlled U.S. House of Representatives yesterday passed a bill modeled after former congressman Ron Paul's «Audit the Fed» legislation.

The bill is modeled after legislation that was passed and signed into law in California, which, along with New Jersey, are the only states that have instituted such a ban.

Earlier in the day, the Legislature passed sweeping legislation to address workplace harassment in the public and private sector, including requiring employers to adopt a model sexual harassment policy that prohibits mandatory arbitration and secret settlements.

Ms. Mark - Viverito — whose Council will have to amend the legislation it held a hearing on today and have another hearing on it Thursday before passing it — said the Council was «proud to serve as a model for the rest of New York State.»

The legislation, modeled on similar laws in California and Washington, D.C., encountered an unusual amount of resistance and resulted in what council members said was one of the closest votes in years, on par with the extension of term limits passed during the tenure of Mr. de Blasio's predecessor, Michael R. Bloomberg.

This bill had the votes to pass the Senate, virtually unanimous support from mental health professionals, and was modeled after legislation passed with bi-partisan support in California and New Jersey, where it was signed by Republican Governor Chris Christie.

The Michigan House of Representatives late last year passed legislation based on a model bill written by True; it wasn't approved by the state's Senate but was reintroduced in both houses this year.

Naming North Carolina as one state of several where new «parent choice» laws have been passed, the Waltons are putting even more money into the Alliance for School Choice, on organization that provides model legislation for state lawmakers to use as they introduce bills that would create alternatives to public education.

Model legislation is a template for a bill designed by education reformers, business leaders and lobbyists who work with state legislators to promote, sponsor and pass the bill.

[It] might [also] be a model that legislators and education leaders follow when they pass legislation or policies whose benefits and risks are unknown» (Amrein - Beardsley, 2009).

Further, lawmakers passed legislation to facilitate the growth of high - performing public charter school models through a well - defined new school replication process.

She is supportive of efforts by a conservative, pro-business group known as ALEC, or the American Legislative Exchange Council, to create model legislation for school vouchers and similar programs for states to pass in their legislatures.

Legislation that passed the Indiana Senate this week would establish a Commission on Seclusion and Restraint to develop a model for handling students with challenging behavior.

2013 Session Chalkboard's top priorities for the session were the School District Collaboration Fund; Oregon Beginning Teacher and Administrator Mentoring Program; New Models of Teacher Preparation; implementation of new performance evaluation systems required by legislation passed in 2011 (SB 290); and the Professional Development Clearinghouse.

Lawmakers in Louisiana's House Education Committee passed legislation earlier this week that also contains provisions based on our model.

There already exist model catch - up programs and policies that systems and institutions can learn from: California State University at Long Beach has pioneered a partnership to deliver bridge courses to close student - readiness gaps; Illinois has passed legislation requiring the development of transitional math courses across the state; and Tennessee has increased the scale of its Seamless Alignment and Integrated Learning Support, or Sails, program from a single district in 2012 to over 17,000 students statewide in the 2016 - 17 school year.

Upon passing of legislation these states will serve as models for implementation of the RVN title and the VNI will continue working with the boards of veterinary medicine in regulating the various professional distinctions.

Download free guides to passing humane legislation and a copy of our model legislation upon which Delaware CAPA is based.

Q: Given ALEC's emphasis on free markets and subsidies, does the Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force plan to pass model legislation limiting fossil fuel and nuclear energy subsidies and corporate welfare?

The Colorado bill was based on a model bill from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a corporate - funded group dedicated to passing legislation approved by ALEC's corporate funders, including fracking companies like Chesapeake Energy.

On the other hand, the effort of world governments to pass legislation to cut carbon to pre-industrial levels can not proceed without the consent of the governed and historical reconstructions from paleoclimatological models have indeed proven persuasive and effective at winning the hearts and minds of the populace.

In Nigeria's case, the existing federal statute (the Arbitration and Conciliation Act (Cap A19, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004)-RRB- is based on the Model Law, but there is a generally held view among arbitral practitioners that the present law (which is a re-enactment of a piece of legislation passed in 1988) does not meet modern best practice standards.

As of early 2000, two states — California and Pennsylvania --- had passed e-commerce bills based on the model legislation, called the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.

The bill is modeled after similar legislation passed last year in Illinois.