Sentences with phrase «more and more states adopt»

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Twelve other states, including New York and Pennsylvania, as well as Washington, D.C., have adopted California's emission standards, setting up a face - off between more than 130 million residents — who own more than a third of the auto market — and the President.

Clinton supports states» rights to adopt their own laws and for more research to be done for medical benefits.

These meetings are designed to further integrate Canada into the United States and have us adopt even more American standards, values and policies, and to give Americans even more guaranteed access to our resources and the unimpeded ability to buy up the ownership and control of even more of our country.

AMATA, Mexico (Reuters)- Farmers growing marijuana in remote Mexican mountains are adopting techniques pioneered in the United States to produce more potent pot and boost profits from the cash crop that is fueling a deadly drug war.

Currently, more than half of the European Union's 28 member states do not have any screening mechanism in place at the national level.22 Meanwhile in in July 2017, Germany adopted an amendment to the German Foreign Trade Regulation to allow the German government to screen and ultimately block a wider range of foreign takeovers.23

That such a gun - friendly state adopted any firearm restrictions represents a sea change, even more so as the restrictions were drafted and approved in a matter of three weeks, after a bipartisan vote and the signature of a Republican governor likely to be on the ballot later this year as a Senate candidate.

With Ontario's economy depending on trade in everything from automotive parts and dairy products to aerospace, the cabinet adopted a more aggressive strategy to increase talks with state leaders.

The United States has had legislation promoting business owners to adopt ESOPs for more than 30 years, and as a result, there is a robust movement of business including some of the country's largest private companies who wholeheartedly praise the model as leading to better business outcomes.

With Alabama and South Dakota recently becoming the last two states to adopt breach notification laws, notification processes become more complicated, says privacy attorney Adam Greene, who offers an in - depth analysis.

And Family Research Council President Tony Perkins says the last time his conservative Christian movement saw so many victories at the state level — where many legislatures are busy passing new abortion restrictions - was in 2004, when more than a dozen states adopted same - sex marriage bans.

If more States had adopted the ACA and set up their own sites the Federal site would not have been overloaded which is what Fox and the conservatives are all upset about now since their ideology argument failed so badly, now all they have is «The Websites Broken!

And maybe in your State it's a two year wait but here in California there are children waiting to be adopted, though I can say that there is still a year or more process of vetting the adoptive parents to make sure they are not just using the kids as a means of financial support while locking them in a basement.

A more likely explanation was first put forward by Wellhausen, 15 and it has been widely adopted.16 This states that the story of the discovery of the empty tomb ends with these strange words in order to explain to readers why, as late as the mid-first century, they had never heard of this story before.

Well Doogie, even if SCOTUS doesn't come around this early, the momentum is obviously in favor — as I am sure we will see more and more states join the ranks of those that have already adopted gay marriage.

At the General Assembly in 2017, a motion was adopted, stating that: «Textiles advertised / labelled «organic» and made with organic fibers produced according to recognized standards (e.g. IFOAM Family of Standards), should also be... more

Industry players have called on WA Deputy Premier and Health Minister, the Honorable Roger Cook, to adopt a more consultative approach to his office's dealings with industry after all non-alcoholic beverages companies were barred from participating in the State's highly anticipated, inaugural Preventative Health Summit which is due to take place on Friday.

These moves are all part of the club's move to adopt a more aggressive transfer policy, one which the Daily Telegraph states will see Man United ready, willing and able to sign a «Luis Suarez a year».

The volunteers from Taco Bell have opened and processed more than 5,000 letters from schools, groups and communities all over the United States who are «adopting «units and ships.

Today, about one - third of Montana schools have adopted «recess before lunch,» and state officials say more schools are being encouraged.

Once the state finalizes its regulations, Orland Park could choose to adopt the same rules, enact its own, more restrictive policies, or ban cultivation and dispensing centers entirely, Friling said.

Summarizes State laws regarding eligibility for becoming an adoptive parent (in terms of marital status, age, residency, and more), eligibility for being adopted as a child or adult, and authority to place a child for adoption.

Currently, the number and type of genetic and metabolic disorders routinely tested for vary from state to state, though there is a movement afoot to adopt a more uniform national policy.

Venneman and colleagues5 recently demonstrated that infants who are formula fed are twice as likely to die of SIDS than breastfed infants based on a case control study of 333 SIDS cases compared to 998 aged matched controls in Germany, from 1998 - 2001, consistent with previously published reports.35 While no studies show that co-sleeping in the form of bedsharing, specifically, is imperative for breastfeeding enhancement, many studies have shown that in order to get more sleep and to ease caring for their infants the decision to breastfeed often leads mothers to adopt routine bedsharing for at least part of the night36 - 40 even where they never intended to do so.41, 42 Indeed, nearly 50 % of breastfeeding mothers in the United States and Great Britain adopt bedsharing for some part of the night,38,43 - 45 and breastfeeding women are twice as likely to sleep with their babies in the first month relative to mothers electing to bottle - feed.39

Early voting and other election reforms in Albany have stalled over the years, even as more states across the country have adopted the model.

Adonis also encouraged state schools to adopt practices of the private sector and generally believed in giving individual schools more independence and autonomy from central government and the local education authorities.

Ojo also lauded Governor Rauf Aregbesola for adopting calisthenics sport as a co-curriculum activity for students in more schools across the state, saying calisthenics game has enhanced organisational capacity and understanding among the youth.

A Constitutional Convention is an expensive, complicated and potentially dangerous undertaking that is unnecessary because we already have a more rigorous and more democratic process by which the voters can adopt or reject individual amendments to the State Constitution on their... (read more)

The next year the state adopted a formula that promised more help for poor districts and eventually $ 7 billion per year in added funding.

More than 1,000 delegates voted to adopt a resolution which noted that «studies conducted by prominent researchers and renowned education experts show that individual merit pay plans have not helped to significantly improve student achievement in any of the United States school districts where they have been implemented.»

While the policy notes that «New York's legal code is relatively accessible compared to other states,» it suggests that the state commit to including its laws on a platform such as America Decoded, adopting the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau's eRegs tool to make the laws more accessible, and instituting an «open by default» policy in the area of IT purchasing, data and research.

The Times Union reported Sunday that the state Health Department was informed in August 2014 that the toxic chemical had contaminated the village water system, but it took months before the public was formally notified, and more than a year for the state to adopt the EPA's position that water should not be consumed.

Cuomo's prescriptions in his 2016 State of the State speech included closing a legal loophole that lets campaign donors funnel unlimited sums to candidates through limited - liability companies; requiring office holders to report campaign contributions every 60 days instead of twice a year; allowing lawmakers to earn no more than 15 percent of their legislative salaries in private - sector work; and adopting a system of voluntary public campaign financing similar to what New York City has.

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.

and he does have a unique perspective on immigration - both as an immigrant himself and as governor of the state which receives more immigrants than most if not all others (not sure vis a vis new york)- and epa, as the governor of the first state to adopt mandatory carbon controls.

And what you see is that in towns, cities, and states that have adopted [public financing], far more women run very quickly.&raqAnd what you see is that in towns, cities, and states that have adopted [public financing], far more women run very quickly.&raqand states that have adopted [public financing], far more women run very quickly.»

In a speech in London, he insisted English state schools are improving - but can make even more progress by adopting tougher discipline, more specialist teachers and a longer school day.

Tisch, who served nearly 20 years as a Regent and six as the Chancellor, led the controversial movements to adopt rigorous Common Core standards and tie a portion of teacher evaluations to student test scores, and also implemented more difficult state exams during her tenure.

On Wednesday, members of the city council's Progressive Caucus, including Councilman Daniel Dromm, chair of the Education Committee, came to Albany asking state legislators to adopt a budget that provides funding mandated by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity court decision, excludes additional resources for charter schools, leaves the charter school cap at current levels and provides more local control over the city's schools.

Lawmakers, calling the roll out of Common Core a nightmare and a mistake, grilled state Education Commissioner John King and asked for more time to adopt the new federal standards.

Among the key findings of the state comptroller's office audit of the Willsboro Central School District: The district overestimated appropriations in the adopted budgets by more than 10 percent over the past three years; the district has accumulated fund balance that exceeds the statutory limit by nearly 12 percentage points, and district officials did not develop a multi-year financial plan.

• When Tier 6 was adopted two years ago, the governor's Division of Budget projected it would reduce pension costs for state and local government by more than $ 35 billion over 30 years; and

However, the board's plan was advisory, and lawmakers could choose to adopt an even more modest change to the state's legislative districts.

We need more states to adopt open primaries and non-partisan redistricting, we need to reduce the role of the Senate filibuster, reduce the role of money in elections... a variety of things like that, which my colleagues and I discuss at www.CivilPolitics.org.

Simoes hopes more states, countries and regions will adopt the model since it can easily be applied to local or national settings.

And more than 40 percent of the nearly 18,000 police departments in the United States — from rural sheriff's offices to metropolitan police — have adopted some or all of Wells's suggestions for lineups, according to a survey by the Police Executive Research Forum.

By analyzing more than 10,000 crash reports of DDIs in Missouri and in states that have adopted the designs, civil engineers have determined that overall crashes decreased by more than 50 percent nationwide.

So far, 39 state legislatures have adopted it and seven more are considering it this year.

Using a molecular method likely to become widely adopted by the field, researchers have discovered brain circuitry essential for alertness — and for brain states more generally.

As states continue to evaluate the standards, and as adopting states begin to put together roadmaps for implementation, teachers around the U.S. will find themselves hearing more about the engineering design process.