Sentences with phrase «new legislative language»

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Progress on a new state budget limped along a day after Cuomo and legislative leaders held a private meeting that was described, in its most generous terms, as explosive in tone and language.

Legislative language has been circulating privately for several weeks; on Tuesday, POLITICO New York published some drafts of the ride - hailing bill.

New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms Executive Director Jason J. McGuire said in a statement that he suspects O'Donnell is behind the push to insert he same - sex marriage language into the legislative budget bill, offering him this back - handed compliment.

Yet for all wonkish provisions that lawmakers dumped into the final legislative language, expansion of ride - hailing services outside of New York is what the public overwhelmingly asked them to accomplish during the legislative session this year.

The language: «The proposed amendment to sections 4 and 5 and addition of new section 5 - b to Article 3 of the State Constitution revises the redistricting procedure for state legislative and congressional districts.

However, at the board's last meeting in November, Patricia Rucker, a board member who is a former teacher and now a legislative lobbyist for the California Teachers Association, expressed concern that California started testing students on the Common Core math and English language arts standards last spring before many teachers had fully implemented a new Common Core - aligned curriculum or received adequate training in it.

But similar language — this time calling for a halt to the new standards pending legislative review — made its way into a separate education proposal that passed the Senate earlier this month.

While many colleges and universities say that graduates of redesigned high schools will not be disadvantaged in the admissions process, 66 family concerns about college admissions might inhibit enrollment in new high schools that use competency - based approaches.67 At least one state, Utah, has passed legislative language with the intent to bar public institutions of higher education from treating graduates of competency - based high schools unfairly during the admissions process.68 As new issues and challenges emerge, states will need to remain vigilant and creative about how to best encourage and enable innovative high school designs.