Sentences with phrase «of house bill»

Promoters of the House bill pointed to a «typical family of four» making $ 59,000 a year as an example of middle - class tax relief delivered by the bill.

As Mick Mulvaney prepares to appear before Congress for the first time in his role at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a group of trade associations led by the Consumer Bankers Association wrote to co-sponsors of a House bill which would create a five - person, bipartisan commission to lead the CFPB.

The energy efficiency portion of the House bill includes provisions on energy - saving information technologies, energy - efficient data centers, and a provision to add information to appliance Energy Guide labels for products that have smart grid capabilities.

Tomorrow afternoon, the Public Education Committee will sit down together in Austin to discuss the fate of House Bill 1190.

Under that scheme, which is set out in section 1173 (e) of the House bill, the standards to be adopted were «standards with respect to the privacy of individually identifiable health information.»

Though only a tiny part of the state is suitable for fracking, with a bit of the Utica Shale overlapping with the northwest portion of the state and there are currently no proposals to start fracking, by a vote of 27 - 1 the state senate approve a modified version of the House bill, extending the ban indefinitely.

The version of House Bill 760 that passed the House and is now in the Senate freezes North Carolina's Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard (REPS) at 6 % by eliminating future planned increases to 10 % and 12.5 %, allows energy efficiency to meet 50 % of a utility's REPS requirement instead of 25 %, and decreases the residential cost cap from $ 34 to $ 12 per year.

The «clean transportation» subtitle of the House bill focuses on plug - in electric drive vehicles, requiring utilities to plan charging infrastructure and grid integration, and establishing a large - scale deployment program for plug - in vehicles at DOE.

That hope came to fruition Wednesday with passage of House Bill 3561, which «prohibits construction or operation of a wind energy facility, or facility expansion, from encroaching upon or having a significant adverse impact on the mission, training or operations of any military installation or branch.»

When contacting legislators or the Governor, you may wish to include the following points, in your own words: • The sponsor of House Bill 198 ignored all calls for amendment of his legislation.

After three long years, we can finally celebrate the victory of the passage of House Bill 788, the gas chamber bill!

In July, Reid said of the House bill, «What is [House Speaker John Boehner] talking about?

by Kathy Burcher Director, Government Relations and Research Virginia Education Association I wanted to share everything we currently know about the new 10 - year teaching licenses that are the result of the passage of House Bill 1125 (The Teacher Licensure Bill).

The Virginia Commission on Civics Education was established as a result of the passage of House Bill 1769 in March 2005.

All STAAR Modified assessments will be administered for the final time during the 2013 — 14 assessment cycle, according to an Aug. 2 TEA memo on how the state's assessment program will transition to meet the requirements of House Bill 5.

But if the version of House Bill 1003 that passed the Senate becomes law, those who live in attendance zones of F schools would be able to send their child straight to kindergarten in a private school.

4.23.12 Association of American Educators» Colorado Chapter Testifies Before Colorado House Education Committee in Support of House Bill 1333

«The money should follow the child,» said Sen. Chad Barefoot, talking about one provision of a House bill he presented to Senate Finance members on Monday afternoon that previously dealt with school playgrounds — but was gutted and jammed with language that would change the way charter schools receive money by allowing them to receive millions more in sales taxes, property taxes, grant funds and federal appropriations, and more.

At the end of June 2015, SBAC supporters plan to use similar political blackmail to force passage of House Bill 2214 during the final days of the final 2015 Special Session.

If so, why do the promoters of House Bill 2214 (the SBAC test monopoly acceleration bill) keep referring to 2000 kids not graduating when the real number is 11,000 kids not graduating due to the draconian Collection of Evidence process?

But Rep. Lance Harris, R - Alexandria, chief sponsor of House Bill 672, disagreed with White's logic.

It also includes updated language following enactment of House Bill 3407 during the 85th Legislative Session.

PA Rep. John Lawrence (R - Chester), author of House Bill 1554, said, «the federal government has no business collecting information on children to build large databases.

Accordingly, PA Rep. Stephen Bloom (R - Cumberland), author of House Bill 1552, said, the «top - down» approach of the federal government is potentially contrary to Constitutional freedoms.

«DPI was never in love... with charter schools,» Sen. Tillman (R - Randolph) said in a Senate Education Committee hearing on Tuesday as he introduced to fellow lawmakers a gutted version of House Bill 334, which would transfer the Office of Charter Schools out of the Department of Public Instruction, placing it under the State Board of Education.

The first - term High Point Democrat, co-sponsor of House Bill 1080, perhaps the most controversial K - 12 education bill in the legislature thus far this year, was bristling when he rebuffed a fellow Democrat's calls for teacher appreciation moments ago.

«Passage of House Bill 467 would be a credit negative for the PSF, as it could potentially weaken the overall credit quality of the program's participants as the PSF extends its guarantee to a growing number of charter schools over time,» Nichols said.

The language of the house bill also reframed the issue, stressing students and «equity» over schools.

In fact, passage of House Bill 1347, which established the Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence Program, depended on many factors, only some of which can be traced to Hurricane Katrina.

Passage of House Bill 1347 ultimately depended on the votes of rural legislators unaccustomed to supporting vouchers.

«I hope all in all it's going to be smooth sailing,» said Tom Wolanin, an aide to Representative William D. Ford, the Michigan Democrat who chairs the House Education and Labor Committee, and a key architect of the House bill.

One of the House bill's goals is to increase tornado warning lead - times to an hour.

New research from the Texas Policy Evaluation Project (TxPEP) exploring the impact of House Bill 2 (HB 2)-- the restrictive Texas abortion law that was struck down by the Supreme Court — found that increases in travel distance to the nearest abortion clinic caused by clinic closures were closely associated with decreases in the official number of abortions.

That is not part of the House bill sponsored by Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman (D - Calif.)

The NSF portion of the House bill takes a swipe at both the geosciences and the social and behavioral sciences.

With a trillion - dollar federal deficit at the forefront of legislators» minds, a clamp on spending is not as surprising as the unusually hands - on way in which the NIH portion of the House bill is written.

However, upon the passage of House Bill 292, Louisiana again adopted a nonpartisan blanket primary for its federal congressional elections.

That provision, which was part of the House bill that passed in May, remains in the Senate version of the bill.

Faso, R - Kinderhook, on Thursday voted in favor of a House bill to repeal and replace the 2010 Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare.

The Blue Dogs have already won $ 100 billion off the cost of the House bill, and may get more.

Rep. Greg Murphy, one of the sponsors of House Bill 116, said the bill was intended to raise awareness of life - threatening sports injuries.

In particular, there are three aspects of the House bill that ought to especially worry parents, health advocates and those who are concerned about fighting childhood hunger: the bill takes a decidedly unscientific approach to setting school nutrition standards, it would most certainly re-open the school junk food floodgates, and it will drop millions of needy kids from a much - lauded program that currently offers them free school meals.

I was given access to the paywall - proteced Pro report and recapped the bare bones of the House bill for you here on Friday.

The president of the Club for Growth, an influential group promoting tax cuts, issued a statement Tuesday saying parts of the House bill «fails the pro-growth test,» while social conservative groups pushed lawmakers to restore a tax credit for families who adopt children.

Consistent with this change, § 3312 of the House bill would have repealed § 1235.

«As the chief sponsor of House Bill 400, Rep. McCoy was instrumental in securing the successful passage...

«As the chief sponsor of House Bill 400, Rep. McCoy was instrumental in securing the successful passage of this landmark legislation that will elevate our Kentucky Bourbon Trail ® experiences and answer visitor's number one demand — the ability to ship souvenir bottles home,» KDA President Eric Gregory said.

That's going to be a problem for the health care bill — senators want to bolster the financial assistance for lower - income people buying private insurance and soften some of the House bill's Medicaid cuts, which will cost more money.

Espada is reportedly pushing for a joint statement with Sampson on the farm workers bill — and perhaps also on a package of housing bills that housing advocates dislike because they view them as too pro-landlord — but some people around the Brooklyn lawmaker worry it will look too much like he's (yet again) getting worked over by the wily majority leader and are balking.

Not only has the number of House bills that pass gone down, so too has the number of bills that are proposed in the first place.