Sentences with phrase «of enacting a bill»

More important, a motion does not begin the process of enacting a bill because a motion that reflects «the sense of the Chamber» is not a bill.

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The proposed law will now go to the desk of Hawaii's governor, who can sign the bill into law and enact the ban starting in 2021.

Passage of the tax reform bill would deliver Trump and congressional Republicans a significant victory in 2017 and allow the president to stick to his promise to enact tax relief before the end of the year.

Hatch and the GOP are banking that a future Congress would not allow the tax breaks to go away when they come up in 2025 — effectively enacting a tax increase on millions of Americans — but pass a bill to extend these cuts.

The bill is set to enact huge changes to all corners of the US tax code.

A draft bill unveiled last week by Republicans in the House of Representatives, if enacted, would be the biggest restructuring of the tax system since the 1980s and the first major legislative victory of the Trump presidency.

The failure of Trump to get a health - care reform bill approved in the House led many to doubt he would be able to enact tax cuts and infrastructure investment projects in due course.

The bad news is that the SBA, acting outside of the stimulus bill, has enacted a significant change to business acquisition loans by placing caps on goodwill financing.

If Congress had not enacted the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, 10 million taxpayers would owe the AMT in 2007, according to estimates by the Urban Institute - Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center; reducing the number of affected taxpayers to several million, as the House - passed AMT «patch» bill would do, would have cost less than $ 15 billion.

Third, did you give thought to the impact of the corporate rate cut assuming that expensing as proposed in the bill was enacted?

Republican legislators sent Iowa's governor a bill early Wednesday that would ban most abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, usually around six weeks of pregnancy, propelling the state overnight to the front of a push among conservative statehouses jockeying to enact the nation's most restrictive regulations on the procedure.

Years after a national task force recommended enacting anti-spam legislation, the Canadian bill finally established strict rules for electronic marketing and safeguards against the installation of unwanted software programs on personal computers, all backed by tough multi-million dollar penalties.

As a widely supported bill to allow local regulation of gun dealers dies, it's up to the man who killed it to get an alternative enacted.

According to GovTrack.Us, the bill has only a 21 % chance of being enacted if it were to ever reach the Oval Office.

The latest tax bill, enacted by Trump, greatly expanded the utility of 529 plans by expanding eligible withdrawals to include K - 12 ($ 10,000 per child, per year), in addition to post secondary education.

With the apparently low rate of compliance, the report is recommending the city enact legislation that requires companies like Airbnb and vacation - rental site VRBO to provide hosts» addresses and booking information and give San Francisco's planning department the ability to fine platforms listing unregistered hosts — measures that Airbnb says «would make it even harder for middle class families to stay in San Francisco and pay the bills.»

All of the above examples of bill language were dropped or amended before being enacted.

In addition to the 20 enacted reconciliation bills, 4 reconciliation bills have passed both chambers of Congress but were subsequently vetoed by the president.

Following these instructions, committees of jurisdiction identify specific policies to meet these goals in the form of a reconciliation bill, which can be enacted on a fast - track basis.

If passed, the Bill would enact the Virtual Currency Act that would require virtual currency businesses to obtain a license from the Commissioner of Business Oversight («Commissioner») in order to operate within the state.

Because the Supreme Court's decision relied on on interpretation of the RFRA and not the First Amendment itself, Congress, by enacting legislation such as the bill offered by Murray and Udall, could override the court's ruling and guarantee women the same level of comprehensive health care coverage available to men.

The Christian peer Baroness Cox — who in 2011 attempted in the House of Lords to enact legislation called the Arbitration and Mediation Services Equality Bill, to protect women living here from the effects of Sharia as it is already allowed to be practised in this country — reacted to this démarche with some alarm.

Let a Jew be Archbishop of Canterbury... But let there be one single - clause bill [enacting] that every Jew must be dressed like an Arab....

«When rulers have inverted their functions and enacted wickedness into a law which treads down the inalienable rights of man to such a degree as this,» abolitionist minister Theodore Parker of Boston declared after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill in 1850, «then I know no ruler but God, no law but natural Justice.»

He responded that the lesser of two evils would be to allow the bill to go through as is, because, he claimed, not letting it be enacted allowed «the American and the European gay activists to continue to do to that country what they've done here [in the U.S.].»

The most advanced affirmations of religious liberty at the time of the founding of the republic, Thomas Jefferson's Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom (submitted to the Virginia legislature in 1779 and enacted 1786) and James Madison's Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessment (1785), were not widely known until our century.

«We do so out of deep human concern that if enacted, this bill would have a serious detrimental effect on the wellbeing of individuals and on the nature and shape of our society.

Congress enacted legislation in the 2008 Farm Bill to provide the USDA Secretary with added authority to ensure that GE contamination was minimized or prevented after rice producers lost an estimated $ 1.25 billion as a result of a contamination event.

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-- The FDA receives a total of almost $ 2.6 billion in discretionary funding in the bill, an increase of $ 23 million over the fiscal year 2014 enacted level.

This funding will support the various farm, conservation, loan, and emergency programs, and will help American farmers and ranchers with the implementation of the recently enacted farm bill.

On June 2, 1994 Governor Steven Merrill signed Bill RSA # 326 - G into effect, enacting state licensure for all athletic trainers within the state of New Hampshire.

Since most districts do have to spend more to pay for healthier food, such a bill, if enacted, would be the death of the HHFKA.

Under the bill, the National Academy of Sciences would develop voluntary nutrition standards to be ready six months after the bill is enacted.

The governor questioned whether the legislative budget deal will be balanced (we have yet to see the revenue bill, although there's supposed to be one out today), saying he doesn't want to see a repeat of last year, when the Legislature was forced to enact mid-year cuts to address a post-deal deficit.

If the Assembly passes the bill today — and it appears that it will at this point — New York would be the first state to enact a new gun control law in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting that killed 20 children.

The Constitution Act, 1867 -LSB-...] expressly confers upon the Queen or the Governor General the power to withhold the royal assent from a bill that has been enacted by the two Houses of Parliament (s. 55), but a convention stipulates that the royal assent shall never be withheld.

Cutting nearly $ 1 trillion from Medicaid will give states the freedom to tailor the program to suit their needs, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said, as he defended a narrowly passed House bill that aims to undo parts of the health care law enacted by the previous administration.

This Bill, if enacted, wold make provision for the award of asylum - seeker status in the United Kingdom to certain unaccompanied children from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Eritrea displaced by conflict and present within the European Union.

Future New York governors might play a bigger role in the next generation of interplanetary adventures if a bill introduced by Assemblyman Clyde Vanel is enacted.

So the only way the Democrats have available to enact policies they favor is to convince Republicans to allow it as part of their bills.

``... ORDERED, that each and every Defendant, pursuant to Federal Rule of Procedure 65, is enjoined from submitting, enacting, or implementing emergency appropriations bills containing the furlough and wage provisions challenged in these actions.»

«This bill provides a strong step towards the campaign finance reforms that we hope to see enacted this session,» the groups Citizens Union, League of Women Voters and NYPIRG write in the memo.

The bill, if enacted, would allow anyone to run in any party's primary, regardless of whether the candidate is a member of that party or not, and regardless of what party officers think Read more»

«To have that bill enacted would give us the certainty of additional revenue coming in,» Kriss said.

He's been the leading champion for the complete - streets redesign of Brooklyn's 4th Avenue, and is committed to seeing his bill to permit bicyclists to use leading pedestrian interval signals enacted into law.

If enacted, the bill would move the critical H - 2A visa program from the Department of Labor to the Department of Agriculture.

Harriet Harman's triumphalist marking of Gordon Brown's first Budget as, «the end of the assumption that families consist of a male breadwinner and a female helpmate in the home,» culminated in an Equalities Bill (enacted by the Coalition) and one way maternal employment policies and childcare policies

Hoping to capitalize on Democratic anger over the election of President Trump, Mayer and other Democrats argue the Westchester contest is critical to their hopes of controlling the Senate and enacting legislation long sought by progressives, including new gun control measures, campaign finance and ethics reforms, and a bill to strengthen New York's abortion laws.

Ideally, any bill enacting the change should be preceded by a Green Paper in which any problematic consequences of the bill could be aired, and solutions thereby sought.

To that end, the bill would also enact what's known as the Volcker Rule: which places some limits on the size of banks and the kinds of risks that banking institutions can take.