Sentences with phrase «of legislative efforts»

The latest is a series of legislative efforts to life the ban on judges and others from carrying guns into courthouses (other bills discussed here and here) have been filed.

Public owners need to be aware of legislative efforts that may disrupt reasonable contract requirements that provide for the orderly administration of construction contracts.

He can adopt an executive - branch strategy to complement the next round of legislative efforts.

However, donors have not yet come close to hitting the cap because of a legislative effort to repeal the tax - credit law and a legal challenge that put the program's future in doubt during the first two years.21 The only scholarship organization operating at the time, the Network for Educational Opportunity (NEO), raised just shy of $ 130,000 in the first year and less than half that in the second year.

Mr. Balasa has worked with the leaders of the Connecticut Society, the lobbying firm employed by the Connecticut Society, and American Medical Technologists (AMT), which has been fully supportive of the legislative effort and is paying half the lobbyist fees.

Not exact matches

It will be a long week in Washington with a lot of moving parts that could overshadow the tax reform effort, which Republicans hope will be the first major legislative win since Trump took office.

Congress, too, talks a good small - business game, but the legislative history is replete with efforts to enlarge the definition of small — currently 37 separate standards apply to nearly 1,200 different industries — to include ever more constituents.

Regardless of legislative repeals, supporters of Michelle Obama's efforts to get healthier food into mainstream America believe the impact of her work can not be undone.

«If you go back to the rapaciousness and lawlessness of Gilded Age capitalism, it was the slow burn of public opinion that gradually gathered force and ultimately became the driving force that provided cover for dramatic new legislative and regulatory efforts,» she said.

With such lack of accountability it is not surprising that Alphabet contributed substantial funds to the tech lobbying groups who are opposing federal legislative efforts to give additional options to prosecutors and civil trial lawyers to fight websites like Backpage (child sex trafficking) and prevent them from flourishing.

Outrage over the financial crisis, coupled with the perception that Wall Street executives» performances have not justified their pay, led to legislative efforts aimed at curbing executive pay, compensation - related shareholder lawsuits and a tremendous amount of negative press coverage.

April 6: Facebook says it will require admins of popular pages and advertisers buying political or «issue» ads on «debated topics of national legislative importance» like education or abortion to verify their identity and location — in an effort to fight disinformation on its platform.

TALLAHASSEE — Three months after 13 elderly residents in a South Florida nursing home died because of sweltering conditions following Hurricane Irma, lawsuits and legislative inaction are holding up efforts aimed at preventing such deaths in the future.

Legislative suspicion of the corporate form and fear of the concentrated economic power it represented probably motivated the early efforts to limit shareholder voting rights.

Pierce is legislative director of the Sierra Club, which has consistently opposed Pruitt's efforts to roll back environmental regulations.

This effort does not require any legislative change... simply a refocus by the CRA of its resources.

This message is in conflict with the efforts of President Donald Trump, who has made a series of anti-immigration proposals and legislative moves ranging from the Mexican border wall to the travel ban against seven Muslim countries.

Americans for Annuity Protection believes that a best interest standard can more effectively and efficiently be achieved and vigorously supports efforts to correct the harmful impacts of this rule through legislative and legal action.

Among these layers are a variety of tax rules, which encourage religions to reshape themselves so as to be eligible for tax benefits, and the recent legislative efforts, certainly constitutional but perhaps of dubious value to religion, to allow religious groups to share in the rather substantial largesse of the programmatic side of the welfare state.

Clearly then, «Dignity in Dying» (formerly, the Voluntary Euthanasia Society), the lobby group at the centre of efforts to introduce assisted suicide, believed that the Falconer provisions contained the winning legislative formula that would have allowed them to get them this first crucial foothold in the law.

But it is also referenced in a recent Arizona legislative effort to prohibit abortions after twenty weeks, which includes the language, ««Gestational age» means the age of the unborn child as calculated from the first day of the last menstrual period of the pregnant woman.»

ABOUT THE VIRGINIA DISTILLERS ASSOCIATION (VDA): The VDA is a nonprofit private trade association focused on promotional efforts to increase awareness of Virginia's growing craft spirits industry, as well as the regulatory and legislative needs of the industry.

Direct - entry midwives have been legal in Colorado since 1993 due to the efforts of the CMA, and the CMA continues to be the legislative force behind maintaining and updating the regulation of direct - entry midwifery in Colorado.

She was an active member of both California Association of Midwives and California Nurse Midwives Association, working as a liaison to the boards of both during the licensed midwife practice act legislation in the 1990s, and lobbied extensively for both CNM and LM legislative efforts.

«There's Farm to School efforts going on all over the place,» said Bob Heuer, chair of the Legislative Task Force for the Evanston / Skokie 65/202 PTA Council.

Secretary Matthew Beaton of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EOEEA) and the Plymouth region's legislative delegation have been particularly supportive in this effort.

Some of these efforts include: annual «Hike to Harrisburg» to thank legislators for a great legislative year for athletic trainers in PA and to educate the legislature about the profession.

The importance of these fundraisers can't be understated when it comes to maintaining the voice of athletic training with its» legislative efforts.

Mass Audubon has also been a steadfast supporter of endangered species at the State House where it works to strengthen the law and defeat legislative repeal efforts.

and putting real muscle behind legislative efforts to rein in the marketing of junk food to -LSB-...]

As a former advertising lawyer and a kid - and - food blogger, I'm a bit embarrassed that I only just learned of ongoing legislative efforts to create industry standards for the advertising of foods to children.

In his statement, the elder Diaz touted his legislative work and the effort in Albany on behalf of his Senate district.

And if OFA eventually manages to do both, the organization could raise the stakes of modern policymaking, establishing a new template for political parties» efforts to organize mandates and enact their legislative agendas.

AQE brought hundreds of kids, parents and supporters to the Capitol to get an unusually early job on their legislative session lobbying effort.

Fruscher ominously notes that a «much more significant downsizing of our entire workforce lies ahead,» but the OTB is awaiting legislative approval for an early - retirement incentive program and a joint effort with the union that represents most of the operation's workforce in accordance with a MOU.

Tonight kicks off what will be biweekly sessions in an effort to pass marriage legislation by the end of the 2011 legislative session.

Republican lawmakers in the chamber have for the past several legislative sessions pushed for an ease to regulations in the state, and this year the GOP conference renewing that effort after ultimately backing an increase to the state's minimum wage in the budget, with the floor growing to $ 15 in some parts of the state over the next several years.

An effort to curtail LLC political giving legislatively stalled in the Senate at the end of the legislative session, which concluded last month.

New York's Democratic lawmakers and gun - control advocates have won an important new ally in their effort to push a legislative ban of bump stocks, which turn semi-automatic rifles into virtual machine guns: Acting ATF Director Thomas Brandon.

Led by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Assemblyman Nick Perry, chair of the state Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus, a delegation of legislators and staff embark today on a humanitarian effort to bring aid and support to residents of the U.S. Virgin Islands.

At 10:30 a.m., Assemblyman Jeffrion Aubry, state Sen. Kevin Parker, survivors of solitary confinement and others host a panel discussion on solitary confinement in New York and efforts to stop the practice, Legislative Office Building, Hearing Room B, Albany.

As The NYT reported today, the coalition of wealthy business types, which seemed strikingly similar to the Committee to Save New York when it was first announced earlier this year, are mobilizing an effort on removing money from politics with mailers in swing legislative districts.

Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle on Tuesday introduced an alternative version of a bill designed to legalize mixed - martial arts in New York in an effort to pass the measure in the final days of the legislative session.

So we've been talking about this effort by this group, the Republican State Leadership Committee, to put not huge amounts of money, but enough money to make a difference in a few dozen state legislative races, hoping that Republicans could then control statehouses, and after the 2010 census draw the new congressional lines.

Other question topics included how Cuomo's love of cars and motorcycles affects his actions on mass transit, the ongoing investigations of Mayor de Blasio's fundraising efforts in the 2014 senate elections and whether Cuomo has been questioned in those investigations, current legislative efforts at retroactively extending the statute of limitations in child sex abuse cases, the developing troubles of Suffolk County District Attorney Tom Spota and whether Cuomo will act to remove Spota, the likelihood of «ethics reform» passing in this legislative session, the timing of an inspector general's report on the 2015 Dannemora prison escape and Cuomo's planned trip to Italy.

It disrupts GOP efforts to portray party unity ahead of the midterm election and to rack up legislative wins to motivate voters to the polls to keep their majority.

Once the state's political leaders got past the congratulatory «atta - boys» and backslapping on their most recent effort to reform Albany, the public was left to dig through the details of the legislative agreement.

The curriculum is quite comprehensive; taught by a hodgepodge of veteran operatives and campaign professionals who donate their experience via lectures, webcasts, and grassroots campaigning exercises — all in an effort to raise future leaders equipped with skills in fundraising, community organizing, communications, and legislative action.

These changes, which will be phased in, are the result of the recommendations made by the Assembly workgroup appointed last year and charged with the examination of existing processes and ongoing efforts to improve and strengthen the Assembly rules, operations and legislative processes.

As federal courts move to decide whether to intervene on the Congressional redistricting process, the last ditch legal efforts on behalf of Albany's legislative leaders to dismiss the lawsuit was rejected by a three judge panel this evening.