Sentences with phrase «of legislative language»

Read an example of the legislative language for Iowa's reforms.

The Ohio Society of Medical Assistants has done an excellent job working with organized nursing and other stakeholders who have an interest in the enactment of this legislative language.

The Supreme Court has also relied on broader instances of legislative language, such as concurrent jurisdiction on questions of law, to apply a correctness standard: see Rogers.

He also proposes changes in statute to make the budget — a multi-part document that can be difficult to decipher without a intricate knowledge of legislative language — more readable and digestible for the public.

Not exact matches

And the challenges created by policing individuals from converting higher - taxed wages into lower - taxed business profits, both from a legislative language perspective and an enforcement perspective with the limited resources of the IRS, would be near impossible.

The exact language of the bill hasn't been fleshed out, which isn't uncommon for bills that evolve during a legislative session.

Despite strong language from Trump, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Kirstjen Nielsen, and even Vice President Mike Pence this week in regards to the caravan, the route allowing foreign nationals with the caravan to be released into the U.S. is still open with no legislative agenda in sight that would end Catch and Release.

Officials of three major «health sharing» organizations say they are watching the Capitol Hill discussions closely, and suggesting legislative language to ensure they qualify if Congress requires a «mandate» that all Americans carry health insurance.

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.»

Rather than line out specific amounts for individual projects, the funds are giant lumps of cash inserted into budget legislation, with diffuse language governing their spending and a nod toward a process for spending that involves a state agency or authority and sometimes a memorandum of understanding with legislative leaders.

«In this situation, the then - governor became omnipotent and the members of the state Legislature constitutionally helpless as it had no power to remove the purely legislative, non-appropriation language from the Article VII bills.»

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

It's not pretty, but here's the language of the religious exemptions to the same - sex marriage bill agreed to by the legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew Cuomo earlier today.

The language now says that the casinos would be for the «legislative purposes of promoting job growth, increasing aid to schools, and permitting local governments to lower property taxes through revenues generated.»

Saland agonized over this issue with his gay - marriage - supporting wife, but one acquaintance said his decision seemed to grow out of his immersion in the legislative language.

It was supposed to take effect last year, but after Mr. Felder and others mounted a legislative challenge in Albany, a compromise was reached, which included plans to amend some of the language.

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.

Speed cameras have less legislative momentum, but language was included in the Assembly's budget priorities that would allow them to be placed in 290 school zones — double the existing authorization, which expires at year's end — and allow cameras within a quarter - mile of schools, not just on adjacent streets.

Even as some legislators were learning the outlines of the proposals, legislative language was still circulating — out of public view — among a small circle of people close to the governor, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, Senate Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.

The language of the so - called «Big Ugly,» the 72 - page bill with all the legislative changes from this session, allows for 50 slots from the overall cap to be «granted to a charter for a school to be located in a city having a population of one million or more.»

That vague but specific language was the result of a secretive legislative process.

The administration developed bill language that tracked the aims of the industry, according to a legislative source who saw it.

The GOP house and most of the Senate does not allow Dems to insert language into legislative bills.

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.

The language: «The proposed amendment to Section 14 of Article 3 of the State Constitution would allow electronic distribution of a state legislative bill to satisfy the constitutional requirement that a bill be printed and on the desks of state legislators at least three days before the Legislature votes on it.

But then, late on the final night of the 2014 legislative session, her reform bill's language was weakened and inserted into a massive budget bill.

It's unclear whether ARB has the authority to go beyond 2020 currently, thanks to a combination of potentially limiting language in the original climate law, A.B. 32, and a lawsuit challenging the legality of cap - and - trade auctions under a law requiring a two - thirds legislative majority to approve taxes.

But when it comes time for Congress to get down to actual legislative language, members will have to choose whether to open the door to all comers, including states with pitifully low standards (compared to those of the National Assessment of Educational Progress), deficient data and student - tracking systems, and a poor track record on including English language learners and students with disabilities.

He is using language that suggests that, if elected, he may be less aggressive in making adjustments to the bipartisan law — a revision of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — and may not necessarily pursue legislative fixes.

Last week, Stephen Sawchuk reported that delegates to this year's NEA Representative Assembly approved a resolution which directs the union to draft model legislative language that would prevent districts from punishing students who opt out of standardized tests.

This book could have gone deeper into the kind of research that NCLB and other legislation require, how the legislative language on required research and assessment was derived, how it is being interpreted and specified by the federal agencies, and the specific weaknesses in the research that passes administrative muster.

The department was accused of being a «national school board,» and, finally, eight years after NCLB was supposed to be rewritten, it has been — with some of it a direct rebuke to Education Secretary Arne Duncan, as seen in legislative language such as this:

And now, thanks to a handful of moderately conservative GOP Senators, including former Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander, we have actual legislative language bringing this commonsense approach to life.

In the Dec. 15 ruling, U.S. District Judge Raner C. Collins gave the state until Jan. 24, or just 15 days following the start of its 2006 legislative session, to resolve the issue of paying for English - language learners or be fined $ 500,000 per day for 30 days.

Empower Mississippi President Grant Callen and Director of External Relations Brett Kittredge sat down to talk about the education scholarship account language that will be coming forward in the 2018 legislative session.

This system, which for the first time would have, when fully implemented, established a Texas high school diploma as evidence of post-secondary readiness without the need for remediation, was essentially gutted over the following two legislative sessions, so that by 2013 the Texas high school graduation standard was effectively reduced to freshman algebra and sophomore English and language arts!

To that end, we would suggest that legislative language capturing the following items be located in the reauthorization of NCLB.

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

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.

If Dan Malloy was really serious about having a «stronger» reform law he would announce that he is dropping the idea of his «Commissioner's Network» and specifically outline what he doesn't actually like about the legislative language that now ensures that bad teachers can be removed.

My job was to draft environmental and natural resource legislation — to take the policy of senators and committees and translate it in to legislative language in the form of bills, amendments and conference reports.

According to documents obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), the American Petroleum Institute (API) and other oil industry groups have been directing state legislators to make public and legislative statements in favor of the pipeline project, and have provided legislators with draft legislation, language for op - eds and testimony to be presented as their own.

Senator Illuzzi had to use the tactic of adding the language to another bill because it was too late in the legislative session to introduce a separate standalone bill.

Indeed, the concerns had become so acute that these legislative leaders successfully enacted a restriction prohibiting relevant agencies from expending appropriated monies upon the matter at issue, consistent with the plain requirements of the GCRA of 1990, through language in the conference report accompanying Public Law 106 - 74:

In addition to providing legislative language, Neihaus provided talking points for the Senator's testimony on the bill, potential questions for opponents of the pro-chemistry industry bill, and background documents written by ACC staff and consultants attacking LEED green building standards.

Ohio is in the final stages of making an Exxon trojan horse on hydrofracking into state law, and it appears that the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) connected Exxon's lawyers with co-sponsors of Ohio Senate Bill 315: at least 33 of the 45 Ohio legislators who co-sponsored SB 315 are ALEC members, and language from portions of the state Senate bill is similar to ALEC's «Disclosure of Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Composition Act.»

When the language of a statute is both vague and ambiguous, the attempt to discern legislative intent is an exercise in futility.

Justice Stratas indicates, in the spirit of this article, that legislative words matter and that there are many contextual factors which might provide that a presumption of deferential review (or reasonableness, whatever we want to call it), is rebutted, and a narrower margin must be accepted: for example, «statutory recipes that must be followed,» statutory purposes, settled case law, discretionary decisions, and importantly, clear statutory language.

Obviously, clear legislative language is such a factor and can rebut the presumption of expertise.

The point is that the presumption of expertise should be rebuttable with clear legislative intent in the form of statutory language.