Sentences with phrase «omnibus bill»

This is a government that is fond of putting everything but the kitchen sink in omnibus bills, limiting debate on them, and then passing them without a comma changed.

Based on past practice, however, we probably won't know the full details until the budget omnibus bill in June.

The problematic nature of omnibus bills begins with the difficulty of identifying the principle of the bill.

The recent omnibus bill passed by Congress contains a nugget of good news for those interested in access to publicly funded research.

Given the impending omnibus bill on crime and the likely large increase in the costs to the provinces from their associated responsibility for corrections, this report might be of some interest.

Under Omnibus Bill C - 38, passed last year, the Harper government gets to overrule any NEB recommendation it doesn't like, whether negative or positive, in the «national interest.»

The so - called omnibus bill abandons many of the most controversial provisions lawmakers were trying to include in the must - pass bill — which had painfully stalled the bill's release for days.

We hope that Congress will continue on a bipartisan path toward a final omnibus bill for fiscal year 2018 and urge members to raise the budget caps for discretionary spending, which is how the majority of federal research and development is funded,» said Holt in a statement.

A two part Omnibus Bill with over 1000 pages, which included legislative changes, only remotely referred to in the budget or not at all.

On Wednesday, the Minister of Finance tabled BILL C - 4, the second omnibus bill related to measures proposed in the March 2013 Budget.

The Mikisew Cree case involved two omnibus bills introduced by the federal Minister of Finance in 2012: Bill C - 38 and Bill C - 45.

It has no chance of passing through normal legislative means but its not impossible for it to be attached to larger omnibus bills in order to appease ethanol interests.

In the second Budget Omnibus Bill related to the 2012 Budget, the Government proposed to suspend the operations of the CEIFB until such time the EI Operating Account returns to balance.

Bill C - 75, the federal government's 300 + page omnibus bill (which had its first reading on March 28, 2018) makes some significant alterations to the landscape of criminal procedure, including restricting preliminary inquiries to offences punishable by imprisonment for life and investing a justice with increased powers to limit the issues explored and the witnesses to be heard at the inquiry.

At 10 a.m., Rep. Adriano Espaillat and others announce a multimillion - dollar increase to district weatherization assistance programs allocated from the recent omnibus bill, Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation, 323 E. 198 St., Bronx.

The New York state Legislature finally ended its 2017 legislative session, after the Assembly voted overnight on a privately negotiated omnibus bill, and the Senate finally finished on Thursday afternoon.

The first Omnibus bill engendered considerable discussion and hostility because, by including major policy changes in the Bill, it precluded substantive policy reviews by appropriate Parliamentary Committees, and indeed limited review by Parliament itself.

The similarly contentious property - tax - cap and rent - regulation omnibus bill, which many are calling «the big ugly,» has yet to be printed, so it should be another long day.

What is problematic about omnibus bills, particularly ones amending the Criminal Code is that parliamentarians are obliged to vote yea or nay for the whole bill, particularly on second reading.

This raises the difficulties raised by a criminal law omnibus bill as well as some others.

Major legislative changes were buried in massive omnibus bills.

A muddy, mucky, slippery slope... The combination of this news and the apparent intention of the harper government to allow the hand over of private personal information without a court order (see upcoming crime omnibus bill), lead one to wonder if we are in for this...

Stay tuned for my critique of criminal omnibus bill... the more I read, the more nervous i get.

For example, the 2012 Federal Budget never specifically mentioned restrictions to Employment Insurance benefits but the June 2012 budget omnibus bill repealed the section of the Employment Insurance Act that allows recipients to turn down a job because it is not their usual occupation or pays less.

Over the years, federal budget legislation has acquired the feel of U.S. omnibus bills (the Farm Bill is probably the quintessential example).

Finally, to be «transparent» you must commit to providing full information in your future budgets and not rely on unrelated omnibus bills.

The Budget Omnibus Bill suspended the operations of the CEICB.

With a February budget, we won't see the Budget Omnibus Bill until March or April.

Gigantic, flawed omnibus bills are jammed through the House of Commons without a word being changed.

When asked if she has read the whole omnibus bill, she says she has read sections of the hundreds of pages but mostly relies on the notes the NDP has provided, breaking it all down.

The inclusion of these measures in a budget omnibus bill clearly violates the spirit and intent of budget legislation.

Many of the individual sub-laws in the ACA are quite manageable in length, put if you create 30 - 40 different sub-laws with an average of 25 - 30 pages each, before you know it, you've got a 900 page long omnibus bill.

When everything kind of fell apart after session and we passed all the bills we needed to pass including rhe omnibus bill that had all the extenders of it, we as a conference didn't have a discussion about it.»

The Assembly approved the full agenda as a single omnibus bill, while the Senate approved nine of the 10 measures that include strengthening anti-human trafficking and discrimination laws.

@jbs1109, I didn't downvote, but yes I want you to list what percentage of omnibus bills vs. Mini-crs have been passed.

The Democratic - led Assembly has been under pressure to pass the agenda as individual pieces of legislation after it approved the broader omnibus bill that included a bill designed to update the state's abortion laws.

The current thinking is that whatever items come together will be smashed into one of Albany's notorious omnibus bills.

The coalition, which includes Family Planning Advocates of New York State and hundreds of other groups and businesses, is currently calling on the Democrat - dominated state Assembly to pass the separate planks of the Women's Equality Agenda instead of the 10 - point omnibus bill passed by the chamber during the final week of the legislative session.

«The scientific community is over the moon with the bipartisan omnibus bill in Congress that significantly increases funding for research and development.

This year Florida legislators passed a controversial omnibus bill — HB 7069 — which revamps many aspects of chartering across the state.

Reforms were on fast track Indeed in Minnesota, where a stalemate between Gov. Tim Pawlenty and the state's largest teachers union resulted in no K - 12 omnibus bill whatsoever last year, even the labor - loving DFL went into this year's legislative session vowing to fast - track such education reforms as alternative paths to teacher licensure, modifications to teacher tenure and tying teacher compensation to student performance.

Washington, D.C. (March 22, 2018)-- The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) Executive Director Carissa Moffat Miller released the following statement upon U.S. House of Representatives approval of the Fiscal Year 2018 Appropriations Omnibus Bill.

Obama signed another massive spending bill yesterday; a $ 419 billion Federal Omnibus bill.

The comprehensive omnibus bill is passed every five years or so by the United States Congress and deals with both agriculture and all other affairs under the purview of the United States Department of Agriculture.

He could ban omnibus bills, for a start.

They did this through the infamous Omnibus Bills, especially C - 38 [1] in 2012.

The case at issue in this appeal arose from a challenge by the Mikisew Cree First Nation, an Alberta Treaty 8 First Nation, to two contentious Omnibus bills (Bill C - 38 and Bill C - 45) that were introduced by the former Conservative federal government in 2012.

The cyberbullying proposals are part of a wider omnibus bill that amends a few acts, including the Criminal Code and Evidence Act.

The Library of Parliament recently published a paper entitled Omnibus Bills: Frequently Asked Questions that tries to get to the bottom of the issue: