Sentences with phrase «on enabling legislation»

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«Furthermore, the federal government should take additional steps to enable safe and rapid deployment... and we call on Congress to enact legislation to facilitate deployment of fully self - driving technology,» the statement continued.

Enabling legislation allows for the spending on statutory programs without having to seek annual approval by Parliament, unless changes to the parameters of the programs are being sought.

All three party leaders pledged to pass ridesharing enabling legislation by the end of the year, and we call on the new government to follow through.»

FACT: B.C. Building Trades Executive Director Tom Sigurdson told CKNW on July 14, 2015, «When I take a look at the enabling legislation and the project development agreement that the province has entered into with Petronas, I don't see sufficient enough support for British Columbian workers in the legislation or in the agreement.»

Editorials supported legislation designed to account for the unemployed, to establish public works projects to enable their return to work, to provide for newly unemployed through a national unemployment insurance program, and to create a national bureau of unemployment to stay on top of the problem.

This amendment granted the Church additional powers over its own governance, enabling it - through the Synod, to bring forth its own legislation, and even to amend Acts of Parliament on matters affecting it.

Legislation that would enable adoptive families to appeal state provided subsidy amounts by their county Children and Youth Services agency was passed in the House by a unanimous vote on October 17th.

(1) to protect and promote breastfeeding, as an essential component of their overall food and nutrition policies and programmes on behalf of women and children, so as to enable all infants to be exclusively breastfed during the first four to six months of life; (2) to promote breastfeeding, with due attention to the nutritional and emotional needs of mothers; (3) to continue monitoring breastfeeding patterns, including traditional attitudes and practices in this regard; (4) to enforce existing, or adopt new, maternity protection legislation or other suitable measures that will promote and facilitate breastfeeding among working women; (5) to draw the attention of all who are concerned with planning and providing maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the joint WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary support;

Tyrie has been dismissive of this, saying in a statement after the session: «The Commission's proposals would ultimately enable the UK parliament to impose legislation on England and would not deliver the pledge to secure English votes for English laws.»

The Governor and Legislature have reportedly reached agreement on casino gambling enabling legislation, titled the Upstate New York Gaming Economic Development Act of 2013 (A. 8101 / S.5883).

In advance of Memorial Day, New York State Senator Bill Larkin (R,C - Cornwall - on - Hudson), a World War II and Korean War combat veteran, and Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today introduced new legislation to create the G.I.V.E. Back NY program (Giving Internships for disabled Veterans not fully Employed) to enable disabled veterans to participate in the Assembly and Senate's annual legislative internship program.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today called on legislative leaders to stop wasting time, tax dollars and paper and immediately begin the implementation of Proposition 2 to enable electronic copies of legislation to suffice on all 213 legislative desks.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Tuesday proposed legislation that establishes a new class of public corruption crimes and enables prosecutors to better crack down on public corruption.

New Penalties to Help Crack Down on Illegal Drug Distribution: The legislation includes the following provisions to enable the State and law enforcement to better crack down on the distribution of heroin, opioids, and illegal prescription drugs:

Cuomo is backing the creation of a chief procurement officer and is supporting legislation that would allow the comptroller, attorney general and the procurement officer «to collaborate on a student and make recommendations regarding initiatives to better enable the public to track state contracts and audits.»

Cuomo said the current effort to get voters on board with the casino amendment is different than his push on the legislative front, where lawmakers had to adopt the amendment in two different sessions of the Legislature and then pass enabling legislation.

Bonacic introduced his own casino enabling legislation last month that would create up to five facilities upstate and place a moratorium on building New York City area - based casinos until 2019.

The destruction of those records was built into the ID program's enabling legislation, which said documents submitted to obtain the ID cards were to be destroyed on Dec. 31, 2016, two years after the program launched, unless the city's Human Resources Administration commissioner decided otherwise.

The state's enabling legislation would likely describe the general outlines of how the city - county government would operate and would call for a public referendum on the merger during the next general election.

Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo Maafo on Tuesday [14th February] told the media that government will get the necessary legislation to enable it use the Heritage Fund which is 9 percent of the revenue accrued to Ghana from its crude oil proceeds to finance the president's Free Senior High School policy.

The pending amendment to the state's constition allows for up to seven casinos statewide, but the enabling legislation provides for a five - year moratorium on New York City - area casinos after the upstate casinos have been up for two years.

The Political and Constitutional Reform Committee, chaired by Labour MP Graham Allen has complained that it has been given inadequate time to scrutinise the legislation that will fix parliamentary terms, cut the number of MPs to 600 and enable a nationwide referendum on the voting system.

Dr. Eng delivers plenary lecture at 2011 Healthsmart Forum on reform legislation and the future of integrated self - funded healthcare Charis Eng, MD, PhD, FACP, Hardis / ACS Professor and Chair of the Genomic Medicine Institute and Director of its Center for Personalized Genetic Healthcare, delivered a plenary lecture about genetics and genomics - enabled disease risk assessment, prediction and tailored medical management.

Letter to Gov. Toney Anaya, from the Working Group on New Mexico's Radiation Protection Regulations, Re: modifications in previous report to clarify recommendations, no major revisions, giving Final Recommendations; Recommendations and Statement of Reasons For Changes in New Mexico Radiation Protection Regulations and Their Enabling Legislation, Working Group on New Mexico's Radiation Protection Regulations, February 15, 1985.

In December, the Ryan - Murray budget agreement for FY2014 and FY2015 eased those limits, which has enabled significantly greater cooperation between the two parties on many issues this year, including authorization and appropriations legislation.

On the upside, new charter - school legislation is making its way to the governor's desk; it would enable the state board of education to authorize charter schools rejected by local school districts.

Private schools, on the other hand, do not share this obligation to openness, and nothing in the program's enabling legislation directly addresses discrimination, further narrowing the chances that choice will be realized for those who need it most.

Reframing how the legislation was written to capture that focus on «students» and «equity,» rather than «choice» or school type, enabled the coalition to attract more Democratic colleagues in the House.

The National School Boards Action Center (NSBAC) enables local school boards and the public to be more active in moving legislation forward and impacting federal regulations on behalf of America's students.

The controversial legislation enables parents who collect signatures representing more than 50 percent of students to force a major overhaul on an underperforming school, from replacing its principal and half the staff to shutting it down.

More than 11 states have passed enabling legislation (see section on Charter schools for more information).

Parent Revolution has not yet weighed in on the Tennessee reverse trigger proposal, though it did support similar legislation in Louisiana that in 2013 enabled parents to return schools placed in the state - run achievement district back to local school boards.

Our goal is to enable publishing and technology industries to meet national disability legislation and obligations under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

That means our members could read an article about President Obama, jump to an audiobook on modern legislation, and then end with an original transcript of one of the President's speeches.The idea is that this experience will enable discovery.»

The law expands on legislation already in the books that enables taxpayers to write off their annual interest payments up to a maximum of $ 2,500.

You can however figure out the limits on your own if you do the math and research by reading through the enabling legislation / bill that is now law.

The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA), which was the enabling legislation for the expanded Katmai National Park and Preserve, stipulates that all rural people may continue their subsistence practices on preserve lands.

The purpose of the English Surf School Scheme is to provide a clear set of rules for the safe and successful management of surfing activity on British beaches.This enables a surf school to comply with current national, regional and local beach, recreational and sport legislation.

The legislation creates a 200 megawatt community solar garden program for the state which would enable renters, condo owners, businesses that lease space, and those who may not have suitable roofs for solar panels the opportunity to sign up to participate in a community solar garden and receive a credit on their utility bill for their portion of the clean energy produced.»

«I respectfully request that your government put the mistakes of the last three years with respect to Climate Change to rights by declaring a climate emergency and adopting 100 % renewable energy target by removing our dependence on fossil fuels, immediately, by enabling legislation to achieve a liveable planet.»

The Team's initiative, she said, began informally in 2005 functioning in an ad hoc, sporadic fashion to enable policy makers from around the world to receive fast, focused advice on how to participate in emerging ecosystem markets and design effective plans and legislation that yield payments for ecosystem services.

Legislation (S. 5197b / A.6825) introduced by Senator Serino and Assemblymember Didi Barrett that would enable the Department of Conservation (DEC) to establish «Tanker Avoidance Zones» was signed into law by Governor Cuomo on October 24, 2017.

Phase 2 could certainly do with some help in the form of enabling legislation (such a price on carbon), but it does not have to be top - down solutions, although some are (industrial scale energy storage).

The fixing of a maximum price in the case at hand, by limiting the ability of electricity providers to pass on the extra costs to final users, means that the supply obligation must be complied with by means of the electricity providers» own financial resources; by contrast, the national legislation at issue in Association Vent de Colère, by enabling the electricity distributors to cash in a tax imposed on the consumers, guaranteed that the additional costs resulting from an obligation to purchase wind - generated electricity would be offset.

The site includes an interactive map of the United States that enables users to click on any state to view its legislation and laws.

However, if your assignment had been instead to find and update the enabling legislation for the Girl Guides organization, searching for bills on LegisINFO on «guides» would have correctly determined no recent bills have been enacted.

My comments start from three propositions which are rooted in constitutional theory: (1) absent constitutional objection, legislation binds; (2) administrative decision - makers enabled by statute can only go so far as their home statute allows (3) it is a court's job, on any standard of review, to enforce those boundaries; in American terminology, to «say what the law is» (Marbury v Madison; Edmonton East, at para 21).

Malaysian Historical Federal Legislation — A unique offering that will enable users to find the law as it stood on specific dates in the past

Such hearings are relatively novel to many professional regulators, and for many, their enabling statutes and subordinate legislation are silent on investigative and hearing procedures at registration.

Regrettably, the same jurisprudence also shows the deference obligation has had little impact on case outcomes and, in particular, those tied to the interpretation of the decision - maker's enabling legislation.