Sentences with phrase «on state legislatures»

State PACs may accept money from individuals and corporations in most cases and enable interested parties to have an impact on state legislatures.

You can see Mr. Oliver's painfully New York State - free commentary on state legislatures below.

With redistricting right around the corner, breaking the Republican lock on state legislatures and governorships REALLY matters.

In 1973 the American Bar Association called on state legislatures to repeal all laws which place homosexual activity between consenting adults in private in the category of a crime.

Another group, Reclaim New York, called the practice a «deliberate defrauding of New Yorkers, and another stain on a state legislature tarnished by corruption.»

The city's five primary public defender organizations have teamed up to put pressure on the state legislature to pass meaningful criminal justice reforms after the measures were left out of the state budget.

Cuomo called on the state legislature to approve design - build, which allows contractors to conduct work while designing the project, to address fixes more rapidly.

In the wake of a grisly crime of animal cruelty in Halfmoon where a nine - month old puppy was set on fire, Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today is calling on the state legislature to pass his legislation to create a statewide registry of animal abusers.

The Governor is right to stand up for parents and students on this issue, and I am calling on the state legislature to join us by passing it into law this year.»

In his liberal - themed speech, Malloy called on the state legislature to send a message to the nation that Connecticut stands for fairness, amid growing national inequity and unfairness.

The clock is ticking — New York's rent laws are set to expire on June 15 and families are counting on the state legislature.

BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City — In a unanimous decision, the county legislature's budget & finance committee approved a memorializing resolution calling on the state legislature and governor to resolve problems with the state's chargeback system for community colleges at its March 12 meeting.

Reform groups including Citizen Action New York gathered in Albany on Monday to protest the outsized influence of the natural gas industry on the state legislature's approach to hydrofracking, noting that the industry has contributed more than $ 1.3 million to state legislators in an effort to buy support for the controversial practice.

The Cuomo Administration is making a final push as it calls on the state legislature to approve the Enough is Enough bill before the end of the session on June 17th.

They are aligned with an organization called the Committee to Save New York (CSNY) in pushing local officials to call on the state legislature to support Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposed Tier VI Pension reform plan.

Amedore, a former three - term assemblyman, wants term limits imposed on the state legislature.

«Avengers» actor Mark Ruffalo, left, cheers as folk singer and activist Pete Seeger performs a song during a news conference calling on the state legislature to pass a moritorium on «fracking» Tuesday July 20, 2010, at the State Capitol in Albany.

GPNY is calling on the state legislature to act now, but is also calling on voters to make a choice in November between Governor Cuomo's corruption and a Green candidate running on an aggressive ethics reform platform.

New City — In a unanimous decision, the county legislature's budget & finance committee approved a memorializing resolution calling on the state legislature and governor to resolve problems with the state's chargeback system for community colleges at its March 12 meeting.

The bill is not yet on the state legislature's web page.

A group including several local elected officials known as the Rebuild New York Now coalition today called on the state legislature and Governor Andrew Cuomo to address the issue in the next budget when the legislature reconvenes in January.

In Alabama, State Senator Cam Ward (R - Alabaster) e-mails that he has introduced a similar bill in his state, although it still isn't on the state legislature's web page.

Dunlea said he feels it is important for the executive director be based in Albany because of the organization's focus on the state legislature.»

Two years after turning down a run for Congress, Dr. William Petit Jr. has set his sights on the state legislature as the Republican Party's nominee in the 22nd House District.

Proclaiming 2006 «the year of the child,» New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson called on the state legislature last week to improve and expand preschool programs, pass policies that help prepare students for college, and address the health of the state's children.

The lawsuit centered on the state legislature's 2009 revision and reauthorization of mayoral control of the school district.

Looking forward, any judicial demands on the state legislature would likely meet with resistance.

Malloy is having particular trouble with Gary Holder - Winfield — a major player on education in the statehouse — and Roberta Willis (who sits on the state legislature's higher education panel); this will make it difficult for Malloy to pass any school reform legislation.

Tomorrow, the Sacramento - based school reform advocacy group Ed Voice will have a full - page ad (seen on the left, click to enlarge) in the LA Times calling on the state legislature and Governor Jerry Brown to oppose AB 5.

For the 2013 - 14 budget year, a broad coalition of organizations, school stakeholders, education professionals, parents and community members are calling on the state legislature to: — Restore the nearly $ 1 billion in state funding cuts (made in each of the last two years) over a three -LSB-...]

The issue even made it to the ballot box in 2016 when HISD added a measure meant to put pressure on the state legislature to change its school funding system after lawsuits failed to do the same.

The lawsuit centers on the state legislature's failure to provide annual inflation boosts.

In Wilmington, Del., the WSJ Law Blog reports, the city council has now passed a resolution «calling on the state legislature and U.S. Congress to pass laws granting «personhood» rights to eggs and sperm.»

Not exact matches

In Florida, where the emergency plan is based on a directive from the state legislature, more than 12,000 prisoners were moved out of Hurricane Irma's destructive path in one of the largest evacuations in the state's history.

Walker ordered the Republican - controlled state legislature into special session on Tuesday to consider the package.

Originalists such as Gorsuch also apply their philosophy to resolve disagreements over laws crafted by Congress or state legislatures, focusing on the text and intention of the lawmakers.

This year, our legislature passed several pieces of legislation which easies the regulatory burden on those who seek to create jobs in our state.

Of course, things change, and in 2006, when the state legislature made good on his pledge, Romney, who has of late extensively revised the positions he took in the Bay State, vetoed the state legislature made good on his pledge, Romney, who has of late extensively revised the positions he took in the Bay State, vetoed the State, vetoed the bill.

Furthermore, the spending requirements placed on a national government are far more extensive than those faced by a state legislature.

Arkansas» Governor Asa Hutchinson is poised to sign a nearly identical measure, approved by the legislature in that state late on Tuesday.

The right - to - work drive in Michigan is the latest of a series of setbacks for labor unions in the United States, beginning in 2011, when Wisconsin's Walker pushed through the legislature limits on public sector unions such as teachers.

ALBANY, N.Y., March 31 - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature agreed late on Friday on a $ 168 billion budget for fiscal 2019, including measures aimed at offsetting damage to taxpayers from new federal tax changes.

With the president, the FAA and state legislatures weighing in on commercial drone use, NoFlyZone CEO Ben Marcus wants to open up the conversation and give individuals the power to put the unmanned ve...

• In Vermont, state Sen. Kevin Mullin (R) worked with AARP Vermont on a bill that passed unanimously in both houses of the legislature and was signed into law by Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) in April.

Elena Sidorenko, who heads an interdepartmental working group on cryptocurrencies at the State Duma, the lower house of Russia's legislature, said it is widely known that Chinese traders use cryptocurrencies to send their revenues abroad.

The Pennsylvania legislature recently passed a bill that will ensure borrowers are up - to - date on their student loan debt.The average Pennsylvania college student graduates with $ 35,000 in student loans, which is higher than any other state in the U.S. And within three years of graduation, 10 percent of Pennsylvania student loan borrowers default on their debt.In order to combat this problem, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would ensure students stay informed about how much debt they are accumulating.HB 2124 would require all colleges and universities to provide annual notices to students about their outstanding student...

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Of that number, about a half - dozen taxpayers have an effect on revenue that's noticed in the legislature and the state Department of Revenue Services.

Sen. L. Scott Frantz, the ranking Republican on the legislature's finance, revenue and bonding committee, said the disproportionate impact on state revenue by one group of taxpayers — in this case, the super-rich — is «pretty frightening when you think of it.»

«In my view, the Nebraska legislature pulled out all the stops to give TransCanada the prize by cutting off any ability on the part of the state's citizens to mount a meaningful challenge to the permitting process.