Sentences with phrase «to pass legislation»

Lawmakers also worked to strengthen district / charter relations by passing legislation that promotes cooperation.

The French government is ready to pass legislation on initial coin offerings (ICO) to stimulate the development of a new type of fundraising.

In order to clean up the nonsense (and save the profession), many states passed legislation requiring licensing for massage therapists.

The state is the first to pass legislation requiring education officials to develop health and safety guidelines for digital devices.

Finally, after much pressure, the government recently passed legislation to repeal the offending provisions and to allow claims to be made based on workplace stress.

More states are trying to pass legislation allowing children to consent to vaccines, a procedure that comes with a risk of injury and death.

I don't think it is right that a state or any government should be thinking in terms of passing legislation about conversion.

As a result, we have seen the state legislature pass legislation which greatly affects the field of Athletic Training.

He has also helped pass legislation that allows fiscal flexibility, ensures assessment and accountability, encourages school innovation, and improves our school facilities.

This summer, state lawmakers passed legislation to eliminate the $ 26 million school districts now receive to fund the program.

Even though legal on a federal level, some states did not pass legislation to allow same - sex marriage.

When no agreement could be reached, the government passed legislation that implemented its last wage increase offer.

Just in the past four years, more than half of the states passed legislation aimed at improving 3rd grade reading proficiency, the commission said.

The obvious remedy to shutting down puppy mills is to push our respective state lawmakers to pass legislation making it illegal to sell dogs or cats through retailers.

Several other states have already passed legislation to create state - sponsored retirement savings programs.

Currently, 22 states have passed legislation with a mandate for school administrator mentoring, and mentoring and coaching programs have been established in states and school districts throughout the country.

His Republican legislature passed the legislation under his sponsorship.

Some cities and states have passed legislation prohibiting employers from asking applicants for salary information.

Such a government can pass legislation providing for greater guidance on cost regimes in the public interest, thereby providing basis for judicial any discretion in this area.

The budget is must - pass legislation so that greatly increases the likelihood that the rent cap will be enacted.

We actually passed some legislation that made progress on some of these issues.

The next decade saw repeated, but unsuccessful, attempts to pass legislation protecting people from misuse of genetic data.

[x] For the past several years, states have passed legislation intended to separate themselves from Common Core assessments.

But as the death toll in the opioid epidemic quickly rises to staggering new heights, experts say that fighting it is much more complicated than simply passing legislation.

In 1993 it became one of the first states to pass legislation enabling the creation of charter schools.

The government intends to pass the legislation into law by 2018.

The health lobby moved onto the front foot in the battle to ban smoking in cars with children today, with over 500 health professionals demanding MPs pass the legislation.

So far 44 states have passed legislation restricting the use of handheld devices by drivers in one way or another.

So after the lands were taken back, congress passed legislation to manage these sections for sustained - yield timber production, with the proceeds to go to the counties as I mentioned earlier.

The Australian Government has passed legislation crafted to remove the double taxation on cryptocurrencies.

Lawmakers then passed legislation saying it was a game of skill rather than chance.

This webinar presented perspectives from state agency representatives about how legislation has improved home visiting in their states and lessons learned from advocates who were successful in passing legislation during the 2013 legislative session.

Since 2003, legislators in 33 states have passed legislation reducing benefits or limiting eligibility.

If you want to see this change, one thing you can do is to urge your congressional representatives to pass legislation ending this as - of - now legal discrimination.

No other state has ever passed legislation to restrict abortion within a pregnancy's first trimester.

That is why we need to pass legislation keeping military style weapons and accessories off the streets and guns out of the hands of dangerous individuals.

The next year, the state passed legislation lowering the corporate rate from 6.5 percent to 4.9 percent.

It also echoes past Republican efforts to pass legislation achieving that goal; none of those bills has become law.

The two states were early leaders in the charter school movement, both passing legislation highly favorable to the establishment and support of charter schools.

It's a lot easier to block legislation and passed legislation because they have the sunset clause.

In the past few years, nearly all states have passed legislation revising teacher evaluation.

To help pass legislation beneficial to charter schools, I meet regularly with legislators to promote charter school initiatives.

So far, though, all the positive spin hasn't made the hard task of passing legislation any easier.

A recent bill passed legislation which makes an insurance discount mandatory for drivers 55 and over.

These range from learning and sharing your passion for this issue to passing legislation in your city.

Collective bargaining: In the federal public sector, the government has recently passed legislation that determines the outcome of collective bargaining before it has concluded, with respect to sick leave.