Sentences with phrase «passed public act»

As the 2015 legislative session drew to a close, the Education Committee of the legislature passed Public Act 15 - 238, An Act Concerning Student Assessments.

In 2011 Blocks Together worked with groups and legislators across the city to pass Public Act 96 - 0803 which reformed Chicago Public Schools School action and Capital planning process.

Following the accident, the Connecticut legislature kicked into action, passing Public Act 10 - 83.

Not exact matches

The district's city council passed Public Vehicle - for - Hire Innovation Amendment Act late in 2012 to allow and regulate what the law referred to as «digital dispatch» companies including Uber, ending a long ban.

A look at the companies that have gone public since President Obama passed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act in April of 2012.

In an attempt to redress the wrongs of slavery following its abolition in 1865, Congress passed the 1875 Civil Rights Act — which, among other things, forbade most forms of discrimination in public accommodations.

See Puerto Rico Passes New Municipal Reorganization Act: Puerto Rico Public Corporation Debt Enforcement and Recovery Act, 2014 P.R. Laws Act.

North Carolina's legislative body passed the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, which mandates a statewide policy banning individuals from using public bathrooms that do not correspond to their biological sex, as opposed to their opinion of theiPublic Facilities Privacy and Security Act, which mandates a statewide policy banning individuals from using public bathrooms that do not correspond to their biological sex, as opposed to their opinion of theipublic bathrooms that do not correspond to their biological sex, as opposed to their opinion of their sex.

after losing friends and all our safety personnel and the consideration of the families i see no good coming from this and only animousity and ill feelings and betrayal by our public officials in asllowing this to happen... it is deplorable and an insult to the 3,000 dead and the thousands affected by this horrible act and time must pass to heal the wounds before the issue is even discussed.

Right after his conversion, they passed the Test Act of 1673, barring Catholics from public employment, by making the prerequisite to such employment a solemn oath against transubstantiation and a declaration that the Mass was idolatry.

More than thirty states have passed community mental health service acts or other legislation which makes funds available on a continuing basis to match local public or private nonprofit expenditures for mental health services.

Yet the attempts made to nullify the Supreme Court decision even at the cost of eliminating the public schools and passing acts of open defiance in state legislatures, to say nothing of rioting and violence and the nonviolent but intimidating acts of white citizens» councils, indicate how long a road there is yet to travel.

«Mass Audubon congratulates the legislature on passing important environmental legislation regarding Community Preservation and stopping a repeal of the Massachusetts Endangered Species Act last session,» added Jack Clarke, Mass Audubon's director of public policy and government relations.

In 2003, Act 22 was passed requiring all Vermont public schools to participate in the school lunch and breakfast program unless the school board votes to exempt the district from the requirement.

In May 2010, the D.C. Council passed the Healthy Schools Act, a landmark law designed to improve the health and wellness of students attending D.C. public and public charter schools.

In 1987, Archy Kirkwood's Access to Personal Files Act was passed, giving the public access to manually held social work and housing records, which was followed by the Liberal MP's Access to Medical Reports Act in 1988, Chris Smith MP's Environment and Safety Information Act, giving the public access to environmental enforcement notices, and Doug Henderson MP's Access of Health Records Act 1990.

As Feb 22nd federal deadline looms, Assemblyman Tedisco blasts inaction by Assembly Majority to pass Public Assistance Integrity Act to prevent EBT cards to be used for tobacco, alcohol, lottery tickets and cash withdrawals at liquor stores and casinos

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), today will offer an amendment to reform the rules of the New York State Assembly to stop major legislation like pension reform, teacher evaluations, the SAFE Act and state budgets from being passed in the middle of the night away from public viewing.

Koppell has said that legislative priorities, such as public financing of elections and the Dream Act, would have passed if the Democrats controlled the chamber instead of the IDC.

Albany, New York — Prominent budget and transparency watchdog groups today called on the legislative leaders to act on their public statements on clean contracting, and pass meaningful legislation in response to the largest bid - rigging scandal in state history.

In a video message, the governor informed WFP delegates that he is firmly committed to passing progressive priorities including public financing of elections, a higher minimum wage, the Dream Act, and women's equality initiatives.

Governor Cuomo, who's failed to achieve a number of progressive items over the last two years, including public campaign finance reform and a Women's Equality Act, told the Democratic Rural Conference that he'll try to get them passed in the state legislature in the next eight weeks, before the session ends in June.

In June, as a Cuomo - backed abortion - rights measure failed to come to a floor vote (and granted, it is doubtful that it had the votes to pass) and legislators adjourned without acting on any of the governor's public corruption bills, he refused, even when prompted, to single out the IDC.

State Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries reiterated his strong support for public campaign finance in an interview on MSNBC this week, urging fellow state lawmakers to pass the Fair Elections Act before the end of the legislative session.

The Republicans might be able to buy themselves some breathing room if they passed something like the DREAM Act or a statewide public campaign finance system before departing Albany on June 19.

It's still unclear how much funding the Buffalo Public School District stands to lose for special education services, should the U.S. Senate pass the American Health Care Act approved last week by the House without significant changes.

Tuesday, the state Senate — for a third time — passed the «Public Assistance Integrity Act.»

We also protected the public's health by passing a local law regulating e-cigarettes, thereby expanding on the work of our predecessors who passed the County's Clean Air Act two decades ago.

«We must pass a Women's Equality Act, public finance, and a Dream Act,» Cuomo told a cheering crowd.

Following an Aug. 1 deadline for public comments, the U.S. Department of Education began a final approval process to amend the federal Every Student Succeeds Act, ESSA, which was passed by Congress in December 2015.

Yep, the Gov will, If Passed, (BIG IF — which is his «out») «then have no choice but to sign them» in speaking about Public Campaign Finance legislation, Women's Equality Act and the DREAM Act.

«He is the candidate with a clear plan to bring good paying jobs to Western New York, fully fund public schools, and pass the Women's Equality Act.

In the petition dated 15 April 2016 and signed by SERAP executive director Adetokunbo Mumuni the organisation expressed «serious concern that the Senate of Nigeria will any moment from now pass amendments to Public Officers Protection Act; Administration of Criminal Justice Act; Code of Conduct Bureau Act and the Code of Conduct Tribunal Act with the political objective of securing a soft - landing for the Senate President Bukola Saraki who is facing corruption charges.»

Former Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, in a piece published on the Huffington Post earlier today, is questioning Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to enact a Moreland Act Commission to investigate the Legislature following its failure to pass any reform bills — especially public campaign finance — saying the legal basis for this move» is at best uncertain, if not flat wrong.»

The technicalities of the Public Order Act may not be widely known but I would have expected certain journalists and MPs on all sides to look it up before proceeding to pass judgement on Andrew.

It is one of the issues that appears to still be «live» down at the Capitol, as opposed to public campaign financing and the Women's Equality Act, which Cuomo himself has admitted are unlikely to pass before lawmakers leave Albany for their summer vacations.

Nevertheless, Klein has come under criticism from liberals and other advocacy organizations for the Senate's failure to pass measures aimed at strengthening abortion rights, the DREAM Act and the full public financing of political campaigns.

The governor in late May set a benchmark for his support of the alliance between Republicans and the five - member Independent Democratic Conference, saying he wanted action on the Dream Act (which failed in April), a broader system of public campaign finance (beyond the pilot program passed in the state budget) and his Women's Equality Act, which has been controversial because of a plank changing the state's abortion laws.

When it comes to passing the DREAM Act to grant college tuition assistance to undocumented immigrant students, and the Education Investment Tax Credit to incentivize private donations to parochial and public schools, Mr. Cuomo's office said he would prefer to pass them in the budget, but if they are not included they could be passed later.

There was no independent public body to regulate referendums within the United Kingdom until the Labour government led by Tony Blair in 2000 set out a framework for the running of all future referendums when the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 or PPERA was passed, creating and giving the Electoral Commission responsibility for running all elections and such future referendums.

Members deliberated and passed a series of resolutions regarding the NY SAFE Act, funding for county 9 -1-1 communications, public health article 6 reforms, early voting, IDA reforms, Medicaid costs, and home rule authority.

Our groups hope they act on this spirit by working closely with both state legislatures ---- and public stakeholders ---- in a transparent process to introduce and pass comprehensive reforms in the Port Authority's governance this session.

In 2014, Klein announced that the IDC would rejoin with mainline Democrats in January 2015, citing the Republican - controlled Senate's inability to pass on the DREAM Act, increase the state's minimum wage, or allow for the public financing of elections.

The Public Integrity Reform Act of 2011, passed in June of that year, required the Board to establish criteria for the disclosure of independent expenditures by January 1, 2012.

«And we are going to pass a law by amending the public management financial act to limit the fiscal deficit from 2018 going forward to a maximum of the window between 3 and five percent of GDP.

The government appears to have reneged on an understandings it had with the IMF with regards to the recently passed Bank of Ghana Act and the Public financial Management Act.

At 5 p.m., members of the Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement hold actions in Ithaca to call on the governor and the Legislature to pass the Humane Alternatives to Long Term Solitary Confinement Act, Tompkins County Public Library, Green Street and Cayuga Street, Ithaca.

The contract was for an upgrade to the Transit Authority's VHF radio system in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx was the first contract submitted to DiNapoli's office under the Public Authority Reform Act passed earlier this year.

In March, North Carolina passed the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, which essentially required people to use public bathrooms and changing rooms based on the gender they were assigned at Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, which essentially required people to use public bathrooms and changing rooms based on the gender they were assigned at public bathrooms and changing rooms based on the gender they were assigned at birth.

Since the shooting, the Legislature passed SB 7026, also known as the «Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act.»