Sentences with phrase «passed by lawmakers»

But the scenario just described is exactly what happened to a woman in Iowa, whose clinic refused to renew her prescription for birth control pills, not because of bills passed by lawmakers, but because of her age, 42, and the fact she smoked.

Both fields are creative; in AI systems are built, experiments designed and paradigms replaced, in Law regulations are passed by lawmakers, precedents are set and ideologies balanced.

Assembly Bill 485 has been passed by lawmakers and will now head to Governor Jerry Brown, who has until Oct. 15 to sign or veto it.

Proposed by Gov. James J. Blanchard and passed by lawmakers two years ago, the program allows families to invest money with the state, which guarantees that their children will receive four years» tuition at any state college or university regardless of future costs.

The bill, passed by lawmakers this spring, transfers power over the teacher training institutions from the state board of education to two state higher - education governing bodies.

It was passed by lawmakers in the 2017 legislative session and will take effect in March.

Cuomo, in a three - part message on Twitter, said the SAFE Act was passed by lawmakers from both parties in response to the Sandy Hook massacre and it's been upheld by several courts.

He, along with a slew of other environmental and civic organizations, backed the legislation to create a land bank that was passed by lawmakers at the end of their session.

The office was created in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school safety act passed by lawmakers at the tail end of the 2018 Legislative Session.

The increase in the broader minimum wage was passed by lawmakers in 2013.

The ethics package in the budget was just the latest in a series of measures passed by lawmakers and agreed to by the governor following a public outcry after the arrest of a state lawmaker.

ALBANY — The end of session reform package passed by lawmakers early Saturday morning includes a dozen changes to the state's campaign finance system, lobbying law, and constitution.

Criminal justice reforms that were left out of the state budget should be passed by lawmakers before the end of the legislative session in June, the city's five primary public defender organizations say.

He has said he was left with no choice but to veto the budget and property tax bills after the measures passed by lawmakers over the weekend violated his promise to avoid any new taxes.

Ultimately, Cuomo agreed to have those changes remain in the finished project, which was passed by lawmakers late last week.

The law passed by the lawmakers in June leaves it up to the commission to determine how retroactive the reporting period should be.

Not exact matches

President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers clinched a major legislative victory by passing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, hoping to boost the economy higher.

Trump and Republican lawmakers clinched a major legislative victory by passing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in late 2017, reducing the corporate tax rate to 21 percent and offering new incentives for companies to repatriate profits.

As marijuana legalization slowly passes state by state and lawmakers discuss national reform, companies are calling into question prohibition - era policies like employee drug testing.

We've seen that before: The bill that averted a debt - ceiling crisis earlier this year — by temporarily suspending the borrowing limit — would have frozen Congressional pay if the House or Senate had failed to pass a budget by April 15 (lawmakers would have received their salaries anyway at the end of the current legislature).

The decision to turn over record amounts of cash to shareholders was a direct results of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed by Republican lawmakers in December.

One reason some lawmakers said they would not support this specific replacement plan was that, had it passed, 14 million people who currently have coverage would lose it by 2018, according to an analysis from the Congressional Budget Office.

As a result, in May 2016, Japanese lawmakers passed a bill that specified that all «virtual currency» exchanges must be regulated by the Financial Services Agency.

It comes following calls by the president for Republican lawmakers to immediately pass a border bill, even if it means using the «nuclear option» to muscle it through.

In Illinois, lawmakers passed a bill last week that would require gun dealers to be licensed by the state, but it was not clear whether the Republican governor would sign it into law.

The walkout was partly a protest to push lawmakers to pass gun reform and partly a memorial to honor victims killed by firearms.

WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers appeared to secure enough votes on Friday to pass the most sweeping tax overhaul in decades, putting them on the cusp of their first significant legislative victory as leaders geared up to pass a $ 1.5 trillion tax cut along party lines and send it to President Trump by Christmas.

Lawmakers will likely have delayed real reform by passing a deal destined to fail.

Germany insists on Greek lawmakers taking the first step by passing economic policy changes before the German lower house of parliament will agree to a revised aid deal.

More recently, Germany has demanded that Greek lawmakers take the first step by passing economic policy changes, according to a planning document obtained by Bloomberg.

The economic problems were a byproduct of dem brotherhood laws passed by former brotherhood lawmakers.

The organization has also championed — endorsing and raising money for — the handful of Assembly Republicans who joined the Democrats in voting «yes» to pass the marriage bill on the other side of the Capitol, protecting these lawmakers on a potentially difficult issue (and one that, as it turned out, didn't lead to anyone's ouster, but did contribute to Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava getting pushed out of the NY - 23 special election by conservatives who argued she was too moderate).

It's a perfunctory, but key step in the process toward developing a state budget agreement, scheduled by lawmakers to pass this year by March 29.

If the budget isn't done by then, Paterson said, he'll be putting the rest of it into extender bills — including education — and force the lawmakers to choose between a shutdown and passing controversial cuts.

One of the flurry of bills that passed the Legislature before lawmakers left town yesterday was the Fraud, Enforcement & Recovery Act, a measure sponsored by Sen. Eric Schneiderman, which strengthen's the state's False Claims Act.

With just three days left before the end of the state legislative session, lawmakers are hopeful of passing a scaled - down version of the «Buy American» plan for state contracting proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in January.

At 11:15 a.m., the Bail Bond Accountability Coalition, advocates and elected officials urge lawmakers to pass protections for consumers exploited by the bail bond industry, outside City Hall gates on the Broadway side, Manhattan.

A bill passed by Florida lawmakers empowering some personnel in public schools to carry firearms to guard against attacks like last month's massacre near Miami could expose these employees to potentially costly civil lawsuits, legal experts said.

Lawmakers expect to pass the budget by March 29, several days before the start of the new fiscal year.

The process of amending the state Constitution is cumbersome and takes several years: two successively elected crops of lawmakers have to pass a measure that must then be ratified by voters during a November election.

By law, lawmakers are supposed to pass a budget before Friday.

Still, the brunch bill, in addition to other changes to the state's Alcoholic Beverage Control Law, has at least one high - profile advocate pushing lawmakers to pass it by the time session ends June 16.

The Appropriation Bill as passed was raised from N7.30 trillion proposed by the president to N7.44 trillion, indicating an increase of N143 billion by the lawmakers.

Connecticut state lawmakers became the first in the country to pass legislation that would increase the state's minimum wage to $ 10.10 an hour, by 2017 — the same rate President Barack Obama wants for the federal minimum wage.

The bill has been championed by The Daily News in recent weeks, with the tabloid's wood seeking to shame Albany lawmakers into passing the bill that would eliminate the criminal statute of limitations for child sex abuse as well as the civil statute of limitations.

Silver on Sunday released a list of measures the Assembly — which is dominated by Democratic lawmakers — have passed in the last several years, but have failed to gain traction in the Republican - led Senate.

The budget that passed did contain new ethics measures, which at least to some extent, requires more disclosures of outside income by lawmakers.

The $ 168.3 billion budget passed by state lawmakers at the end of March includes changes to the tax codes issued «to help ease the pain of the new federal tax code for homeowners expecting to see their taxes go up,» according to CBS New York.

The New York Public Interest Research Group found that the total number of bills passed by state lawmakers stayed at historically low levels, but at the same time the size of the budget document increased.

Both tax proposals come as state lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo hammer out a proposed $ 154 billion spending plan that is due to pass by March 31.