Sentences with phrase «passed by the committee»

Bills passed by committee are then voted on by the full 51 - member City Council.

Miller also took aim at the flexibility bill passed by the committee in July, which he labeled a «slush fund for school districts.»

The second draft has been passed by the committee on a unanimous vote and is awaiting a full vote on the floor.

Action: Ought To Pass by committee as amended 9 - 3; bill passed by both chambers and awaits Governor's signature.

Despite efforts of anti-women's health politicians to cut family planning, the bill passed by the committee today protects Title X — the nation's only federal program for birth control that 4 million women count on each year — and Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs that provides young people the tools to plan for their futures.

The plans, unconfirmed by the Committee (at press time), are a step up from those laid out by the Financial CHOICE Act, intended to «off - ramp» Dodd - Frank and passed by the Committee in the fall, according to CNBC.

Not exact matches

Oregon's bill, which also passed easily this month, creates a review committee that will start by focusing on maternal deaths; by 2021, it will also begin looking at severe maternal morbidity.

It passed the House in December and recently cleared a Senate committee; it's now headed for consideration by the full Senate.

Meanwhile, the Senate begins considering a bill that would, in the words of Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus, «improve upon» (read: «completely upend») the package that passed the House of Representatives yesterday by a vote of 385 - 35.

The resolution, which contains instructions for key health care - related committees to begin drafting legislation to undo the health law, must also be passed by the House of Representatives (and is expected to get a vote there this week).

On the legislative and policy front, Bill C - 11 has passed the committee stage and seems likely to race toward royal assent by the summer, last week's unveiling of the telecom policy (including policies on the forthcoming spectrum auction and foreign ownership) puts to rest a major issue associated with the digital economy strategy, the CRTC recently published its final anti-spam regulations with Industry Canada expected to follow with theirs shortly, the open government initiative has been making considerable progress, and Government House Leader Peter Van Loan told the House of Commons on Thursday that Bill C - 12 (the PIPEDA reform bill) may finally move forward next week.

Earlier this month, at a Technical Advisory Committee meeting led by Chief Innovation Officer Daniel Gorfine, the CFTC passed motions to create subcommittees dedicated to distributed ledger technology and virtual currencies.

In a story buried in the business section of the February 18th NY Times, it was reported that the spending budget passed by Congress included a provision that creates a 16 - member bipartisan congressional committee to craft legislation that would provide for the potential bailout of as many as 200 multi-employer» pension plans.

The committee members likely hope the new rules are greeted with equanimity by all the leadership hopefuls and their contribution passes unnoticed.

The following table compares the score of the House version of the TCJA as passed by the Ways and Means Committee to the current Senate version.

Perhaps by appointing a committee to study graciousness and pass a resolution?

A measure recognizing pornography as leading to individual and societal harms was passed by the Virginia State House with a landslide majority of 82 - 8, while Tennessee's Senate Health and Welfare Committee is set to consider a similar resolution next week.

Meanwhile, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted last week to pass two resolutions: one calling for support of the creation of an international war crimes tribunal to prosecute those involved in Syria, and the other calling the crimes perpetrated by ISIS against Christians and other minorities there «war crimes,» «crimes against humanity,» and «genocide.»

However, IFOAM has developed a quality review system for PGS initiatives and offers an official IFOAM recognition to the applicant PGS initiatives that successfully pass an evaluation done by IFOAM and the IFOAM PGS Committee.

Inquiry by Senate Economics Committee into the Trade Practices Amendment (Cartel Conduct and Other Measures) Bill 2008 Reported 2009 - Bill passed with minor amendments in 2009.

The draft text will now be discussed in the second reading and, if passed, will go to Committee stage for line by line scrutiny before returning to Parliament for the third reading to approve it to go to the House of Lords for debate and approval there.

Senator Paula Sandoval sponsored the legislation, which passed the Health & Human Services Committee by a vote of 8 - 0.

By the time Senate Bill 474 passed, those provisions had been eliminated and the legislation simply called for the establishment of an interim committee to study school nutrition, said Lucio's press secretary, Doris Sanchez.

They have a high bar to reach considering the Senate plan was passed unanimously out of Committee and is supported by such a broad range of stakeholders — everyone ranging from retired military leaders to the public health community to anti-hunger groups to school food service directors.

Regular TLT readers know all about the (misguided) Child Nutrition Reauthorization bill passed by the House Education & the Workforce Committee, a bill which would roll back key school food reforms and put economically disadvantaged kids at risk.

A bill to reform concussion management and treatment at the high school and youth sports levels was defeated by the state House of Representatives on Tuesday, despite earlier passing through the state Senate with ease and gaining headway in a House committee.

Controversial federal legislation to limit funding for subsidized school lunches and change some of the program's nutritional standards passed a House committee on a 20 - 14 vote May 18, and the proposal is being hammered by critics who believe it would endanger the health of American school children.

This bill has been passed unanimously by the House Health Committee, has been passed in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and now awaits action by the Pennsylvania Senate.

Third, the Constitutional Committee organized a national election of 25 Constitutional Assembly representatives to draft the constitution, a task that the Constitutional Assembly, renamed Council, completed within the four months assigned to it in 2011 by producing a partly crowd - sourced constitution bill, fully consistent with the conclusion of the National Assembly, and passing it unanimously with 25 votes to 0, a rare feat.

The Parliamentary, Constitutional and Legal Committee of Parliament last week rejected a request by the government for the office of the Special Prosecutor's Bill to be passed under a certificate of urgency.

Let me start by expressing my profound gratitude to the National Assembly and the House Committee on Police Affairs in particular, for the attention accorded the «Nigeria Police Trust Fund» Bill so far; in view of the setbacks encountered by the previous National Assemblies to pass the Police Trust Fund Bill into Law.

«We urge the Elections Committee to pass Senator Squadron's legislation, and the full Senate and Assembly to pass this critical reform that would improve our campaign finance and ethics laws by reducing the influence of big contributions on the decisions made by our elected officials.»

The new legislation has been passed by the city committee, but will still need to be approved by the full common council in August.

Kathee Burke - Gonzalez and Jeffrey Bragman are the apparent winners in the Democratic primary for East Hampton Town Board, trailed by Zachary Cohen, who forced the primary after being passed over for the Democratic Committee's endorsement.

Under the system, the European Commission on Human Rights, set up in 1954, would examine complaints brought by individuals, organisations or other states and rule on their admissibility, before passing them to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.

Another bill, sponsored by state Senator Ken LaValle passed the upper house of the New York State Legislature on Wednesday, would put a halt on adopting the Draft Mute Swan Management Plan in its tracks while a committee studies the issue.

ERIE COUNTY, NY - Today a Resolution on the NFTA Pre-Tax MetroPerk Program, sponsored by Erie County Legislator Patrick Burke (7th District) was unanimously passed in the Legislature's Government Affairs Committee.

Sugarman wrote that by serving as «straw donors» that simply passed through the donations to the candidate campaigns, the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee and the two county committees may have also violated the law.

Behind the scenes, local letter writer Mitchell Langbert, a Brooklyn College professor and former Republican committee member who tried starting a Catskills chapter of the Tea Party last year, has been stirring the pot... by passing on information he's been researching and by fueling his local blog on a regular basis.

Noted the National Republican Congressional Committee in its take on Hein's passing of the cup, «Ulster County executive Mike Hein just dropped a huge load of coal into the stockings of local and national Democrats this afternoon by announcing that he would not run for Congress in NY - 19.»

As the Senate passed the bill, it was being debated in the Assembly ways and means committee, and debate by the full chamber had yet to begin.

Borough President James Oddo, Councilwoman Debi Rose and several members of the Staten Island Ferry Riders Committee were integral in getting the bipartisan bill passed, and celebrated by riding the inaugural 7:30 p.m. boat from St. George.

ERIE COUNTY, NY — Today a Resolution on the NFTA Pre-Tax MetroPerk Program, sponsored by Erie County Legislator Patrick Burke (7th District) was unanimously passed in the Legislature's Government Affairs Committee.

Last week's report by the U.S. House of Representatives Government Reform Committee said Rove aide Susan Ralston had passed inside White House information to Abramoff while she was also accepting his tickets to as many as nine sports and entertainment events.

The seat was left vacant by the passing a few weeks ago of then - sitting Legislator Gene Hatton; many members of both committees and Mr. Palmateer expressed their respect and admiration for Mr. Hatton.

President Trump, escorted by Sen. John Barrasso, R - Wyo., chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, left, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., right, arrives at the Capitol to meet with GOP lawmakers about passing the GOP tax bill.

Councilmen Corey Johnson, Brad Lander, Fernando Cabrera and Ritchie Torres introduced the bills, which will first be heard by the health committee on April 19 and could all pass by the summer, officials said.

The bill was not reviewed by any Senate committees before it passed the next day in a 32 - 19 vote.

Republicans said that Democrats, who control the budget committee by a one - vote margin, simply did not have the votes to pass the budget and should not be blaming them as scapegoats.

Graham Allen MP, chair of the Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee, talks to OurKingdom about the highly controversial lobbying Bill that has just been passed by parliament.