Sentences with phrase «passed during the special session»

In 2008 several pieces of legislation were passed during a special session on ethics and accountability reform that lasted from February 10 to February 26.

The Common Council, which this month added a few tweaks to the new law, is expected to pass it during a special session Thursday.

Several struggling Indiana school districts could eventually be impacted by a controversial school takeover bill legislators passed during the special session this week.

Establishes a hard cap of $ 500,000 on noneconomic damages in medical liability cases (the $ 500,000 cap that was passed during a special session in 2002 contained an escalator clause which would have raised the cap to $ 750,000 in 2011 and $ 1 million in 2017).

Frei cited Nevada Senate Bill 1 of 2015, the legislation that was passed during a special session of the state legislature and facilitated FF's tax incentive deal, and said it allows for parts of the application to be deemed «a trade secret or other confidential proprietary information» at the applicant's request.

It was with this backdrop that Governor Perry truly «earned» the Gynotician of the Year award, after he signed HB 2, the extreme and dangerous bill that's projected to block one in three Texas women from accessing safe and legal abortion, a bill that 80 percent of Texas voters opposed passing during the special session.

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Our groups are disappointed that Governor Cuomo, Senate Majority leader Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver used this special session to effectively nullify the provisions of the transit «lock box» bill that was overwhelmingly passed during the regular session.

Cuomo was criticized during an all - night session in mid-March for issuing special messages of necessity to allow the Senate and Assembly to pass bills as soon as deals were struck on topics like a new pension tier for public workers, and redistricting lines.

NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito is calling on Cuomo and Albany leadership to pass legislation that would limit New York's involvement in federal immigration enforcement during the rumored special session this year to stave off Trump's mass deportation plans.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito is calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Albany leadership to pass legislation that would limit New York's involvement in federal immigration enforcement during the rumored special session this year to stave off President - elect Donald Trump's mass deportation plans.

[67] Paladino has proposed the use of repeatedly calling special sessions to pressure uncooperative legislators into passing his legislation, much as governor Paterson did during the 2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis and the 2010 budget negotiations.

Multiple sources said the Republican majority does not have nearly enough votes on its own to pass a package during the special session.

The Michigan legislature, during a special session last month, passed a new charter law designed to address the judge's concern that the state board of education did not have adequate oversight of charter schools under the previous measure.

The budget bill that passed the state House last week during a special session of the legislature included a provision to scrap the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, or TAKS, which was implemented just last year.

He maintained it would help schools since it also comes on the heels of an increase in overall school funding passed during last week's special session.

The Senate passed the measure last week, and in recognition of the urgent need to move quickly before the start of the school year, members of the House returned from their summer recess and passed the bill during a special session today.

Those who pass the exam and meet all other requirements for admission to the practice of law in Ohio will be sworn in on May 7 during a special session of the Ohio Supreme Court at the historic Ohio Theatre in downtown Columbus.

Riverside County Superior Court Judge Daniel Ottolia did not rule on the legality of allowing physician - assisted death, but he issued an oral ruling saying lawmakers acted illegally in passing the law during a special session devoted to other topics, said lawyers for supporters and opponents.

As we reported last month, the Nevada legislature passed laws during special sessions to authorize the Tesla and FF deals.

The $ 335 million incentive package — including $ 215 million in tax credits, contingent on completion of the $ 1 billion factory, and upward of $ 175 million in publicly - funded infrastructure near the site — dates to late 2015, when the Nevada legislature passed laws during special sessions to authorize the Faraday deal.