Sentences with phrase «passed separate bills»

The U.S. House and Senate have passed separate bills that call for a federal backstop on terrorism insurance, and were expected to iron out their differences in conference following the August recess.

The Senate also passed a separate bill authorizing water projects around the country that included directions for spending the Flint money and provisions to provide relief to drought - stricken California.

Additionally, legislators passed a separate bill that would expand those eligible for the program.

Not exact matches

The House and Senate are currently working on separate tax overhaul plans in hopes of passing a bill for President Donald Trump to sign by year - end.

It is unclear if the final bill would expand state and local tax deductions beyond the limited $ 10,000 in property tax deductions proposed in the separate bills already passed by the House and Senate.

Senate Republicans are also pushing to pass their own, separate plan, that lawmakers would have to reconcile if each chamber approved its own bill.

In a statement, Zephyr Teachout, who is running against Cuomo in a Democratic primary, faulted the governor for working with Senate Republicans, who have refused to hold a vote on the abortion plank, which none of their members publicly support, but twice passed the nine other women's equality items as separate bills.

A separate bill introduced by Assemblywoman Jaffee (A227) would drop the supermajority requirement for school districts to pierce the cap, instead calling for a simple majority — making overrides no more difficult than passing a budget within the cap, and inviting a return to the days when school taxes grew by more than 7 percent per year.

In a separate statement, Cuomo condemned the «rushed, secretive approach» to the bill passing, even as some compared it to the traditional last - minute maneuvering and deal - making that typifies budget making and legislation in Albany.

Senate Republicans have passed an eight year extension of the rent laws, with no changes, and in a separate bill, are seeking income verification of tenants, something Democrats, who want stronger tenant protections say they won't accept that.

Women's groups say they have not given up on an abortion rights bill passing in the final days of the legislative session, now that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has introduced the Women's Equality Act as 10 separate bills.

Passed a separate minimum wage bill on March 5, 2013 that would increase the minimum wage to $ 9.00 per hour on January 1, 2014 with an automatic COLA adjustment annually thereafter.

In separate interviews given over the last few weeks, Representatives Tammy Baldwin, the only openly lesbian member of Congress, and Barney Frank — who was heckled with anti-gay slurs during the health care reform rallies — have both signaled that the time is now right to move forward with the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (HR 3017), saying that, having counted the votes, they believe that there is enough support from both Republican and Democratic legislators to pass the House version of the bill.

The abortion provision failed in the coalition - led Senate, which passed the remaining bills as separate measures that is not compatible with the Assembly version.

Attack crime, the drug trade and corruption aggressively using leadership by example, being modest in government, passing and implementing the Right to Information Bill and ensuring an independent prosecutor's office exists separate from the Ministry of Justice.

Red River Gradient Boundary Survey Act — Vote Passed (250 - 171, 10 Not Voting) The bill would require the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to pay for a private survey to identify the south boundary line along the Red River separating Texas and Oklahoma with regards to land title and ownership, with the states of Texas and Oklahoma to determine which lands are federal lands and which are private.

Senate Republicans have passed an eight - year extension of the rent laws, with no changes, and in a separate bill, are seeking income verification of tenants — something Democrats, who want stronger tenant protections say they won't accept.

The Senate on Monday was set to pass three separate bills extending mayoral control for up to five years, but all had strings attached.

The Senate did pass the other provisions in the Women's Equality Act in separate bills, including pay equity and anti-sexual harassment measures.

But yesterday President Barack Obama signaled that he might be willing to separate the two issues, which would certainly delay the United States from passing a comprehensive climate bill at least until 2011.

If Congress can not pass separate appropriations bills, it could instead roll all spending into one package, called an omnibus bill.

Although the so - called Gallegly amendment passed the House as a separate bill last week, it is likely to founder in the Senate, aides and lobbyists said.

In early 2016, spurred by a seemingly perpetual bankruptcy crisis at Detroit Public Schools (DPS)-- by this point, counting unfunded pension liabilities, the district was almost $ 1.7 billion in the red — the state senate narrowly passed a bill that would bail out the district and split it into two separate entities: the old DPS, which would exist to collect taxes and pay down debt, and a proposed new Detroit Education Commission (DEC) to oversee schooling in the city, including regulating the openings and closings of traditional public schools and charter schools.

The bill also calls on high school students to pass a separate civics test to graduate starting in the 2016 - 17 school year.

A bill passed introduced last year by Rep. William Brawley (R - Mecklenburg) would allow two communities outside Charlotte to create a system of separate public charter schools for their residents.

Senate Bill 6194 passed, creating a separate funding stream from state lottery revenues for public charter schools, which resolved the issues that led to the State Supreme Court's initial ruling.

The bill clarifies that industrial hemp is separate and distinct from forms of Cannabis used to produce marijuana and if passed will allow commercial farming of industrial hemp in five counties (Imperial, Kern, Kings, San Joaquin and Yolo) under an 8 - year pilot program.

In 1777, Jefferson drafted a bill «for establishing religious freedom,» which affirmed the rights of Virginians to choose their faiths without coercion and which separated church and state; it was not passed until 1786.

Wyoming has taken the pioneering step to pass a bill that effectively exempts cryptos from state securities regulations and has created a separate asset class for them.

A separate bill also would crack down on «straw sales,» or sales by people who buy a gun for someone who couldn't pass a background check.

The week before Thanksgiving the full House passed a tax bill and a committee in the Senate passed a separate but similar tax bill that was sent to the full Senate to consider.