Sentences with phrase «passed sweeping legislation»

The House of Representatives passed sweeping legislation aimed at rewriting the nation's tax code Tuesday, by a vote of 227 - 203.

Earlier in the day, the Legislature passed sweeping legislation to address workplace harassment in the public and private sector, including requiring employers to adopt a model sexual harassment policy that prohibits mandatory arbitration and secret settlements.

Leadership and House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway were unable to pull together factions of a divided Republican conference to pass the sweeping legislation.

As it stands now, high frequency trading is largely unregulated and unless Congress passes sweeping legislation, which is unlikely to happen given its performance during past opportunities to enact regulation upon the stock market or financial dealings, there is nothing impeding the growth of high frequency trading.

Mandatory Training and More: New York State Passes Sweeping Legislation Broadening Its Anti-Harassment Protections

Not exact matches

Following several controversial LGBT laws in the Southern states, the Mississippi state Senate joined the club, and passed «the most sweeping anti-LGBT legislation» in the U.S., according to critics, on Wednesday.

Two months after Republicans passed sweeping tax legislation, just a quarter of Americans report seeing a change in their paychecks.

In 1996 John Howard managed to get all six Australian states to agree to and pass uniform sweeping gun control legislation in just 12 days.

The New York City Council passed 18 bills as part of the Stand for Tenant Safety package of legislation that promises sweeping reforms to tenant protections in the face of abusive landlords and developers.

«In fact, he wrote and sponsored the most sweeping ethics reform legislation to pass the legislature in a generation.

McKinney, a state senator representing Newtown, was a key supporter of the sweeping gun control legislation that passed in the aftermath of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shootings.

But the Republicans» agreement to pass sweeping progressive legislation this legislative session appears to have altered the union's calculus.

Washington — In the wake of the Senate's passage of sweeping anti-busing legislation last week, Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives are acting to prevent the bill, which must be passed by the House to become law, from being brought to the House floor for a vote.

They don't normally pass sweeping, intrusive legislation «to find out what is in it» like Obamacare.

Alberta has passed landmark legislation giving it sweeping power to intervene in oil and gas exports that could result in punitive price spikes in British Columbia in the dispute over the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion.

As Parliament passes sweeping, repressive immigration legislation, Toronto filmmaker Ali Kazimi's timely book, Undesirables, should be required reading for Jason Kenney and his cohorts.

Kentucky passed kind of sweeping expungement legislation in the last year and for the first time, basically ever, in Kentucky, people with old, low level felonies and almost any misdemeanor can apply after a certain period of time to have the conviction vacated and then expunged, meaning the conviction will be voided from their record as though it never happened and then it will be removed from the public databases and presumably it's not supposed to show up in private background checks as well for pre-employment screenings.

So, if I could have just a minute, Kentucky passed sweeping expungement legislation in the last year and for the first time basically ever in Kentucky, people with old low - level felonies and almost any misdemeanor can apply, after a certain period of time, to have the conviction vacated and then expunged.

On March 18, 2013, B.C. passed its new Family Law Act, which replaced the former Family Relations Act and made some sweeping changes to the law in that province, bringing it more in line with the governing legislation in Ontario, but adding some new elements as well.

One example of the Seante fixing legislation, is the Statutes Repeal Act, S.C. 2008, c. 20 which in the words of Simon Fodden «sweeps up behind our legislators, killing off statutes that were passed and assented to nine years or more ago but that were never proclaimed in force ``.

Under legislation passed in August 2007, the government initiated a range of sweeping changes: health checks for all Aboriginal children; widespread alcohol restrictions; reforms to welfare payments; an end to the CDEP scheme; scrapping of the permit system; increased policing; and acquiring townships under five - year leases.

The U.S. House and Senate have passed sweeping tax reform legislation that is expected to have a major impact on housing markets.

Congress has passed and the President has signed into law, sweeping legislation of more than two - thousand pages to fund the Federal Government for Fiscal Year 2016.