Sentences with phrase «passing in the state legislature»

Governor Cuomo, who's failed to achieve a number of progressive items over the last two years, including public campaign finance reform and a Women's Equality Act, told the Democratic Rural Conference that he'll try to get them passed in the state legislature in the next eight weeks, before the session ends in June.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who's failed to achieve a number of progressive items over the last two years, including public campaign finance reform and a Women's Equality Act, told the Democratic Rural Conference that he'll try to get them passed in the state legislature in the next eight weeks, before the session ends in June.

But, Seattle's KPLU explains, a bill to do just that failed to pass in the state legislature this year before the deadline to have Washington's waiver renewed.

Good luck getting a recertification bill passed in a state legislature owned and operated by the California Teachers Association.

The budgets now being passed in state legislatures for the upcoming fiscal year could include enough funding to allow some school districts to start hiring more teachers again, he said.

The Alliance is now working to re-tool the carbon tax agenda in Washington with a broader and bolder vision for uniting climate and equity advocates in a single larger campaign aimed at getting a bill passed in the state legislature.

Not exact matches

The state's legislature passed a bill Tuesday outlawing the sale of two particular chemicals — oxybenzone and octinoxate — found in many sunscreens, according to BuzzFeed.

Although SOMAH passed the state legislature in the fall of 2015, it wasn't until January that CPUC agreed upon the final structure of the program.

This year, our legislature passed several pieces of legislation which easies the regulatory burden on those who seek to create jobs in our state.

• In Vermont, state Sen. Kevin Mullin (R) worked with AARP Vermont on a bill that passed unanimously in both houses of the legislature and was signed into law by Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) in ApriIn Vermont, state Sen. Kevin Mullin (R) worked with AARP Vermont on a bill that passed unanimously in both houses of the legislature and was signed into law by Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) in Apriin both houses of the legislature and was signed into law by Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) in Apriin April.

The Pennsylvania legislature recently passed a bill that will ensure borrowers are up - to - date on their student loan debt.The average Pennsylvania college student graduates with $ 35,000 in student loans, which is higher than any other state in the U.S. And within three years of graduation, 10 percent of Pennsylvania student loan borrowers default on their debt.In order to combat this problem, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would ensure students stay informed about how much debt they are accumulating.HB 2124 would require all colleges and universities to provide annual notices to students about their outstanding student...

In the past two months the state legislature passed a bill that slowed crypto from state property taxes and rozluźniały the securities laws.

In just one month since the Parkland shooting, the gun control movement has made some small gains: The Florida state legislature passed new firearm regulations, and the federal spending bill signed by President Trump on Friday contains modest steps toward tightening the nation's gun laws, including the Fix NICS Act, which strengthens the background - check system for gun purchases.

By reading the Ninth Amendment as creating a general right to privacy, Black and Stewart suggested, the unelected justices of the Supreme Court had subst - ituted their own subjective notions of justice, liberty, and reasonableness for the wisdom and experience of the elected representatives in the Connecticut state legislature who were responsible for passing the birth control regulation.

And Family Research Council President Tony Perkins says the last time his conservative Christian movement saw so many victories at the state level — where many legislatures are busy passing new abortion restrictions - was in 2004, when more than a dozen states adopted same - sex marriage bans.

• In North Carolina, the state legislature passed a new law allowing magistrates and other officials to turn down gay couples, if those officials have a religious objection to performing a same - sex wedding.

The Oregon state legislature passed the original law in 1923, during a wave of Nativist sentiment fuelled by the Ku Klux Klan and other groups.

Yet the attempts made to nullify the Supreme Court decision even at the cost of eliminating the public schools and passing acts of open defiance in state legislatures, to say nothing of rioting and violence and the nonviolent but intimidating acts of white citizens» councils, indicate how long a road there is yet to travel.

Arizona, California and Florida have passed similar measures through ballot initiatives, and Maine, Colorado and Oregon have passed related laws in their state legislatures.

A money shortage, caused by the failure of the state legislature to pass an income tax increase, has set off debate in Woodridge over the sale of 4.5 acres of school property.

In her home state of Texas, the government legislature actually passed a «safe cupcake amendment» (a.k.a. Lauren's Law) to protect the right of parents to bring in sweets on their kids» birthdayIn her home state of Texas, the government legislature actually passed a «safe cupcake amendment» (a.k.a. Lauren's Law) to protect the right of parents to bring in sweets on their kids» birthdayin sweets on their kids» birthdays.

That's why I was pleased to learn yesterday that the Texas state legislature passed a bill to expand the breakfast program in my state.

Laws concerning concussions in youth sports have passed during 2011 in five states — South Dakota, Iowa, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah — and bills are working their way through legislatures in other states, according to the National Athletic Trainers» Association, which backs the bills and is tracking them.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, there are 49 U.S. states that allow mothers to breastfeed in public, out of which two states, Virginia and South Dakota, exempt breastfeeding moms from public indecency or nudity laws, leaving Idaho as the only state that hasn't passed any comparable State Legislatures, there are 49 U.S. states that allow mothers to breastfeed in public, out of which two states, Virginia and South Dakota, exempt breastfeeding moms from public indecency or nudity laws, leaving Idaho as the only state that hasn't passed any comparable state that hasn't passed any comparable laws.

Similar laws are likely to pass in New York and California, and state legislatures are considering restrictions in many other states.

The two best countries to see this are Switzerland, which has referendum voting at the Federal Level and The United States, which has some system of referendum voting at the state level (The most common being referral voting, where the legislature can opt to pass a law by citizen vote, which is available in all 50 sStates, which has some system of referendum voting at the state level (The most common being referral voting, where the legislature can opt to pass a law by citizen vote, which is available in all 50 statesstates.

Bills to reform the agency need to pass all four houses of the legislatures in both states, and be signed by both Governors.

With a divided legislature in 2017, some of the most controversial proposals did not get passed despite the majority leaders supporting them including legalizing marijuana and installing tolls on state highways.

«The people of the state by overwhelming margins want the legislature to pass a property tax cap,» Cuomo said in a statement about the survey.

In our eyes, JCOPE will have little credibility until new laws are passed which prohibit the Committee from appointing an executive director, or senior managers, who have worked for a sitting governor, attorney general, comptroller, the legislature, or a firm which lobbies the state of New York.

The following is a list of recent redistricting bills that have been introduced in or passed by the Washington state legislature.

The following is a list of recent redistricting bills that have been introduced in or passed by the Massachusetts state legislature.

But despite electing a Democratic governor and state legislature, we still can't pass the kind of progressive legislation seen in California, Massachusetts and other Democratic - controlled states.

Cynthia will work with the state legislature to find solutions and pass new rent laws to protect tenants living in homes that might be smaller than 6 units but are owned by corporate landlords who own a large number of properties.

New York's governor and legislature are touting progress in higher education funding in the just - passed state budget.

During an interview on AM 710's «The John Gambling Show», Governor Paterson asked the state legislature to give him the power to implement the same FMAP contingency plan lawmakers agreed to back in the summer when they weren't sure if the state aid bill would pass.

The New York state legislature Thursday passed a bill concerning the troubled East Ramapo School District in Rockland County.

I expect to be at the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award ceremony seeing three Democratic Connecticut state senators receive plaudits for breaking ranks with their party on Sept. 15 to support the Republican budget proposal passed by the legislature.

In the wake of a grisly crime of animal cruelty in Halfmoon where a nine - month old puppy was set on fire, Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today is calling on the state legislature to pass his legislation to create a statewide registry of animal abuserIn the wake of a grisly crime of animal cruelty in Halfmoon where a nine - month old puppy was set on fire, Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today is calling on the state legislature to pass his legislation to create a statewide registry of animal abuserin Halfmoon where a nine - month old puppy was set on fire, Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today is calling on the state legislature to pass his legislation to create a statewide registry of animal abusers.

The following is a list of recent redistricting bills that have been introduced in or passed by the New Hampshire state legislature.

I will also ask the legislature to consider passing language authorizing a Constitutional Amendment to allow casino gaming in the State of New York.

It will now be considered by the legislature and has been included in the State Budget scheduled to be passed by April 1st.

Kurkoski says even though a moratorium passed by the legislature and signed by then Governor David Paterson has expired, the state still has a moratorium in place because the state's Department of Environmental Conservation can't issues permits until it finishes its environmental review.

An estimated million plus, formerly law abiding, gun owners have refused to comply with Cuomo and down state Democrat's naive belief that the NY Safe Act, passed in a so called emergency session of the New York legislature, could force free people to register their hard earned property.

He and the mayor singled out state Sen. Andrew Lanza (R - Staten Island) for helping to guide the bill through Albany, and Ignizio praised the bi-partisan effort behind the legislation - which passed through the state legislature in a prompt 23 days once it had been introduced, a timeframe de Blasio declared «pretty damn good.»

[19] Since 1984, New York State has only passed a budget on time once, in 2005, leading Paterson to call for an «end to the dysfunction in Albany» in his speech, echoing a 56 - page study from the nonpartisan New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice, which referred to the legislature as «the least deliberative and most dysfunctional in the nation.»

«In 2006, the Erie County legislature passed what is called the New York State Certified Training Program, which is often known as the apprenticeship law... It ensures taxpayer dollars that are paying for construction jobs associated with Erie County government are going towards Erie County residents who are working on these projects.

Cuomo says even if the public vote is delayed, the casino siting legislation would still need to be passed this year, based on a decades old opinion issued by a former State Attorney General, who said that constitutional amendment votes by the legislature need to happen in consecutive years, and can't skip a year in between votes.

Mr. Cuomo declined to criticize Mr. Schneiderman's ideas, but noted that the legislature often takes considerable time to pass bills, given that the Assembly is in the hands of the Democrats while the Republicans hold the reins of the State Senate.

New Jersey Could Become Second State to Pass Groundbreaking Voting Reform by Jennifer L. Clark After years of fierce voting rights battles in legislatures and courthouses, there is unmistakable momentum on the side of voters.