Sentences with phrase «past legislation»

Past legislation brought about sweeping changes related to retirement and other savings arrangements.

Unlike the environmental threats addressed successfully in past legislation, climate change is essentially unobservable.

After the Parkland shooting, House Speaker Paul Ryan focused on past legislation on mental health issues, despite the fact that Republicans actually made it easier for people with mental illnesses to purchase guns last year.

She said she has disagreed with past legislation that would do away with protections for senior teachers, but thinks there may be some sort of formula that takes more than just seniority into account.

But what was most remarkable about the debate this year was how little debate there actually was in the House, where past legislation has traditionally died.

H.R. 511 was originally introduced in 2011, and mimics past legislation that also proposed the listing of large constrictor snakes under the Lacey Act.

It was said that the Inquiry was biased, that it only focused on the negative stories of removal; that it was not representative of most people's experience; that it did not require corroboration of witnesses» evidence; that it judged past legislation and practices by current standards.

Malaysian Historical Federal Legislation — A unique offering that will enable users to find the law as it stood on specific dates in the past

While the move was something that had been regularly used on past legislation, even some Democrats — and Republicans almost unanimously — protested that to use it on such a large and controversial bill would be unseemly.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy vetoed nine bills in the past legislation session.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy vetoed nine bills in the past legislation session.

«As of mid-March 2014,» explained Malinda Larkin in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association online periodical JAVMAnews, «the PAST legislation had 47 senators and 267 representatives as co-sponsors.

Will it mean that past legislation is invalid, and if so, will the people who suffered the consequences be given a new trial, etc..?