Sentences with phrase «pieces of legislation relating»

This year 850 pieces of legislation relating to women's reproductive health have been introduced nationwide, only a small minority of which support access to health care services.

We are also governed by the Department for Education's Academies Financial Handbook and various pieces of legislation relating to both schools and charities.

Four years ago, over the veto of then - Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the City Council passed the Community Safety Act, a landmark piece of legislation relating to policing in New York City.

Meanwhile, on the Senate side, all action will take place in the Dirksen Office Building where the Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee will meet for the markup of several pieces of legislation related to regulatory reform.

Not exact matches

While the CCA declares on its website that it doesn't lobby for policies that determine «the basis for or duration of an individual's incarceration or detention,» the Justice Policy Institute has documented several pieces of federal legislation the CCA lobbied on in recent years, including funding related to private prisons and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention.

As a result of this multifaceted piece of legislation, most of the tax - related benefits associated with mortgage interest deductions will be concentrated within the upper - income brackets.

According to a registration with the office of Ontario's Integrity Commissioner, a lobbyist on behalf of Equifax Canada aims to engage «stakeholders» on a piece of credit - reporting - related legislation proposed by Ontario's Liberal government, in addition to any other relevant policies.

Next, the defense, with The Fact Hub section of HillaryHub.com contradicting a Jake Tapper piece accusing her of improperly claiming credit for a FEMA - related piece of legislation.

As part of a separate piece of legislation, lawmakers have agreed to give first passage to a constitutional amendment that would make officials who entered the pension system before 2011 forfeit their pensions if they're convicted of a felony related to their public position.

The New York State legislature left the Capitol for the summer, however, without agreeing to a number of fracking related pieces of legislation.

During a recent trip to Canberra, I was discussing with two members of the Senate (the upper house) a piece of legislation dealing with a science - related issue.

State governments seemingly take varying approaches on almost every education and school related piece of legislation.

All told, the DeVoses have contributed at least $ 7 million to lawmakers and the state Republican Party in recent years, and their influence can be seen in just about every major piece of education - related legislation in Michigan since the 1990s.

It's unclear when the House Education Committee will consider the bill or whether the bill will influence the committee's final two pieces of ESEA legislation related to teacher effectiveness and accountability, which it plans to tackle this fall.

Since then, there does not appear to have been any public airing of a plan except for last week's hearing, in which the bill Walsh co-sponsored was among many pieces of charter - related legislation that came before the Legislature.

And late Friday, the governor vetoed a third major piece of mortgage - related legislation — a bill to give debtors a right to seek mediation in hopes of renegotiating the terms of their home loans.

The Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council has had its hands full dealing with more than 1,700 pieces of pet - related legislation over the past year.

PIJAC has tracked and addressed more than 800 pieces of pet - related legislation in 2013, with 425 of those classified as critical — meaning they could have a direct impact on the industry's bottom line.

educating legislators on the issues surrounding a piece of legislation, and supporting or opposing additional animal related legislation proposed by others

Gun rights groups point out that all six pieces of animal rights - related legislation Fearing lobbied for in the most recent legislative session were approved and signed by Brown, including Assembly Bill 711, which, over the objection of hunters, banned the use of lead ammunition.

Congress is considering three major pieces of energy - related legislation in 2009 — an economic stimulus bill, an energy bill, and climate change legislation.

Although these are very different pieces of legislation, for the purposes of this article they are similar in that these Acts require taxpayers and persons engaged in fishing, respectively, to cooperate with federal officials conducting compliance related inspections.

The new statute, which has yet come into force, amends several pieces of labour - and employment - related legislation.

This year's Brain Injury Awareness Day comes as Congress considers several TBI - related pieces of legislation:

The report was commissioned to address the changing workplace and is expected to provide the road map for upcoming labour reforms — as the introduction reads, it is the «first independent report in Canada to consider, as a unified exercise, the need for specific legislative changes to two separate but related pieces of workplace legislation, namely, the Employment Standards Act and the Labour Relations Act.»

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Last year, Corcoran combined roughly 60 pieces of education - related legislation into one bill of nearly 300 pages.