Sentences with phrase «proposed national legislation»

There's new proposed national legislation for librarians to monitor and support.

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Pass the already proposed legislation called the National Regulatory Budget Act, which would establish a «budget» restricting new federal regulations that affect business owners.

Walden took interest in proposing legislation to ban the option because he thought the idea of minting a platinum coin to work around the debt ceiling was a particularly absurd idea that exemplified «the problem of people in Washington not understanding the reality» of the national debt.

Most recently, Llew Claasen, Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation, pleaded to the National Conference of State Legislators, a bipartisan non-governmental organization that represents staff and members of American state legislatures, to reject any and all proposed legislation modeled after the Uniform Regulation of Virtual Currency Businesses Act.

The measures come on top of proposed legislation in Congress to expand the authority of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which reviews foreign deals for national security concerns.

On the national level the proposed legislation appears to be in sync with White House policy and with immigration officials who said they will exercise «prosecutorial discretion.»

There is also the question of how to pay for the reform legislation, which proposes adding $ 1.5 trillion to the national debt.

The Lords EU committee demanded a new «green card» procedure to enable groups of national assemblies to work together to propose new EU legislation or amend existing European law.

«We also urge your government shouldurgently propose legislation that would characterise the kind of corruption allegedly committed by Mrs Diezani Alison - Madueke as crime against humanity within our national laws, and thus allow Nigerian courts to directly hear those cases.»

In this respect we have proposed the adoption of a «green card», which would allow national parliaments to come together to instigate European legislation; and a «red card», giving national parliaments the power to block legislation.

The proposed legislation is in response to a federal court ruling in Washington state that determined the amount of manure disposed of at certain farms in that state exceeded limits under solid waste law, according to the National Milk Producers Federation.

Like the anti-gun measures proposed by legislation proposed today, it's another issue that shadows U.S. Rep. Peter King, the Long Island Republican who achieved national attention for his hearings on Muslim extremism in the United States.

Senator Charles Schumer is proposing legislation to establish a national college student discounted transit fare program.

Moses Chan, a physicist at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, who served on a 2010 study by the National Academies» National Research Council (NRC) on the effects of the sales on the global helium supply, welcomes the proposed legislation.

Since I worked on national legislation for nearly three decades, I am well - aware that what is proposed here in all its detail would be difficult to pass in Congress at the present time.

Both the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers sent letters to Congress complaining about the proposed legislation.

This means «regulations, legislative comments or proposed legislation, and other policy statements or actions that have substantial direct effects on the States, on the relationship between the national government and the States, or on the distribution of power and responsibilities among the various levels of government.»

24 US states have proposed or passed legislation to block or limit particular genetically modified (GM) products and attach responsibility for GM drift to seed producers and defend a farmer's right to save seeds, but the US federal government has stepped in to circumvent these measures by passing the 2006 National Uniformity for Food Act that will eliminate more than 200 state - initiated food safety laws.

Since 2013, the subcommittee has orchestrated several successes and positive outcomes, some of which include: • Collaborating with the PIJAC Zoonosis committee to update the Healthy Herp Handling poster promoting healthy reptile and amphibian handling practices; develop the Zoonotic Disease Prevention Series for Retailers; draft informative store signage on how to prevent zoonotic diseases; participate in meetings on rodent and reptile disease transmission with the Centers for Disease Control; and produce and revise best management practices (BMP) documents; • Collaborating with the United States Association of Reptile Keepers on past and current attempts to pass legislation, ordinances, and regulatory activity that may impact herp ownership and related businesses; • Attending Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) meetings with reports and summary of actions affecting import and export of reptiles; • Addressing the 2013 Center for Biological Diversity petition to list 53 herp species under the Endangered Species Act; • Reviewing and commenting on the recent US Fish and Wildlife status review on the proposal to list wood turtles under the Endangered Species Act; • Submitting comments on proposed listing of flat - tailed tortoise and spider tortoise under the Endangered Species Act; • Introducing federal legislation in 2013 to allow for the export of certain constrictors listed as injurious in air shipments with aircraft that land in a state for refueling; • Providing volunteer support for auctions at 2013 National Reptile Breeders Expo and several North American Reptile Breeders Conferences; • Providing extensive consultation on constrictor caging standards in Ohio.

For the most part, the legislation being proposed around the country is being promoted by a few very well - funded national animal - rights organizations and then embraced by local activists.

National groups like PIJAC have volumes of previously proposed legislation that we can draw from for ideas.

NMBI legislation targets all new climate - damaging projects, and would include bans on new approvals and extensions to current permits for logging native forests, such as in the East Gippsland Kuark forest and Victoria's Central Highlands (the area of the proposed Great Forest National Park).

Sen. Mark Udall's (D) National Monument and Wilderness Bill scaled back the acreage proposed for protection to just over 20,000 acres, but the new legislation also failed in the prevailing Congressional climate of partisanship.

We are probably all familiar with a pretty recent example: the proposed national cap - and - trade legislation defeated in the Senate in the summer of 2010, which, according to its advocates, would have increased consumers» energy costs by about the cost of one postage stamp per day.

Proposed legislation that will expand corn - ethanol production in the United States will worsen the growing «dead zone» in the Gulf of Mexico and hurt marine fisheries, report researchers writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

While the Canadian Bar Association is usually busy intervening in court cases, making submissions to government, commenting on proposed legislation and supporting members, it's not every day that the CBA is called upon to help the public understand the nuances of a pressing national issue which raises concerns about the rule of law.

The bill is being debated in a public forum in front of the National Assembly committee examining the proposed legislation before it goes to second reading.

Taking into account the real challenges of law enforcement and national security agencies in the Internet age and the fundamental right to privacy that underpins our democratic society, and after careful study and extensive consultation this past summer, I have concluded that elements of the proposed legislation raise significant privacy concerns.

The Supreme Court has wrapped up its two - day hearing into the federal government's request that the Court rule on the constitutionality of proposed legislation to create a national securities regulator.

The Canadian Justice Review Board (CJRB) is a national advisory organization which provides an analysis of proposed and existing legislation and its impact.

Although the Parti Québécois government has yet to table any legislation regarding it's proposed Charter of Quebec Values, and has not provided any firm date as to when it expects to do so, on October 9, 2013, a Québec solidaire member of the national assembly tabled private member's Bill 398, Charter of Quebec State Secularism in the assembly.

Evidence Code technology wasted and still needed: in 1976 - 77, I conducted an extensive national consultation process with judges and lawyers for the federal Department of Justice as to replacing legislation such as the Canada Evidence Act, and the binding requirement of existing case law, with the Evidence Code that was proposed by the (LRCC's) Law Reform Commission of Canada's Report on Evidence (December 1975).

Under the proposed directive, member states would be required to ensure that a range of activities, such as the illegal shipment of waste and unlawful trade in endangered species or in ozone - depleting substances, already prohibited by EU or national legislation are considered criminal offences, when committed intentionally or with serious negligence.

Both the current Coalition government of Liberal and National Parties and the main opposition Australian Labour Party have proposed new legislation, which will be introduced when Parliament resumes.

The National Conference of State Legislators indicates that at least 21 states have proposed legislation during the past year that would prohibit salary history questions.

Would it be possible for the National Council of State Boards of Nursing to suggest to its member nursing boards that they urge legislators to not use the phrase «certified medication / medicine assistant / aide» in proposed legislation?

Two forms of national legislation were proposed:

Nevertheless, the limitations of the Act were justified on the basis that it was proposed as a temporary measure, pending the forthcoming introduction of national land rights legislation.

Early childhood education has long been on the back burner of economic priorities, but the proposed legislation, combined with the shifting national dialogue is showing that political leaders across the aisle are quickly viewing early learning as one of our nation's most promising tools for economic growth,» said Kris Perry, head of the national First Five Years Fund.

Recommendation 43 of the report proposed the introduction of national legislation establishing the framework for negotiation at the community and regional level for the implementation of self - determination in relation to the well - being of Indigenous children and young people.

«The tax reform legislation proposed by House Republican leaders takes a historic step in directly revising the mortgage interest deduction (MID), a $ 70 billion annual tax expenditure that primarily benefits higher income households — including the top 1 percent of earners in the country,» said Diane Yentel, president and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), in a statement.