Sentences with phrase «pushed model bills»

She urged states to «use the power of the purse» to «restore» free speech rights on campus, a popular conservative refrain as they push model bills in Wisconsin and other states to punish political speech and protest on campus.

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And in Oregon, State Senator Mark Hass pushed through a bill in 2016 called Oregon Promise, which was modeled after Haslam's 2014 law.

The government has talked in the past about pushing for a pick - and - pay model and Senator John McCain proposed a similar change in the U.S., through a bill introduced in the spring known as the Television Consumer Freedom Act.

ICYMI: Sean Eldrige and Steve Cohen joined me on CapTon last night to discuss Protect Our Democracy, a new campaign that will work with the Cuomo administration on a coordinated push for campaign finance reform using a similar model to the one successfully employed last year to get a same - same marriage bill passed in Albany.

The Mayor pushed the Taxi and Limousine Commission to pick a standard model (the Nissan NV 200) and he convinced Albany to pass a bill that would allow the TLC to issue up to 30,000 street hail permits that would allow livery cars to make street hails in upper Manhattan and outside Manhattan.

A Democratic State Committeewoman, Cooper took credit for pushing the city and state clinic access bills that later became the model for national legislation.

Some of the proposals and the timing of their likely passage have raised concerns, though, that the Council is weakening the city's model campaign finance system, pushing some reforms through after too long a wait and rushing other, newer bills through just in time for the next

Indiana House Education Committee Chair Bob Behning, R - Indianapolis, will push a bill in the upcoming session to create a «data backpack,» based on a new Utah law the American Legislative Exchange Council recently highlighted as model legislation.

Some of the wage - crushing «model bills» pushed through ALEC include:

[49][50][51] Although it claims that it has not lobbied for bills that extend or increase sentences for prisoners, for many years GEO Group participated in the task force of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) that pushed bills that lengthened time in prison, such as so - called «truth - in - sentencing» and «three strikes» legislation, as models for states to adopt across the nation.

The majority of law firm partners favour the traditional hourly rate model as a more accurate way of billing, despite a continued push from clients to use fixed fees and other alternative billing methods, according to Legal Week research.

First, to refresh, ALEC is the secretive so - called «charity» run and funded by big corporations that subsidize the involvement of conservative state lawmakers, who then push for enactment of model bills written by the corporations who pay them.

Google has been pushing Project Fi to the majority of users around the country and they have introduced new unlimited plans with Bill Protection model.