Sentences with phrase «referendum bill passing»

Conservative MPs have revelled in four - and - a-half hours of eurosceptic - dominated debate - culminating in the EU referendum bill passing its second reading by 304 votes to zero.

• OCTOBER 2013 The Referendum Bill passes its final stage at Holyrood, a certainty given the SNP's overall majority.

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Labour is conceding the Conservative - backed bill which seeks to guarantee an in - or - out referendum in the next parliament will pass its Commons stages.

Fred Thiele (I - Sag Harbor) and State Sen. Kenneth LaValle (R - Port Jefferson) announced that the State Legislature passed a bill — which requires Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's signature — to require permissive referendums on accepting any federal or state financial assistance to the East Hampton Airport.

«But ultimately it'll be up to the voters of the school district because the school board, if this bill is passed, will allow for them to decide to go to a referendum to then have a ward system,» Carlucci says.

If we had the new constitution, actually the nation could stop a dangerous bill like this [article 65 gives the right for 10 % of the population to hold a binding national referendum on a law passed by the parliament].

It simply calls on the Government to agree that we should insert in the Bill that the result of the referendum will not pass if less than 40 % vote in it.

These bills require constitutional amendments, which means they have to be passed by two separately elected Legislatures and then approved in a public referendum.

It spent much of the last parliament trying to pass a bill guaranteeing an EU referendum this parliament, even though anyone with the tiniest glimmer of understanding about how politics works would tell you that the way to guarantee that is to win an election.

But senior figures are saying Cameron's handling of the EU referendum vote, in which he conceded that a bill should be passed in this parliament after initially saying this was unnecessary, had weakened him even in the eyes of Eurosceptics.

The legislature drew particular ire for passing these bills as «emergency legislation,» circumventing any possible voter referendum.

The council is expected to pass the same - sex marriage bill next month, but the measure continues to face strong opposition from a number of groups that are pushing for a referendum on the issue.

Others have proposed new powers for the electorate to trigger an election or referendum and veto bills passing through parliament.

Nick Clegg is to take personal charge of a massive programme of constitutional renewal, including a referendum bill on electoral reform passed by summer 2011, in what the prime minister, David Cameron, described yesterday as a Liberal - Conservative government that marks a «historic and seismic shift» in British politics.

The Eau Claire Area School Board, under the leadership of WEAC member and School Board President Chris Hambuch - Boyle, has passed resolutions asking state legislators and the governor to oppose measures that would restrict the ability of school boards to raise money through referendums and to support the Wisconsin Voucher Taxpayer Transparency Bill.

Referendum 55, a measure that gave voters a chance to decide the fate of a legislative bill passed in 2003 allowing charter schools, was failing by a large margin Tuesday night...

Onto less productive activities by our State Legislature: yesterday it passed a bill, A1877, that would require all aspiring charter schools to subject themselves to a public referendum.

But, the very limited charter schools bill passed in the state Legislature last year and in front of voters in the form of Referendum 55 this election may help some students succeed in places where the worst schools exist.

The bill would require a referendum to pass before voucher schools can take state aid out of a public school district.

The final reports from Bridgeport's November 2012 education reform referendum are in and it turns out that the corporate education reform industry and its supporters spent at least $ 562,955.16 in their effort to pass Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch's anti-democracy initiative, a proposal that would have eliminated the City's democratically elected board of education and replaced it with one appointed by the mayor.