Sentences with phrase «reform become law»

The business world wants to see tax reform become law, but business - owner talk about tax cuts is shaded by political bias.

Furman University professor Paul Thomas says that choice - based reforms became law in impressive numbers in 2011, but these reforms lack an agenda for comprehensive change.

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The situation is analogous to health care policy in the years before Obamacare, when, in the absence of a federal consensus, Massachusetts pioneered its own law aimed at reforming health insurance (which later became a model for the Affordable Care Act).

Chilton said,» Unless this language is written to avoid it, this could blow a huge hole in the Volcker Rule and would obfuscate the intent of Congress and President Obama when the financial reform legislation became law in 2010.»

It examines how the U.S. economy would be affected if the Senate - passed bipartisan immigration - reform bill became law.

The estimates in the chart show how tax reform might affect an American family of four if the Senate's tax plan becomes law:

Unfortunately, a Congressional committee this week denied Polis's attempt to staple the bill to the larger project of tax reform, which is the only realistic way the cryptocurrency provisions could become law this year.

While the content of the bill and the successful vote comports with our base case that the Republicans» tax reform plan will become law effective 2018, the Senate acted faster than expected, improving odds of a 2017 passage.

In addition, the company would be a big beneficiary of corporate tax reform, with part of the stock's rally being due to increased hope that those benefits may become law.

He has since become an outspoken advocate for gun law reform.

As Rome finally produced its own reforms during the following twenty years, it became more law bound than ever.

Developing Food Recovery Best Practices for States and Cities As FLPC has become a leader in the laws and policies surrounding food waste, it has received multiple requests from state - level advocates working to reform their laws to reduce the amount of food that goes to waste.

Though he never became a politician, he did later go to the John Marshall Law School at night — a move he said was prompted by fears that President Bill Clinton's health - care reform efforts would put home births out of business.

It is the latest in a line of increasingly liberal positions on drugs from the party, as it becomes more confident in demanding wholesale reform of Britain's drugs laws.

As a professor at Fordham Law School, the author of important books on political and economic policy, a key figure in Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, and a visionary organizer on behalf of banking and business reforms, she understands that the Democratic Party must move toward progressive populism in order to become more than a tepid alternative to Republican extremism.

Government reform group representatives who have seen previous reform measures stall say the governor has to actively campaign for the proposals if he really wants them to become law.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin (R,C,I - Schaghticoke), and Assemblyman Pete Lopez (R,C,I - Schoharie) today called for a «Spirit of «76» revolt by rank and file state legislators to clean up corruption and break the stranglehold on the Capitol that's been exerted by powerful leaders who time after time have prevented common sense reforms from becoming law in New York.

As the West and Latin America gradually submit to the logic of drug law reform, the hardcore rump of anti-drugs states, mostly from Asia and the Middle East, are likely to become even more vociferous in their opposition.

Sen. Eric Schneiderman called Donovan a «nice man,» but noted he had lobbied against Rockefeller Drug Law reform as the head of the state DA's association (Rice was on the board, too, which has become an issue in the primary) said he «represents the past» and the «old, failed ways of thinking about the justice system.»

Melissa Mark - Viverito, the departing City Council speaker, is pushing through a pair of police reform measures that have languished for years, but are now expected to become law.

As the movement gains traction and as it evolves, natural leaders will emerge, said Lessig, pointing to a few of the diverse leaders currently pushing for campaign finance reform: Zephyr Teachout who is campaigning to become the democratic candidate to challenge New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Heather McGhee of the think tank Demos and George Washington law professor Spencer Overton.

Seven of the eight candidates vying to become the next Speaker of the New York City Council convened at New York Law School on Monday night for a forum focused on government reform, running the Council, transparency, ethics, voting, and elections.

In reality, these latest reforms have not yet become law because the Legislature does not want them to pass.

Cuomo, who was once an outspoken drug law reform advocate, has been under pressure from reform and prisoners rights advocates for declining to issue any pardons or commutations since becoming governor.

De Blasio allies believe Mr. Cuomo is trying to create a sideshow by offering praise for a potential reform to 421a that has little chance of becoming law and is opposed by developers, many of whom support the governor.

Governor Cuomo cast further doubt on issues like campaign finance reform and increasing the states minimum wage to become law this year, and says he's «shifting» to a new phase of governing instead.

«It's my language that's passing in the legislation that will — these reforms will soon become law, the things that our community suffered from,» Donovan said.

The most likely reform measure to become law is a proposal to cancel the pensions of elected officials convicted of a felony.

There is «zero tolerance» for sexual harassment in the Legislature, leaders say, but an ethics reform package that would create new rules and penalties for sexual harassment may not become law this year.

Hundreds of thousands of residents from northeast Queens would be negatively affected by the U.S. House of Representatives» vote last week to repeal the sweeping health - care reform that became law last year, Rep. Gary Ackerman (D - Bayside) said.

Governor Cuomo cast further doubt on issues like campaign finance reform and increasing the state's minimum wage to become law this year and says he's «shifting» to a new phase of governing instead.

Yesterday, the Electoral Commission published a draft of its guidance (it won't be definitive until the Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill becomes law) which is by all accounts quite encouraging.

He says if the governor tries as hard to get campaign finance reform passed as he did to achieve legalization of same sex marriage and a new lowered benefit pension tier for public workers, then the bills can become law this year.

It highlights all of Rice's negatives — from the fact that she used to be a registered Republican (she switched to independent when she went to work in Pennsylvania and then became a Democrat just before first running for DA in 2005) to her failure to vote for 18 years to her firing of women — mostly mothers — who were working part time at the DA's office to her alleged lobbying against «real» Rockefeller Drug Law reform.

Spitzer, the political scientist, said he believes ethics reforms has the best chance of the three issues of becoming law because it has the most room for compromise.

Is it remotely possible that such a far ranging reform could become law?

In 2015 Smith co-sponsored a bill called the «EPA Science Advisory Board Reform Act,» which never became law — it is widely believed Smith will revive that legislation this year, along with the Secret Science bill.

That conclusion by a special committee at the Institute of Medicine in a September 2006 report titled «The Future of Drug Safety» helped prompt a sweeping reform bill that became law last September.

In 2008 she became a Founding Faculty Co-director of the Berkeley Law Center for Health, Economic and Family Security (CHEFS), a research and policy center focusing on national flexible workplaces and health reform for working families.

West Virginia became the latest to join the group with the enactment of a massive school - reform law this month; the others are New Jersey and South Carolina.

The changes launched by Gov. James J. Florio late last month have won praise from middle - income districts that had become vocal critics of the Quality Education Act, the finance - reform law passed in 1990.

Washington — If the House - approved tax - reform bill becomes law with its rule on contributory pensions intact, the measure would change the tax status of the vast majority of school employees who retire in the next few years.

The state's education commissioner told the court that the education reforms that became law in 2012 needed a few years to roll out before the changes they made would be realized.

In the Senate, Kerry voted for the Republican - led education - reform efforts that became the No Child Left Behind law.

The laws have become part of a broader debate over the proliferation of charter schools, private school vouchers and everything else now dubbed «education reform,» a vague term used by self - professed reformers to describe nearly any attempts that call for challenging the traditional public school system.

Such an approach would further systemic reform by essentially allowing them to become enterprise zones of sorts freed from state laws and collective bargaining agreements.

However, those reforms stalled in the legislature last summer and still have not become law.

President Bush's education reform initiative, the «No Child Left Behind» Act, becomes law.

When Malloy's Education reform bill passes and becomes law, Steven Adamowski will immediately qualify for a pension and participation in the State of Connecticut's Teacher Retirement Heath and Prescription Drug Benefit Program when he retires.

On January 14 they became the first Orange County parents to use California's Parent Trigger law to bring meaningful reform for the school by restarting it as an independent charter school.