Sentences with phrase «separate pieces of legislation»

Both outlined the importance of their separate pieces of legislation, which would eliminate discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Federal and state parliaments around Australia have enacted more than twenty separate pieces of legislation to provide or recognise Indigenous interests in land.

He ended up needing three separate pieces of legislation:... [more]

The «Western Canada Law Reform Agencies» — i.e. those of B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba — have together produced a report entitled «Enduring Powers of Attorney: Areas for Reform» [PDF] with the aim of harmonizing their separate pieces of legislation.

However, the Southold Town Board's attempt to pass two separate pieces of legislation concerning the use of wineries has proven a tricky task.

«Chapter amendments are separate pieces of legislation used to clean up or correct mistakes or problems with previously enacted laws,» the conference said in a statement.

The governor vetoed separate pieces of legislation that would have allowed some Westchester County communities to impose occupancy taxes.

The Town Board's attempt to pass two separate pieces of legislation dictating the use of wineries has proven to be a tricky task.

A vote on a separate piece of legislation Paterson will be sending up to delay $ 1.5 billion worth of education aid payments to school districts could be more problematic — particularly since this is an election year and few lawmakers are going to want to take that potentially troublesome vote.

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.

IDC Sen. Jeff Klein attempted to put the abortion provision on a separate piece of legislation as an amendment, but the effort failed on a procedural vote.

A provision that would move some juvenile cases to the family court system could wait and be done in a separate piece of legislation.

«Language that can not be secured in the body of same - sex marriage legislation can not be secured in a separate piece of legislation.

Doug Hoyes: Because that's a separate piece of legislation.

Substitute 130 (aka Ohio «Puppy Mill» bill) is a SEPARATE piece of legislation from our 2012 citizens - initiated statute, Ohio Dog Auctions Act!

Moreover, lawyers hoping to find a definition of «minimum amount repayable» in the regulations will need to look for it in an entirely separate piece of legislation.

Not exact matches

The Equality Act, which brought together nine separate pieces of equality legislation together, came into force last week.

And I don't want to hear «Remember: Undoing the #CommonCore would require 46 separate, state - led actions...» That's true, but states have many worthless pieces of legislation that do little to change the world.

Ideally, true transformation to public education would be dealt with more deliberately through separate legislation instead of by adding policy pieces into the budget.

Madrid and London were bombed, abuses of human rights in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo made headlines and the British Government passed three separate pieces of anti-terrorism and prevention of terrorism legislation, all of which placed significant restrictions on civil liberties and freedom of speech.

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.»

The extinguishment of native title hunting and fishing rights over such a vast area in a situation where subsistence activities are of major importance has itself been highly problematic, and has necessitated protection of hunting and fishing rights through various separate state and federal pieces of legislation - a situation which created administrative difficulty and uncertainty about the long term security of the rights.