Sentences with phrase «several changes to the bill»

She said several changes to the bill would ensure that jury nullification is clearly protected.

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The federal budget to be released this Wednesday by Finance Minister Bill Morneau is likely to introduce several changes for average Canadian families and investors alike.
The quartet of bills makes technical changes to several securities laws, easing obstacles to raising funds.
The reason the wilderness bill is being opposed by several special - interest groups is that they realize how poorly protected the wilderness areas are at present and they do not want to see this changed.
As part of the campaign, they have released a minute long video that features excerpts from several of Gillibrand's senate floor speeches where she advocates for changes in the Health Care reform bill to provide more protections for women's reproductive rights, more coverage for pregnant women, and funding for women's health clinics.
The Independence and Conservative parties have both endorsed Sen. Bill Stachowski's Democratic primary opponent, Tim Kennedy, but Libous insisted there's still time for the GOP to change that because the Wilson Pakulas won't be filed for another several days.
The Democratic governor confirmed Tuesday that several of his policy proposals would be dropped from the spending plan, which must be agreed to by March 31 and in which Cuomo has a higher degree of leverage over lawmakers by inserting language they can not change into appropriation bills.
ALBANY, N.Y. — For more than a decade, advocates have traveled to Albany to push for a bill that would make it easier for the survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file lawsuits, but supporters of the measure known as the Child Victims Act say this year is different as perceptions surrounding sexual abuse and misconduct have changed in the last several months.
After weathering several hours of decidedly negative reaction to her amended legislation changing the statute of limitations for cases of personal injury caused by pollution, state Sen. Kathy Marchione has decided to go back to the original version of her bill.
The bill was granted a second reading by 3444 votes to three, but several Tory MPs stood to cast doubts on the existence of climate change, raising concerns over the party's commitment to the environment.
For more than a decade, advocates have traveled to Albany to push for a bill that would make it easier for the survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file lawsuits, but supporters of the measure known as the Child Victims Act say this year is different as perceptions surrounding sexual abuse and misconduct have changed in the last several months.
State Assembly Woman Barbara Lifton announced on Tuesday that she is co-sponsoring a bill that would change education laws to address several controversial issues in public schools.
It was a significant defeat for Democrats and a win for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Kentucky, who persuaded several Republicans who had previously voted to support the higher spending level to change their positions and vote to block the bill.
The governor said he was compelled to veto the bill for several reasons: That state law prohibited him from signing the bill, that it would prompt other cities to clamor for a waiver on their fees, that such a change might be better suited during the annual budget process, and that bondholders might be put at risk due to revenues lost by waiving the fees.
According to Joe Sgammato, the press secretary representing the Democratic Caucus, at that meeting, which was held on July 10, several «minor» changes were suggested to the bill.
(Sec. 4201) The bill makes several administrative changes to the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program, which supports academic enrichment opportunities for children during non-school hours.
(Sec. 9207) The bill amends the Education Flexibility Partnership Act of 1999 to make several changes to the Educational Flexibility Program, through which ED may authorize an SEA to waive certain statutory or regulatory program requirements established under either the ESEA or the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006.
The Senate had expected to pass an education, labor, and health and human services spending bill with few changes to its $ 32 billion in education provisions, but it was sidetracked by several health and labor amendments.
The bill would also make several changes to the qualifications of a «priority school.»
One of several changes made recently to GOP Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt's school accountability bill is troubling top public school district decision makers.
Meanwhile, the panel moved several other key education bills including one that would rewrite the rules implementing sanctions against school officials who fail to report changes in an employee's work status while an allegation of misconduct is pending.
Rep. Keith Ripp (R - Lodi) introduced a bill during the last legislative session that would have changed the way schools test for dyslexia and how educators are certified to teach reading, which I wrote about several months ago.
The North Carolina Senate has tentatively passed a sweeping, 62 - page bill that would make several changes to state regulations.
The bill would make several changes to teacher evaluations, including requiring more frequent performance reviews, more training for evaluators and the use of multiple measures of student academic progress — which could include test scores but would not require them, as current state law does.
Florida lawmakers have rolled several proposed K - 12 policy changes into a single bill that would make it easier for out - of - state charter school operators to work in the Sunshine State, and would also allow parents to enroll their children in public schools outside their attendance zones or districts under certain conditions.
The bill would also make several changes to the existing School Facility Program by requiring, among other things, that as a condition of receiving funding school districts commit to upkeep of their buildings by developing long - range facilities master plans and that they conduct an inventory of existing facilities.
The new model is the first in the industry designed to align with consumer - focused changes in the way Equifax, Experian and TransUnion handle several types of negative credit - file records, such as medical bills in collections, tax liens and public records.
The federal budget to be released this Wednesday by Finance Minister Bill Morneau is likely to introduce several changes for average Canadian families and investors alike.
After a tumultuous course of revisions as a bill, the Tax Cut and Jobs Act has brought forward several key changes to the rules that dictate your deduction, including changes to property taxes, interest deductibility, and home equity line rules.
In 2000, with a young family, and his ever - present «Lynn», a wonderful Jack Russell Terrier, Dr. Gary was ready for another change and moved with several staff and many wonderful clients to start a partnership with Dr. Bill at Ark Veterinary Hospital.
In addition to this effort, I authored the legislation creating the District's first Climate Change and Resiliency Commission; I led the fight to have the District's retirement and pension funds divest from carbon and fossil fuel investment holdings; I wrote several bills to expand opportunities for solar installation; and I led the effort to name 2018 as the Year of the Anacostia River to celebrate and bring attention to the river on the eastern half of our city.
To be clear, while the bill falls quite short of what scientists said several years ago was the minimum required to avoid catastrophic climate change, real - world changes are changing scientific understanding and heightening concernTo be clear, while the bill falls quite short of what scientists said several years ago was the minimum required to avoid catastrophic climate change, real - world changes are changing scientific understanding and heightening concernto avoid catastrophic climate change, real - world changes are changing scientific understanding and heightening concerns.
As Rocket Matter describes in this blog post, these changes are on top of several others this year to its time - and - billing features.
Yes, ProDoc has several levels of security that you can assign to staff members, allowing you a high degree of control over which members of your firm can make changes in your billing.
If passed, this Bill would result in several changes to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act relating to the investigation and removal of foreign nationals and immigrants.
The Bill proposed several changes to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act relating to the investigation and removal of foreign nationals and immigrants.
Bill 177 is omnibus legislation which, among other things, includes several changes relating to the enforcement of the Occupational Health and Safety Act (the «OHSA») and amends the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997 (the «WSIA») to include transition provisions for Workplace Safety and Insurance Board («WSIB») benefits claims due to chronic mental stress.
With Bill 148, the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, making its way through the Ontario legislature, provincially regulated employers will be required to contend with several serious changes to their workplaces as a result of the proposed amendments to Ontario's Employment Standards Act, 2000, and Labour Relations Act, 1995.
The Bill also includes consequential amendments to several other Manitoba Acts because of the name change to «Public Guardian and Trustee».
The Speaker has now personally filed several bills this week to change the way Oklahoma's court function.
Although Bill 148 made several changes to the ESA, a full review of which you can find in my post Bill 148 and Changes to the Employment Standards Act, 2000, no changes were made to that law's termination provchanges to the ESA, a full review of which you can find in my post Bill 148 and Changes to the Employment Standards Act, 2000, no changes were made to that law's termination provChanges to the Employment Standards Act, 2000, no changes were made to that law's termination provchanges were made to that law's termination provisions.
There has been no attempt to change this from nonpartisan to partisan, although several bills were introduced to change the nonpartisan races to gubernatorial appointment from a judicial nominating commission list and yes / no retention elections.
That change has the potential to derail Gladue principles according to several witness called to speak before Parliament's justice committee regarding the bill, including Eric Gottardi, chair of the Canadian Bar Association's criminal justice section.
Bill C - 63 received royal assent on December 14, 2017 and will introduce changes to work scheduling, overtime, vacation, bereavement leave and several statutory leaves of absence.
Key advisor to several industry associations regarding the Changing Workplaces Review and Bill 148.
There is a bill that was introduced in Congress several weeks ago, by Representatives Peter DeFazio and Jason Chaffetz, which would try to change that.
Due to the rapidly changing requirements by U.S. health insurance companies, several aspects of medical billing and medical office management have created the necessity for specialized training.
A couple of weeks ago PA was debated, now we have a private member's bill being put forward by an engaged tory MP (and supported by several of her party) to change the law regarding enforcement of child arrangement orders.
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