Sentences with phrase «similar bills in»

Despite the fact that HSUS had worked to kill similar bills in Texas, New York, Florida, and elsewhere, I was more optimistic about shelter reform legislation succeeding in Minnesota because two HSUS representatives — a Board member and Jennifer Fearing, the person in charge of sheltering policies for HSUS — personally assured me at a meeting in San Francisco just over a month ago that the days of HSUS claiming «neutrality» (a sham in and of itself given it benefits the status quo) but then working to kill shelter reform legislation were over.

Former Assemblywoman Julia Brownley authored similar bills in 2011 and 2010.

In the past, when mainstream Democrats have offered similar bills in the form of hostile amendments, the measures have been rejected by the GOP.

Opponents are bolstered by defeats of similar bills in Maryland and Rhode Island this year, and recent polls have shown New Yorkers slightly less supportive of gay marriage as the issue gained more attention this year.

All of the proposals on Mr. Cuomo's ethics wish list must be approved by the Legislature, which has declined to pass similar bills in the past.

The Legislature approved 35 similar bills in 2012 and another 31 in 2011, dealing with entities ranging from churches to the Schenectady Light Opera Company.

The signing comes after vetoes of similar bills in 2011 and 2013.

Wagner introduced several similar bills in recent years, and none of them have made it to the president's desk.

According to the Human Rights Campaign, lawmakers are considering similar bills in Arkansas, Alabama, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, who is pushing a similar bill in his chamber, says:

Meanwhile, Rhode Island's state senate passed a similar bill in June.

Sen. Bernie Sanders proposed a similar bill in 2015 that never garnered enough support, while Republican Congressman Tom Garrett introduced his own legislation earlier this year that is also not expected to make it to law.

Rep. Tom Reed, a GOP lawmaker from the Southern Tier, introduced a bill that also includes bipartisan fixes; Schumer said he supports a similar bill in the Senate.

A similar bill in the State Assembly seemed poised to follow until, later on Tuesday, the speakers of the Assembly and the City Council agreed to delay enacting the bag fee while city officials amended the city's bill to the Assembly's liking.

A similar bill in California has passed one house of the legislature but is pending in the other.

Lavine introduced a similar bill in February that also would cover civil matters and cases heard in county and state court.

Albans) announced a sea change in their districts and flipped positions after voting against a similar bill in 2009.

In Alabama, State Senator Cam Ward (R - Alabaster) e-mails that he has introduced a similar bill in his state, although it still isn't on the state legislature's web page.

State Senator Greg Ball has been pushing a Senate bill to restrict access to permit information and there is a similar bill in the state Assembly.

The bill now goes back to the House of Representatives, which passed a similar bill in November.

On Monday, Cira introduced a bill that mirrors a similar bill in West Virginia and was devised with the help of The United Mine Workers of America.

A similar bill in Texas in 2005 never made it out of a House committee.

E4E, which claims about 3,000 members in New York City, helped shape a similar bill in New York that passed the Senate but not the Assembly.

Senator Mike Rounds, who authored a similar bill in the Senate, also attended.

Now, word that a Texas lawmaker is planning to push a similar bill in that state's next legislative session.

(A similar bill in Missouri would eliminate the cap of three nominees and allow the commission to nominate as many candidates as it sees fit.)

However, when the parti Quebecois tabled a similar bill in 2013, outrage was heard from lawyers, the public and other stakeholders all across Canada.

House passage is expected to pave the way for consideration of a similar bill in the Senate next year once Congress reconvenes.

Not exact matches

Other bills introduced in the House to achieve similar outcomes have also stalled.

A similar series of bills were voted down recently in the Senate, a vote that was only called after a long filibuster by Senator Chris Murphy.

«It's not about taking a bunch of dollar bills and spreading them around,» said Deep Nishar, SoftBank's managing director, noting that the company is looking at making similar investments in Europe and South America.

But while the announcement is no - doubt shocking (as Police Chief Bill Blair remarked, «We have no historical precedent for doing that in Ontario), it comes on the heels of a similar move in numerous U.S. cities, where the axe has already fallen on those previously considered to be untouchable.

«Podcast rates are hard to come by, but I'm aware of a few podcasts a quarter the size that are earning somewhere in excess of $ 10,000 / episode; presuming proportionally similar rates (which may be unrealistic, given the broader audience) The Bill Simmons Podcast, which publishes three times a week, could be on a > $ 6 million run rate, which, per my envelope math in the footnote above, could nearly pay for a 50 - person staff a la Grantland.»

Meanwhile, Texas has 12 similar bills pending in its legislature.

A similar provision was included in the 2009 U.S. stimulus bill, specifying that U.S. - made steel and other manufactured goods were favoured in government - funded building projects.

Similar to your personal credit score, you business credit score is based on your credit - use history, how many lines of credit you have, how you pay your bills, the size of your company, and how long your company has been in business.

Tokens are similar to API keys in another respect: if someone gains access to your Amazon API keys, they can bill your Amazon account.

Although the number of online banking consumers in Canada is a fraction of the total in the U.S., bill payment users account for a similar percentage of total online banking customers, indicating a healthy demand for online payment services in Canada.

But it's worth noting that cash (t - bills) had a similar return in that time.

«The collaboration we saw was some billing and administrative contacts between the two of them, so you'd see similar people show up in each of the accounts,» said Schroepfer, when asked for more detail about what it had found, before declining to say anything else in a public setting on account of ongoing investigations — despite the committee pointing out other witnesses it has heard from have not held back on that front.

The administration inserted protectionist «Buy American» language in the President's jobs bill in September, despite Canada's objections to similar language in his stimulus bill two years ago.

In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution, or similar event, the Personal Information, the Billing Information, and the Other Information may be part of the transferred assets.

We heard politicians talk about three separate bills throughout the two days: The Honest Ads Act to regulate online political advertising; The Consent Act, which would require users to opt in to share information with tech companies versus sharing it by default; and a similar sounding bill called the Browser Act.

A similar bonus credit regime for CCS had been proposed under both the Waxman - Markey and Kerry - Lieberman cap - and - trade bills in the US.

In the past, he has expressed similar confidence about passing other bills only to have the process bog down when lawmakers fought over details.

A HELOC, in short, is a line of credit (similar to a credit card account) where the family home is used as collateral to borrow money against the house (the equity) in order to pay bills, do renovations, or take a vacation.

Other similar things might be investing in supermarkets and «consumer staples» (because if your weekly shopping basket inflates, their shares and divis probably will too) or investing in healthcare as a hedge against future healthcare costs inflating or investing in utilities as a hedge against utilities bills rising (I've yet to buy any but I quite like the idea of owning enough ~ 7 % yielding Centrica for the divis to cover the gas and electricity bills) or investing in travel and tourism companies as a hedge against holiday costs inflating.

New Democrats introduced bills calling for a similar position in 2007, 2011 and 2013, but the B.C. Liberal government refused to implement them.

In addition to facilitating regular investment in the platform's money market fund, this feature allows accounts to be set up to receive monthly salary deposits automatically, and to automatically pay monthly bills such as mortgages and car loans — services similar to direct - deposit and autopay functions offered by traditional financial services providerIn addition to facilitating regular investment in the platform's money market fund, this feature allows accounts to be set up to receive monthly salary deposits automatically, and to automatically pay monthly bills such as mortgages and car loans — services similar to direct - deposit and autopay functions offered by traditional financial services providerin the platform's money market fund, this feature allows accounts to be set up to receive monthly salary deposits automatically, and to automatically pay monthly bills such as mortgages and car loans — services similar to direct - deposit and autopay functions offered by traditional financial services providers.

Both bills provide for similar changes in the corporate and international tax code but differ mostly in the structure of the individual tax code, including the tax treatment of pass - through businesses and individual income tax brackets as well as the status of the estate tax.