Sentences with phrase «state legislatures as»

Let us suppose that those 31 states (and their legislatures, governors, courts, etc) are intent on preserving the death penalty, so that a Constitutional amendment to abolish it would not be ratified by 3/4 of state legislatures as required.

Parent Revolution, a nonprofit dedicated to organizing trigger campaigns, anticipates a surge of interest in other state legislatures as Desert Trails and three other California schools transformed by parent activism reopen over the next month.

Although redistricting results derived from the 1990 Census will not be known until next week and beyond, the National Education Association and its affiliates were laying the groundwork to protect their interests in state legislatures as early as 1987.

The organization intended to coordinate action and provide mutual support among the various minor parties for efforts he believed would, in his view, liberalize ballot access laws through state legislatures as well as through the courts.

She said her members are concerned about bills pending in state legislatures as well as on Capitol Hill that would restrict or eliminate the use of BPA in metal cans.

From World War II until the late 1960s, no voice raised on behalf of mental patients was more audible and respected than that of William C. Menninger, who talked to at least as many state legislatures as did Dorothea Dix in the previous century.

Said the Chamber of Commerce head Hoan: «We are awaiting the details of the proposal by the governor and state legislature as they work towards restructuring our tax code to adapt to the loss of [that] deduction.

The issue is expected to be one of the first to surface in Alabama's state legislature as lawmakers there head back to session this week, and a colorful standoff is likely.

«It's unclear what rules they will be following, it's unclear how fair that process will be,» said Bharara, who says he's had some experience dealing with the state legislature as a prosecutor.

He is a former state assemblyman in New York, who was elected by the state legislature as New York State Comptroller on February 7, 2007.

At the invitation of Assemblyman Mark Gjonaj the President of Albania, Bujar Nishani, addressed the members of the NY State legislature as well as religious and community leaders from New York.

Faced with the possibility of being expelled from the state legislature as soon as next week, State Assemblyman Vito Lopez, a Democrat from Brooklyn, today said he would resign on June 20th at the end of the legislative session and run for a seat on the New York City Council.

Two years after turning down a run for Congress, Dr. William Petit Jr. has set his sights on the state legislature as the Republican Party's nominee in the 22nd House District.

Under a new plan pressed by Governor Andrew Cuomo and adopted by the state legislature as part of the budget, half of a teacher's performance review could be based on how well the students do on the exams.

The laptop idea, says Silvernail, was sold to the state legislature as a way to raise test scores.

Not exact matches

And as of September 2015, there were proposals in 17 state legislatures to enact new laws or alter language of older ones.

I know this action by the state legislature troubled him as it does all of us.

Proponents of the bill were hoping a passage by the legislature would have been a call to action for other states, as more than 20 others have considered passing their own Internet privacy bills.

Originalists such as Gorsuch also apply their philosophy to resolve disagreements over laws crafted by Congress or state legislatures, focusing on the text and intention of the lawmakers.

Our legislature faces challenges, our prisons face challenges, as does our education system and our state's Medicaid program.

Michigan's state legislature is expected to give final approval as early as Tuesday to new laws making it a «right - to - work» state despite protests from thousands of unionized workers.

The right - to - work drive in Michigan is the latest of a series of setbacks for labor unions in the United States, beginning in 2011, when Wisconsin's Walker pushed through the legislature limits on public sector unions such as teachers.

The National Conference of State Legislatures says nearly a dozen states still had not enacted budgets for the new fiscal year as of mid-June.

As the 2016 fiscal year comes to a close, first - term Governor John Bel Edwards and the state legislature have been in crisis mode, struggling to close a fiscal 2017 budget gap that could run as high $ 800 million — and that is after $ 485 million in emergency spending cuts this yeaAs the 2016 fiscal year comes to a close, first - term Governor John Bel Edwards and the state legislature have been in crisis mode, struggling to close a fiscal 2017 budget gap that could run as high $ 800 million — and that is after $ 485 million in emergency spending cuts this yeaas high $ 800 million — and that is after $ 485 million in emergency spending cuts this year.

Republican Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who is president of the state Senate, listed what he called a «Women's Privacy Act» as one of his top 10 priorities when the legislature reconvenes in January.

As the 2016 fiscal year comes to a close, first - term Gov. John Bel Edwards and the state legislature have been in crisis mode, struggling to close a fiscal 2017 budget gap that could run as high $ 800 millioAs the 2016 fiscal year comes to a close, first - term Gov. John Bel Edwards and the state legislature have been in crisis mode, struggling to close a fiscal 2017 budget gap that could run as high $ 800 millioas high $ 800 million.

As a new administration and legislature take the reins in Trenton, New Jersey has a historic opportunity to guarantee that all children in the state have health coverage.

But this might at least serve as a marker of how far we have to go to establish the legislature as an effective and responsible scrutinizer of the nation's business and the affairs of the state.

Tesla previously promised to provide 6,500 jobs as a part of the tax incentives package of $ 1.4 billion, which the state legislature approved in September 2014.

Musk's announcement comes amid what seems to be a PR assault in Texas as the Tesla CEO tries to convince the state legislature to allow the electric car manufacturer to sell its vehicles directly to consumers.

On Tuesday night, the state legislature refused to debate an outright ban on assault weapons as students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas watched and cried, but the teenagers» push for change is still expected to bring Florida's first limit on gun access in over a decade, according to CNN.

In 2021, state legislatures will again redraw congressional district lines, as constitutionally mandated.

The state of Arizona is currently at the forefront of cryptocurrency tax acceptance, as a bill is making its way through the state legislature that would allow Arizona residents to pay their taxes with Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies.

As recently as 2016 with House Bill 689, the legislature considered a measure to amend the state Constitution to allow for a graduated income taAs recently as 2016 with House Bill 689, the legislature considered a measure to amend the state Constitution to allow for a graduated income taas 2016 with House Bill 689, the legislature considered a measure to amend the state Constitution to allow for a graduated income tax.

Politically speaking, Illinois is about as blue as it gets, with dominant Democratic majorities in both houses of the state legislature.

As president - elect of the National Conference of State Legislatures, state Sen. Toi Hutchinson, D - Olympia Fields, sent the four Congressional leaders a letter Nov. 16 opposing elimination of the state and local tax (SALT) deducState Legislatures, state Sen. Toi Hutchinson, D - Olympia Fields, sent the four Congressional leaders a letter Nov. 16 opposing elimination of the state and local tax (SALT) deducstate Sen. Toi Hutchinson, D - Olympia Fields, sent the four Congressional leaders a letter Nov. 16 opposing elimination of the state and local tax (SALT) deducstate and local tax (SALT) deduction.

It's also grappling with systematic racial discrimination from hosts, facing a crackdown from the New York state legislature, and, as of Monday, suing San Francisco over short - term rental rules that the city's board of supervisors passed unanimously at the start of June.

A six - day walkout that shuttered classrooms across the state has ended, as the legislature passed an education funding deal.

By reading the Ninth Amendment as creating a general right to privacy, Black and Stewart suggested, the unelected justices of the Supreme Court had subst - ituted their own subjective notions of justice, liberty, and reasonableness for the wisdom and experience of the elected representatives in the Connecticut state legislature who were responsible for passing the birth control regulation.

Again, the court's errors in such cases are difficult to correct, whereas leaving decisions to various legislatures allows for varying solutions and ongoing debate: states can serve as «laboratories of experiment,» in the words of Justice Louis Brandeis.

This may be a literal corporation, such as IBM or GE; or it may be a body like the CIO or AFL, the presbytery, the board of education, the Department of Defense, the state legislature, Lincoln High School, the Pittsburgh Pirates, or the Second Platoon.

I think the church, from a position of strength, conceded far too much by supporting the legislature's use of dubious psychological concepts such as «gender identity» and «sexual orientation» in state anti-discrimination law.

It can, in other words, position itself as a pedagogue, upstream of the actual member state legislatures, declaring as a matter of Europe - wide policy what is or is not a human right, and «calling on» member states to bring their legislation into line with what are now the human rights norms that every civilized nation agrees on.

«Before we even got behind a lot of policy changes, what we did was we went around the country and just visited prisons and visited state legislatures and visited with district attorneys and police officers and survivors of crime, all these folks who have a stake in the system right now, and we tried to listen and amplify voices that may not have been heard as much,» he explains.

Given a similar wave in November's mid-terms, with the GOP now controlling two - thirds of state legislatures and 31 governors» offices, 2015 appears just as promising to pro-life groups.

They also have seats in legislatures, state assemblies and Parliament so as to allow them greater participation in the country's governance.

As the creationists continue to press differently nuanced bills in 20 or so state legislatures, we can expect social pressure to continue to bear on the evolutionism issue.

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Const.tution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.

The effort to secure action by state legislatures to require the teaching of creationism as science along with evolutionary theories has already succeeded in two states.

Other business contributors, as well as state legislatures, made similar demands.