Sentences with phrase «states and cities passed»

As a result, several states and cities passed restrictions on salary history questions by employers during the applicant hiring process.

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Leaving the city - state is as easy as scanning your passport and boarding pass into a kiosk, and then giving your fingerprint.

Nuevo Laredo is a very important passageway in the state of Tamaulipas for drugs heading to the United States because of its connection to routes leading to northeastern US cities, and also because of the fact that US customs does not have the capacity to verify every shipping container that passes through.

Yet even as states and cities across the country pass laws guaranteeing paid sick days and paid family and medical leave, too many families still do not have access to these critical workplace standards.

1) Diversify into heartland / flyover states and away from coastal city real estate 2) Conviction is HIGHER now that the new tax plan has passed with the $ 10K SALT cap and $ 750K mortgage cap 3) Invest in the fund with 12 — 16 deals, b / c they are picking the best deals on their platform and have a high incentive not to mess things up if they want to raise new funds 4) Learn from the investments of the fund and eventually invest in specific deals w / real capital (1 - 2 years away)

New York state last month passed a similar measure that makes it illegal to advertise apartments for fewer than 30 days in New York City, and lawmakers have pushed the federal government to take a closer look at Airbnb and other home - sharing sites on accusations of creating housing shortages and driving up rental costs.

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.

(i) Unable to restore the power in a few states for more than 10 + days, since a tornado passed by it (ii) Unable to restore power for 7 + days in a snowy North Eastern state, since a hurricane passed by it (iii) Having no quality in science, math and technology; depending on «imports» to uplift them (or depending on Jesus to save them)(iv) Horrible crime in downtown, ghettos of any major city (v) Unemployment of 23 % (vi) Having a president who believes that the earth is 6000 years old (vii) Having a presidential candidate which believes in subjugating women (viii) Having more than 50 % of its 2012 graduates un / under - employed (ix) No public transport, resulting in hell on earth even for a small rise in crude - oil prices (x) A crappy health care system (xi) A debt of 14Trillion, which corresponds to 50K per US resident.

They were fielding 10 two - way starters to the three or four of conference rivals South and North Medford and Grants Pass, and a crucial element of their previous success was missing: From 1989 through 1992, Ashland quarterbacks Bert Peterson, Kevin Greene, Chris Chambers and Chad Guthrie (brother of Kansas City Royal pitcher Jeremy Guthrie) succeeded each other one after another as first team All - State.

Our members have helped move forward paid Family Leave policies in cities, counties and states across the nation, have helped pass affordable childcare policies in red and blue states alike, have also helped advance sick day policies in over a dozen cities and states across the nation, as well.

Already twelve states (CA, NY, MD, VT, VA, NJ, HI, IL, MA, LA, PA, SC) have passed Benefit Corporation Legislation, and the city of Philadelphia passed a tax break for Certified B Corporations in December 2009.

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As state lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo continue to sort out an extension of the now lapsed rent control laws in New York City, Senate Republicans say they have no plans to leave town after passing their own eight - year extension of the program.

However, the party has also reiterated its belief in City Regions, a policy first mooted in the wake of the 2004 North - East regional assembly referendum defeat — stating that it will pass an «English Devolution Act» if elected into government, giving more powers to City and also County regions, and replacing the House of Lords with an elected Senate of the Nations and regions to work as a forum for regional representation.

«Sign my petition calling on Albany to pass a millionaire's tax to upgrade New York City's subways, buses, and the Staten Island Railway, and to provide half priced MetroCards for low - income New Yorkers,» the email states.

The city supports a bill, passed by the State Assembly Monday, that would allow NYCHA to use the design - build model, which streamlines projects by combining the design and construction stages into one contract.

For decades the City and State have been passing laws and creating regulations to keep

In 2011, Brian passed legislation and negotiated a deal between the State and the City to create $ 200 million worth of new parkland and open space on Manhattan's East Side, including a mile - long esplanade from East 60th Street south to 38th Street, which will close the last major gap in the greenway circling the island.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle article on BP Adams and CM Gentile praising a new bill passed in the State Legislature, supported by their City Council resolution, to create vanity plates for funding childhood cancer research.

The group claims that it could be introduced and passed in the city without state approval — a crucial distinction, since Bloomberg's original proposal ended up losing steam once it was sent to Albany.

«Some council members and staff seem to believe that the state can not renew the state laws unless the city passes a resolution declaring an emergency.

There are also two full City Council «Stated Meetings» scheduled for this week, at which the Council votes on bill that have passed through committee and new bills are introduced.

This whole discussion might be moot anyway, because in order to build a casino in New York City — or anywhere in the state on non-Indian land — the constitutional amendment expanding gambling would have to be passed for a second time by the Legislature and also pass muster with the voters in a public referendum.

New York's state Legislature chose not pass the urgent pleas of local governments including Rockland County, the City of Long Beach, Suffolk and Nassau counties, Buffalo and Newburgh during the 2012 legislative session that ended last week.

Hundreds of low - wage workers and advocates descended upon Albany today to urge the Senate and Assembly to pass legislation that would raise the state minimum wage to $ 10.10, index it to inflation, and allow cities and counties to set their wages 30 percent higher than the state's minimum.

The state Senate returned to session on Aug. 6 and passed a bill to renew mayoral control of the city's public schools, along with other related bills to increase parental input in the school system and address some of the other flaws in the original legislation.

The City Council needs to pass a resolution to ask the state to boost disability and pension benefits — and though it has plenty of sponsors, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito has not been overly supportive.

In 2017, Hamilton and Assemblyman Ortiz passed legislation named «Briana's Law», after 11 - year old Briana Ojeda, that requires New York City police officers and state troopers to be retrained in CPR every two years.

Since five of the nine cities and villages in the Hudson Valley in the path of the proposed pipeline have passed resolutions opposing the Pilgrim Pipeline project, the environmental groups say further state review is a waste of resources.

PRESS RELEASE New City, NY (July 3, 2013)-- Rockland County Legislator Ed Day (New City - Pomona) is sponsoring a resolution to call upon the State Assembly to pass Assembly Bill A. 1443, that would phase out the Metropolitan Transit Authority payroll mobility tax in 2017 and related Assembly Bill A. 7775 that would immediately exempt community colleges -LSB-...]

The elected officials - state and city, Republican and Democrat - praised one another for working together to get the law passed promptly.

There are also questions around whether Cuomo will include a proposal and dedicated funding for paid family leave, something that de Blasio recently moved on for some city employees and called on the state to pass for all workers.

Without getting into the details, Mayor de Blasio last night revealed that he and Governor Cuomo spoke after the state legislature passed a budget that put a leash around the city.

Airbnb has run ads that use hosts to tout the benefits of home - sharing and warn that the bill passed by the New York State Legislature would harm those looking for additional ways to make ends meet to stay in the city.

The state is one step closer to having ride - hailing services available before the Fourth of July, now that the state Senate has passed a bill to speed up when companies like Uber and Lyft will be allowed to operate outside of New York City.

At a rally in New York City Thursday, Ms. Hochul, a former Democratic Congresswoman from Western New York, said she and the governor are forming the new ballot line to «mobilize women and supporters all across the state» following the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on contraceptives and the failure of the New York State Legislature to pass the Women's Equality Act, according to Capital New state» following the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on contraceptives and the failure of the New York State Legislature to pass the Women's Equality Act, according to Capital New State Legislature to pass the Women's Equality Act, according to Capital New York.

These are just two examples of easily avoidable types of problems that District Leader Frank Gulluscio, who won the Democratic primary last month for the City Council seat currently held by Eric A. Ulrich, state Senator Joseph Addabbo (D - Howard Beach), and local community activist Betty Braton say could be avoided in the future if two bills currently before the New York City Council are passed.

The state Senate Independent Democratic Conference released the report as the Senate on Tuesday passed a bill to create a letter grading system for food pushcarts and trucks in New York City.

A bill that prevents all cities and towns in the state from imposing bag fees passed the Republican - led Senate on Tuesday, with 36 in favor and 22 opposed.

The City Council's general welfare committee voted unanimously to pass a resolution this morning calling on the state Assembly and Senate and Governor Andrew Cuomo to change state budget language to allow New York City to use state funds to pay for rental subsidy programs for the homeless.

«The New York City Council was proud to stand with environmental advocates, community groups, faith leaders and New Yorkers to pass legislation to make New York a more green and sustainable city and we're confident Speaker Heastie and the State Legislature shares our commitment to protecting the environment and combatting climate change,» Council spokeswoman Robin Levine sCity Council was proud to stand with environmental advocates, community groups, faith leaders and New Yorkers to pass legislation to make New York a more green and sustainable city and we're confident Speaker Heastie and the State Legislature shares our commitment to protecting the environment and combatting climate change,» Council spokeswoman Robin Levine scity and we're confident Speaker Heastie and the State Legislature shares our commitment to protecting the environment and combatting climate change,» Council spokeswoman Robin Levine said.

«The Governor even had the Chutzpah to suggest the City Council's vote for the BYOBag law was some sort of fluke and shouldn't count,» Kellner wrote, referencing a comment Cuomo made that the council vote on the bag fee bill was a close one while the legislation imposing the moratorium overwhelmingly passed the state Legislature.

Early evidence and a review of unofficial election results suggests that it largely passed over the state's cities.

The chapter also gives the reader insight into the many years of work that both Sabatino and Voorheis put into Marriage Equality, long before Marriage Equality passed in New York State, and before Sabatino was elected to the Yonkers City Council.

Gov. Cuomo says the state legislature fell down on the job by leaving town without passing an extension of mayoral control for the New York City schools, and he has not ruled out calling them back for a special session.

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The «March For Farmworker Justice» began in front of the Smithtown office of Republican State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan on Sunday, and passed through Brentwood, Bethpage, Garden City and Floral Park before heading into New York City and then up the Hudson Valley.

«At this point, the state's already passed a law authorizing Uber and Lyft and other companies to operate so there is no legislation pending before the city.»

Thursday's City Council schedule will include a meeting of the Committee on Governmental Operations for its preliminary budget oversight hearing; a meeting of the Committee on Veterans to consider a resolution «calling upon the New York State Legislature to pass and the Governor to sign S. 752, the Veterans» Education Through SUNY Credits Act»; and a meeting of the Committee on Education to consider multiple resolutions, including one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to reject any attempt to raise the cap on the number of charter schools,» one «calling upon the Department of Education to amend its Parent's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to include information about opting out of high - stakes testing and distribute this document at the beginning of every school year, to every family, in every grade,» and one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to eliminate the Governor's receivership proposal in the executive budget for New York City.»

The city's fiscal 2011 budget passed in June «faces significant risks and uncertainty» even though it is balanced, according to a report released last week by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.