Sentences with phrase «sunset clause»

According to state law, the hotel tax has a three - year sunset clause attached to it, meaning that it must be renewed by the state in fiscal year of 2018.

The two - year sunset clause he promised, whereby the legislation would die and require a further parliamentary debate, is meaningless.

I saw somewhere the mention of sunset clauses but I would imagine the idea of people drifting apart and having an amicable no fault parting would be a reasonably common outcome.

«If every marriage had a five - year sunset clause on it, I think our divorce rate would be a heck of a lot higher,» Canada's Ambassador to Washington David MacNaughton said last month.

MPs voted against the plans to introduce a 90 - day limit during a vote in the Commons earlier this month, opting instead to extend the period to 28 days, and include sunset clause in the legislation so it would have to be re-debated in a year's time.

Verheul reiterated the sticking points: the U.S. positions on autos, a proposed sunset clause, access to U.S. government procurement and the American desire to opt out of a dispute resolution chapter.

However, he was careful not to commit to making these so - called sunset clauses permanent — something Trump wants and Iran fiercely opposes.

To motivate drug manufacturers to complete these labor - intensive trials, Lo suggested, approval regulations could contain sunset clauses requiring the trials to be completed within a reasonable timeframe.

The Committee also canvasses the possibility of using sunset clauses so as to mitigate the relevant constitutional risks.

«If every marriage had a five - year sunset clause on it, I think our divorce rate would be a heck of a lot higher,» Canada's Ambassador to Washington David MacNaughton said in September in anticipation of the proposal coming up in talks.

Most of those issues made it into the final deal, with an adjustment of sunset clauses that will prevent mayoral control from being linked to tax extenders in the future.

The US's proposed sunset clause, which trade experts tell me they've never seen in a free trade agreement before, is a particularly contentious idea.

That's one of several controversial proposals from the Americans, who have also proposed creating a so - called sunset clause that could end NAFTA every five years.

Albeit too slowly, the so - called «better regulation agenda» is currently enforced by a fierce Dutch commissioner, and new rules can include sunset clauses.

Interestingly, Labour also claimed credit for the two - year sunset clause on the bill and a planned independent review of surveillance laws — two elements the Liberal Democrats had previously promoted as their own achievements.

This week U.S. negotiators party to the NAFTA talks floated the idea of a «sunset clause» that would wind down the continent - wide free - trade agreement within five years — unless the three countries involved can agree on the terms to extend it.

Trump has repeatedly criticized the deal, however, opposing terms that would allow Iran to gradually reinstate its nuclear activities (the so - called «sunset clauses») and accusing Iran of violating the terms of the agreement.

The seventh round of NAFTA talks is set to begin later this month in Mexico City with substantial differences remaining on autos, a sunset clause and an investor - dispute resolution mechanism, and U.S. demands for greater market access to Canada's protected dairy industry.

The fate of the sunset clauses has been a major sticking point in negotiations between the United States and Europe.

But this time around, the survival of the nuclear deal is no longer just about Iran's centrifuges and sunset clauses.

And they topped it off by floating the idea of a sunset clause that would render the deal void after five years.

The country's deputy chief NAFTA negotiator, Martin Moen, privately briefed stakeholders Tuesday and cited divides on a series of core issues, such as U.S. demands for a sunset clause, government procurement and agriculture, according to a summary published online by the Canadian Association of Railway Suppliers.

Critics say the deal gives too much leeway to Iran by setting time limits, called sunset clauses, on key restrictions.

Robert E. Lighthizer, the U.S. trade representative, also is seeking a new «sunset clause» that would require the treaty to be renewed every five years, a feature that business groups say would introduce excessive uncertainty in their planning.

Instead, his administration has floated the idea of a «sunset clause» that could terminate the agreement after five years, creating uncertainty and discouraging the international investment NAFTA was meant to promote.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross suggested a five - year sunset clause.

Almost half of the DCS firms in the sample have a sunset clause and a majority of independent directors.

Critics say a sunset clause would be extremely counterproductive, as it would be a grave source of uncertainty for businesses.

On a more fundamental level, the negotiations remain at an impasse over a collection of U.S. proposals dubbed «poison pills» by U.S. Chamber President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue, including the proposed sunset clause, an extreme approach to rule of origins for the auto and textile / apparel sectors, and measures that would undermine investment protection, government procurement, and trade in seasonal produce.

Canada and Mexico have pushed back hard against the sunset clause, and sometimes in rather colorful terms.

These include adding a five - year sunset clause that would require the countries to vote every five years on whether to stay in NAFTA; favoring US carmakers over Canadian and Mexican ones under standards requiring that a certain percentage of a product be made in North America; and gutting special dispute - settlement tools that Canada and Mexico consider vital to their ability to push back against punitive US border taxes.

But sunset clause or no sunset clause, it is an astonishingly vast power.

In recognition of its scope, this one has a sunset clause of Brexit day itself.

They have evolved greatly over the past two hundred years, giving companies and banks and other such entities life without a sunset clause; liability that is limited to a shared treasury; the possibility of owning other such entities; the possibility of changing location and sphere of operation; and so on.

Due to its fast - track nature, the DRIPA contained a sunset clause that made it expire on 31 December 2016.

Existing legislation will have to be renewed after May's general election because a «sunset clause» (which gives the law a limited time life span) was added to the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act last year, meaning the measures will expire in 2016.

Speaking with The Post's Fred Dicker on TALK 1300, Cuomo applauded Silver for putting the cap bill forward and said that even with the exemptions and sunset clause it will be the «tightest cap in the country, tighter than New Jersey, tighter than Massachusetts, tighter than any cap we've come across.»

Unusually the relief has a «sunset clause» applying to it which means it applies to disincorporations within the period of five years beginning on 1 April 2013 and ending on the «sunset date» of 31 March 2018.

In that regard, the government's decision a couple of years ago to abolish Control Orders and give terror suspects in the UK new freedoms to move around the country and access the internet — and to put a sunset clause on the weakened regime even if the threat level posed by the person had not changed — now looks even more reckless and irresponsible than it did at the time.

And he denied claims that the government might include a sunset clause, time - limiting these protections.

«There is no intention to have a sunset clause,» he said.

The Trump administration wants NAFTA revisions to include a «sunset clause.»

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He believes that a sunset clause is appropriate for any federal advisory body, but that such a provision doesn't mean the board will go out of business in 5 years.

The measure, pushed by the New York State United Teachers, would have a sunset clause ending it after two years.

It's a lot easier to block legislation and passed legislation because they have the sunset clause.