Sentences with phrase «support in the state legislature»

The Child Victims Act has also bipartisan support in the state legislature.

There's been growing support in the state legislature to reverse the controversial policy that would eventually have led to the test results being used to measure teacher performance.

Cuomo, surrounded by several county executives from across the state, promoted his plan, which is not supported in the state legislature.

There's growing support in the state legislature to address controversial aspects of the state's Common Core learning standards and related testing.

It's an appealing proposition, and one that has attracted support in state legislatures, including Virginia's.

Student loan refinancing, viewed by many as the predominant solution to the default rate, still lacks support in some state legislatures and the federal government.

Not exact matches

To what extent governments and ratepayers should support rooftop solar is a matter of debate in several state legislatures and utility commissions.

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.

She has testified before state and local legislatures in support of numerous policies.

Smart use of email fundraising from the Daily Kos activism list today: they sent out a message this afternoon asking activists to support last - minute Get Out The Vote work on behalf of three separate several Democrats running for state legislature in Virginia.

With a divided legislature in 2017, some of the most controversial proposals did not get passed despite the majority leaders supporting them including legalizing marijuana and installing tolls on state highways.

The programme helping America's poorest citizens, Medicaid, will be delegated to the states in block grants, whose GOP controlled legislatures will have discretion to determine eligibility and level of support.

I expect to be at the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award ceremony seeing three Democratic Connecticut state senators receive plaudits for breaking ranks with their party on Sept. 15 to support the Republican budget proposal passed by the legislature.

Antonacci opposes the first and third propositions, the redistricting commission and school bond issue, but supports the second proposition allowing electronic bills in place of paper bills in the state legislature.

Thanks to Governor Cuomo and my colleagues in the legislature, the hemp industry will prosper and support economic success for farmers, researchers, and local businesses throughout the state.»

Reform groups including Citizen Action New York gathered in Albany on Monday to protest the outsized influence of the natural gas industry on the state legislature's approach to hydrofracking, noting that the industry has contributed more than $ 1.3 million to state legislators in an effort to buy support for the controversial practice.

NationBuilder co-founder Joe Green says that the company is having productive conversations about those features with Democrats in other types of organizations, like the caucus committees that seek to achieve majorities in state legislatures by bringing in support for key candidates.

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They are aligned with an organization called the Committee to Save New York (CSNY) in pushing local officials to call on the state legislature to support Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposed Tier VI Pension reform plan.

«There is motion now in Republican - controlled legislatures to support an amendment,» said Jonah Minkoff - Zern, co-director of the Democracy Is For People campaign at Public Citizen, a nonprofit group that led a coalition of advocates calling on state lawmakers to support an amendment.

Hawkins supports raising the state minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, indexed to increases in worker productivity, and would crack down on the epidemic of wage theft in the state Gov. Andrew Cuomo has refused more than a year to convene a minimum wage board to provide a wage hike to tip workers despite this being part of the wage agreement last year with the legislature.

His overall message on our state's finances strikes the right tone at the right time and I look forward to working with my colleagues in the legislature to help support that vision and bring New York state back from the brink.»

[3] Brewer announced her support for Medicaid expansion in Arizona in 2013, and by June of that year the legislature had passed a bill expanding Medicaid in the state.

The Brennan Center supports early voting as a crucial way to help more New Yorkers exercise their right to vote, and urges the New York State legislature to include early voting in the state budget,» said Joanna Zdanys, Counsel for the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for JusState legislature to include early voting in the state budget,» said Joanna Zdanys, Counsel for the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Jusstate budget,» said Joanna Zdanys, Counsel for the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice.

The final legislation, which is supported by the New York State AFL - CIO, was passed by the state legislature in State AFL - CIO, was passed by the state legislature in state legislature in June.

Each expressed support for small businesses, and promised bipartisan cooperation in the state legislature

The CVA bill has been introduced in the state legislature each of the last 12 years and passed the Assembly in 2017 with overwhelming bi-partisan support.

There is a bill in the legislature that would require the state to divest from companies that produce fossil fuels, but it has not gained support among both majority conferences.

Crespo explained that members of the state legislature would draft a letter for New York lawmakers based in Washington, D.C. to sign, reiterating the pardon request, and would use social media to gain support from elected officials from across the country.

With Ruben Diaz apparently sticking to his threat to withhold support for the emergency spending bills that have been keeping the government in operation for the past two months while the legislature tries to craft an annual budget (Pedro Espada has seemingly backed down), the state is preparing for the possibility of its first - ever government shutdown.

Marcy Suárez, 20, of Brentwood, right, joins other immigrant advocates at a news conference at Touro Law School in Central Islip on Wednesday, March 9, 2016, to call on Republicans in the state legislature to support the Dream Act in the state's budget.

«To end the false empowerment of the Republican Party in our state legislature, we have to target what this group of Senators cares about most: the support of Democratic registrants who vote in local primaries,» an outline of the proposal says.

Yet, the de Blasio administration recently filed court briefs supporting the developers in a lawsuit over the transfer of city parkland — the parking lot where the mall is planned — without approval from the state legislature.

Offering a history of broadband initiatives in Ulster County this past week, county Comptroller Elliott Auerbach noted a 2012 resolution supporting applications to the Connect NY Broadband Grant for broadband service to the towns of Denning, Wawarsing, Hardenburgh, and Rochester; a 2014 State of the County address request from County Executive Mike Hein to the Ulster County Legislature to set policy on «some important issues still facing Ulster County including Broadband expansion and improving internet access for county residents»; a request from the legislature later that same year «that the county executive develop a plan... and the plan should include a one year, two year and five year plus proposal for broadband expansion»; and resolutions and letters directed to the state Public Service Commission this year directing Verizon to provide high speed fiber optic internet across Ulster CoState of the County address request from County Executive Mike Hein to the Ulster County Legislature to set policy on «some important issues still facing Ulster County including Broadband expansion and improving internet access for county residents»; a request from the legislature later that same year «that the county executive develop a plan... and the plan should include a one year, two year and five year plus proposal for broadband expansion»; and resolutions and letters directed to the state Public Service Commission this year directing Verizon to provide high speed fiber optic internet across Ulster Costate Public Service Commission this year directing Verizon to provide high speed fiber optic internet across Ulster County.

Riding the strong base of Dominican support that finally helped Espaillat to likely become the first Dominican born representative in Congress, he was able to add two Dominican women to the state legislature and start to solidify his power in the district.

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.

I am very confident that this time round, two - thirds majority of state assemblies will vote in support of financial autonomy for state legislatures.

Samuel Radford of the District Parent Coordinating Council joined Superintendent Pamela Brown and others in urging the state legislature to support Cuomo's plan to invest $ 1.5 billion over five years to implement full - day, universal pre-K.

The project's developer, Rochester's Tom Wilmot, sought the statement of support from the legislature to improve his odds of getting state licenses to operate a harness raceway and video lottery terminals at the former Hancock Air Force Base off East Taft Road in Cicero.

But since reform can only be accomplished in Albany - IDAs derive power from state law - the Poloncarz administration has relied heavily on Ryan to wrangle support in the legislature.

Sally Mason, president of the University of Iowa, pointed to state legislatures cutting support to higher education in an attempt to balance state budgets.

As well, a resolution supporting home schooling was quickly introduced in the state legislature.

In 2010, the state legislature passed the Great Teachers and Leaders Act, which, unlike North Carolina's measure, had bipartisan support.

In CFE v. New York, another state with a spare education clause, Judge De Grasse without apology explained that in education litigation courts «are called on to give content to Education Clauses that are composed of terse generalities,» which in New York's case is «The legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free common schools, wherein all the children of this state may be educated.&raquIn CFE v. New York, another state with a spare education clause, Judge De Grasse without apology explained that in education litigation courts «are called on to give content to Education Clauses that are composed of terse generalities,» which in New York's case is «The legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free common schools, wherein all the children of this state may be educated.&raquin education litigation courts «are called on to give content to Education Clauses that are composed of terse generalities,» which in New York's case is «The legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free common schools, wherein all the children of this state may be educated.&raquin New York's case is «The legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free common schools, wherein all the children of this state may be educated.»

The state, citing past supreme court decisions in support of its position, asserts that the FRS is entirely prospective and must allow for modification of future benefits by the legislature.

Democrats in the Wisconsin legislature frustrated the governor for several years, but Thompson enlisted the aid of Annette «Polly» Williams, a black state legislator who pulled together enough bipartisan support to get a very small program off the ground.

It's putting enormous pressure on governors and legislatures in Red states to retreat from their support of the Core, including Jindal, and «there will probably be others before this is over,» he adds.

In April 2013, she announced that she would register hundreds of thousands of new voters and run candidates for city council and the state legislature who supported the schools against those who didn't.

In Louisiana, where Gov. Bobby Jindal wants the state legislature to drop the Common Core state standards in its upcoming legislative session, a survey finds high support for «generic» academic standards but lower support for the Common Core standardIn Louisiana, where Gov. Bobby Jindal wants the state legislature to drop the Common Core state standards in its upcoming legislative session, a survey finds high support for «generic» academic standards but lower support for the Common Core standardin its upcoming legislative session, a survey finds high support for «generic» academic standards but lower support for the Common Core standards.

(As proof of the vicissitudes of the judicial enterprise, the actual article in the state constitution that formed the basis of this conclusion, and the Herculean struggles surrounding the CFE suit, contain these 26 words: «The legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free common schools, wherein all the children of this state may be educated.»)