Sentences with phrase «through state legislatures»

There are literally hundreds of privacy bills wending their way through our state legislatures and there's likely more federal legislation on the way.

There are literally hundreds of privacy bills wending their way through our state legislatures.

American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has peddled laws written by corporate lobbyists through state legislatures that make it easy for its dirty energy members, such as Exxon, Koch Industries and Peabody coal, to influence how climate science is presented to students.

What hasn't been reported is the complementary role of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has peddled laws written by corporate lobbyists through state legislatures that make it easy for its dirty energy members, such as Exxon, Koch Industries and Peabody coal, to influence how climate science is presented to students.

The law will enable Missouri to join several other states that have enacted similar laws through their state legislatures.

Indiana, Kentucky and Virginia created study commissions on leadership through their state legislatures.

The so - called parent trigger process, now making its way through state legislatures nationwide, lets parents at underperforming schools organize and petition for major reforms, from firing the principal and half the staff to ceding control of the school to a charter operator.

Most school choice advocates have learned that we can make far more progress and help far more kids by working through state legislatures.

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.

Even movements to amend the Constitution move through state legislatures and Congress, so the regular voting population is only indirectly involved in the decision.

[106][107] Corzine vowed to get that plan through the state legislature by March, but held off for nearly a month before releasing the details.

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.

Chautauqua County Sheriff Joe Gerace told YNN Jamestown's Mark Goshgarian that the legislation was «ramrodded» through the state legislature.

He is hoping to get congestion pricing through the State legislature and if the IDC isn't working with Republicans to make that happen, he may have a problem.

He announced the state will create a new website for students to lobby their state and national electeds on gun control, and also touted a bill working its way through the state legislature that would ban bump stocks — devices that allow semi-automatic rifles to fire at rates comparable to automatic rifles.

He and the mayor singled out state Sen. Andrew Lanza (R - Staten Island) for helping to guide the bill through Albany, and Ignizio praised the bi-partisan effort behind the legislation - which passed through the state legislature in a prompt 23 days once it had been introduced, a timeframe de Blasio declared «pretty damn good.»

This change had to go through the state legislature, but it wasn't such a smooth transition.

In any case, the pieces are there so that, with enough effort, Gov. Andrew Cuomo could push congestion pricing through the state legislature.

In 2010, he conspired with New York State Assemblyman George Latimer in a cowardly attempt to sneak a bill through the state legislature late one Friday night that would have allowed Bramson to level the Armory the following week.

Cuomo, who used his executive powers through a wage board to phase in a $ 15 an hour rate for fast food workers, says next he wants to try to get a similar increase through the state legislature next year.

When Cahill made his willingness to move sales - tax legislation through the state legislature, a transfer of almost $ 5 million a year, conditional on county safety - net takeover and elections expenses from the towns, his critics accused him of hubris, just short of abuse of office.

When Cahill made his willingness to move sales tax legislation through the state legislature, a transfer of almost $ 5 million a year, conditional on county Safety Net takeover and elections expenses from the towns, his critics accused him of hubris, just short of abuse of office.

The center, a collaboration between the 15,000 - student Coweta County school district and West Central Technical College in Carrollton, Ga., is one example of what Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes wanted to accomplish with the A-Plus Education Reform Act he pushed through the state legislature this year.

Corbett, a Republican who rode the Tea Party election wave in 2010, supports a major voucher expansion that is working its way through the state legislature.

First, voucher advocates should avoid statewide ballot initiatives and instead work through the state legislature.

The California Charter School Association is attempting to lobby a new bill through the state legislature that would require school districts to approve charter zoning exemptions, even if the charter school was a danger to the environment or surrounding community.

Ferebee worked this year with Ballard's deputy mayor of education, Jason Kloth, to push House Bill 1321 through the state legislature.

Indeed, there are a few things we still don't know about the candidates» education positions, including where they stand on the controversial No Child Left Behind «waiver» that LAUSD is trying to get from Washington, whether they support SB 441, the teacher dismissal bill going through the state legislature, and — perhaps most important — which candidate they support for the District 6 School Board runoff.

There is also a likelihood that the Republican push for privatization could pass through the state legislature, as there is a two - thirds GOP majority in the state Senate and a 63 - 47 majority in the state House of Representatives.

At company D, the legal department was a lapdog to the management, but we drove a bill through the state legislature to modernize the state's life insurance investment code.

July 2017: On the 40 - year anniversary of the opening of the Trans - Alaska Pipeline, California Gov. Jerry Brown introduces and steamrolls an oil industry cribbed cap - and - trade program reauthorization deal through the state legislature.

Raleigh law firm Wilson Law, PA tracked the progress of a bill to lift North Carolina's fracking moratorium through the state legislature.

Not the least of which is because Michigan has a little bit of a different process, and so our rule actually had to go through the state legislature.

One offshoot of the Scruggs scandal is a bill making its way through the state legislature that would require the state to go through a public bidding process before contracting with a private law firm.

A bill working its way through the state legislature would create a state - funded program to help new mothers in the first few months and years after the birth of their children.

Not exact matches

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.

In Massachusetts, Tesla simply opened for business without going through the legislature and then fended off a legal battle brought by the Massachusetts State Automobile Dealers Association.

Indeed, in every «Blaine» state in which the legislature attempts school choice reform through statute, lawyers will have to persuade their state supreme court to interpret these old provisions in a manner that respects the legislative and popular will.

Arizona, California and Florida have passed similar measures through ballot initiatives, and Maine, Colorado and Oregon have passed related laws in their state legislatures.

Laws concerning concussions in youth sports have passed during 2011 in five states — South Dakota, Iowa, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah — and bills are working their way through legislatures in other states, according to the National Athletic Trainers» Association, which backs the bills and is tracking them.

Although the number of registered Democratic voters in NY State is more than double the number of Republicans registered, the state legislature, through gerrymandering, «fake Democrats» and backroom politics has remained under Republican conState is more than double the number of Republicans registered, the state legislature, through gerrymandering, «fake Democrats» and backroom politics has remained under Republican constate legislature, through gerrymandering, «fake Democrats» and backroom politics has remained under Republican control.

So, Congress and the state legislatures pushed through a hasty rule patch in time for the 1804 election, to prevent this scenario from happening again.

Democratic legislators have fled the state in order to prevent the Republican legislature from pushing through Walker's anti-worker proposals.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, frustrated by what he says is the failure of the legislature to agree to a reform package, says he'll follow through with a threat to investigate the legislature, using special powers given to him under the state's Moreland Act.

One year after state lawmakers, urged on by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, passed one of the nation's most restrictive gun laws, impacts from the NY SAFE Act continue to reverberate through the state's courts, legislature, law enforcement and shooting sports community.

The governor and legislature have sought over the past five years to compensate for limits on local property taxation through expansion of state financial aid to schools.

Term limits would have to pass through both houses in the state legislature in two successive legislative cycles, meaning it could be placed on an election year ballot as early as 2019.

Ryan McMahon, legislature chairman, said he expects state officials to come through with a grant for the renovations.

These ballot propositions have been voted on by two consecutively elected state legislatures, so they started several years ago, they've wound their way through, and now they're before voters.

While he doesn't expect the state legislature to pass a bill granting undocumented immigrants the ability to get New York driver's licenses, he does believe the governor might move the policy forward through executive order.