Sentences with phrase «to pass the amendment»

Both chambers need to pass the amendment in two subsequent sessions.

In 2013, the state legislature passed an amendment to allow casino gambling and voters approved it.

The PCs might also pass an amendment prohibiting interim leaders from running.

What possible justification could there be for not passing this amendment?

There are people who supported passing the amendment who then didn't win the competition.

The board passed an amendment to an ordinance that would allow wine and beer to be sold at gas stations in the village.

I might add that, if a restriction of rights is in the constitution, congress can always pass an amendment.

As part of the Farm Bill (S. 3240), the Senate passed an amendment by Senators Nelson (D - NE) and Johanns (R - NE) that will grandfather communities currently eligible for rural housing programs, and increase the population threshold for those communities to 35,000.

The Ontario legislature recently passed an amendment to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act that repeals the exception to allow for compensation for chronic mental stress.

On January 3rd 2014, the Legislative Yuan passed the amendment of the Patent Act, in which four new articles addressing «patent border protective measures» were added.

Back in 2004, Congress passed an amendment offered by the late Sen. Robert Byrd, D - W.

John Madden (Shakespeare In Love) is directing the film, which will see Chastain playing «a powerful lobbyist who sacrifices her career on Federal Hill in order to successfully pass an amendment enforcing -LSB-...]

If voters pass the amendment, beginning in 2016 - 17 an appointed superintendent, accountable to the Governor, could select up to 20 schools each year to become part of a state - run Opportunity School District (OSD).

On Thursday, the House overwhelmingly passed an amendment to the Senate budget prohibiting any state funds to be spent on a «school choice» program.

On 9 January 2018, the Singapore Parliament passed amendments relating to the Singapore International Commercial Court («SICC»).

The House is expected to vote Thursday to completely eliminate funding for the National Family Planning Program (Title X), as well as pass an amendment from Rep. Mike Pence (R - Ind.)

Legislators passed an amendment introduced by majority leader Steve Tucciarello that freezes the Sheriff's pay at its current level.

If the House passes the amendment at least 16 park districts, including Joliet's, will have the opportunity to levy taxes up to the amount of their 1991 debt.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America applauds the Senate Armed Services Committee for passing an amendment offered by Senator Roland Burris (D - IL) to the National Defense Authorization Act that would repeal the ban on privately funded abortion care for servicewomen.

-LSB-...] There's little doubt he has to listen to his membership, which during conference passed amendments put forward by Social Liberal Forum to key economic motions.

By helping pass this amendment, you will help make Adirondack and Catskill communities safer for residents and visitors for generations, while protecting the spectacular Forest Preserves that make our regions such special places to live and play!

John Madden (Shakespeare In Love) is directing the film, which will see Chastain playing «a powerful lobbyist who sacrifices her career on Federal Hill in order to successfully pass an amendment enforcing stricter gun control laws.»

Additionally, Tennessee voters just passed an amendment to the state's constitution that prohibits the state from levying a payroll or personal income tax in the future.

Earlier this month, the Delaware House of Representatives passed amendments to state law that would make it explicitly legal for stocks to be traded on a blockchain, the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ether.

Happily, the Lords passed the amendment, by 95 - 21 on a free vote.

Walsenburg, Colorado passed amendments to the 2015 IRC to be more tiny house friendly for homes on foundations.

The committee passed an amendment to give $ 10m to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, an organisation Donald Trump wants to cut off

On April 4, the Senate of Canada passed an amendment to Bill C - 6, creating a right to a Federal Court hearing for Canadian citizens who are alleged to have misrepresented themselves in their original citizenship application.

As reported last month in Globes, an Israeli financial newspaper, the Israeli Knesset passed an amendment to -LSB-...]

After the majority of TSX firms voluntarily agreed to various forms of majority voting, the TSX passed amendments so that remaining firms would adopt a form of majority voting and set some minimum conditions.

If they made 2 plates, one pro life and one pro choice, this wouldn't have been an issue, You can have your Choose Life plates here in NC as soon as North Carolina lawmakers pass an amendment that creates a pro-choice alternative

Delegates to the conference also passed amendments calling for a ban on «Mosquito alarms» which play an unpleasant noise only audible to teenagers, designed to stop them congregating in certain areas.

In 2000, Mugabe passed an amendment to the constitution that made Britain pay reparations for the land it had seized from blacks.

It realised it would upset religious groups more with the double - blow of the equality bill and the children, schools and families bill than it would upset equality activists by passing the amendment today.

Even following the school shooting in Newtown, the Senate failed to pass an amendment mandating universal background checks on sales of firearms.

Republicans who control the state Senate have hounded the Assembly and its speaker, Carl Heastie, balking at the agreement and instead passing an amendment that would define, in the constitution, what a «public official» is.

The Kwara State House of Assembly on Tuesday passed an amendment bill seeking the suspension of the payment of pensions to former governors, deputy governors and...

The last time New York actually passed amendments proposed by the constitutional convention was 1938 when they voted for six of nine sets of amendments (there were actually 57 amendments but they were organized in nine different questions).

The Legislature passed an amendment to HCRA that granted the leaders of each house the ability to spend up to $ 8.5 million on discretionary grants, none of which had to be disclosed or explained or go through a review process in the state's budget.

Just as a refresher, the legislature would have to pass that amendment before the end of next year, and then pass it again in 2013 in order for it to be put on the ballot in 2013, when voters would decide if it can go forward.

Russia tried to pass an amendment excluding the vice-president's role, but it was overruled, as were several other efforts.

When asked whether they «support or oppose passing an amendment to the state constitution to allow non-Indian, Las Vegas style casinos to be built in New York,» voters are evenly divided, 46 - 46 percent, according to a new Siena College Poll of New York voters.

Syracuse's Common Council on Wednesday passed an amendment to the city's rental registry that will require certain landlords, including some in the University Hill neighborhood, to allow interior inspections.

He stated, «Despite all the noise you heard last week, we still passed an amendment to the INEC law that had been there for over six or seven years.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to pass an amendment enshrining the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 abortion decision Roe v. Wade into the state's constitution is not gaining much traction in the state Senate.