I doubt that they are any more accurate than other printing operations, and even today we find errors in
official versions of legislation, where scrutiny and process are presumably most tightly controlled.
Fortunately a number of electronic services offer point - in -
time versions of legislation, although few of these services go back more than ten years.
It includes judicial consideration of legislation through successive revisions, enabling researchers to check for judicial consideration of
earlier versions of the legislation.
I was recently reminded of this when I heard the opinion that the
official versions of legislation should no longer be published in annual volumes with amendments and periodic revisions as they are now.
Cuomo unveiled a revised
version of the legislation on Tuesday, which would provide $ 150 million in tax credits annually for donations that benefit public and private schools, and encourage low - income students to attend either a private school or a public school in another district.
But the groups and many members of the House switched sides when leaders proposed a vote on a Senate -
passed version of the legislation that uses future funding for food stamp programs to pay for part of the $ 4.5 billion cost.
The original (as enacted) and
revised versions of legislation on Legislation.gov.uk are published by and under the authority of the Controller of HMSO (in her capacity as The Queen's Printer of Acts of Parliament, and Government Printer of Northern Ireland) and the Queen's Printer for Scotland.
The legislative sponsors of a measure designed to provide for end - of - life medication for the terminally ill have combined
competing versions of the legislation into one bill, Sen. Diane Savino on Monday said at a news conference.
He says many of their objections and those of the White House have been addressed in a
new version of the legislation that the committee approved earlier this month.
The
House version of this legislation relied primarily on a new restriction on an estate planning device (grantor retained annuity trusts, or GRATs) to replace the revenue lost as a result of various tax breaks being provided to small businesses.
It also includes $ 15 million for more translations of judgments rendered by the three highest courts in Quebec, $ 500,000 to hire legalists who can write and revise the
English versions of legislation (the current quality of which the Barreau committee said «leaves much to be desired») and $ 52 million in tax credits or deductions for legal fees in family law cases and cases involving hidden defects.
The Senate has been grappling for weeks with healthcare overhaul, running through different
versions of legislation before settling on the more modest attempt with the aim of moving to a conference with the House of Representatives.
Savino also criticized the mainline Senate Democrats and their leader, Andrea Stewart - Cousins, for pushing their own
version of legislation rather than negotiate with Republicans.
The statement suggests the Senate continues to back their own, more
expansive version of the legislation after the Democratic - led Assembly on Thursday night backed first passage of a different amendment, 132 - 0.
The ad comes as Cuomo has introduced a
revamped version of the legislation that is aimed at bolstering donations to public schools as well as private - school scholarship programs.
The clash was on stark display in March when Gallo and Hoffay, unbeknownst to one another, submitted to the council
separate versions of legislation to tighten up the city's ethics rules.
Earlier this year, Democratic assemblyman James Brennan and Republican senator Martin Golden, both sponsors of the original bill, introduced a
broader version of the legislation and have begun a renewed lobbying effort for the measure.
Some victim's advocates viewed Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Programs such as the one in Buffalo as further efforts by bishops to thwart the Child Victims Act, the
latest version of legislation aimed at expanding the statute of limitations and establishing a look - back window for child sex abuse cases.
The House's
version of the legislation moving through the Senate would also require HUD to continue insuring loans made with seller - funded down - payment assistance.
The American Legislative Exchange Council, a corporate - funded group of mostly Republican Party state legislators, has a REINS Act model resolution on the books, which supports the
federal version of this legislation.
These are great tools, and given that lawyers need to ply between the two
versions of legislation much of the time, they should be links on everyone's bookmarks bar.
The material includes the consolidated statutes and regulations for Quebec,
historic versions of legislation and regulations, the Table of Amendments to Statutes and the Table of Amendments to Regulations.