Sentences with phrase «vote on legislation requiring»

TRENTON, NJ — Planned Parenthood Action Fund of New Jersey is celebrating that New Jersey women are one vote closer to increased access to birth control after an Assembly vote on legislation requiring insurance companies to cover costs for dispensing up to six months of contraceptives at one time.

Planned Parenthood Action Fund of New Jersey is celebrating that New Jersey women are one vote closer to increased access to birth control after an Assembly vote on legislation requiring insurance companies to cover costs for dispensing up to six months of contraceptives at one time.

She raised the ire last month of anti-police brutality activists by nixing a council vote on legislation requiring police to identify themselves via business cards in stops and notify those they search on their right to refuse.

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Top barristers warned the live export trade's days are numbered; the Australian Greens echoed this sentiment, renewing calls for the trade to be banned; Federal Labor MPs re-ignited the debate for mandatory stunning; and all parliamentarians will get the chance to make this happen when Independent MP Andrew Wilkie's legislation to require stunning for all exported animals is voted on in the coming months.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), who was the top vote getter in the Assembly on the Stop Common Core ballot line in 2014, today announced new legislation he is introducing, the «Common Core Parental Refusal Act» to require that school districts notify parents of their rights to refuse to have their children in grades 3 - 8 participate in the Common Core standardized tests.

Staten Island Congressman Dan Donovan — the only Republican representing any part of New York City in Washington, D.C. — voted «no» on the legislation as well, said that Obamacare is «failing and requires major reform» and that he will work on a replacement.

A spokesman for Stefanik told The Sun the lawmaker voted to support the legislation because the measure would «restore transparency to the process of developing stream buffer zones near mining activities and require the Secretary of the Interior to work on a comprehensive study aimed at protecting streams.»

After last week's decision by a Manhattan judge calling the city's flu vaccine requirement «invalid and unlawful» — because the Health Department initiative had not been voted on by the state legislature — Bronx Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz introduced legislation Monday to add the flu to the list of illnesses children attending state - licensed facilities are required to receive.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville), Senator Kathleen A. Marchione (R,C - Halfmoon) and Assemblyman Tony Jordan (R,C,I - Jackson) today announced new transparency legislation to protect Mt. McGregor state correctional facility in Wilton and three others that are slated for closure by requiring the state legislature to debate and vote on any prison closure plan submitted by the governor.

At 2 p.m., in response to de Blasio's «quest to tear down statues like Christopher Columbus,» Queens Councilman Eric Ulrich will announce legislation that would require a majority vote of the Council before removing statues on city property, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

The new law also requires 501 (C)(4) groups to disclose to the Attorney General any communications, whether written, broadcast or otherwise, having to do with legislation, votes on legislation, pending legislation, government action on rules, regulations or the decisions of any legislative or executive administrative body.

And that requires, again, in my view, that that person be prepared to vote with both parties from time to time, depending upon the impact of the legislation on the constituents,» said Owens.

In anticipation of this week's special election in Harlem, the IDC released a video, calling on all 32 Democrats — the number required to pass legislation — to join them in declaring their support for progressive measures like ethics and voting reform, codifying a woman's right to choose, and more.

Espinal's opposition is significant because he chairs the Council's consumer affairs committee, which has heard and voted on other legislation to regulate the industry, including a bill to require down time, annual physicals and strict work hours for the horses.

Tedisco told POLITICO he worked closely with the group in crafting his legislation, and would require all spending projects to be lined out on legislators» desks — either in a budget bill or a spending resolution — for 72 hours before they could be voted on.

This resolution proposes to amend the Constitution of Maine to require that the signatures on a petition to directly initiate legislation be of voters from each of the State's 2 congressional districts and that the number of signatures from each congressional district be not less than 10 % of the total vote for Governor cast in that congressional district in the previous gubernatorial election.

Similarly, the result of the referendum on an alternative voting system in 2011 required no change, but had it been otherwise, it was beyond doubt that change could have been achieved only by legislation passed by Parliament.

Legislation promoted by Committee for Children requiring that school districts factor in sexual abuse when planning to help students in emotional distress is on its way to Governor Jay Inslee's desk for signature following a unanimous vote of support today in the Senate.

It will no doubt face opposition from Democrats and remember that the Senate requires 60 votes to advance any legislation moving the dials on finance.