Sentences with phrase «vote requirements for»

Replacing the super majority vote requirements for variances and special permits with a simple majority standard.

These governance policies include the annual election of all Board members and a majority voting requirement for the election of directors.

In the Senate, the Majority Leader can call for a cloture vote — that's essentially what the sixty vote requirement for ending a filibuster is.

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On the agenda are proposals by new Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi to change requirements for board seats and to overhaul the shareholder voting structure.

Google partnered with law firm Perkins Coie to get the information for the new in - depth search tool, which lets users sort by state for info on ID requirements, deadlines, mail - in ballots, and early voting.

In its recent proposed initial public offering (IPO), Carlyle will have no requirements for an independent board, virtually no voting rights for owners, and no ability for owners to sue.

Whether «voters» should have direct control over something as technical (and sometimes emotional) as executive compensation is far from clear, which is why most say - on - pay requirements today call only for advisory votes.

Justice Anthony Kennedy was the deciding vote in throwing out A) a requirement that police try to determine the immigration status of people they stop under suspicion of even minor crimes; B) a law that made it a crime for an illegal immigrant to seek employment; and C) a law that let police arrest a person without a warrant if they believed the person may have committed a crime that could lead to deportation.

If you hold your shares in street name, it is critical that you cast your vote if you want it to count in the election of directors, the vote to approve the amendment to our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the vote to approve the amendment and restatement of our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, the advisory vote to approve named executive officer compensation, and the stockholder proposals requesting: (i) the elimination of supermajority voting requirements, (ii) the adoption of a policy to consider employee pay ranges when setting CEO compensation, and (iii) a report on Salesforce's criteria for investing in, operating in and withdrawing from high - risk regions (Proposals 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 in this Proxy Statement).

To help entice a second Amazon headquarters to Maryland, a state board has voted to waive a 12 - month residency requirement to qualify for in - state tuition for any Amazon employees who move to the state, if a new headquarters is established.

July 14, 2015 — CCGG's Executive Director Stephen Erlichman was quoted in The Globe and Mail about a legal panel's recommendations to amend the Ontario Business Corporations Act to require majority voting for uncontested director elections and to remove Canadian residency requirements for directors.

The rules around an existing requirement for shareholders to vote on executive pay will also be tightened.

If valid, this explanation would suggest that it would be a good idea for any legislation on board leadership to (a) limit any mandate to the largest firms and (b) permit even those firms to «opt out» of the requirement through periodic shareholder votes (e.g., once every five years).

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The bill proposes to implement a requirement of majority voting for all public companies incorporated under the Canada Business Corporations Act.

The bill proposes to implement a requirement of majority voting for all public companies incorporated under the...

Any changes in requirements for insurance companies, which are likely to be an important element of any replacement legislation, could not likely be passed under reconciliation without 60 votes to waive the Byrd rule.

Religion is something that appeals to the masses and sadly, in our country, it's always been a requirement for votes.

It implies the rejection of civil rights for blacks, votes for women, the abolition of slavery, the abolition of property requirements for voting; it implies the rejection of the whole historical march against arbitrary difference and power.

I would have voted for Osama Bin Laden for president if he had renounced Islam, apologized, and said that the world would be a better place without religion (provided of course that he could meet necessary citizenship requirements... oh, and if he weren't dead).

Republicans proposed Wednesday to amend the bill, including a requirement for background checks for certain child - care providers, and thereby force another vote in the Senate that would jeopardize the bill's chances of becoming law.

Thus, elections, while one way of implementing democracy - aimed ideas, are not a requirement at all (for example, you could simply make every citizen vote on every political decision directly).

A key requirement of democracy is equal protection of all stakeholders - i.e., if at some point there is a completely fair vote of 2/3 population preferring the choices advocated and implemented by party A; and 1/3 preferring the choices of party B - then a system must ensure that the minority gets adequate protections and fair treatment; so that while at this moment country gets steered to choice A, the minority doesn't get punished in any way for saying that in their opinion choice B might be best; and if some of the original voters change their mind, the choice B can still be known even if the governing clique that was elected on the idea of A wants to continue with A forever.

It is not clear yet whether the Joint Committee will recommend some form of requirement to express a certain number of preferences, though given their advocacy for open preferential voting it would not be surprising if they did.

Similarly to a trusted justice system, other requirements that are commonly present in «one person, one vote» systems are based around trusted institutions, for example excluding mentally unstable citizens from voting would require that the population generally and overwhelmingly trust the society's health system.

Later backbench revolts, not due to Tyne & Wear or Merseyside, added the requirements, first for a referendum on the Assemblies, then for a threshold for a «Yes» vote to become effective.

released on Wednesday, Cuomo outlined an ethics and voting reform agenda nearly identical to last year's, with the addition of an election cyber security and reporting requirement for online political advertising.

A party meets the requirements for ballot access if a candidate nominated by the political party at one of the two immediately preceding statewide general elections received at least 5 percent of the vote, or if a combination of candidates nominated by the political party for a combination of districts that encompass all of the voters of the entire state polled at least 5 percent of the vote in each of their respective districts.

Year in and year out, state lawmakers vote to impose new coverage requirements for health plans sold in New York State.

In the State of the State policy book released on Wednesday, Cuomo outlined an ethics and voting reform agenda nearly identical to last year's, with the addition of an election cyber security and reporting requirement for online political advertising.

Three days after that vote — the day of President Donald Trump's inauguration and the eve a major women's march in Washington — Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that the state Department of Financial Services would impose similar contraceptive requirements by regulatory action, along with a ban on copayments for abortions.

If someone fills in both the D and WF ovals for Cuomo, it won't count towards our 50,000 vote requirement.

«Although the government principally advanced a theory that Dean Skelos's arrangement for or participation in certain meeting constituted circumstantial evidence of a quid pro quo for legislative votes, it also argued in the alternative that the meetings themselves satisfied the official - act requirement,» the panel wrote in their decision.

This requirement for positive consent is a change: trade unionists were previously automatically entitled to vote in Labour leadership elections.

Malliotakis voted for the SAFE Act, proposed by Governor Andrew Cuomo in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook school killings, which implemented some restrictions and registration requirements on assault - style rifles and limited magazine capacity.

We will also make individual registration a requirement for anyone wishing to cast a postal or proxy vote.»

Peers voted for the second time to introduce a new requirement for voters to sign for their ballot papers last night, setting up another clash with the House of Commons.

Now, what happens if you add a very reasonable requirement to your voting system, for example unanimity?

But Maffei's attorney, Frank Hoare, argued that Kane meets all the legal requirements for registering to vote in New York: He's a US citizen of at least 18 years of age and has resided at his current address in Syracuse for at least 30 days.

And former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg urged MPs to «find the nerve» and ensure the requirement for a Parliamentary vote remained in the bill.

On April 26, 2018, the Oklahoma House of Representatives voted 77 - 3 to approve SB 350, which established new requirements for political parties to retain recognized status.

These include Amendment 1, an expansion of the homestead property - tax exemption, and Amendment 3, a requirement for two - thirds votes by future legislatures when raising taxes or fees.

On May 12, 2015, Governor Mary Fallin (R) signed into law a bill that reduced the petition signature requirement for newly - qualifying political parties to 3 percent of the total number of votes cast for governor in the last general election.

James further raised concerns about the party's requirement that campaigns pay for the email addresses for the 1,927 convention delegates who will vote on the endorsement for governor, as well as what she said was the lack of diversity among the rules committee members in attendance at Saturday's meeting.

It also lowers the petition signature requirements for unaffiliated statewide candidates from 2 percent to 0.25 percent of the votes cast in the last gubernatorial or presidential race.

Although the GOP - controlled House is likely to pass the more - stringent work requirement for SNAP, the bill faces a steeper climb in the Senate where Republicans hold only a one - vote majority.

City Council Member Gale Brewer, participating in her last meeting of the Technology Committee, which she previously chaired, before taking on her new role as Manhattan Borough President, said she was skeptical of Internet voting, noting that the potential requirement of I.D. cards was problematic given the Voter I.D. debates, but emphasized her support for improving reporting of election results and encouraging voter registration through other agencies.

The Speaker can not vote in a division in the House unless the numbers are equal, and then he or she has a casting vote.146 The provision for a casting vote also applies to Members deputising for or acting in the position of Speaker (that is, Deputy Speaker or Second Deputy Speaker, or another Member as Acting Speaker).147 The provision for a casting vote does not apply to members of the Speaker's panel in the Chair, unless specifically appointed by resolution of the House as Acting Speaker, as it has been considered that the standing orders providing for the nomination and duties of the members of the Speaker's panel do not fulfil the requirements of s. 36 of the Constitution, which refers to the House choosing a Member to perform the duties of an absent Speaker.148

Better than public campaign financing would be requirement for voting.

Here's Sen. John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican, explaining his bill that would essentially do away with the last in, first out requirement for firing public school teachers approved by the Senate Education Committee this morning and could come up for a vote by the full Senate this afternoon.