Sentences with phrase «voted into law»

Last Thursday, the German parliament voted into law a bill that would allow the police and other government entities to hack into encrypted messaging services like Signal and WhatsApp during certain criminal investigations.
To combat what many saw as arbitrary insurance rates, Californians voted into law Prop 103 on November 8, 1988, which called for consumer - driven regulation on insurance companies.
Charter schools, small, independent schools run with public money, were voted into law by the state Legislature in April, and the law says that people may begin to apply for charters Thursday.
Prop 65 or the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 was voted into law by a landslide (63 percent).
According to emergency responders, as a result of the local ban on synthetic drugs and bath salts, (voted into law by the Saugerties Town Board on March 29, 2012), hospitalizations resulting from overdoses caused by the use of these substances have been significantly reduced.
In a statement, Heastie, Cuomo and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos congratulated themselves for the agreement, which if fully voted into law before midnight on Tuesday will be the fifth on - time budget in Cuomo's tenure — a record not matched for decades.
Senate Republicans dropped it from negotiations for a state budget deal, which was voted into law Friday.
Gol, I inferred that you would be perfectly ok with a Christian lobby trying to get their beliefs voted into a law.
But can you HONESTLY tell me you think * anything * better will be voted into law - or even * voted on *?
The «moral majority» and ethics in our society deems it «not o.k.» and therefore turns votes into laws that make said practices illegal.
I feel pretty confident the CA Legislature will vote this into law.

Not exact matches

The House is scheduled to vote on the TCJA on Tuesday and the Senate will take up the bill immediately after, meaning President Donald Trump could sign the measure into law as early as Wednesday.
The House is expected to vote on the Obamacare bill on Thursday, the anniversary of President Barack Obama signing the Affordable Care Act into law.
It could soon find its way into law enforcement, healthcare, and even politics as a voting platform.
Almost immediately after the vote, Catalonian President Carles Puigdemont signed into local law a bill to call the referendum on October 1, 2017, according to the BBC.
«In the context of Uber and Lyft putting money into cities, this vote is pretty significant,» said Nayantara Mehta, senior staff attorney at the National Employment Law Project.
Go back and look at his voting record and the laws he has signed into action.
Rhode Island's Senate has voted 26 to 12 to allow gay couples to get married in the state, in a law that could go into effect as early as August, provided the House falls in suit.
You must not be paying attention to not only how people will be voting, but / and even more importantly the people (especially the hyper - religious) that are running for and getting voted into office are with zealotry... attempting, and in some cases passing laws that are based on their «religious beliefs.»
Also constitutionally suspect is the Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act, approved by a 408 - 3 vote in the House and signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2006.
Also, I believe that if all Americans were given a vote to decapitate either «The Religious» «atheists» or «No one» you would find a majority of voting for «No one» with «atheists» being a close second bolstered by the Christian vote who really would not mind adding blasphemy laws and turning the US into a Christian Taliban.
With this vote, President Trump will likely sign the bill into law.
How about the fact that the Mormon Church went into partnership with the Catholic Church and encouraged... «strongly» their congregations to «vote» out any piece of legislation that creates equality under the law for gay's.
JCOPE Commissioner Ravi Batra claims that the state ethics panel is not abiding by the law that created it, and he is considering legal action after JCOPE voted to set into place disclosure requirements that are effective starting July 1st of this year instead of June 1st.
Hoylman argues the bill was rapidly passed through the Legislature without public notice and then quickly signed into law by the state's governor, Pat McCrory, only 12 hours after a vote.
Clinton starts out by invoking the first bill he signed into law as president — the Family and Medical Leave Act — which Maloney not only voted for in 1993, but also has sought to expand by introducing a bill to have it cover LGBT employees and their partners.
Last week the government published its detailed proposals for introducing English Votes for English Laws (EVEL) into the House of Commons.
(there must be a mandarin's memo dealing with this) A new rule stipulating that there can be no dissolution without a (simple) majority vote in the Commons would in effect write this into law.
I am not even going into ~ 200 thousand who COULD have committed voting fraud if they were inclined to do so; again preventable by Voter ID laws.
The final vote was 238 to 183 on a bill that has now passed the House at least three times in the past three years, but never made it into law under former President Barack Obama.
The coalition set up the McKay Commission shortly after coming to office to look into the issue of English Votes for English Laws.
The bill, which cleared the Senate unanimously and the House on a vote of 141 to 8, has already been signed into law by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
While the governor can sign bills into law, only a majority vote by the public would ultimately ratify Cuomo's constitutional amendment.
The subsequent debate over English votes for English laws also tipped into English nationalist language from some Conservative MPs.
If genuinely bipartisan legislation signed into law by Republican presidents did not win over Latino voters, why would legislation receiving more Democratic than Republican votes in Congress that is signed into law by Barack Obama?
It's the first time that the so - called EVEL system (English Votes for English Laws) has been put into practice.
While the 55 % -45 % referendum vote preserved the territorial integrity of the UK, David Cameron's linkage of English Votes for English Laws to plans for further devolution to Scotland, just minutes after the announcement of the result, undoubtedly played into Scottish nationalist hands.
The governor is already running smack into a wall of opposition in the Senate, where Republicans (and at least one Democrat) don't want to hold a vote on a measure to strengthen abortion laws or allow for the public financing of political campaigns.
After electing Tony Avella twice, the district voted Dan Halloran, a law - and - order style Republican, into office in 2009.
State Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos says a bill to put into state law the abortion rights protections in the federal Roe v. Wade decision won't be voted on in the state Senate.
If party X break this agreement, Labour would lose their votes - but party X would lose all their influence, along with any chance of their policies being turned into law.
But Mrs May suffered her first defeat as PM in December 2017 when enough Tory rebels joined with opposition parties to back an amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill which puts into law the fact that any Brexit deal can only become law if MPs have voted for it.
Dashing Rudy's dreams of dominion (2001): When «America's mayor» proposed an unsanctioned third term so he could keep calming the city into 2002 — and block a Democrat from his office — Silver refuses to schedule a vote on amending term - limit laws until after the Democrats had agreed on a nominee.
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.
Is mentioning the English Votes for English Laws venturing into what both Jack Straw and Des Browne describe as dangerous territory where ferocious monsters lurk ready to destroy the Union?
Just minutes before the vote was due, justice minister Dominic Raab said the government would table its own amendment later during the bill's passage through the parliament to put into law the idea of a meaningful vote on the final deal.
By keeping state operations spending growth at 2 percent, the budget hole is closer to $ 1.8 billion.As expected, the governor tucked into the budget non-monetary initiatives, such as new sexual harassment policies, the codification of abortion rights in state law and methods for New York to participate in «early voting,» all of which he touted in his Jan. 3 State of the State address.
Any Republican who will want to join already - announced GOP supporters Roy McDonald and Jim Alessi will want to make sure he isn't viewed as the one vote that turns it into law, which could invite reprisal from conservative groups.
The «English votes for English laws» solution is attractive because of its simplicity: a single procedural change would effectively bring into being a new, but intermittently existing English parliament within the Westminster parliament; the latter would morph into the former whenever an «English bill» was being considered.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo swiftly signed New York's new sweeping anti-gun measures into law, just minutes after the Assembly finished an over four - hour long debate and voted for the bills.
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