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Local officials behind the proposed Southern York County Regional Development Authority will meet next week to determine how to move forward now that the concept has failed to advance in the Legislature.
In January, Sen. Peter Bowman, D-York, who had sponsored a bill, withdrew his support after hearing concerns from residents about a lack of public participation in the process of drafting the legislation. A legislative committee subsequently recommended that the measure be rejected.
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... Manuals impose order on the drafting process through a shared language and style. The manuals s...
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...Pp. 520-522. (b) Title IX's legislative history corroborates the conclusion that employmen... VI, and that 1004 "got in through a drafting error"). As the Court of Appeals observed, however... at a very late stage in the legislative process. C . In concluding that the legislative history ...
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A special House-Senate committee endorsed proposed rules Wednesday for drilling in West Virginia's part of the Marcellus shale natural gas reserve, following a months-long drafting process, but a top aide to Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin's office says the bill is not ready for special session consideration.
Chief of Staff Rob Alsop said Tomblin and his staff will meet over the next few weeks with legislative leaders and key players in the Marcellus debate to "to see what they're comfortable with, and see what we're comfortable with.
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...[Secretary's Order 11-2006]. Legislative Clearance Process; Drafting Legislative Proposals....
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The recently announced debt-limit deal is far from perfect. However, it will reduce spending and does represent a step forward. No such progress would have been possible but for the Americans who rose up in the last election and kicked so many big spenders out of office.
But in order to restore fiscal discipline in Washington, balance our budget and free this country from a growing mountain of debt, much more work is needed - work that will require the vigorous participation of the entire Senate and the public we serve.
... the long, hard, but necessary task of drafting, amending and debating proposals through a public legislative process. Sen. Robert C. Byrd used to say that the ...
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..., the UAE looked towards Egypt for the drafting of its major codes. Egyptian legal experts thus heeavily influenced the legislative process in the UAE, and even today, many years aft...
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The health care bill that President Obama signed last week bears little resemblance to the reform package he once touted from the campaign trail.
With the final legislative product in hand, it's worth evaluating how it compares to the promises Mr. Obama made to voters regarding the plan's cost, its features and the reform process itself. The difference between then and now couldn't be more stark.
... promised transparency in the legislative drafting process also has disappeared despite the pledge, "...
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... level of documentation and information processing, storage, and retrieval. The information intensive...Whether in drafting agreements for clients, or legislative drafting or...
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... would provide participants in the legislative process, along with ordinary Americans, an opportu... conference committee, and proposes some drafting reforms that could make it easier for legislators ...