As of May 2012 a private member's bill was before the House of Lords which would grant Turing a statutory pardon if enacted.

In 1946, Philéas Côté, a Quebec member of the House of Commons, introduced a private member's bill to rename Dominion Day as Canada Day.

The holiday was officially renamed as a result of a private member's bill that was introduced in the House of Commons when only twelve Members of Parliament were present.

Sometimes a private member's bill may also have private bill aspects, in such case the proposed legislation is called a hybrid bill.

* July 17 – Voting in federal elections becomes compulsory in Australia, after a private member's bill proposed by Tasmanian Nationalist senator Herbert Payne results in the passing of the Commonwealth Electoral ( Compulsory Voting ) Act 1924.

May continues to sit as a Member of Parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands and has exerted a considerable amount of legislative influence on a number of issues ranging from denying unanimous consent for military intervention in Libya, playing a central role in exposing changes to environmental legislation hidden in the omnibus Budget Bill C-38, to introducing a private member's bill to develop a national strategy on Lyme disease.

Such reforms were mostly via private member's bills on ' free votes ' in line with established convention, but the large Labour majority after 1966 was undoubtedly more open to such changes than previous parliaments had been.

What is quite different about IPIU when comparing other private investigator associations or schools is that they concentrate on providing a free member's training course that keeps the student in the books for less than 3 days, with the remaining of training performing on-the-job paid assignments as undercover operatives.

In 2010, Franco-Ontarian New Democratic MP Claude Gravelle introduced a private member's bill in the House of Commons to recognize St John the Baptist Day as a federal holiday in Canada.

In 1967, Eric Lubbock, then Liberal MP for Orpington promoted a private member's bill to provide permanent Gypsy sites ; this resulted in the Caravan Sites Act 1968 that placed an obligation upon local authorities to provide sites for locally residing travellers.

With the wider recognition there has been proposal to make Matariki an official holiday in New Zealand – in particular former Māori Party MP Rahui Katene's private member's bill Te Ra o Matariki Bill / Matariki Day Bill, drawn from the ballot in June 2009.

The " Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Deletion Bill " was introduced to the New Zealand Parliament in 2005 as a private member's bill by New Zealand First MP Doug Woolerton.

A bill may also be introduced into parliament without formal government backing ; this is known as a private member's bill.

In some countries, such as in Spain and Portugal, the term for a bill differs depending on whether it is initiated by the government ( when it is known as a " project "), or by the Parliament ( a " proposition ", i. e. a private member's bill ).

Bills being reviewed by Parliament are assigned numbers: 2 to 200 for government bills, 201 to 1000 for private member's bills, and 1001 up for private bills.

For example, Bill C-250 was a private member's bill introduced in the House.

There are special procedures for emergency bills, member's bills ( similar to private member's bills in the UK Parliament ), committee bills, and private bills.

He also oversaw the passage of the Vaccination Act 1853 into law, which was introduced as a private member's bill, and which Palmerston persuaded the government to support.

One such example occurred October 26, 2006, when he spoke for almost 120 minutes to prevent the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development from studying a private member's bill to implement the Kyoto Accord.

The board of trustees offered to turn Throop over to the state, but the presidents of Stanford University and the University of California successfully lobbied to defeat the bill, which allowed Throop to develop as the only scientific research-oriented education institute in southern California, public or private, until the onset of the World War II necessitated the broader development of research-based science education.

While he supported the idea of federal appropriations for science, he took exception to a federal bill that would have funded engineering research at land-grant colleges, and instead sought to raise a $ 1 million national research fund entirely from private sources.

Trudeau famously defended the decriminalization of homosexual acts segment of the bill by telling reporters that " there's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation ", adding that " what's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code ".

) The same result with respect to communications by private parties occurred over the last decade of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st due to declining cost of long distance telephone communications and the development and explosive spread of electronic mailing (" e-mail " via the Internet ) and bill paying systems had.

Another example of statutes that are not typically codified is a " private law " that may originate as a private bill, a law affecting only one person or a small group of persons.

Congress subsequently passed a private bill granting his family permanent residence.

The bill will reportedly cover both the public and private sectors.

He was one of the few members legislate as a backbencher and introduce a private members bill.

The compromise bill was weaker than the House version regarding government power to regulate the conduct of private business, but it was not so weak as to cause the House to reconsider the legislation.

He states that " a private letter may have a signatory — it does not have an author ".

In 2010, the main macro deficiencies of the Armenian economy — namely, unsustainable growth drivers, a narrow and resource-dominated export base, and overdependence on private transfers — were still prevalent.

Some of this $ 2. 5 trillion is invested in claim checks — U. S. bonds, both governmental and private — and some in such assets as property and equity securities.

Brabham had a poor season, scoring only four points, and — having run his own private Coopers in non-championship events during 1961 — left the company in 1962 to drive for his own team: the Brabham Racing Organisation, using cars built by Motor Racing Developments.

Capitalism entails the private ownership of the latter two — natural resources and capital goods — by a class of owners called capitalists, either individually, collectively or through a state apparatus that operates for a profit or serves the interests of capital owners.

* the Sydney Coal Field in the southeastern part of the island along the Atlantic Ocean drove the Industrial Cape Breton economy throughout the 19th and 20th centuries — until after World War II its industries were the largest private employers in Canada

For instance, since 2006, annual Canada Day celebrations have been held at Trafalgar Square — the location of Canada House — in London, England ; initiated by the Canadian community in the United Kingdom, endorsed by the Canadian High Commission, and organised by a private promotions company, the event features Canadian performers and a demonstration of street hockey, among other activities.

Sixteen foreign governments — including the U. S., 19 international NGOs, 20 Salvadoran embassies and consulates, and 20 private firms and individuals provided El Salvador with in-kind assistance.

They argue that some, if not all, of the cost difference between public and private schools comes from a process known as cream skimming — selecting only those students that belong to a preferred economic, religious, or ethnic group — rather than from differences in administration.

He still hopes for cheap space travel, but is resigned to waiting for private entrepreneurs to develop something new — and cheap.

Despite his efforts to rise above the rank of private — he even called upon Frank Capra to intercede on his behalf — he never achieved officer's status or any commendations during his six months of service.

Hundreds of Fox's letters — mostly intended for wide circulation, along with a few private communications — were also published.

Another important constitutional move at Roncaglia was the establishment of a new peace ( Landfrieden ) for all of the Empire, an attempt to ( on the one hand ) abolish private feuds not only between the many dukes, but on the other hand a means to tie the Emperor's subordinates to a legal system of jurisdiction and public prosecution of criminal acts — a predecessor of the modern concept of " rule of law ".

He brought down a mini-budget in an attempt to slow consumption, control inflation and reduce the deficit, but it triggered the worst credit squeeze since 1945 — the economy was driven into recession, the stock market slumped, private investment, housing activity and motor vehicle sales fell, unemployment rose to almost 2 percent ( the highest rate since the Depression ) and several major companies collapsed.

The harp is also used extensively as a corporate logo — for both private and government organisations.