Legislators from the Iraqi Accord Front, Sadrist Movement and Islamic Virtue Party all opposed the bill.

Legislators rewrote all of the human rights laws in the state, restricting discrimination based on " race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, military status, sexual orientation, or unfavorable discharge from military service in connection with employment, real estate transactions, access to financial credit, and the availability of public accommodations.

The County is divided into five districts with three Legislators from each district.

Legislative authority is vested in the county Board of Legislators which consists of 15 members each elected from single member districts.

He wrote to Prevost's Adjutant General, My situation is most critical, not from anything the enemy can do, but from the disposition of the people – The Population, believe me is essentially bad – A full belief possesses them that this Province must inevitably succumb – This Prepossession is fatal to every exertion – Legislators, Magistrates, Militia Officers, all, have imbibed the idea, and are so sluggish and indifferent in all their respective offices that the artful and active scoundrel is allowed to parade the Country without interruption, and commit all imaginable mischief ... What a change an additional regiment would make in this part of the Province!

Legislators representing Atlanta and southwestern Fulton County, who feared tax revenue that would be lost from incorporation, blocked the bills using the procedural requirement that all local legislation be approved first by a delegation of representatives from the affected area.

Legislators from the northern counties will often reflexively oppose what is seen as " meddling " from the majority in the south, and the legislators from the south have been too divided on the issue to push through a state-wide ban.

Legislators such as Social welfare constituency legislator Fernando Cheung Chiu-hung and those from Hong Kong Association for Democracy & People's Livelihood had for years demanded that such concessions be put in place.

Legislators in countries using the Westminster system, such as the United Kingdom, are protected from civil action for slander and libel by parliamentary immunity whilst they are in the House.

" Legislators ’ vital work veiled from public ’ s eye ".

Legislators from outlying rural districts are chosen on a plurality basis, while districts located in more populous towns and cities elect multiple legislators by means of a proportion-based formula.

The power of the Legislative being derived from the People by a positive voluntary Grant and Institution, can be no other, than what the positive Grant conveyed, which being only to make Laws, and not to make Legislators, the Legislative can have no power to transfer their Authority of making laws, and place it it in other hands.

Irish Legislators began to comment publicly from 2003, some tentatively suggesting legislation, and some referring to Catholic teachings.

Van Rensselaer's effect on the history of the United States cannot be underestimated: the American van Rensselaers all descend from Kiliaen's son Jeremias and the subsequent family is noted for being a very powerful and wealthy influence in the history of New York and the Northeastern United States producing multiple State Legislators, Congressmen, and two Lieutenant Governors in New York.

Such figure is not supported by actual test, nor is it confirmed by Shell and which is contradicted from a reading material for Legislators of Legislative Council.

The Puerto Rico Legislative Assembly also receives support services from the Council of State Governments ( CSG ), CSG's Eastern Regional Conference, the National Conference of State Legislatures ( NCSL ) and the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators ( NHCSL ).

Legislators also exempted from forced sale the items then considered necessary for making a living – a horse, a plow, a hoe, and an ax.

Legislators proposed that a succession amendment include provisions to lengthen the terms of state legislators in order to maintain a balance of power between the executive and legislative branches ; Wilkinson insisted that the General Assembly pass a " clean " succession amendment, free from any other provisions that might diminish the amendment's chances of being approved by the state's voters.

Legislators are one such group, and state legislators have major responsibility for educational legislation.

Legislators always get restless for a special session ( whether for the companionship or the $22.50 per diem is not certain ) and if they start agitating.

Legislators who logroll within a small body, for example, the US House or Senate, have incentive to honor their IOU votes because they cannot have their reputations tainted if they wish to be effective politicians ( Holcombe 2006 ).

Legislators later stiffened penalties for leaving the scene of an accident.

Legislators included a classified annex to the Defense Appropriations Act that preserved funding for TIA's component technologies, if they were transferred to other government agencies.

He also chairs the sustainability consultancy Sancroft International, recycler Valpak, GLOBE International-the Global Legislators Organisation for a Balanced Environment, the Association of Independent Financial Advisers and Veolia Water UK ..

Legislators kept the idea of a change alive for a long time.

* October-Almost half of Vermont's Legislators regard war as needless and impolitic ; but Vermont imposes a penalty of $ 1, 000 for every unauthorized communication with Canadians.

Legislators met there for 42 days after Belmont was designated the capital of Wisconsin Territory.

Legislators then changed the definitions to target size ( barrel lengths under 3 inches ), materials ( such as zinc ), low-cost manufacturing techniques ( e. g., density requirements that specifically ban inexpensive powder cast metals ), redundant safety requirements ( trigger and / or main-spring locks, sizes too large for a child to use, drop tests ), and " quality ", " reliability ", and " accuracy " ( which are often left undefined ).

Weldon is a member of Global Legislators for a Balanced Environment ( GLOBE ), where he serves as Honorary Chairman of the Oceans Protection Task Force.

Legislators, particularly those opposed to slavery, feared that any delay would allow Missouri to apply for statehood before Illinois, and that since Missouri was a slave state, this would cause so much turmoil in Congress that it would delay Illinois ' admission even longer.

Winegarten twice won the Liz Carpenter Award, for her books Black Texas Women: 150 Years of Trial and Triumph, and Capitol Women: Texas Female Legislators 1923-1999.

Legislators also receive an " office allowance " of $ 1, 000 per month, ostensibly for the maintenance of an office area devoted to their legislative work in their homes or elsewhere within their district.

Legislators also responded to Blackburn's call for a warden system, authorizing the state to employ a warden, deputy warden, clerk, physician, and chaplain for the penitentiary.

In July 2005, Texas Monthly magazine, in its article “ The Best and Worst Legislators of 2005 ,” awarded Brimer an “ Honorable Mention ” for his resolution of the Senate deadlock over taxes.

Legislators reached a compromise when they agreed to make Dr. Seuss the official children's author of the commonwealth and Make Way for Ducklings the official children's book.

Legislators are attempting to clarify the laws that govern the fate of a person in Schiavo's position, and in some cases make living wills more available.

Legislators, not on the committee where the bill received its public hearing, may only offer amendments to the bill at this stage.

ALEC first came into being in Chicago as the " Conservative Caucus of State Legislators ", a project initiated by Mark Rhoads, an assistant to an Illinois state senator.

Legislators pose as Governor Martin O ' Malley | O ' Malley signs a bill into law at a signing ceremony in Annapolis, Maryland | Annapolis, Maryland, on May 13, 2008.

Legislators also can call themselves into special session by a two-thirds vote by both the House of Representatives and the State Senate.

Legislators usually enact such laws when they wish to impose penalties that fall outside the framework specified by each class.

Allegany County Government is of the Legislature style and is represented by 15 County Legislators.

Legislators were unnerved by the campaign, and the outcome remained uncertain.

Voted one of the 10 Best Legislators by his colleagues in a 1986 Denver Post-News Center 4 survey.

He began his political career in 1969 with his election to the Montana State Senate and in his 16-year tenure, he served as floor whip, majority leader, and senate president. In 1986 Stephens was recognized by the National Republican Legislators ' Association as one of the country's 10 most outstanding state lawmakers.

Legislators first elected on or before June 5, 2012 are restricted by the previous term limits, approved in 1990, which limited legislators to three terms in the State Assembly and two terms in the State Senate.

Legislators are usually politicians and are often elected by the people.

Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests.

His second term has been likewise marked by the need of support for several independent Legislators.

Legislators approved calling a referendum on a constitutional amendment – supported by Collins – to make the state superintendent of education an appointive, rather than elective, office.

Highly respected by her colleagues, Giddings has served as President of the bi-partisan 1600 member, National Foundation of Women Legislators.

He was named as one of the " Ten Worst Legislators " by Texas Monthly magazine.

Li's integrity is being questioned by Legislators, and corporate gadfly David Webb was the first to put Li under pressure to relinquish his position as a member of both the Legislative and the Executive Councils of Hong Kong because of his implication in the affair.

It is undertaken by the Philippine Legislators ' Committee and the United Nations Population Fund through its 6th Country Programme.