They opposed the Forand bill, which would have placed the major burden of financial support upon the individual himself through compulsory payroll deduction ; ;

In the final accounting, these would have augmented the bill for both sides.

The bill, which Daniel said he drafted personally, would force banks, insurance firms, pipeline companies and other corporations to report such property to the state treasurer.

Rep. Charles E. Hughes of Sherman, sponsor of the bill, said a failure to enact it would amount `` to making a gift out of the taxpayers' pockets to banks, insurance and pipeline companies ''.

Cox argued that the bill is `` probably unconstitutional '' since, he said, it would impair contracts.

The other bill, by Sen. A. M. Aikin Jr. of Paris, would relieve real estate brokers, who pay their own annual licensing fee, from the $12 annual occupation license on brokers in such as stocks and bonds.

Natural gas public utility companies would be given the right of eminent domain, under a bill by Sen. Frank Owen 3, of El Paso, to acquire sites for underground storage reservoirs for gas.

An adverse vote of 81 to 65 kept in the State Affairs Committee a bill which would order the referendum on the April 4 ballot, when Texas votes on a U.S. senator.

The bill would increase from $5,000,000 to $15,000,000 the maximum loan the state could make to a local water project.

Statements by other legislators that Dallas is paying for all its water program by local bonds, and that less populous places would benefit most by the pending bill, did not sway Cotten's attack.

What could rescue the bill would be some quick progress on a bill amending the National Defense Education Act of 1958.

His bill, allegedly aimed at Hoffa, would amend the Sherman, Clayton and Norris-LaGuardia acts to authorize the issuance of federal injunctions in any transportation strike and would make it illegal for any union to act in concert with any other union -- even a sister local in the same international.

White House legislative aides were still confident the bill would pass intact.

If they have trouble exporting, international bill for their support will grow larger than it otherwise would.

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

Johnson advocated " a free farm for the poor " bill that would give land to landless farmers.

The campaign included fierce debates ; Johnson's primary issue was the passage of the Homestead bill, which Haynes contended would facilitate abolition.

When King Amadeus finally had the bill in his desk, which would extend the 1837 Abolition Act to the Antilles, he was put on notice of a coup financed by Cuban plantationers and industrialists if he signed.

On November 8, 2011, voters in more than 100 Georgia cities and counties voted on a bill which would allow stores to sell alcohol on Sundays.

" While Disraeli did not argue that the Jews did the Christians a favour by killing Christ, as he had in Tancred and would in Lord George Bentinck, his speech was badly received by his own party, which along with the Anglican establishment was hostile to the bill.

The principal measure of the 1858 session would be a bill to re-organise governance of India, the Indian Mutiny having exposed the inadequacy of dual control.

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.

When the radicals mustered enough support to defeat a bill which would have preserved the status quo in religion, the conservatives, together with many moderates, surrendered their authority back to Cromwell who sent soldiers to clear the rest of the Assembly.

; Abridgement of the time for bills in the Seanad: The President may, at the request of the Dáil, impose a time-limit on the period during which the Seanad may consider a bill.

The bill would impose strict controls for campaign fund raising.

The bill would impose new donor and contribution disclosure requirements on nearly all organizations that air political ads independently of candidates or the political parties.

In certain situations, the restaurant may impose a compulsive gratuity on the customers ' bill, called an " autograt.

The Speaker designates one of these committees as a " primary committee " with primary jurisdiction and responsibility for the bill and all other committee ( s ) are considered " additional committees " and the Speaker may impose time limits on these committee ( s ) if she deems it appropriate and traditionally does so if the primary committee has reported out a version of the bill to the full House.

Labour representatives criticized the bill for failing to impose fines on negligent employers and for limiting construction workers ' eligibility under the program to injuries sustained while working on buildings more than in height, as well as for its exemption of casual labourers.

Duberstein has been hired by Russian authorities, via Goldman Sachs ( an international investment banking firm ), to lobby against the Magnitsky Bill ( as known as the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act ), a bill in the U. S. Congress " to impose sanctions on persons responsible for the detention, abuse, or death of Sergei Magnitsky, and for other gross violations of human rights in the Russian Federation ".

Senator Richard Russell from Georgia had claimed the bill was an example of the Federal government wanting to impose its laws on states.

At Devine's urging, the state legislature overrode a gubernatorial veto of a bill to impose prison terms and fines on Communists.

A group of 15 representatives and 12 senators, led by Frank Brennan and Myles Ferricks, opposed the bill at every stage on the ground that this was a question of conscience on which no majority, no matter how large, had a right to impose its will on the minority.

The resulting bill, which passed the Senate, would, in the words of The Columbus Dispatch, " cap noneconomic and punitive damages, impose additional time limits for filing lawsuits and protect defendants in multidefendant cases from being liable for unpaid portions of a judgment.

" " This bill can impose a life sentence prohibiting service to the youth of our community resulting from discovery of a listed felony conviction at any time in a person's life ," Christine Nardecchia, president of the Volunteer Administrators ' Network of Central Ohio, told The Toledo Blade.

* Shamima Ali, coordinator of the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre, called the bill an invasion of human rights and said ( 14 May ) that the government should not bulldoze its way through and impose the legislation without the consent of the people.

On 8 June 2005, revaluation of houses for council tax was put forward as a steath tax, Anne Milton MP asked Will the Minister guarantee that the average council tax bill will remain the same for my residents in Guildford, or will he come clean and admit that the revaluation is simply another opportunity to impose a stealth tax on hard-working families and pensioners?

Congress had not debated a civil rights bill since the 1890 Federal Elections Bill.

* August 28 – United States Senator Strom Thurmond ( D-SC ) sets the record for the longest filibuster with his 24-hour, 18-minute speech railing against a civil rights bill.

* July 8 – Los Angeles passes its gay and lesbian civil rights bill.

Many contemporary states have a constitution, a bill of rights, or similar constitutional documents that enumerate and seek to guarantee civil liberties.

Online civil liberties organizations arranged protests against the bill, for example the Black World Wide Web protest which encouraged webmasters to make their sites ' backgrounds black for 48 hours after its passage, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign.

In the meantime, Taylor and Bullock introduced over one hundred amendments, including the first ten amendments to the U. S. Constitution, to try to stall the bill ; this effort was assisted by Carol Moseley Braun, a civil rights advocate and liberal from Hyde Park.

The proposed bill called for $ 20, 000 reparations payments to each former incarceree or their immediate relatives, along with money for a civil liberties education fund ( see Civil Liberties Act of 1988 ).

* An amendment to a federal civil service reform bill ( 1971 ) which enabled fathers to apply for part-time civil service work.

John F. Kennedy originally proposed the civil rights bill in June 1963.

In 1965, he achieved passage of a second civil rights bill, the Voting Rights Act, which outlawed discrimination in voting, thus allowing millions of southern blacks to vote for the first time.

Claims were initiated by way of civil bill.

He also signed a bill allowing employees to use family leave to care for a domestic partner, though he didn't make good on a campaign promise to convene a task force on civil unions.

During this time, 90 hours were spent on the bill of rights alone, all filmed for television, while civil rights experts and advocacy groups put forward their perceptions on the Charter's flaws and omissions and how to remedy them.

He declared that the religious associations were now being subjected for the first time to the regulations common to all others, and that the object of the bill was to ensure the supremacy of the civil power.

The bill was called for by President John F. Kennedy in his civil rights speech of June 11, 1963, in which he asked for legislation " giving all Americans the right to be served in facilities which are open to the public — hotels, restaurants, theaters, retail stores, and similar establishments ," as well as " greater protection for the right to vote.

Emulating the Civil Rights Act of 1875, Kennedy's civil rights bill included provisions to ban discrimination in public accommodations, and to enable the U. S. Attorney General to join in lawsuits against state governments which operated segregated school systems, among other provisions.

In his first address to Congress on November 27, 1963, Johnson told the legislators, " No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long.

Initially Celler had a difficult time acquiring the signatures necessary, as even many congressmen who supported the civil rights bill itself were cautious about violating House procedure with the discharge petition.

Never in history had the Senate been able to muster enough votes to cut off a filibuster on a civil rights bill.

Historians debate Smith's motivation, whether it was a cynical attempt to defeat the bill by someone opposed to both civil rights for blacks and women, or an attempt to support their rights by broadening the bill to include women.

" Senator Richard Russell, Jr. warned President Johnson that his strong support for the civil rights bill " will not only cost you the South, it will cost you the election.

Though the bill granted Native Americans citizenship it did not grant them the right to vote and Zitkala-Ša continued to work for civil rights and better access to health care and education for Native Americans up until her death in 1938.

After the union of Germany as one empire in 1871, the Reichstag adopted a bill initiated by Chancellor Otto von Bismarck as the " Civil Marriage Law " in 1875 ; since then, only civil marriages have been recognised in Germany.