House Bill 1438 Case Study

McKinney Vento Act provides federal funding to states to meet the needs of homeless students. States are given the flexibility to spend the funds appropriately. This includes the fixed amendment where schools can spend money on direct education services including various programs. LAUSD would continue to use these federal funds to hire homeless liaisons as part of their Homeless Education Program. The Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) was passed in California and gives school districts more authority over how the money will be spent in their K-12 schools. (Ed-Data, 2015) LAUSD is eligible for this funding. This formula would ultimately give school districts 20% more money for each of their high needs students. High need

Introduction of a bill requires both house and senate members to file a written bill with each of their corresponding clerk members. The clerk then submits the bill to alphanumeric designation where it is available to the eyes of lawmakers and citizens so that they make track its progress. There is a specific time bills can be submitted. They can be submitted the Monday after the November general election. This step can be influenced by many figures outside of Legislative. Interests groups influence legislation as well as the Governor can influence legislation. At this point there are no delay tactics that could prevent the bill from moving on to step two.

4. What has happened: There have been two legislative actions in my policy area. The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act and the Solution for Undocumented Children through Careers, Employment, Education and Defending our Nation (SUCCEED) Act have been introduced to Congress (Tillett 2017).

Supporters of the bill include the sponsor of HB 216 Representative Pelanda. Representative Nickie Antonio and Pelanda both spoke at the congressional hearings in favor of the bill before it passed. The bill passed with only one nay vote both times it was voted on in the House. The nay vote was Republican Representative Niraj Antani Supporters of the bill also included (OOAPN) who helped make technical

The purpose of my letter is to express my concerns regarding House Bill 1739. House Bill 1739 was introduced on January 27, 2016 with about 25% progression. The purpose of HB 1739 is to reduce criminal justice expenses by eradicating the death penalty in favor of life imprisonment. This bill was reintroduced and retained in present status as of March 2016, which means it is not moving forward in the Legislature this year. The bill would have replaced capital punishment by lethal injection or hanging with life in prison, with no opportunity for parole. This bill would have also required those convicted to work in prison in order to pay restitution to the victims or the families of the victims.

Your question concerns the implementation of Senate Bill 14, which added new voter identification requirements for in-person voting statewide. Prior to June 26, 2013; Texas and a number of other states and political subdivisions could not alter their voting requirements without preclearance from either the U.S. Attorney General or a three-judge panel sitting for the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia. Following the Supreme Court decision in Shelby County, Ala. v. Holder, states beholden to the preclearance requirement were released, subject to an amendment to the coverage formula in § 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. While you understand that Texas now has equal ability to alter its election procedures as states never covered by § 4(b), you desire to do so in a way that would not again bring the Texas legislature’s exercise of authority under the scrutiny of Congress or the Constitution.

New Jersey Assembly Bill 826 prohibits smoking in automobiles when children are present. The primary sponsor is Charles Mainor, an Assemblyman for District 31. There are several co-sponsors; they are Assemblyman Vincent Prieto (District 32), Assemblywoman Cleopatra Tucker (District 28), Assemblyman Herb Conaway Jr. (District 7), Assemblyman Angel Fuentes (5), Assemblyman Gilbert Wilson (District 5), and Assemblywoman Nancy Munoz (District 21). Bill A826 establishes a $100 fine to any person smoking in a motor vehicle with a child of 16 years or younger present. No motor vehicle points or automobile insurance points will be assessed from a violation of the provisions of the bill. A826 also requires the Chief Administrator of the NJ Motor Vehicle Commission to establish a public awareness campaign to inform the public about its provisions. There is no fiscal note attached (New Jersey Assembly Bill 826).

According to the Office of National Drug Policy, the Congress had restored the ban again (Federal Funding Ban on Needle Exchange Programs). However, due to the increased amount of IDU's getting infected and using dirty needles, the congress has lifted the ban and now federal funding can be used for the Needle Exchange Programs. Government funding in Needle Exchange Programs gives more opportunities to the local and states to stop the spread of infectious diseases that can be caused by dirty needles. Even though the US had about 200 syringe programs in 33 states and the District of Columbia, according to the North American Syringe Exchange Network the programs still don’t get federal funding but the programs try to manage funding from local and state’s not- for profit funding (Flores and Whalen). In the newspaper article Federal Funding Ban on Needle Exchanges Lifted by Kaiser Health News published on Feb 17, 2016,  Mark Casanova, executive director of Homeless Health Care Los Angeles was interviewed. Casanova states, "about a third of his $350,000 budget for the exchange program is spent on the 1.2 million syringes he hands out each year" , although this number is not enough for all the needs of the IDU's , it is certainly a step in the right direction. Even a IDU states, “Thanks to needle exchange … I have stayed pretty healthy, which is a hard thing to do when you are injecting drugs.” (Gorman, Anna) .Therefore, the Needle Exchange Program is getting the attention of the country as a whole and the government notices it as a major conflict and is willing to spend federal funds behind it to prevent the spread of deadly

This case was brought up by the senate, voted into place by Senators Frank Church, Leonard B. Jordan, and other officials on March 17th, 1972. The house vote was 57-0-13, while the senate vote was 30-0-2. Republicans supported legislation. Governor Cecil D. Andrus signed the bill March 23rd, 1972, and the bill became effective July 1st, 1972 (Legislature, 1972).

To further illustrate, on January 22, 2016, Senator Michelle Kidani, sponsor of Senate Bill 2586: A Bill For An Act, introduce a legislative amendment in Hawaii state. Focusing on ten principles to improve our education system, Senate Bill 2586 requires the Department of Education to:

On January of 2015, house bill 16 was introduced to the committee with the primary sponsor being Representative Reece, to regulate

After the bill was passed in the Ways and Means Committee, it moved on the House of Representatives. The House passed the bill after 90 seconds of debate. During this

House Bill 5013 would amend the Insurance Code (500.3101 et al.) by adding and amending sections and chapters that define the state's no-fault insurance system.

Lobbyists and leadership staff also push to get these bills passed. An omnibus bill is usually compiled of 12 or so bills that should have really been separated and voted for separately. The strategy behind this is to get things passed that generally would not have made it through if they had been there own bill. Hamilton says “Less than half the bills that become laws these days go through all of the stages of the standard legislative process” (pg. 102). This indicates that bills are being grouped together more and more often lately. Genevieve Wood and Hamilton agree that these bills are a problem to our system. “Throwing funding for the entire government into one bill doesn’t just lead to more spending. It also leads to more spending on bad things” (Wood). On the matter, Hamilton acknowledges that most legislators know that this is not the way it should be, but think that it is the only way to get anything done anymore. Omnibus bills are ruining the careful voting that we used to have in Congress and replacing it with a wave of information to read and comprehend. “As opposed to bills that are bite sized chunks, we get 1000+ page bills that elected officials are supposed to review in a matter of 24 to 48 hours” (Woods). Congressman are expected to review these massive bills, but the information is just simply overwhelming. This allows certain legislation to slip through their fingers, which downplays the system that our founding fathers worked to

After being ratified by President Barack Obama, this agreement will be taken under consideration within 90 days by American Congress. If there is no disapproval idea from lawmakers