The legislature is determined to cut property taxes next year, and a bipartisan legislative commission has recommended it consider a sales tax on (unspecified) "nonessential services" to help pay for the cut.
Rather than pursue allegations of corruption against Luis Miquilena, the president of the legislative commission and the second-most-powerful figure in the government, the public prosecutor has handed the matter to the Supreme Court.
Adopt particularly the establishment of a joint U.S.-Russian legislative commission to monitor the disbursement of Western aid flows, the increased channeling of U.S. aid to reform-minded regional governments (hopefully bypassing Moscow), and ensuring that new aid and financing follows the implementation of systemic reform, not the other way around.
"As we have said throughout, we are confident that the commission found no legal or ethical violation by Speaker Silver or his staff, and urge the Legislative Ethics Commission to release the report immediately, " Whyland said.
The Legislative Ethics Commission must make JCOPE's report public within 45 days.
And the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee continues its inquiry into the quality of legislation - would vetting of bills by a Legislative Standards Commission force government departments to draft better laws?
He points to stats from Virginia's Joint Legislative Audit Review Commission showing an 11% decrease in reckless driving arrests since the new law passed, while speeding tickets have dropped off slightly.
The approved measures established a nonpartisan commission to redraw legislative maps based on the 2010 census.
The pesticide legislation, which will ban the use of certain toxic chemicals on farms, originated back in July 2006, when the European Commission sent an initial legislative proposal to the European Parliament for a first reading.
If necessary, the Commission said it would come up with the "legislative proposals for action".
Zimbabwe's electoral commission released the first result Wednesday from a recount of 23 legislative districts.
The commission makes a powerful case for less complexity, less tinkering and better legislative scrutiny of the tax system.
The Little Hoover Commission, in a report released Monday, asked Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders to help the state Department of Parks and Recreation restructure the way it manages its 280 parks to avoid the kind of fiscal crisis that led to plans to close 70 parks in 2012 before last-minute maneuvers spared them.
The bill is the final part of a series of recent legislative reforms to the system of property law in Scotland based on reports published by the Scottish Law Commission.
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