BILL WOULD CUT PRISON TIME, SAVE MONEY

The Boston Globe;  April 2, 2004 ;   Matthew Rodriguez, Globe Correspondent;   413 words ......serving minimum mandatory drug sentences the opportunity for parole...Newton Democrat, said her bill, which aims to release...taxpayer dollars. Creem's bill, which has cosponsors in...Taxpayers Foundation said the bill is an important step toward...Michael J. Widmer. "This [bill] is ...

Bill Could Shorten Some Drug Dealers' Prison Time; O'Malley Is Torn...

The Washington Post;  May 8, 2007 ;   Lisa Rein - Washington Post Staff Writer;   787 words ......whether to sign a bill that would put Maryland...is reviewing the bill and is "very much...charges, made House Bill 992 a top priority...enacting tougher drug sentences in the late 1980s...offenders from jail into drug treatment. But judges...user." This year's bill took a ...

Bills reduce prison terms to save cash; One lets inmates out early;...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  March 15, 2004 ;   DeFiebre, Conrad;   787 words ......R-Bemidji, sponsor of a bill to give a state parole...testified against Lipman's bill. The war on drugs was...opposed any retreat on drug sentences. So did police and prosecutors...out against the parole bill. Violent crime is down...Washington state have reduced drug ...

HOW A BILL BECOMES LAW.(News)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  January 23, 1996 ;     787 words ...A bill may be introduced in either the Senate or House of Representatives, but the procedure by which a bill becomes a law is much the same, regardless in which house a bill originates. 1. In this example, the bill is introduced...

A joker - and a good joker Bill Hardy, 14 October 1934 - 24 February 2003

AdMedia;  April 11, 2003 ;     589 words ...Bill came to see me one time and I was on a phone call so he sat...that raucous chuckle that accompanied nearly every sentence. Bill had heart bypass surgery about 12 years ago. I went to see...smile. I don't know which was more profound. The sight of Bill chuckling with a massive chest wound or my own ...

BILL PROMPTED BY RAPIST STALLED IN LEGISLATURE

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  December 8, 1993 ;   BILL SANDERSON, Trenton Bureau;   565 words ...BILL SANDERSON, Trenton Bureau The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 12-08-1993 BILL PROMPTED BY RAPIST STALLED IN LEGISLATURE By BILL SANDERSON, Trenton Bureau Date: 12-08-1993, Wednesday Section: NEWS Edition: All Editions -- 3 Star...

Rabbit foot Bill.(Short story)

Queen's Quarterly;  December 22, 2007 ;   Humphreys, Helen;   787 words ...BILL never likes to leave town the same way twice. He strides out with an urgency I find...I usually have to run to keep him in my sight. We have been friends for a year--Bill and I--and although people don't approve, we are friends anyway. I like that Bill isn't bothered by what people say. Mostly he is ...

Shariat bill. (Pakistan)

Economic Review;  July 1, 1990 ;   Haidari, Iqbal;   787 words ...Shariat Bill Apparently, PPP government has been caught unaware and it is said that the Bill is a constitutional device to topple the PPP majority through a joint session of the parliament. The Bill now stands transmitted to the National Assembly...

Bill.com Selected as Finalist in Software & Information Industry...

PR Newswire;  March 17, 2008 ;     431 words ...Bill.com Named Finalist in the 'Best Business Solution' Category...Industry Recognition PALO ALTO, Calif., March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Bill.com, Inc, a Software as a Service (SaaS) company that provides businesses automated billing and bill management services, announced today it is a finalist in...

SENATE COMMITTEE PASSES EDUCATION BILL

The Journal Record;  November 30, 1989 ;   LOU ANNE WOLFE;   787 words ...bill passed the Oklahoma Senate Education Committee 13-7 on Wednesday with the six Republican members voting in a bloc against the bill. The only Democrat to oppose House Bill 1017, authored by House Speaker Steve Lewis, D-Shawnee, and Sen. President Pro Tempore Robert Cullison...

Quota bill now faces pocket veto; textile imports off again in July.

Daily News Record;  September 15, 1988 ;   LaRussa, Robert Chute, Elizabeth;   756 words ...Quota Bill Now Faces Pocket Veto; Textile Imports Off...of a pocket veto -- for the textile quota bill, the House Ways and Means Committee voted...time. That action, which proponents of the bill had hoped to avoid, could delay the bill...

Bill would let retired officers carry concealed weapons

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  November 2, 2001 ;   NAHAL TOOSI;   758 words ...Bill would let retired officers carry concealed weapons Assembly...2001 Madison -- The state Assembly on Thursday passed a bill allowing retired police officers to continue carrying concealed...said Rep. Mark Pettis (R-Hertel), a main author of the bill. Some Democrats, including Rep. Marlin Schneider ...

Bill raising drunken driving fines goes to governor

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  April 1, 2000 ;   STEVEN WALTERS;   787 words ...Bill raising drunken driving fines goes to governor Measure aimed...no debate, state senators agreed to a minor change in the bill added by the Assembly. The Senate then adjourned until Tuesday, when it is scheduled to vote on a bill that would help the Green Bay Packers finance a $295 million...

bill

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics;    IAIN McLEAN and ALISTAIR McMILLAN;   568 words ...bill Proposed legislation which has not yet been enacted. In the United Kingdom Parliament there are two types of bill: public and private. public bills presented by ministers...public bills and private bills but with some variations. A bill initially is merely a short title, usually with an explanatory...

Bill doubles ethanol use

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  November 15, 2003 ;   H. JOSEF HEBERT;   787 words ...Bill doubles ethanol use GOP lawmakers draft national energy plan...Republicans on Friday finished a draft of a broad energy bill that would double Americans' use of ethanol, improve reliability...power blackouts. But even as details of the massive draft bill, which is said to cover 1,700 pages, were being ...