As a result, he said, legislators put in language that would eliminate the city's ability to approve charters and would require community approval before a charter school could be moved into an existing school building.
Among the changes is a proposal to withdraw Mr. Klein's ability to approve new charter schools.
We would strenuously resist not having the ability to approve rates or having the commissioners' oversight of rates overturned".
The ability to approve the agreements would have given the Council tremendous leverage over cable services and programming.
But the agency's ability to approve business loans — apart from disaster loans — or administer any of its other programs to help small businesses, expired at midnight Monday.
Under current law, large urban districts and the board of trustees of the State University of New York have had the ability to approve charters.
Ms. Schapiro vowed at her confirmation hearing last January to move quickly to consider proposals to give shareholders the ability to approve independent directors.
Even among states hostile to the law, Florida became an outlier this year when it passed a bill removing for two years the state insurance commissioner's ability to approve insurance rates for new health plans, she said.
B1 New School Zoning Rules Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein issued new school zoning rules that narrow a parent councils' ability to approve the geographic boundaries of elementary and middle schools and aspects of school enrollment.
Legislation has been introduced in the Senate by Mr. Hollings and in the House by Mr. Dingell that would eliminate the F.C.C.'s ability to approve mergers based on that criterion.
Sacramento will hold onto the Kings for one more season, but its chances of keeping them long term rest solely on the city's ability to approve, finance and build a new arena — a goal the city has failed to meet many times in the last decade.
