Sentence examples for bill in effect from inspiring English sources

"The proposed bill in effect creates a new commercial broadcasting licence by stealth.

The value-added tax, for instance, allows firms to deduct tax paid on inputs from their sales-tax bill, in effect encouraging them to police their suppliers.

Douglas's bill in effect repealed the Missouri Compromise by lifting the ban against slavery in territories north of the 36°30′ latitude.

So the Finance Committee bill in effect could encourage employers to hire people who already make enough to afford health insurance or to dump low-wage workers who would qualify for the subsidy.

Their phone bill, in effect, becomes like a frictionless new credit line.

But the Republican bill in effect cuts those subsidies, making silver plans more expensive and unaffordable to lots of poorer people.

The bill will in effect break the link between the benefits cap and median earnings.

"My guess is that Madigan won't even deal with the bill and that it will in effect become a vetoed bill and that the underlying bill will be dead".

At the federal level, Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, and Senator Ted Stevens, Republican of Alaska, introduced a bill in June, that would in effect become a financial supplement to the federal Family and Medical Leave Act.

If you actually look at the period that this bill is in effect, the benefit bill doesn't come down over this period –it actually goes up by another £8bn.

Many nonprofit groups are happy to bill your credit card, in effect, every month.