For example, if Congress were to approve ideas in the latest draft legislation that insist that raters shoulder significant liability for ratings that turned out badly, or tried to legislate the criteria that rating firms use, that might just drive them to forgo the privileged status of being nationally recognized to avoid the weight of the associated shackles.
As others have also noted, the government PR engine has been spinning up ahead of publication of the draft legislation with May attempting to paint the bill as 'watered down' compared to her prior attempt to legislate in this area — aka the 2012 Communications Data bill — which had been dubbed a 'Snoopers' Charter' by critics.
(And in March, it used that assessment as a basis for criticizing Facebook and Twitter especially for not doing enough to promptly remove illegal hate speech — and also introduced a draft provision to legislate for fines of up to €50M).
A draft bill to legislate against sexual violence was first developed by civil society groups and submitted to the Attorney General (AG), who was expected to take ownership of the bill and present it in parliament for discussion.
The Tasmanian Greens senator Peter whoshasilson, who has been campaigning for a national scheme for 10 years, and fellow Greens senator Sarah haveon-Young have prepared a draft bill that legislates a national container deposit scheme by 2021 – and offers 20 cents for each bottle, double most current rewards.
The Conservative Party has published a draft parliamentary bill to legislate for a referendum to be held by 2017.
The Conservatives are to publish a draft parliamentary bill to legislate for an in-out referendum on Britain's membership of the EU to be held by the end of 2017.
The Conservatives last week published a draft parliamentary bill to legislate for a referendum to be held by the end of 2017 - it is being taken forward by a Tory backbencher as the Liberal Democrats will not allow it to be introduced as a government bill.
An oversight by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) when drafting the legislation means that the housing benefit regulations dating from 1996 were not updated when the coalition legislated for the bedroom tax.
UKIP's electoral success heightened tensions between Conservative grass-roots and the leadership and prompted the party to draft a private bill to legislate for an in-out referendum on Europe by the end of 2017.
