The new 48th District is a good fit and something that will enable me to serve my constituents and the country well". An earlier draft of the state's revamped legislative districts put Irvine and Costa Mesa together, which would have pitted the two veteran lawmakers against each other in 2012.
It is worth pointing out that the American system presents greater challenges than either of these, because of our more chaotic legislative drafting practices, the complexity of the legislative process itself, and our approach to amendment and codification.
Better still would be to use a point-in-time drafting and publication system for the full lifecycle of the legislative drafting, passage, codification, and publication process.
"They're still hopeful about reaching an agreement". In the meantime, aides said, committee staff members would continue to draft the legislative language of the tentative compromise and would send portions of the bill to the Congressional Budget Office for cost estimates.
In an appearance on a public radio program, Mr. Cuomo warned that a veto of the legislative boundaries being drafted "would inject a certain amount of chaos and uncertainty, which may be in no one's best interest".
Mr. Bishop, the chairman of the legislative committee that drafted the reforms, said last week that "whether and by what mechanism the county can pay above the appraised value for a parcel" was the sole remaining issue.
And public comment on draft legislation might have been staged at the very end of the legislative process, when the Commission proposal was under consideration in the European Parliament.
Much of the legislative business of the Scottish parliament was carried out by a parliamentary committee known as the 'Lords of the Articles', which drafted legislation which was then presented to the full assembly to be confirmed.
He said the drafting of 40 new legislative districts for the fall election could be "extremely disruptive" for voters.
This decision was compelled both by the decision of the Senate conferees to "recede" to the House version, and by basic rules of legislative drafting, as reflected in the legislative drafting manuals established by the House and the Senate: An amendment fails to execute if a prior amendment in the same bill removes or alters the text that the subsequent amendment would amend.
