True to form, the Obama administration has met the recent influx of young unaccompanied Central American migrants with a proposal for expedited sentencing and deportation.
Because of the perception that the project involved some risk of psychological and/or emotional harm to certain participants, the chair did not sign off for expedited review and the proposal was required to go through full board review.
The proposal would create expedited procedures for Congress to consider such legislation within six months.
The lawmakers' proposal to curb expedited voting — one element of which Republicans floated last year after Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, pressed for another late-night vote — would limit the governor's ability to waive the constitutionally required three-day waiting period before lawmakers could vote on legislation.
This is mainly due to the fact that proposals submitted for expedited review are judged to be of minimal risk of harm, that study design is often less complex and that a smaller number of reviewers is involved.
Expedited review is potentially available to proposals with minimal risk, which may include identifiers (direct or indirect), topics that are not sensitive, populations that may include regulated vulnerable populations and others with adequate protection, and studies that require continuing IRB review.
SPH alumna Arese Carrington, who delivered the Harvard University graduate student commencement address last June, expedited the initial planning stage of the proposal.
While it would not affect senior positions, the legislation, and a related proposal to expedite filling about 250 part-time positions, is intended to reverse an explosion in confirmable posts from about 280 when President John F. Kennedy took office in 1961 to 1,400 today.
Republicans pushed a proposal to expedite such reviews of new reservoirs, but it stalled in the Legislature on Monday when Democrats voted against it.
This new proposal will expedite the clemency process for thousands of non-violent offenders serving lengthy sentences behind bars -- sentences they would not have received had they been sentenced today due to changes in the law.
The department has already designated a person to help companies navigate the approval process, and is also considering a proposal to expedite plan check and other documents from city inspectors.
