This is also the state's first set of elections in which officials are doing a "soft implementation" of a new law requiring voters to provide identification at polling places — a requirement approved by Mr. Walker and the Republican-led Legislature.
Over the objections of farm-state lawmakers, the measure also delays for two years a requirement approved by Congress that supermarkets label meat, fish and other food by country of origin, a rule its backers said was increasingly important in light of the case of mad cow disease.
Janay Williams, a student activist who is working to get the class requirement approved, said many of her classmates were "very much disappointed" with the last vote and felt the low turnout was an important factor to reverse next time.
More than $500 million in federal aid for impoverished schools will be distributed more widely in New York City this fall, particularly on Staten Island, under a change in eligibility requirements approved by the federal Department of Education.
And the structure of the state's budget — which is heavily based on borrowed money and peppered with numerous mandatory spending requirements approved by voters — makes it all the harder to balance.
Businesses will have to make sense of a number of tax changes approved on New Year's Day, along with some tax increases and other requirements approved earlier, notably in connection with health care programs.
At a news conference, Mr. Fernández Ordóñez also described new rules on capital requirements approved by the government Friday as "essential and necessary" to avoid a collapse in Spanish banks' access to external financing, which in turn could cause a much more severe domestic credit crunch.
'Standard equivocality', which is the absence of commonly recognised standards (norms), is likely to exist in the absence of clear 'legal' requirements, approved codes of practice or guidance.
Different members of the euro zone have different requirements for approving the loans to Greece.
That is especially true at the beginning of the process, when they are charged with drafting project requirements and approving schematic designs.
