Sentence examples for state discretion from inspiring English sources

More recently, substantial curbs on state discretion have been instituted by both the Court and the Congress.

Temporary Assistance, the cash program, often looks like an obstacle course, with time limits, work requirements and state discretion to shoo people away.

But ministers believe a concession by the court giving each state discretion on how to implement the ban will allow them to report back every year for an indefinite period on how the process is going.

After failing to win congressional support for new work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), better known as food stamps, the Agriculture Department pledged to remove state discretion about how existing work requirements are used.

Combined with high levels of state discretion, the relatively weak support coalition of low income women and their advocates underscores the particular vulnerability of voucher programs as antipoverty policy to the kind of conversion witnessed in Care4Kids.

This restriction prompted a second effort to reduce state discretion and generate uniformity.

Non-binding advice would oust the right of an individual to claim; cases where domestic courts had not "clearly erred" would be out of bounds and judicial principles granting states discretion in their interpretation of the convention would be set in stone.

., such intentions would in all likelihood have been expressed in direct and unambiguous language". The language of § 602(a)(38) requires States to embrace the family filing unit rule; it does not further limit States' discretion in a direct or unambiguous manner.

House Budget Chair Paul Ryan has already put forward proposals to turn Medicare into vouchers that funnel money to private insurance companies, turn Medicaid and Food Stamps into block grants that give states discretion to shift them to the non-poor, and give even more big tax cuts to the rich.

Without certain ACA insurance regulations, protections for those with pre-existing conditions are no longer guaranteed nation-wide, and are subject to individual states' discretion and (in action.

Simultaneously, the law expands Medicaid eligibility to everyone who is poor or near poor (at the states' discretion, following a decision by the Supreme Court).