Word: bill
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...Massachusetts House of Representatives last week unanimously approved a comprehensive bill to increase capital funding for state mental health facilities...
...bill, which is currently being reviewed by a senate committee, should pass the upper body this spring, legislators said yesterday...
...bill is designed to address what legislators called a serious mental health problem in the state. State officials said that more than 50 percent of homeless people are mentally ill and Massachusetts has inadequate facilities to meet their needs...
Many colleges give academic credit for public service. Some, like Brown and Harvard, provide fellowships. Educators and politicians have proposed offering other tangible rewards to volunteers, many of whom are accumulating high tuition debts and feel pressure to earn wages. Rhode Island Democratic Senator Claiborne Pell will introduce a bill this month that would give ROTC- like tuition assistance to students doing community service. Thanks, say some, but no thanks. "Volunteerism should be selfless," explains M. Richard Rose, president of Rochester Institute of Technology. "Ideally you should be like the Lone Ranger. You do a good deed, then you leave...
...concept appears to be gaining momentum. Montana Democrat Max Baucus , plans to introduce, possibly this week, a Senate bill proposing that auctions be tried out in the next three cases in which the U.S. imposes temporary quotas. Many economists, most of whom reject protectionism in general, see quotas as sometimes inevitable and thus regard the auction system as a way for the U.S. to get maximum benefit from them...