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	UK Parliament - Bill Index
		Lords motion that Standing Order 47 (no two stages of a Bill to be taken on one day) be dispensed with on Monday 19 March to allow the Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill and the Income Tax Bill to be taken through their remaining stages that day.
		The Bill provisions will give the OFT and local authority trading standards officers greater teeth, by giving them powers to require access to premises and on-site production of records in a wider range of circumstances; enabling them to investigate breaches of the 1979 Act, not just criminal offences.
		The Bill provisions will give the OFT and local authority trading standards officers greater teeth by giving them powers to require access to premises and onsite production of records in a wider range of circumstances; enabling them to investigate breaches of the 1979 Act, not just criminal offences.
	bills.ais.co.uk /AC.asp (4934 words)

	Reform Act 1867 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Reform Act 1867 (also known as the Second Reform Act) was a piece of British legislation that greatly increased the number of men who could vote in elections in the UK.
		Earl Russell resigned when his proposed reforms were rejected and William Gladstone became leader of the Liberal party in 1866.
		When it came to the vote, however, this bill split the Whigs: this was partly engineered by Disraeli, who incited those threatened by the Bill to rise up against it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reform_Act_of_1867 (1358 words)

	Reform And Proposals For Reform Since 1900
		The Bill was passed by the Lords in August 1911, under threat of the creation of a large number of Liberal Peers to ensure its passage.
		Inter-party talks on Lords Reform took place at a conference of party leaders from 8 November 1967 to 20 June 1968, and substantial agreement was reached on a comprehensive reform of both the composition and the powers of the House of Lords.
		The reformed House to be able to impose a six-month delay from the date of disagreement between the Houses on the passage of non-financial public legislation.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/ld199798/ldbrief/ldreform.htm (3096 words)

	Reform Acts on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Reform agitation, beginning to develop in the 1760s, was supported by William Pitt and others, but the emergency period of the French Revolution interrupted it.
		The bill was passed in the House of Lords only as a result of the government's threat to overcome opposition by creating enough Whig peers to ensure passage.
		The Reform Act of 1884, passed during the administration of William Gladstone, removed the distinction between county and borough franchises and, by the reduction of rural qualifications, added about 2,000,000 more men to the electorate.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/R/ReformA1c.asp (846 words)

	Reform Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Reform Act 1832 (The "First" or "Great" Reform Act), which disenfranchised most of the rotten boroughs and gave representation to previously unrepresented urban areas like Birmingham and Leeds.
		Municipal Reform Act 1835 required members of town councils to be elected by ratepayers and councils to publish their financial accounts
		Reform Act 1867 (The "Second" Reform Act), which widened the franchise, and adjusted representation to be more equitable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reform_Bill (226 words)

	Wednesday, April 5, 1995 -- GOVERNMENT ORDERS (184) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The bill was debated in the House on February 16 and February 27, March 13, March 27 and March 28 for a total debating time according to the official record of 17 hours and 46 minutes.
		By this bill going to committee it will give Canadians the chance to voice their concerns in a public forum, before a legitimate committee, so that the bill can be improved to meet the needs of all Canadians.
		The bill he wanted was one stronger than the one eventually passed, but it was only through the force of personality and the type of people Brady and his wife were that they were able to get that bill at all.
	www.parl.gc.ca /english/hansard/previous/184_95-04-05/184GO1E.html (14344 words)

	Welfare Reform Bill (HR 3437) 1996
		Estimates of the bill's budgetary impact were released by the Congressional Budget Office the day of the Senate vote.
		House and Senate conferees wrapped up negotiations on the bill July 30, one week after the Senate passed its version on July 23 by a vote of 74 to 24, and two weeks after the House passed its version on July 18 by a vote of 256 to 170.
		The bill was the first of three budget reconciliation packages planned for this year.
	www.ombwatch.org /budget/1996/welfare.html (557 words)

	Encyclopedia: Reform Act 1867
		Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (December 21, 1804 - April 24, 1881) was a British Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and author.
		In the United Kingdom, the Reform Act could refer to various Acts Reform Act 1832 (The First Reform Act or The Great Reform Act), which abolished rotten boroughs and gave representation to previously unrepresented urban areas like Birmingham etc....
		The Reform Club is a private gentlemans club situated on the south side of Pall Mall (at number 104), in central London.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Reform-Act-1867 (3525 words)

	Reform Bill -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The first Reform Bill primarily served to transfer voting privileges from the small boroughs controlled by the nobility and gentry to the heavily populated industrial towns.
		On Jan. 20, 1993, Bill Clinton was inaugurated as the 42nd president of the United States and became the first Democrat to inhabit the White House in 12 years.
		Election Reform Debate in the U.S. Amid calls for a radical overhaul of the U.S. electoral system, George W. Bush was inaugurated as president of the United States on Jan. 20, 2001.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9063019&query=healthcare%20reform&ct= (1002 words)

	Encyclopedia: Reform Act of 1867 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Following the Great Reform Act of 1832, it was decided prudent to introduce further electoral reform.
		The purpose of the bill had been to separate the responsible sober skilled working class from the drunken idle and stupid, otherwise known as the residium.
		Towns with a population of less than 10,000 lost an MP, this freed up 45 seats for redistribution amongst new towns, growing industrial towns, northern counties and 1 to the University of London.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Reform-Act-of-1867 (1320 words)

	Parliament of Australia: Senate: Papers on Parliament No 34 - Chapter 2
		The second model was theoretical: being derived from the influential political argument advanced by, among others, John Stuart Mill, for the institution of PR in a house of Parliament.
		The aim of the second chamber was to act as `the centre of resistance to the predominant power in the Constitution', which in modern democracies is the force of the majority, or what he termed `democratic ascendancy' with its defective tendency to cultivate what he, following Tocqueville, identified as the tyranny of the majority.
		Second, the authors take pains to demonstrate the many varieties of PR and in particular to promote their own version of a list system which is designed to consolidate rather than fragment the two party system of parliamentary government, much like some contemporary critics from the major political parties.
	www.aph.gov.au /Senate/pubs/pops/pop34/c02.htm (14180 words)

	Welfare Reform Bill - Second Reading, House of Lords (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Bill must provide a remedy for the financial hardship and homelessness faced by single, under 25 year olds as a result of the restricted amount of Housing Benefit they are eligible for.
		Part 2 of the Bill provides for the introduction of major changes to the way in which Housing Benefit (HB) is calculated and paid with the introduction of the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) and direct payment of the benefit to the claimant in most cases.
		In the January 2006 Green Paper on Welfare Reform the Government said it would reduce the number of people moving onto the new ESA by improving workplace health and by improving the gateway by transforming the PCA, and modernising the processes so that the system is more efficient, and the number of appeals is minimised.
	www.citizensadvice.org.uk /index/campaigns/social_policy/parliamentary_briefings/pb_benefitsandtaxcredits/welfare_reform_bill_-_second_reading__house_of_lords (4783 words)

	Party Vote ACT 2005 // A C T - SENTENCING AND PAROLE REFORM BILL - Second Reading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		This bill purports to satisfy the demands of 92 percent of New Zealand voters for better treatment for victims, toughening up on crime, toughening up on sentencing, and hard labour for the worst criminals.
		This bill gives even more power to the experts, whose goofy theories have got us into our current sorry state whereby ordinary New Zealanders are more at risk of violent crime than ordinary United States citizens.
		It is not recidivism that measures whether our justice system is working, or whether prison sentences work, and it is not whether the evil generation we have had to lock up are going to carry on in their life of crime, it is how many people have been recruited to it.
	www.act.org.nz /item.jsp?id=22254 (1423 words)

	Asia Times - Asia's most trusted news source
		Indeed, it was primarily the Pentagon's opposition to the bill that spurred the dissident Republicans to oppose it.
		Supporters of the bill insisted that, just as the DCI had never interfered in the delivery of tactical intelligence to troops on the ground, the DNI would be unlikely to do so.
		Still, some intelligence professionals say the bill marks an improvement over the status quo, particularly in elevating the importance of inter-agency cooperation by putting the DNI and the NCTC in the White House and by ending the conflict of interest that was inherent in the same person holding the CIA and DCI posts.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Front_Page/FL10Aa01.html (819 words)

	Reform Bill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Reform Act of 1832 (The "First Reform Act" or "The GreatReform Act"), which abolished rotten boroughs and gave representationto previously unrepresented urban areas like Birmingham etc.
		Reform Act of 1867 (The "Second Reform Act"), which widenedthe franchise, and adjusted representation to be more equitable
		The Ballot Act 1872 (sometimes called the "Reform Act of 1872"), which introduced the secretballot.
	www.therfcc.org /reform-bill-77083.html (183 words)

	Reform Acts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		From 1829 to 1832 their discontents fused in the demand for Parliamentary Reform, behind which the massses threw their riots and demonstrations, the businessmen the power of economic boycott.
		For many conservatives, this effect of the bill, which allowed the middle classes to share power with the upper classes, was revolutionary in its import.
		The 1867 Reform Act extended the right to vote still further down the class ladder, adding just short of a million voters -- including many workingmen -- and doubling the electorate, to almost two million in England and Wales.
	www.victorianweb.org /history/hist2.html (394 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Bush urges Congress: OK intelligence reform bill
		Warner, the first member of the Senate from either party to raise such concerns publicly since the final bill was hammered out last month, said he wanted to resolve issues in the legislation that "may impact the time-tested chain-of-command" within the Defense Department.
		The House version of the bill called for greater civil liberties oversight to ensure the sweeping powers granted by the legislation were not abused.
		House speaker J. Dennis Hastert, among the cadre of House Republicans who have dug in their heels, refused to put the intelligence reform bill up for a vote during the recent lame-duck session of Congress, but he promised to keep working toward a compromise.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595110174,00.html (1140 words)

	Aquaculture Reform Bill - Second Reading - Green Party
		This bill is trying to put the control of aquaculture into the hands of the community; in other words, through the regional councils under the auspices of the Resource Management Act.
		What the bill now states is that the people not only have to comply with their resource consent, but also have to comply with the industry standards.
		What the bill is allowing for is that Mâori get 20 percent of the new space, plus it may be that there is another 20 percent, or up to 20 percent, of that new space to take account of the 20 percent from the existing space that is unable to be allocated to them.
	www.greens.org.nz /searchdocs/speech8212.html (1353 words)

	Budget Reform Bill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The previous week, the bill passed 17-16 in the Democrat controlled state senate in a similar party line fashion (17 democrats voting in favor, 15 republicans and 1 democrat in opposition).
		One of the most controversial aspects to the budget bill is the cut to state shared revenue and the impact they will have on local communities.
		Probably the most alarming news is that budget reform bill passed by legislature does not address the underlying financial problems of the budget.
	www.forwardjanesville.com /budgetreform.htm (844 words)

	Legislature: Bill to Hold Washington Primary Earlier is Defeated in Senate ; Democrats Unable to Muster Support \| ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The primary bill was defeated 22-26 Friday night with four Democrats crossing the aisle to vote with Republicans.
		His bill shifted the current mid-September primary date four weeks earlier to August, a change that was also suggested by a statewide election reform task force in a report released last week.
		Kastama said the bill was crucial to allow officials more time to handle any recounts and make preparations for the general election, including sending ballots to military and overseas voters.
	www.aiada.org /article.asp?id=35124 (713 words)

	Employment Relations Law Reform Bill - Second Reading - Green Party
		What these submitters seem to have forgotten is that all the same warnings of imminent disaster were made in 2000, often by the same organisations, and as a result of their crying wolf once too often, the power of their prophecies has been somewhat diminished.
		A second area of particular interest to the Green Party with this Bill has been around the vexed question of how to do more to prevent non-union members freeloading off their union colleagues in the same workplace.
		We are very concerned that the Bill as originally drafted would have undermined all the good work that was happening between health unions and their District Health Board employers on developing a code, and would have given the Minister undue influence when industrial action took place.
	www.greens.org.nz /searchdocs/speech7928.html (818 words)

	USATODAY.com - Roadblocks lifted for 9/11 intel-reform bill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		WASHINGTON — In the end, negotiators found a deal on an intelligence-restructuring bill Monday for the most basic reasons — neither the House, Senate nor the White House wanted to appear unwilling to protect the nation from terrorism after the Sept. 11 attacks.
		The bill calls for creating a civilian national intelligence director to share power with the Pentagon over agencies that operate spy satellites and other intelligence tools.
		Perhaps particularly effective was the charge that a future attack could be blamed on the failure to pass the bill.
	usatoday.com /news/washington/2004-12-06-roadblocks-intel-bill_x.htm (1300 words)

	SparkNotes: Queen Victoria: The Age of Disraeli and Gladstone
		In January 1867, while the Conservatives were in power, Disraeli introduced the Second Reform Bill, which passed both houses of Parliament.
		The bill was urged along by a popular movement to expand the vote to members of the British working class, most of whom owned no property and lived in the cities.
		It was ironic that Disraeli the Conservative pushed through the Reform Bill, but his politics were more democratic than previous Conservative and Tory prime ministers.
	www.sparknotes.com /biography/victoria/section7.rhtml (867 words)

	Representation and Reform In the Early 19th Century.
		The Second Reform Bill was passed in the House of Commons but was rejected by the House of Lords.
		Lord Grey was intelligent in the way that he realised that the defeat of the first two bills and the public disturbances that followed would increase the publics desire for reform.
		The revival of the Whigs would not have been possible without the next factor which was the death of King George IV who was replaced by William IV in 1830.
	www.coursework.info /i/50812.html (466 words)

	Reform of the House Lords (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		I welcome the Government’s decision to establish a Joint Committee of both Houses to move forwards on reforming the second chamber, and the promise of a free vote on options for reform.
		It is my belief that the second chamber should be wholly directly elected/ substantially directly elected, as only this can give the upper chamber the legitimacy it requires to act as an effective check on the actions of both the Government and the House of Commons.
		The wide spectrum of views must not be used as an excuse to delay or limit reform by those opposed to election to the second chamber.
	www.charter88.org.uk /action/lords2.html (442 words)

	Bill St. Clair's Home Page
		Traitors All, my demand for the immediate resignation of every member of the senate and house who voted for the so-called "Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Bill".
		The Lie of Cannabis Prohibition by Bill St. Clair
		Walter Mitty's Second Amendment by Jeff Snyder (off-site)
	www.billstclair.com (392 words)

	Duma Passes Benefits Reform Bill at Second Reading - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Supporters of the bill had gathered nearby and were given preferential status by police, the correspondent said.
		Those rallying in favor of the reform were lined up in front of the National Hotel, just across from the Duma building and in better view of journalists and passersby, the correspondent told MosNews.
		With the new reform bill, the government hopes to replace these benefits — which cost it billions of rubles each year — with monetary compensations.
	www.mosnews.com /news/2004/08/03/reform.shtml (580 words)

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