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An omnibus bill is a proposed law that covers a number of diverse or unrelated topics. Omnibus is derived from Latin and means "to, for, by, with or from everything". An omnibus bill is a single document that is accepted in a single vote by a legislature but packages together several measures into one or combines diverse subjects.
When Congress does not or cannot produce separate bills in a timely fashion, it will roll many of the separate appropriations bills into one omnibus spending bill. [ 1 ] : 61 The deadline could be the start of the next fiscal year, October 1, or it could be some other deadline when appropriations would otherwise run out (such as a deadline set ...
Omnibus bill, a single legislative document containing many laws or amendments; Omnibus claim, a patent claim which does not explicitly state any technical features of the product or process; Omnibus clause; Omnibus hearing; Omnibus issue, in philately; Omnibus law (Serbia), a Serbian law regarding Vojvodina; Omnibus progression, a type of ...
The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OBRA-90; Pub. L. 101–508, 104 Stat. 1388, enacted November 5, 1990) is a United States statute enacted pursuant to the budget reconciliation process to reduce the United States federal budget deficit.
The bill, which triggered bipartisan opposition in the House, has prompted calls for the governor to veto parts or all of the legislation.
Occasionally Congress packages several of the twelve appropriations bills into one larger bill called an omnibus spending bill or an omnibus appropriation measure. Often the bills are considered separately at the beginning and get combined later because inability to pass bills individually has led to the exigency of a potential government ...
Although this statute became law on April 7, 1986, its official name is the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (Pub. L. 99–272, 100 Stat. 82). Because of the discrepancy between the official name of the Act and the year in which it was enacted, [ 1 ] some government publications refer to the Act as the Consolidated Omnibus ...
An omnibus edition or omnibus is a book containing multiple creative works by the same or, more rarely, different authors. Commonly two or more of the works have been previously published as books, but a collection of shorter works, or shorter works collected with one previous book, may also be known as an omnibus.