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omnibus — om ni*bus, a. Pertaining to or dealing with a variety of topics at one time; as, omnibus legislation; an omnibus budget bill. [PJC] {Omnibus bill}, a legislative bill which provides for a number of miscellaneous enactments or appropriations.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Omnibus bill — omnibus om ni*bus, a. Pertaining to or dealing with a variety of topics at one time; as, omnibus legislation; an omnibus budget bill. [PJC] {Omnibus bill}, a legislative bill which provides for a number of miscellaneous enactments or… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Omnibus box — omnibus om ni*bus, a. Pertaining to or dealing with a variety of topics at one time; as, omnibus legislation; an omnibus budget bill. [PJC] {Omnibus bill}, a legislative bill which provides for a number of miscellaneous enactments or… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Omnibus bill — An omnibus bill, from the Latin omnibus meaning for everything, 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 into a single bill. Examples are… … Wikipedia
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 — Full title A bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 4 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal year 1988. Acronym OBRA 87 Enacted by the 100th United States Congress … Wikipedia
Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 — Full title An act to designate certain land as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System, to authorize certain programs and activities in the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture, and for other purposes.… … Wikipedia
omnibus bill — see bill 1 Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. omnibus bill n. A piece … Law dictionary
omnibus — (n.) 1829, four wheeled public vehicle with seats for passengers, from Fr. (voiture) omnibus (carriage) for all, common (conveyance), from L. omnibus for all, dative plural of omnis all (see OMNI (Cf. omni) ). Introduced by Jacques Lafitte in… … Etymology dictionary
Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995 — Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995, US Senate bills S.390 and S.761. [1] Senator Joe Biden introduced the bill on behalf of the Clinton Administration on Feb. 10, 1995.[2] [3] The bill was co sponsored by Senators Alfonse D Amato, Dianne… … Wikipedia
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 — The Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Pub.L. 90 351, June 19, 1968, 82 Stat. 197, 42 U.S.C. § 3711) was legislation passed by the Congress of the United States that established the Law Enforcement Assistance… … Wikipedia
