Sentences with phrase «island state law»

Rhode Island state law requires comprehensive sexuality education.

Find out about the auto insurance coverage Rhode Island drivers need, and the minimum coverage amounts required by Rhode Island state law.

Rhode Island state law requires you to carry a certain minimum amount of Rhode Island car insurance in order for you to comply with its requirements.

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New retail trading laws for WA will affect businesses as varied as Bunnings, Masters, stallholders at short - term markets and even shops on Rottnest Island as the state government moves to widen trading hours and remove anomalies in current regulations.

Rhode Island's Senate has voted 26 to 12 to allow gay couples to get married in the state, in a law that could go into effect as early as August, provided the House falls in suit.

The ban on «God Cares» is one application of state laws widely opposed by the island nation's Christians and other non-Muslims.

He writes about the sixteen days he spent sailing the Pacific Ocean with five buddies and a crate of canned meat, the time he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state, his stubbornness in getting into law school by sitting on a bench outside the dean's office for seven days until they finally let him enroll, his «office» at Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland, the flowers he sent to the elderly woman who nearly killed him running a stop sign, the work he's done to free Ugandan children from prison.

Rhode Island and New Jersey have also passed paid family leave laws, and other states have considered similar bills.

Additional Content Requirements: None Guidance Materials: Rhode Islands» Coordinated School Health Program, THRIVE, has produced a comprehensive District Health & Wellness Subcommittee Toolkit to aid subcommittees in creating and implementing wellness policies as required by state and federal law.

According to the National Conference of State Legislators, 49 states including the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands have laws that «specifically allow women to breastfeed in any public or private location.»

Rhode Island law states that children under age 8 who weigh less than 80 pounds and are less than 57 inches tall must be properly restrained in the rear vehicle seat in an approved car seat or booster seat.

Since the AAP's change, eleven states (California, Connecticut, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon and Virginia) have updated their child restraint laws accordingly.

Those states are Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming, [As an authors note: I am happy to say that my states protects breastfeeding mothers in public, from indecency laws, and at work!]

You have the right to refuse treatment, as stated in the hospital policy and Rhode Island law.

Former Republican Long Island state Sen. Jack Martins has joined a law firm that helped defeat his bid for Nassau County executive last year.

Schneiderman's campaign has made choice a signature focus, using it as a cudgel with which to smash his GOP / Conservative opponent, Staten Island DA Dan Donovan, who is personally pro-life, but insists he won't actively seek to change state law in this arena the way attorneys general have done in other states.

Staten Island DA Dan Donovan has said he's pro-life, but has also pledged to uphold state laws on abortion and not seek to criminalize or limit access it in any way.

Maybe the NY Daily News should be careful about slander as well: check the Monday, March 15, 2015 Headline that states: «Veteran Long Island State Senator John Flanagan voted on bills that benefitted clients at law firm.»

The governor signed into law a $ 25.8 billion state education spending plan that includes a $ 129 million boost in funding for Long Island, and a $ 386.8 million bump for New York City.

But take heart: I'm sure if you and others of your like - mind wanted to take over, say, Ward's Island in the East River, I'm sure you could secede from NYS and pass your own state laws, as absurd as they might be.

Kevin Law, president of the Long Island Association and a former LIPA chief, said the bigger commitment to wind could prove helpful now that the state has reached an agreement to shutter the 2,000 - megawatt Indian Point nuclear power plant.

The law reduces the state and local tax (SALT) deduction, which Gregory said will hurt Long Island homeowners.

Mr. Lally was Founding Chairman of the Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies, Long Island chapter, and served as Founding Chairman of the New York State Republican Lawyers Association.

The new law, sponsored by state Sen. Elaine Phillips (R - Long Island), the list of serious offenses will include misdemeanor assault, harassment and other crimes if the perpetrator is in the same family or household as the victim.

The state Democratic convention will reportedly be held in Melville on Long IslandMay 21 - 22, and Kevin Law, president and CEO of the Long Island Association might be on tap to replace Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy as Cuomo's running mate.

In a ceremony Monday morning, Gov. Andrew Cuomo — flanked by Democratic legislators and his lieutenant governor — signed a state law that will gradually raise the minimum wage on Long Island to $ 15 an hour.

At 8 p.m., SUNY Buffalo Law Fellow Jeff Wice discusses the state constitutional convention vote at the Staten Island Young Republicans meeting at Canlon's Restaurant, 1825 N. Railroad Ave., Staten Island.

The state's highest court in a ruling on Tuesday found that a special prosecutor can continue an investigation into whether the labor - backed Working Families Party broke election laws during a 2009 Staten Island city council race.

But elected officials and advocates say they are filing amicus briefs in opposition to the city's appeal of a July 2015 state court decision that called for the release of a summary of misconduct findings against Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who put Staten Island man Eric Garner in a chokehold that killed him, noting that the law permits released based on a court order.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Former New York Gov. David Paterson is urging state lawmakers to pass a law that would grant a larger pension to NYPD Officer Rosa Rodriguez, critically injured in a fire in Coney Island last month.

Last week the Long Island Progressive Coalition demonstrated outside the law firm that employs State Sen. Kemp Hannon, saying he was benefiting from investments in companies he regulates as a lawmaker.

The tiny Tuckahoe school district failed Tuesday in its second attempt to override its tax cap and will be forced to freeze taxes as a result — the first Long Island district to experience such consequences under New York State's strict cap law.

Prevention efforts in his proposal include expansion of a Staten Island school prevention program Citywide, creation of a «Synthetics Task Force» with federal, state and city law enforcement and «develop [ing] clearer standards for prescribing opioids.»

«While there may be a few winners, the majority of Long Islanders will pay more federal taxes as they will no longer be able to deduct all their state and local taxes,» said Kevin Law, CEO of the pro-business Long Island Association.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos of Long Island said Tuesday that the goal of the negotiations with Cuomo is «full transparency and strong ethics laws» modeled on effective laws in other states.

The Nassau County - based Skelos, who works for Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, a major Long Island law firm that represents dozens of powerful businesses before state agencies, voluntarily revealed last year that he was paid as much as $ 250,000 in private legal fees in 2009, when he was Senate minority leader.

ALBANY — One hundred New York state troopers will be deputized to carry out law enforcement activities in Puerto Rico as Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday authorized sending more resources to the hurricane - ravaged island.

The state law that authorized the tax spells out how the funding is to be used and specifies that 24 percent is provided to the Long Island Convention and Visitor's Bureau, a promotion council serving both Suffolk and Nassau County.

State Senator Diane Savino (D - Staten Island), sponsor of New York State's medical marijuana law, was originally skeptical of the plan, but has since voiced her support.

Nathan Berger, the Long Island coordinator for the Justice for Farmworkers Rural Migrant Ministry, says they are seeking an eight - hour day, overtime, and one guaranteed day off per week, as farm workers are exempt from many state labor laws.

According to a state Business Council analysis, three other states have active paid family leave laws, California, New Jersey and Rhode Island.

The tiny Tuckahoe school district failed in its second attempt to override its tax cap and will be forced to freeze taxes as a result — the first Long Island district to experience such consequences under New York State's strict cap law.

They included Kathleen Rice, a U.S. representative from Long Island who unsuccessfully challenged Schneiderman in the 2010 Democratic primary; Preet Bharara, the former U.S. attorney from Manhattan; Alphonso David, Cuomo's chief counsel; Michael Gianaris, a state senator from Queens and chief political strategist for the Democratic conference; Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham Law School professor who ran for governor in 2014; Letitia James, the New York City public advocate; Carrie H. Cohen, a former federal prosecutor who handled the trial of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver; Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D - N.Y.; and Benjamin Lawsky, formerly the state's top financial regulator.

Opponents of New York State's teacher tenure laws won a small but important victory when a Staten Island judge allowed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of those rules to move forward.

Following a heated debate in which Staten Island Republican Assemblyman Ron Castorina Jr. referred to abortion as «African American genocide,» the Assembly passed a bill that would protect under state law the same rights a woman has to an abortion under federal law.

(c) In addition to its National Guard, if any, a State, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, Guam, or the Virgin Islands may, as provided by its laws, organize and maintain defense forces.

«The property tax cap enacted in 2011, with support from the LIA and the statewide business community, is working,» wrote Kevin Law, the Long Island Association's president and member of the state's casino siting board, in a letter to the state's top elected officials on June 18.

A former Nassau County resident convicted of a misdemeanor in the 1980s became the first person to have his criminal record sealed by a Long Island court under a new state law aimed at giving nonviolent offenders a clean slate.

Former Lieutenant Gov. Richard Ravitch told MTA Board members today that they would be breaking state law if they approved Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to reduce tolls on the Verrazano - Narrows Bridge for Staten Island residents, robbing the authority of revenue it can ill afford to lose.

James Coll, a veteran New York City detective who lectures on constitutional law, is appealing a Long Island judge's recent dismissal of his lawsuit seeking to kill a commission considering state legislative, executive, and judicial pay raises.