Sentences with phrase «act into law»

Fifty years ago, on April 11, 1968, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act into law, a measure that has had a major impact in home ownership throughout the country and in New Mexico.

Pictured Above: President Lyndon Johnson signs the Fair Housing Act into law with co-sponsors, Senators Edward Brooke (left) and Walter Mondale (right).

April 11, 2018 will mark 50 years since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act into law.

President Obama signed the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law on July 21, 2010.

In 2010, President Obama signed the Dodd — Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law, which restructures the oversight of financial regulation and includes amendments to the Truth in Lending Act (TILA).

It was again brought up in 2009 when President Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law, which overturned the holding of the Supreme Court case Ledbetter v. Goodyear, which limited employees» ability to sue for arguably inequitable pay decisions.

An Overview of the Elder Justice Act In 2010, President Obama signed Elder Justice Act into law.

In 2015, President Obama signed The Microbead - Free Waters Act into law, making these plastics illegal in the United States as of 2018.

Long story short, the petitions are a critical step in restoring land use rights and protections that were stripped from a tiny percentage of Maine people when Governor John Baldacci signed the Wind Energy Act into law in 2008.

More than 50 Maine towns in other parts of the state have adopted protective wind energy ordinances since 2008, but residents of the unorganized territory lost the ability to do the same, the moment Governor John Baldacci signed the Wind Energy Act into law.

More than 50 Maine towns in other parts of the state have adopted protective wind energy ordinances since 2008, but residents of the «expedited area» in the Unorganized Territory lost the ability to do the same, the moment Governor John Baldacci signed the Wind Energy Act into law.

The reason there aren't more bad days like this for Aaron and for millions of others was because a Republican president, reached over, pen in hand, to signed the Clean Air Act into law.

But on the last day of 1970, Nixon signed the Clean Air Act into law, creating the Environmental Protection Agency.

In the spring of 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law, erecting a boundary — the Mississippi River — between Americans in the East, and those unwelcome inhabitants, Native Americans, forced to the West.

New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed the Research Animal Retirement Act into law, requiring state - funded research facilities to offer dogs and cats to animal shelters and rescue groups, or to manage their own adoption programs when animals are no longer used for research.

Then President Eisenhower signed the REIT Act into law and a new world of investment was opened to people like you and me.

Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law in 1935 during the Great Depression, when more than 50 percent of America's senior citizens were living in poverty.

There is patent reform on the way as President Obama recently signed the America Invests Act into law, shifting from the first - to - invent system to the first - to - file route.

«Today, July second, 1964,» he said, «The president of the United States signed the Civil Rights Act into law in the East Room of the White House.»

When Congress passed and President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law, DOT began implementing the most significant jobs and infrastructure legislation since the New Deal.

On May 15, 2002, President Bush signed the Notification and Federal Employee Anti-discrimination and Retaliation of 2002 (No FEAR) Act into law.

The federal legislators who overwhelmingly passed this act into law apparently assumed that high - stakes tests would improve student motivation and raise student achievement.

Considered «an early Christmas present,» then - President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act into law in mid-December of 2015.

Reason for hope: This month, Congress passed and the President signed a new federal education act into law — one that could begin to change our current landscape of inequitably funded schools, too often focused on a low - level curriculum unsuited to our 21st - century needs.

More than 13 years after President George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act into law, it's now... well, still law.

That's clearly a change from when Schwarzenegger was in office, who gained a reputation for steadily vetoing legislation that was opposed by the association.It is a different feel, too, from the friendly administration of Gray Davis and certainly from the days of Pete Wilson, who signed the original Charter School Act into law.

Phil Bredesen, a Democrat, signed Tennessee's First to the Top Act into law in 2010, which created the Achievement School District.

Indeed, less than a year before the Coleman Report's release, President Lyndon Johnson had signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act into law, dedicating federal funds to disadvantaged students through a Title 1 program that still remains the single largest investment in K — 12 education, currently reaching approximately 21 million students at an annual cost of about $ 14.4 billion.

President George W. Bush signs the No Child Left Behind Act into law, with Representative George Miller and Senator Edward Kennedy behind him (from left)

The Ohio congressman who as chairman of the House education committee helped shepherd the No Child Left Behind Act into law won a surprise election as majority leader last week.

Fast - forward to 2002, when President Bush signed the federal No Child Left Behind Act into law.

The movie explores the source of that concern, the system which finds statewide reading and math proficiency levels looming around 30 % across the nation over eight years after President George W. Bush and Senator Ted Kennedy signed the ambitious, bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act into law.

President Bush Signs Landmark Genetic Nondiscrimination Information Act Into Law Coalition for Genetic Fairness / ASHG Press Release - May 21, 2008

One year ago, Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law, which handed out billions of dollars for science, health, energy and other research.

On January 6, 2011, AAAS CEO Alan Leshner sent President Obama a letter thanking him for signing the America COMPETES Act into law.

The results underline the growing divide Cuomo is facing among voters across regional and especially party lines since signing the NY Safe Act into law on Jan. 15.

The following statements were provided in support of the Governor signing the Wage Theft Prevention Act into law:

Last February, one month after he signed the controversial SAFE Act into law, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's poll numbers took a nose dive upstate.

On Tuesday, President Barack Obama is expected to sign the 21st Century Cures Act into law.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the $ 2.5 billion Clean Water Infrastructure Act into law in Auburn this week, and a big chunk is going to help officials along Owasco Lake clean drinking water threatened by algae blooms.

At 2 p.m., joined by law enforcement, advocates and members of the community, Westchester County Executive George Latimer signs the Immigrant Protection Act into law, Michaelian Office Building, 8th Floor Rotunda, 148 Martine Ave., White Plains.

Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signed the Mississippi Youth Concussion Act into law yesterday, meaning that every state in the nation now has a youth sports concussion law.

In December of that year I watched President Obama sign the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act into law on my laptop's livestream — I still remember exactly what my BFF Michelle was wearing at the ceremony — and I naively thought we were done.

Addition, November 22: President Obama signed the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act into law.

In 2010, in the same month Barack Obama's pen signed the Affordable Health Care Act into law, he also used it to fill in KU as the winning pick on the presidential March Madness bracket.

89 President Clinton signed the Bill Emerson Act into law on October 1, 1996.

When Bush signed the Intelligence Authorization Act into law, he signed the entire act into law, not portions of it.

Canada's former Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, officially signed the Bank of Canada Act into law.

On Friday, Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law, a $ 1.5 trillion proposal that gives corporations a massive permanent tax break, temporarily cuts rates for individuals, and repeals the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate — a move that is estimated to leave 13 million fewer insured in the next 10 years.

This morning, the President signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law.