Sentences with phrase «changes to the law last»

In some areas, they are even behind the times in respect of the legal situation: changes to the law last year introduced two new stalking offences.

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Last month, a Microsoft lawyer urged the European Union to revamp its laws in a speech subtitled, «How Cloud Computing Will Change Our World.»

LONDON — An influential Tory MEP who helped to draft the biggest change to European finance laws in the last decade says the government's leaked Brexit impact report shows a «consensus» is emerging around the effects of leaving the EU.

«It used to be that Silicon Valley had the attitude that Washington was inconvenient,» Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur and researcher of public policy at Stanford Law School, says, but over the last few years Silicon Valley has reached a turning point, and that perspective has changed drastically.

The laws in some states may not have changed to protect LGBT workers, but individual American attitudes have changed considerably in the last decade.

The bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus last week released a plan to stabilize the individual insurance market and make other changes to health care laws.

«I thought if ever we were going to do something dramatic and lasting to change Australia's gun laws to prevent the emergence of a more alien gun culture in our country, this was the time to do it.»

«It used to be that gender was dismissed out of hand as unimportant, but boy has that changed in the last two years,» says Laura O'Neill, director of law and policy with SHARE, an advisor group to institutional shareholders.

Reports suggest the law will last a decade to create equal representation before being changed back.

Dr Peter Saunders, the campaign director explained the decision: «The judges» ruling was really pretty emphatic... there's been over ten attempts to change the law in British parliament in the last 15 years but all have failed because of concerns about public safety and the ramifications for vulnerable people».

Mr Obama is like chameleon his change depend who is his guest, with the rainbow party he is the first to understand the situation of the gay and lesbian, with the n.a.a, c.p. he is the brother who know how is become a black, with the mexican legal or illegal he know too because his father was illegal too, and the last the white people because his mother was a white, the question are how he can be with so many people who broke the law of the LORD and the law of united states of america.

A study by Australia's Department of Health last year concluded that the number of smokers fell by 108,228 people from December 2012 (when the law changed) to September 2015.

The brewery began making plans to increase production after a state law limiting production for self - distributing breweries that also operate taprooms was changed last summer.

Queensland's government last month changed laws to allow free range egg farms to keep up to 10,000 hens per hectare, up from a previous limit of 1500.

Gazidis pointed out something last year «catalyst for changes» and he was blaming our poor infranstructre we have at Arsenal where a head coach / manager had so much power to do almost everything sorrounded with incompetence / yes man like Dick Law reporting to him and going out to close a deal or push it to a finishing line with fixed price set up by Wenger!

So I apologise if this comes across as uncivil, but — «the most experienced democratically elected president of the world» has the most experience because he has changed the laws several times to allow him to run more than he should have, and now last year lengthened the amount of time he can stay in office.

The Nebraska legislature voted to change the law last month and overrode a veto by Ricketts.

For on 22 April the changes to the law embodied in the Children and Families Act (given Royal Assent last week) come into force.

it is clear that the change in divorce laws in the last half of the 20th century reflected a change in social values — a change that simultaneously attempted to: 1) make divorces easier to obtain; 2) reduce the social and legal stigma associated with divorce; and 3) reduce the psychosocial trauma (blame and character assassination) associated with divorce.

First of all, nowhere does the piece mention that the full price for an elementary school lunch in Steamboat Springs is $ 3.00 (with the price rising to $ 4.00 in high school), whereas last year the full price for an elementary school lunch in Greene County was a mere $ 1.25 (though, due to changes in the federal law, that price will go up next year.)

No, you don't have to do whatever your mother - in - law says, but what has changed about potty training in the last 40 years is that parents have been convinced it's something to be freaked out about, not that people used to beat their children until they were potty trained and now they don't.

Nick Clegg, who led the bill through a lengthy consultation process with other Commonwealth countries, said: «The other Commonwealth countries where Her Majesty the Queen is head of state have just given us the green light to change the law, and we are wasting no time,» Nick Clegg said last night.

As the law currently stands, in order be granted a gender recognition certificate and have the sex on your birth certificate and other identifying documents changed, you must apply to the Gender Recognition Panel, providing proof of a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria, and evidence that you have lived fully for the last two years in the acquired gender role and intend to live in it permanently.

A major one went live late last week, and my NWLC colleagues and I have been busy promoting it since: check out the new Faces of Title IX, which tells nine stories of women and girls whose lives have been changed because of the law that guarantees equal access to educational opportunities.

The New York State Sheriff's Association sent a letter to the Governor last week asking him to clarify, and even change, certain aspects of the law.

Opposition to changes to the state's Scaffold Law remains a heated issue in Albany, as evidence by the criticism from some advocates of the Lawsuit Reform Alliance's BBQ fundraiser held last night.

Newtown's police commissioners want Connecticut law changed so officers and others who responded to last month's deadly school shooting are covered by workers» compensation.

This May will be the first time 16 - and 17 - year - olds will be eligible to vote in a Scottish Parliament election and follows a change in the law last year which allows this age group to vote in all Scottish parliamentary and council elections.

The legislature had to change the county law to add these questions last year.

Modest changes were made to the state's property tax cap law last year, but not as much as some local government leaders had sought.

During a CapTon interview in his Capitol office yesterday, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie declined to immediately sign off on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's so - called «Charlotteville provisions» that would change the state's hate crimes law in response to the violence in Virginia last weekend.

This appeared to be coming into fruition after his announcement at the Conservative party conference last month when he announced he would be changing the law to make it clearer that homeowners could defend their property against intruders — allowing the use of force which might «in the cold light of day appear disproportionate».

Laura Schaefer (R - Westbury) said the change to the social host law is necessary to battle an opioid crisis that claimed the lives of some 600 Long Islanders last year, including about 200 in Nassau.

The State Senate last week, meanwhile, sought to cushion the blow of the federal tax law with a bill that reconciles the state code with the changes in Washington — a change that saves New York taxpayers $ 1.5 billion.

The agreement came after Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, who replaced Dean Skelos as the top GOP conference member in May, pledged to enact changes to the gun control law after some upstate Republicans were disappointed that yet another Long Islander would lead the last vestige of Republican power in the state.

If the NYT is unhappy with current disclosure laws (which I thought the state tightened up already), they should have spent the last year relentlessly hounding Cuomo and the State Legislature to make further changes.

------ John Flanagan, who replaced Skelos as Senate majority leader last week, has assured upstate members he will push for changes to Gov. Cuomo's controversial 2013 SAFE Act gun control law.

Last spring, the state Legislature changed the law to say the dollar amounts must be public.

Some have also accused the mayor of using threats of layoffs to get the «last in, first out» law changed.

Cuomo led and closed his 2018 - 19 budget address Tuesday by underscoring the need to adapt a dramatic change in the state tax code to counter a federal tax law passed last month by the Republican - controlled Congress and President Donald Trump.

The State Senate last week, meanwhile, sought to cushion the blow of the federal tax law with a bill that reconciles the state code with the changes in Washington.

The Town Board voted unanimously after a public hearing last Tuesday to approve a local law changing beach parking permits from one - year to two - year.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo laid out a plan to tighten anti-bribery laws last week and the Independent Democratic Conference later would release a kitchen sink - style package of bills ranging from campaign finance changes to strengthening the role of the state attorney general.

Last year justice secretary Jack Straw said the government was «ready to consider» changing the law.

In the last quarter of the current State fiscal year, for example, withholding collections are expected to be reduced by more than $ 1.0 billion because of the tax law changes.

After last week's Vergara v. California ruling, New York's teachers unions and education reform groups are preparing to battle over expected legal action seeking to change the state's tenure laws.

According to New York election law, registered voters missed the last chance to change their party affiliation for the entire 2016 primary season — presidential on April 19, congressional on June 28, state and local on Sept. 13 — more than five months ago.

During last week's prime minister's questions, David Cameron was confronted by Caroline Lucas MP on why the government had done nothing to change our rotten extradition laws, despite a clear call from two separate parliamentary committees, a Commons motion in December last year and well - supported public petitions to do just that.

However last night, the strategy appeared to hit a bump with the publication on Twitter of an ad stating that Christmas was «incompatible» with EU law and that Santa would have to change his colours.

Governor Andrew Cuomo, who grudgingly earned the party's endorsement last year, has threatened to seek changes in the state's election law that could eliminate the Wilson - Pakula, the ability of a party to grant space on its ballot to candidates who aren't members of the party.