Sentences with phrase «enacted against fund»

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State officials have taken a big step in the fight against public corruption, as the Legislature has approved a proposal to enact a constitutional amendment that would strip taxpayer - funded pensions from state and local leaders who commit felonies in connection with their office.

In two separate lawsuits, opponents of educational choice alleged that Nevada's ESA violated the state constitution's mandate that the state provide a «uniform system of common schools» (Article 11, Section 2), its prohibition against using public funds for sectarian purposes (Article 11, Section 6), and a clause requiring the state to appropriate funds to operate the district schools before any other appropriation is enacted for the biennium (Article 11, Section 10).

Alabama also enacted tuition grant state laws permitting students to use vouchers at private schools in the mid-1950s, while also enacting nullification statutes against court desegregation mandates and altering its teacher tenure laws to allow the firing of teachers who supported desegregation.50 Alabama's tuition grant laws would also come before the court, with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama declaring in Lee v. Macon County Board of Education vouchers to be «nothing more than a sham established for the purpose of financing with state funds a white school system.»

A lengthy discussion that follows of so - called Blaine amendments (the generic term for measures enacted in various state constitutions forbidding direct government aid to educational institutions with any religious affiliations) contends that since the ESA money goes to parents, state constitutional prohibitions against funding religious institutions are avoided.

Enacted in 2010 by a Democrat - controlled Congress and signed into law by Barack Obama, FATCA is virtually unknown to most Americans but has been wreaking havoc with the global financial system outside the US Touted as a weapon against «fat cat» tax evaders stashing funds offshore, FATCA is instead an indiscriminate information dragnet requiring all non-US financial institutions (banks, credit unions, insurance companies, investment and pension funds, etc.) in every country in the world to report data on all specified US accounts to the IRS.

On the other hand, it has enacted specific rules on execution proceedings against foreign States undertaken by so - called «vulture funds» as had been the case with the famous NML capital Ltd. v. Argentina litigation (Article 60).

The measure nullifies an Obama - era rule that was enacted specifically to protect Planned Parenthood from the GOP's passionate crusade against the reproductive health organization, and will allow individual states to single out abortion providers and deny them Title X funding for political reasons.