Sentences with phrase «federal restrictions»

Meanwhile, there's a bipartisan effort to remove federal restrictions on medical marijuana in the states where it is allowed.
Several other states have stepped up to the plate in the wake of federal restrictions on embryonic stem cell research.
Are there any such federal restrictions of which I might be unaware?
«President Obama's executive order today lifting federal restrictions on embryonic stem cell research is years overdue and will now allow the full potential of scientific research and discovery to be realized.
Campaigners fear it will serve as a model for imposing federal restrictions on LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual] people.
Instead he advocates three steps informed by research: requiring background checks for all U.S. gun sales, forbidding alcohol abusers and those convicted of violent misdemeanors from buying guns, and rewriting current federal restrictions on gun ownership to better capture people who are mentally ill and at risk of violence to themselves or others.
«What we know is absence of federal restriction means that enforcement is uneven and at times nonexistent,» HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell said during a news conference.
The laws have emerged since the enactment in 1994 of federal restrictions requiring businesses to maintain an internal list of people they contact who ask to be taken off the company call list.
In order to expedite medicinal applications, the grants will fund three research facilities free of federal funding to conduct embryonic stem cell research within federal restrictions; various stem cell research centers which support across - the - spectrum collaborations; and current facilities to improve research.
«Canadian homebuyers from coast - to - coast were already struggling with new federal restrictions on access to mortgage financing,» says Soper.
We regularly represent institutional and individual clients in matters involving HIPAA, patient privacy compliance and federal restrictions regarding referral of patients.
The only federal restriction on the deadly poison is a requirement that the labels be registered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
While there have been some federal initiatives to discourage some subsidies, and some attempts at regional truces to reduce interstate arms races, there has been no comprehensive federal restriction on such incentives.
The Senator sponsored the legislation in order to ensure New York teachers are not required to carry firearms in the classroom — if federal restrictions on guns in school zones were to be lifted, Saturday's legislation would prohibit the restriction from being lifted.
DOT says it is working with the feds on what it can and can't have at various Welcome Centers along state highways and is seeking to modernize federal restrictions on commercial activities at rest areas.
A US law bans the sale of Native American remains, but there is no other federal restriction on the sale of human skulls online.
The planned natural gas - fired power plant will be the first to accept federal restrictions on the amount of greenhouse gas it can emit
Among entities that wrote to oppose the listing are several central U.S. states and some jurisdictions along the eastern seaboard, nervous about federal restrictions on development or beach access.
Barack Obama also supports relaxing federal restrictions on research of these dynamic cells.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) today urged that federal restrictions around marijuana be loosened to facilitate research on the drug's potential medical benefits.
Although a number of states have banned reproductive cloning, the measure would put into place the first federal restriction.
Lead study investigator and dermatologist Arielle Nagler says fears about isotretinoin side effects, as well as federal restrictions meant to prevent use of the medication during pregnancy, may have a chilling effect on its use.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R - KY) recently came out in support of hemp farming by co-sponsoring S. 359, the Senate companion bill to the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2013 (H.R. 525), and has expressed support for Kentucky's recently passed Senate bill (SB 50), which would allow Kentucky farmers to grow industrial hemp once federal restrictions are lifted.
While the States of California, Oregon and Washington currently have regulations prohibiting the harvesting of krill within three miles of their coastlines, there was no similar federal restriction within the three to 200 - mile confines of the EEZ.
Together they discuss existing federal restrictions, criminal penalties, and how H.R. 2076 might change the landscape.
Although some provinces recognize specific exemptions for reserve residents or for on - reserve purchases by Aboriginal people, the limits of provincial powers to tax Aboriginal people are circumscribed, constitutionally, by the ascendant federal restrictions set out in the Indian Act.
Federal restrictions limit what funds can support this work.
Senators Wyden, Paul, Merkley and McConnell Introduce Bipartisan Senate Companion Bill to H.R. 525, the Industrial Hemp Farming Act Historic Bills Promise Economic Opportunity by Removing Federal Restrictions on Industrial Hemp Farming in the United States and Allowing States to Regulate the Crop
The Trump administration lifted federal restrictions on foreign ships» transportation of cargo in Florida and Texas.
If passed, SB 50 would begin the process of regulating and rebuilding the agriculture infrastructure for hemp cultivation, but would not begin licensing Kentucky farmers to grow the crop until current federal restrictions on hemp are lifted.
Federal restrictions require that foundation grants be accepted only if other funds are obtained to support the unfunded indirect costs.
In early February 2008, investment banks Morgan Stanley, Citi, and J.P. Morgan Chase announced that any future lending for coal - fired power would be contingent on the utilities demonstrating that the plants would be economically viable with the higher costs associated with future federal restrictions on carbon emissions.
(c) Nothing in this chapter limits the applicability of any reasonable local, state or federal restrictions regarding the maximum number of occupants permitted to occupy a dwelling as long as they are applied to all occupants and do not operate to discriminate or have the effect of discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex, marital status, familial status, source of income, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.
The project, called the Silencing Science Tracker, has so far assembled 96 entries of federal restrictions or prohibitions on climate science since November 2016.
If passed, the bills would remove federal restrictions on the domestic cultivation of industrial hemp, defined as the non-drug oilseed and fiber varieties of Cannabis.
And although he sponsors a bill that would outlaw small handguns, Bayh is proposing legislation that would exempt the black powder used for antique weapons from federal restrictions.
Federal restrictions are as follows:
The project has so far assembled 96 entries of federal restrictions or prohibitions on climate science since November 2016
«Unfortunately these types of studies are nearly impossible due to federal restrictions,» he says.
One of the world's largest producers of electronic refuse, the U.S. imposes no federal restrictions on what materials can be used to make electronic devices or how they can be discarded
However, at the state level, local funding measures have largely circumvented the federal restrictions.
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