Sentences with phrase «first state banning»

Starting January 1st, 2010, Minnesota is the first state banning the presence of BPA in food and beverage containers made for children under three - years - old including reusable baby bottles.

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Hawaii could become the first U.S. state to ban sunscreen products containing toxic chemicals dangerous to coral reefs and ocean life.

In the south, Illinois became the first U.S. state to ban the manufacture and sale of products containing microbeads, which will be enacted in 2018.

Last month, it became the first and only state to ban them.

It is the latest successful legislative push targeting union power following a Republican sweep of statehouses in 2010, and if Gov. Mitch Daniels signs the bill as expected it will make Indiana the first Rust Belt state to ban contracts that require workers to pay mandatory union fees for representation.

Three judges on the Ninth Circuit upheld a restraining order on the first travel ban issued by a Washington state judge.

In Washington state, a group of plaintiffs applying for immigrant visas asked U.S. District Judge James Robart in Seattle — who suspended the first ban — to stop the new order.

Those skills paid off handsomely for the first - term Republican this week as Governor Rick Snyder signed into law bills co-sponsored by Colbeck that ban mandatory union membership, making Michigan the nation's 24th right - to - work state.

But the transformation had been in the making since March 2011 when Colbeck and a fellow freshman, state Representative Mike Shirkey, first seriously considered legislation to ban mandatory collection of union dues as a condition of employment in Michigan.

Opponents — including the state of Hawaii and civil rights groups — say that both the first ban and the revised ban discriminate against Muslims.

On Tuesday night, the state legislature refused to debate an outright ban on assault weapons as students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas watched and cried, but the teenagers» push for change is still expected to bring Florida's first limit on gun access in over a decade, according to CNN.

A coffee stand at the headquarters of state - owned Sberbank is one of the first Moscow vendors to take bitcoin, allowing clients to buy espresso and croissants with the crypto - currency, even as some Russian regulators threaten to ban its use.

At first glance, this may cause fears that the United States may be the next to put a ban on the use of cryptocurrencies.

that brought the first interracial kiss to TV, just a year after the Supreme Court struck down state laws banning interracial marriage.

Teenage cheerleaders watched with both bemusement and awe the routines of their predecessors, who included Washington's Nellie (Spike) Swanagan, 78, the state's first female cheerleader; and St. John's Fred Walker Jr., 54, Loogootee's only cheerleader during the days when the local Catholic bishop banned females from the role.

When our new Agriculture Commissioner, Sid Miller, chose as his very first act in office a bogus «lifting» of a non-existent ban on birthday cupcakes in Texas schools, parents and health advocates around the state were understandably alarmed.

The Board of Education has agreed to move forward on a plan to eliminate sugary beverages and make Florida the first state in the nation to ban chocolate milk in public schools.

The ban on phthalate makes California the first state to impose severe limits on a chemical that is widely used in baby bottles, soft baby books, teething rings, plastic bath ducks and other toys, said Assemblywoman Fiona Ma (D - San Francisco), the bill's author.

Last week, Maryland became the first state in the nation to ban the use of arsenic in chicken feed.

Mitt Romney overturned the state's first attempt to institute a ban.

In 2010, SafBaby was the first blog in the United States to report the recall and subsequent ban in France and Belgium of EVA (Ethylene Vinyl Acetate) foam puzzle mats.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is prodding lawmakers to back first passage of a pair of constitutional amendments that would set term limits for state elected officials and create a full - time Legislature that bans outside income.

To a large extent, states are explicitly banned from conducting most types of foreign relations by the U.S. Constitution, unless they get the consent of Congress first:

The first thing to note is that the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington did not «nullify» or «ban» Executive Order 13769.

While all the campaigns noted above were developed or at least supported by most European states, the nuclear ban - treaty movement marks the first time an instrument of international humanitarian law is forced into existence against a kicking and screaming European core.

The states promoting the nuclear ban treaty are, of course, not enslaved like the Haitians, but both cases share the same moral grammar: a set of universal values is for the first time being leveraged against its creators.

While gay marriage advocates have enjoyed the upper hand in the courts since then, the Cincinnati - based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this month became the first to rule the other way in upholding state bans on gay marriage.

His bill banning the use of handheld cell phones while driving became the first such state law in the entire country in 2000.

«We are outside of the state's ban,» Adam Schultz, the legal counsel for Tioga Energy Partners, told the Ithaca Journal when the idea was first proposed last year.

Pressed a third time for what action he plans to take, the governor noted that on Wednesday he released the first platform of his State of the State agenda: Legislation that would ban those convicted of even misdemeanor domestic violence crimes from possessing firearms.

One of Spitzer's first acts was to ban the use of the governor's image in all state - funded TV commercials and publications.

Cuomo earned international headlines and significant credit with progressives and environmentalists when he banned fracking — a decision that was supported by public polling by the time he made it, more than six years after the state issued a de facto moratorium as it weighed the pros and cons (and polling), and that made New York the first state with a major shale gas deposit to enact a ban.

For starters, at the July 30, 2015 Legislative Session, Erie County became the first county in the state to ban the sale of cosmetics and personal care items that contain microbeads.

We passed the first and most stringent microbead law in New York State, a law that was emulated by other counties and eventually pressured the federal government to act, which it did when it passed a nationwide ban earlier this year.

New Yorkers will soon get a chance to decide whether to hold a constitutional convention in New York — but some government reform groups say some major changes need to be made first — including banning double dipping by state lawmakers who might become delegates.

A bill that would make New York the first state in the nation to ban a flame retardant widely identified as a cancer threat, has faced heavy opposition from the chemical industry and may not come to a vote in the current legislative session.

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has used the first television ad of his 2016 campaign to repeat his controversial call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is seeking to join the lawsuit launched by attorneys general from several states, including Oregon, and Minnesota and led by Washington, which was the first state to sue over the original ban, resulting in its being halted by a federal judge in Seattle.

With the governor expected to sign a bill into law lifting New York's last - in - the - nation ban on MMA, it is «up to the state to monitor what many call a blood sport and act expeditiously at the first hint of a problem,» the Buffalo News says.

The State Senate, controlled by a coalition of 30 Republicans and 6 Democrats, approved the package, which included a significant expansion of the state's assault weapons ban, on its first day in session; the Assembly, controlled by Democrats, followed suit the next day, and the governor signed the legislation intoState Senate, controlled by a coalition of 30 Republicans and 6 Democrats, approved the package, which included a significant expansion of the state's assault weapons ban, on its first day in session; the Assembly, controlled by Democrats, followed suit the next day, and the governor signed the legislation intostate's assault weapons ban, on its first day in session; the Assembly, controlled by Democrats, followed suit the next day, and the governor signed the legislation into law.

Cuomo said Wednesday the automatic firearm ban will be his first proposal in his 2018 State of the State address.

Legislative leaders in the Democrat - controlled General Assembly have already announced an ambitious gun - control agenda, including expansion of the state's existing assault weapons ban to cover the Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle and high - capacity ammunition magazines used by Adam Lanza in killing 20 first - graders and six adult staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

In June, Illinois became the first state to ban microbeads.

If passed, the law would be the first in the state by a county legislature banning the use of the chemical - laden wastewater from fracking wells as a road deicer.

New York City would not be the first in the state to have this type of ban.

New Yorkers will soon get a chance to decide whether to hold a constitutional convention in New York - but some government reform groups say there needs to be some major changes made first - including banning double dipping by state lawmakers who might become delegates.

New Yorkers will soon get a chance to decide whether to hold a constitutional convention in New York, but some government reform groups say there needs to be some major changes made first - including banning double dipping by state lawmakers who might become delegates.

New York State first outlawed the conversion of residential rooms into transient hotels in 2010, and since the ban went into effect in May 2011, the city has received more than 1,000 calls about the issue, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said.

Rockland County is now the first in the state of New York to sign off on the ban.

This new state legislation corresponds to a report made by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Plastic Bag Task Force, as well as the ban in California — the first state to ban single - use plastic bags in 2016.