Sentences with phrase «law increased the age»

The law increased the age to purchase a firearm to 21, instituted a three - day waiting period, and created a system for police to petition to remove guns from someone deemed a threat.

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Previous research that focused on adolescents» use of the drug in the wake of medical marijuana laws didn't find an increase in that age group, she said.

The Senior $ afe Act will better protect people aged 65 and over from financial exploitation by increasing the likelihood it will be identified by financial services professionals and reported to regulators, Adult Protective Services agencies, and law enforcement authorities.

[74] In 2008, Corzine approved a law that increased the retirement age from 60 to 62, required that government workers and teachers earn $ 7,500 per year to qualify for a pension, eliminated Lincoln's Birthday as a state worker holiday, allowed the state to offer incentives not to take health insurance and required municipal employees work 20 hours per week to get health benefits.

The bill bans bump stocks, increases the minimum age to buy a rifle from 18 to 21 — with exceptions for military and law enforcement officials — and imposes a three - day waiting period for all gun sales.

Passage of these laws is associated with a nearly 40 percent increase in child restraint use among children up to age 8.

«We have introduced tough laws including increasing the minimum age at which someone can be sold a knife from 16 to 18 and penalties for shopkeepers who do beak the law.

Local officials are grappling with the likely increased costs associated with the raise the age legislation that recently became law as part of the new state budget.

County Legislator Mary Jane Shimskey is a sponsor of the Tobacco 21 bill, a law that would increase the age to buy cigarettes and e-cigarettes from 18 to 21.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law on Tuesday a measure that increases the age of legal marriage to 17.

SOUTH NYACK — A new law in Rockland County is increasing the age someone can buy cigarettes and e-cigarettes from 18 years of age to 21.

If approved by the Legislature, the proposal would increase the retirement age to 65 for all public employees hired after the law was passed.

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Scott's proposals following the Marjory Stoneman Douglas massacre last month include raising the minimum age to buy a gun in Florida to 21, increasing funding for school security and mental health, and giving law enforcement the ability to temporarily confiscate guns from people deemed a threat to themselves or others.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone signed a law on Monday increasing the minimum age for buying tobacco and e-cigarettes from 19 to 21 years old.

One 2007 Centers for Disease Control task force study, «Effects on Violence of Laws and Policies Facilitating the Transfer of Youth from the Juvenile to the Adult Justice System,» states that the transferring of children under the age of 18 into the adult criminal justice system increases the rate of violence behavior and makes it more likely for them to return to the system after they serve their time.

«Fireworks - related burns requiring hospital stays skyrocket among kids: Loosening US laws that let people buy pyrotechnics at younger ages is tied to increased incidence and severity of fireworks - related burns in children.»

In the last four decades, laws throughout the United States have steadily increased mandatory safety seat restraint ages.

(Calif.) One of a handful of states working to increase voter registration in the 18 to 24 - year old age group, California passed a new law expanding regulations for student - led voter registration drives on high school campuses.

-- # 400m ($ 530m) for electric vehicle charging infrastructure — # 100m ($ 132m) for a plug - in car grant — # 40m ($ 53m) for charging research & development — Clarifications to the law so drivers will not face taxes if charging at work — 1/3 off rail fares for 4.5 million people aged between 26 - 30 — 1 % increase in company car tax for diesel vehicles — An increase in taxes on new cars that do not meet the latest EU6 emissions band

Thanks to the availability of unprecedented observations from space and ever increasing computational power, ours is the age in which the physical laws that govern climate as an aggregate system will likely be discovered.

The Law Dome ice cores have an overlap of ~ 20 years with the atmosphere and reflect the atmospheric CO2 levels within + / - 1.2 ppmv for the same average gas age: The averaging makes that the ice core record lags the changes in the atmosphere and that fast peaks are suppressed, but for the Law Dome ice cores, any peak of 20 ppmv happening over only one year should be just detected or a 10 - year sustained 2 ppmv increase...

Virginia appellate judges as of today (July 1), will see their mandatory judicial retirement age increase from 70 to 73 under a bill signed into law this spring.

Factors such as lack of awareness of human rights laws, age, recent immigration, uncertain employment, reliance on tips, low rates of unionization, and the prevalence of sexual harassment and sex discrimination in the restaurant industry can increase worker vulnerability.

The recent Law Society of BC Report on the Retention of Women in Law Task Force notes as follows: • Women have been entering the legal profession in BC in numbers equal to or greater than men for more than a decade, yet represent only about 34 % of all practicing lawyers in the province and only about 29 % of lawyers in full - time private practice; and • the legal profession in BC is aging and there will be a net reduction in the number of practicing lawyers — a looming shortage — as older lawyers retire without a corresponding increase in younger lawyers joining the profession.

Although the LCO's mandate explicitly includes the consideration of technology to increase access to justice, none of the students — who are «regular» age law students — have proposed a «technology» project per se.

Following the increased occurrence of bullying in schools among Canadian youths aged 11 to 16, and high - profile suicides of young persons due to bullying, several jurisdictions in Canada are in the process of enacting anti-bullying laws.

In an increasingly digital age of smartphones, tablets and easily accessible technology, law firms that want to increase their client base must effectively use the digital marketing tools available today and be ready to adapt, change and grow as technology does.

In an age of increasing individual longevity, the work of the Office of the Public Guardian is likely to increase, as is the work of those lawyers who specialise in law for the elderly, including lasting powers of attorney and wills.

Whether you're a teen driver looking to increase your knowledge, a foreign or out - of - state driver who needs to learn local laws, or an experienced driver over the age of 50 looking to lower your insurance rates, taking an online driver education course is a good option.

The bill bans «bump stocks,» which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire more rapidly; imposes a three - day waiting period on all gun sales; and increases the minimum age to buy a rifle from 18 to 21, with exceptions for military and law - enforcement members.

The proposed law in Florida — a response to the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — is part of a wide - ranging Senate bill that would allow some school employees to carry guns, increase the age to buy firearms and provide millions of dollars for school safety improvements and mental health programs.

Med techs have an indispensable place in the health care field, and demand will increase as a result of the growing needs of aging baby boomers, advances in health care technology, and changing health care laws.

But in employment matters, U.S. Federal law, and the law of all of the 50 United States, prohibit discrimination in decisions about, and the terms and conditions of, employment based on, among others, age, gender, race, religion, national origin, pregnancy, disability, and with increasing frequency sexual preference.

Much of this increasing need is because of an aging population and changes to federal insurance laws, which means more people require testing.

Guidance recommends interventions across sectors, including comprehensive sexuality education in schools; higher age limits for alcohol consumption; mandating seat - belts and helmets through laws; reducing access to and misuse of firearms; reducing indoor air pollution through cleaner cooking fuels; and increasing access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene.

At this point, I am not aware of any jurisdiction attempting to make the practice illegal, but given the increasing intrusion of civil law into matters of psychotherapy (reporting requirements, legal issues involving age of consent and scope of practice, allowance or disallowance of sexual orientation therapies) it may only be a matter of time.

First, millions of people have gained health insurance coverage as a result of the ACA, and the uninsured rate among women of reproductive age fell by more than one - third over the first two full years of the law's implementation.7 With increasing numbers of their clients obtaining health insurance, abortion providers — and specialized providers in particular — may have new incentives to establish relationships with insurers.

A county may, in the manner prescribed by general law, provide for a reduction in the assessed value of homestead property to the extent of any increase in the assessed value of that property which results from the construction or reconstruction of the property for the purpose of providing living quarters for one or more natural or adoptive grandparents or parents of the owner of the property or of the owner's spouse if at least one of the grandparents or parents for whom the living quarters are provided is 62 years of age or older.