Sentences with phrase «law increases penalties»

The new law increases the penalties for people who injure or kill police or other public safety dogs.

Libre's Law increases penalties in animal neglect cases.

The new law increases penalties for careless drivers — a $ 750 fine, 15 days in jail or a driver training course for a first offense.

The number of texting tickets in New York continued to increase last year as police crack down on abusers and recent laws increased the penalties for getting caught.

Not exact matches

After debacles in the rollout of the law, many Americans are accepting penalties versus buying insurance due to the increases in health insurance premiums.

The TSA suggests that passengers keep in mind that while firearms possession laws vary by state and locality, the agency has the authority to impose civil penalties (up to $ 13,066 per violation), and to increase the fees for repeat violators.

Under current law, the individual mandate and its associated penalties increase federal deficits by encouraging people to obtain subsidized coverage — through Medicaid, the health insurance marketplaces established under the ACA, or employment - based plans (which receive indirect subsidies to the extent that premiums for that coverage are excluded from taxable compensation).

In their rush to pass anti-labour laws that would force the province's largest union into a new contract and increase penalties public sector unions that enter illegal strikes, could Premier Alison Redford «s Government also be infringing on the free speech rights of ordinary Albertans?

However, that increase wo n`t offset the $ 150 million the state lost through a 1981 tax law that liberalized individual retirement account deductions, business depreciation and the marriage penalty.

Wicker Park residents disturbed by discarded syringes and condoms strewn in their yards are lobbying for increased law enforcement and stiff penalties against prostitutes and their clients.

«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.

Republican Sen. Terrence Murphy called for increasing penalties on those who violate campaign finance law by contributing to a local party committee with the explicit intention of having that money transferred to a specific candidate.

Edward Hennessey, Assembly District 3, Suffolk County (Incumbent)-- Hennessey, who was elected to represent his central Suffolk County 3rd District in 2012, was the prime sponsor of a new state law that increases penalties for texting while driving.

Hennessey, who was elected to represent his central Suffolk County 3rd District in 2012, was the prime sponsor of a new state law that increases penalties for texting while driving.

Current Article VII language increases the fines for violations of our cell phone and texting laws and provides for increased penalties for repeat violations within an 18 - month period.

He is committed to improving the suspended / unlicensed driver laws, by uncoupling license suspensions from non-driving infractions and simultaneously increasing penalties for driving without a license and beefing up suspensions for dangerous driving.

Hochul said she was «confident» that Democrats could capture the Senate this year, and pass the Women's Equality Act, which would increase pay equity provisions and sexual harassment penalties as well as change abortion law to decriminalize the practice.

It also increases the penalties for landlords who violate the law.

Local elected officials are praising Governor Paterson for signing «Hayley and Diego's Law,» legislation that will increase penalties against careless drivers.

The bills, which will go into effect 60 days after being signed into law by Mayor Bill de Blasio, are meant to close loopholes that have made a 2012 statewide ban of K2 difficult to enforce, increase individual penalties for sale of the drug and strengthen the city's ability to shut down stores that are discovered to be selling it.

Buchwald says the proposition goes as far as the state can go «given the constraints of the U.S. Constitution... You can't pass a law ex post facto that increases penalties for a crime committed in the past.»

Roads Minister Andrew Jones insisted that Britain has some of the safest roads in the world and added: «We have tightened the laws on drug driving and are looking at increasing penalties for tackling mobile phone use at the wheel.»

A bill sponsored by Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal, a Democrat who represents the Upper West Side, would increase the penalty for violating the law from the existing range of $ 1,600 to $ 25,000 to between $ 10,000 and $ 50,000.

The «Hayley and Diego Law» increases penalties for drivers whose failure to use caution results in injury or death.

Assemblyman who was driving force behind Buster's Law applauds Governor Cuomo's signing of legislation Tedisco sponsored to increase penalties for killing police animals

He voted for pension forfeiture and increasing penalties for law - breakers, but also wants to eliminate legislators» outside income, close the LLC loophole, reform campaign financing and provide district attorneys with more tools to prosecute corrupt politicians.

He will also work to increase the penalties for public officials who break the law, he wrote on his website.

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Keeping the ethics monitoring groups at current levels comes at a time when Mr. Cuomo, lawmakers and other state officials are all floating various ideas to strengthen existing ethics laws, including heightened disclosure requirements, increased penalties and an overhauled per - diem system.

Instead, it focused on the bill's marquee features: requiring legislators to publicly disclose their outside income, creating a database of companies doing business before the state and increasing penalties for violating ethics laws.

Legislatively, Bratton said he wanted to see penalties increased for resisting arrest, and for assaulting or threatening law enforcement officials.

The law broadened the definition of banned assault weapons, increased penalties for illegal gun possession, reduced public access to gun permit information and required mental health professionals to report concerns about a gun - owning patient who posed a risk of harming himself or others.

The councilman, who acts as the Council Public Safety Committee chairman, has been a staunch opponent of graffiti in western Queens, passing laws that ban etching acid and increasing penalties against vandals.

«Through enhanced enforcement and increased penalties for political consultants who flout the law, this new legislation will root out bad actors and shine a spotlight on the sordid influence of dark money in politics,» Cuomo said.

We regretted that the Attorney General's packet of law enforcement bills — specifically increasing penalties for illegal gambling enterprises from misdemeanor to felonies.

If you fail to make at least your minimum payment within 60 days after its due date, subject to advance notice requirements required by law, your APR will be increased to the Penalty Rate (also known as the «default rate,» or «default APR») as disclosed on the then - current Rates and Fees Table.

Penalties for violating the law increase by the number of violations, as follows:

The tax act also expands the child credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), reduces marriage penalties, increases subsides for education and retirement saving, repeals the limitations on itemized deductions and phaseouts of personal exemptions, and provides temporary, limited relief from the alternative minimum tax (AMT), a complex law that was designed to prevent aggressive tax sheltering but primarily affects large families or residents of states with high income taxes.

In addition to regulating pet dealers, the new laws will increase penalties for the intentional killing of police animals, and improve the manner in which animal abusers are required to pay for the cost of care for abused animals that have been seized in cruelty cases.

Animal Cruelty Legislation Canada's animal cruelty laws were amended recently to increase maximum penalties for some animal cruelty offences.

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The law is designed to protect intellectual property — IP — on the Web by increasing penalties for online copyright infringement.

The New Jersey Legislature passed two bills that will strengthen New Jersey's cruelty laws by increasing penalties for extreme animal neglect and will allow certain veterinary students to engage in supervised veterinary activities.

Other notable changes this year included Oklahoma's (17) and Pennsylvania's (42) increased penalties for harming a police animal, Colorado's (8) increased animal fighting penalties, Delaware's (12) new prohibition on leaving an animal unattended in a motor vehicle, and Tennessee's (22) new law providing civil immunity for forcibly removing an animal from a hot car.

• The laws also increase the penalties for those who commit the most serious offences of cruelty against animals.

The HSUS recognized Reps. Grogins and Urban for their work on several fronts: increasing penalties for cruelty to animals, taking action against cruel puppy mills through passage of the Pet Lemon Law, banning Internet hunting, and passing legislation to increase likelihood of adoptions in municipal shelters.

The stakeholder group discusses the pros and cons of changing state laws to increase fines and penalties for not altering pets.

These include tougher provincial laws and penalties, giving the mandate to all Quebec SPCAs / SPAs to enforce Quebec's animal welfare laws, and increasing funding from the government to do so.

HSI Canada will be a strong voice to this end, with plans to propose broad, sweeping measures to finally help dogs and cats live with the dignity they deserve: tougher provincial laws and penalties; giving the mandate to all Québec SPCAs / SPAs to enforce Quebec's animal welfare laws; and increasing funding from the government to do so.

It's political suicide to screw around with the laws where the penalty for breaking the law encourages over-enforcement by over zealous police officers forced by their municipality to increase revenues.