Sentences with phrase «law passed a year»

On July 19, the Green Party of Tennessee, and the Constitution Party of Tennessee, jointly filed a new lawsuit in federal court, alleging that the new ballot access law passed this year is just as unconstitutional as the old one.

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That law followed a financial liability law passed the year before, which dramatically increased the number of people purchasing auto liability insurance.

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In September, Bloomberg reported Russia's main intelligence agency told the company «it is obliged under Russian law passed last year to hand over keys allowing the government to decrypt any communications transmitted over it.»

In the past year, for instance, Berkeley, California, passed a law taxing sugary drinks, and San Francisco now requires warning labels on bottles.

That same year it passed a law giving digital signatures equal weight to handwritten ones.

It's been four years since the Affordable Care Act passed into law — promising sweeping reforms in the way Americans receive health - care coverage.

Wisconsin and Ohio last year passed laws stripping most public sector unions of collective bargaining rights.

The lawsuit, to be filed sometime late Tuesday in federal court in Sacramento, the California state capital, will take aim at three state laws passed last year that the Justice Department contends violate a clause in the U.S. Constitution.

The Chinese Communist Party further tightened access to its 751 million Internet users this year by passing new laws that require foreign firms to store data locally and to comply with data surveillance measures.

The bill will be merged with two information - sharing bills that were passed earlier this year by the House of Representatives, then sent to President Obama to be signed into law.

When the Securities and Exchange Commission writes final rules for the laws that were passed last year in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, or JOBS Act, equity crowdfunding among non-professional investors will be legal in the U.S., too.

He passed control to his son - in - law Arthur Hays Sulzberger, and Arthur Hays's son Arthur Ochs Sulzberger took over in 1963 after a cousin ran the paper for several years.

Earlier this year, Texas passed a law banning jurisdictions that refuse to honor federal requests to detain immigrants.

That ruling ushered in the «separate but equal» era in the U.S., with its disgraceful Jim Crow laws that essentially legalized segregation for nearly 100 years, until the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed.

Other states experiencing a rash of smartphone thefts have considered similar measures, and Minnesota passed a theft - prevention law last year.

Snyder, a former computer executive who had campaigned as a moderate in the 2010 election, had said for nearly two years that right - to - work was too divisive for Michigan, but said he would sign a law if the legislature passed it.

The consumer protection agencies were asked what new laws they would like to see passed this year.

Missouri passed a law earlier this year that reduces residents» participation in SNAP from four to five years, and in Maine, Gov. Paul LePage has threatened to overhaul or completely cease administering the food - stamp program because he believes it is a waste of public money.

The Irish movement draws inspiration from protests in Poland, where women took to the streets in huge numbers to successfully prevent their government from passing harsh abortion laws last year.

Earlier this year, the House of Representatives took decisive action and passed bipartisan reforms to the Congressional Accountability Act (CAA), an outdated law that currently requires sexual assault survivors to endure an antiquated and often expensive dispute resolution process.

So, instead, they managed to get a law passed that limited borrowers to no more than eight payday loans in one year.

Morgan Stanley analyst Rajeev Lalwani forecasts «another +50 percent year» on disciplined management and benefits stemming from the recently - passed U.S. tax reform law.

Two years ago, Congress passed and President Obama signed a law that said private companies can own and sell what they extract, although, abiding by the language of the Outer Space Treaty, the companies can not claim ownership of the celestial body itself.

The association claimed legal and regulatory victories last year in Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, as well as in states like Virginia, Tennessee and Utah, where laws were being passed to restrict Airbnb activity.

The result: Australia's firearm homicide rate dropped by about 42 percent in the seven years after the law passed, and its firearm suicide rate fell by 57 percent, according to a review of the evidence by Harvard researchers.

New York City passed its own such law in 2013 and expanded it the next year.

The measures, known as «red flag laws» or extreme risk protection orders, have shown evidence of reducing suicides in Connecticut, where the first such law was passed in 1999, and in recent years have also been passed in California, Washington and Oregon.

If legislation is passed and signed into law sometime next year, it is uncertain whether or not the changes will be made retroactive to January 1, 2017.

In the past year, Beijing has shut down a handful of popular live - streaming apps, passed a law that forces foreign companies to store data in China, closed trading on its largest Bitcoin exchanges, and cut access to tools that help people access Facebook, Google, and other blocked services.

Last year, the city passed a law that requires entities to draw up a written contract with freelancers on work valued at $ 800 or more, and establishes penalties for not paying freelancers on time or not paying them the agreed - on amount.

Many investors worry about laws passed last year that increase the government's role in managing the pre-salt assets, closing them off from open bidding and mandating that Petrobras be the lead operator in exploiting them.

A few years ago the government there passed a number of tax incentive laws, the most famous of which are known as «Act 20» and «Act 22».

«Passing a law that makes it illegal for a 20 - year - old to purchase a shotgun for hunting or an adult single mother from purchasing the most effective self - defense rifle on the market punishes law - abiding citizens for the evil acts of criminals,» NRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker said in a statement this week.

Apple, the world's most valuable company, said Wednesday that it will spend $ 350 billion on development and create 20,000 jobs in the United States in the next five years, outlining for the first time how it will invest in the U.S. economy following the new tax law passed late last year.

* While credit cards are open accounts and thus don't fall under laws governing written contracts, Arizona passed a law in 2011 lengthening the statute of limitations on them to six years.

The law contains several provisions favorable to businesses, including a cut in the corporate income - tax rate to 21 %, down from 35 %; the ability to write off qualified investments in new facilities right away, rather than over several years; and the potential for a 20 % income deduction for small - business owners who own companies via pass - through entities.

California passed a law last year that prohibited the use of confidentiality clauses in civil settlements if the «factual foundation» for the allegations involve acts that could be prosecuted as felony sexual offenses.

The Volcker rule, finalized three years after the Dodd - Frank financial reform law passed in the wake of the 2007 - 2009 financial crisis, restricts U.S. banks from making certain kinds of speculative transactions on their own account and from investing in hedge funds.

Last week, Florida passed a school safety law that requires schools to conduct mass shooting drills twice a year.

This leaves them without enough money to sustain the living standards of recent years — and they no longer can wipe out their debts by declaring bankruptcy as in times past, because Congress has passed the harsh bankruptcy law that credit - card and bank lobbies paid them to pass.

That number has surged since the government passed a new law earlier this year, recognizing bitcoin as a legal form of currency.

This year, I think it will remain tough sledding for the company in spite of (or perhaps, because of) recreational and medical marijuana laws passing in additional states, including California, this November.

another passing tought most of the cardinals electors are in their 60 or 70 years old according to the cannon law they could elect someone from the archbishop branch I am sure there is a younger and stronger priest that will have the courage and the strenght to clean and stear the barc of St. Peter and he will make the church stronger by correcting the wrongs of the past and mending and shapping the future of the church otherwise stay tuned for another older cardinal to be elected pope and wait another 8 years and we will have this very unsettleing situation once again.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the Democrats» sweeping healthcare reform law does not fund abortions, and that no president's administration has since the Hyde Amendment passed more than 30 years ago.

The resolution, passed every year at the United Nations since 1999, claims that speech deemed offensive to another faith is a violation of international law.

Thus, in recent years the Supreme Court has invalidated a Connecticut law (passed to replace the prior Sunday closing law) allowing workers to select their Sabbath day as their day off from work, struck down a Massachusetts statute allowing churches and schools to object to the issuance of liquor licenses in their near vicinity, and abolished an Alabama law allowing students in public schools a moment of silence.

The Catholic church spends 28 million dollars a year lobbying OUR congress members to pass and enact morality laws.

Over the years England had passed laws regulating the commerce and taxes of its colonies.