Sentences with phrase «mandated by federal law»

Not only is it mandatory in most states — certain motor carriers, freight forwarders, and freight brokers who transport goods or passengers across state lines are also mandated by federal law to have liability car insurance.

Offering «free credit reports» becomes a federally regulated act on Friday, requiring companies making those offers to prominently say their offers are not the ones mandated by federal law.

They are still mandated by federal law for those with incomes under 250 % of poverty level (and the gold plating gets thicker as your income drops!).

While these free services provided by the credit reporting agencies as mandated by Federal law are the best option for most individuals it does not provide additional information such as a FICO score.

Some of these are mandated by federal law, while others are offered by the credit card issuers themselves.

Mandated by federal law, you won't have to pay for repairs for a manufacturer's safety recall for up to eight years after the recall is issued.

Since 1994, most jurisdictions have passed additional zero - tolerance policies that extend well beyond those mandated by federal law.

State officials must maintain their focus on helping all students achieve proficiency in math and English by 2014, as mandated by federal law.

As a component of the school - level parental involvement policy mandated by federal law Title I, each school served under this part shall jointly develop with parents for all children served under this part a school - parent compact that outlines how parents, the entire school staff, and students will share the responsibility for improved student achievement and the means by which the school and parents will build and develop a partnership to help children achieve the State's high standards.

Over half these complaints involve the treatment of children with disabilities; often these involve disagreements over the details of the individualized education plans mandated by federal law.

For most women, taking time off is not a realistic option, either because their employers won't grant them anything beyond the 12 weeks of unpaid leave mandated by federal law or because they couldn't afford to take time off even if it were available.

Special education services for school - age children with disabilities that attend public schools or are homeschooled are mandated by federal law.

Not exact matches

The conclusions deal a blow to what are known as cellulosic biofuels, which have received more than a billion dollars in federal support but have struggled to meet volume targets mandated by law.

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).

Going further, the federal law mandating that all patients be offered «living wills» or other advanced directives to «pre «choose» withdrawal of treatment could be met in Catholic hospitals by offering documents that are more protective and clearly reflect Catholic principles.

The group helped lobby for the legislation at the center of the debate: the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act, a law championed by the first lady that mandates more fruits and vegetables, whole grains and less sodium in exchange for more federal funding on meals.

This recent article by San Francisco school food reformer Dana Woldow describes the struggles of some districts in California to meet not just the new federal mandate to have drinking water available, but also a California state law requiring the same thing.

Both federal and state law already required coverage of contraceptives, but this bill would expand the mandate in some respects — most notably by ordering plans to provide a 12 - month supply when filling prescriptions and banning copayments or coinsurance of any amount.

The machines mandated by the federal HAVA law debuted last year as part of a pilot project in some select local races, but this is the first time they've been deployed statewide.

Months ago, to ensure that military and overseas citizens» votes are counted this November, a federal judge mandated, as required by federal law, that New York move its primary election for members of Congress from Sept. 11 to June 26.

NYCHA was also criticized following the disclosure that the head of the authority, Shola Olatoye, had falsely told the federal government that lead - paint inspections mandated by law had been conducted.

Senate Republicans aren't complaining about Gov. Andrew Cuomo's creation of an health insurance exchange through an executive order, part of the federal mandate stipulated in the health care law that could ultimately be tossed out by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The city will also have to meet officer - to - inmate ratios mandated by the settlement of that federal lawsuit, and needs to comply with other laws that require higher ratios for female and transgender inmates, and is seeking to address increasing overtime costs.

Updegrove noted that SNA was not mandated by the federal government under welfare reforms signed into law by former President Bill Clinton in 1996.

The United States expanded its federal biofuels mandate in a 2007 law to reach 36 billion gallons by 2022, with up to 15 billion gallons coming from corn ethanol and the balance from so - called advanced biofuels like cellulosic ethanol.

This law is so weak, critics say, that an EPA effort to ban asbestos — a class of fibrous minerals known to cause the deadly lung cancer mesothelioma — got struck down by a federal court in 1991 because the agency had failed to comply with another TSCA mandate that the agency pick the «least burdensome» way of regulating a substance.

The goals are already set by the mandate, with the valid definition when required by the federal or state law.

Importantly, the new law also removes the federal mandate — pushed by former Education Secretary Arne Duncan — that states deploy test - based teacher evaluations.

The term «proficiency» is key because the federal No Child Left Behind law mandates that 100 percent of students must be «proficient» under state standards by 2014 — a goal that has been universally described as impossible to reach.

Many of those laws were prompted by a desire to win competitive federal grants, notably the 2009 Race to the Top program, intended to induce states to mandate changes in the way districts assess both teachers and principals.

In none of these U-T pieces did the author correctly inform readers that charter schools must use lotteries mandated by both federal and state law when the number of applicants for their school exceeds the seats available.

The new law prohibits the federal government from mandating teacher evaluations or defining what an «effective» teacher is and calls for many decisions for local schools and states be determined by collaboration between educators, parents and other community members.

TABOR specifically precludes school districts from withdrawing from or refusing to participate in programs mandated by state or federal law.

Because meeting certain English learner needs — like testing — is mandated by state and federal laws, schools will have to find a way to comply.

Evers is referring to No Child Left Behind, the sweeping federal law that mandates that 100 percent of students be accountable by 2014.

As Mrs. XXXXX stated in her initial response to you, local school districts do not have the authority to permit parents to opt - out their children from mandated testing, as testing all students is required by state and federal law.

They are mandated in nearly every public school by No Child Left Behind, the 2001 federal education law.

⇒ The new SAT is required to meet the federal accountability 95 % Test Participation Rate as mandated by the federal Every Student Succeeds Act law.

NCLB is a federal law that mandates a number of programs aimed at improving U.S. education in elementary, middle and high schools by increasing accountability standards.

It now looks certain that New York State will not reach the minimum 95 percent level that Common Core test proponents claim is «mandated» by federal and state law.

Ensure that the school's written discipline policy explicitly limits the use of out - of - school suspensions, expulsions, and alternative placements to the most severe disciplinary infractions that threaten school safety or to those circumstances where mandated by Federal or State law.

This is in accordance with the new federal law mandating backup cameras in all new cars by May 2018.

Here are some of the most important Fair Lending Laws mandated by the federal government, in effect throughout the U.S.:

For federal loans the default timeframe is 270 days for other types of credit the timeframe is mandated by state laws.

NRDC has for over 40 years sought to close nuclear plants directly and indirectly by lobbying for laws including federal subsidies and renewable energy mandates that discriminate against nuclear.

Attractive to anyone frustrated by the current political gridlock, Lovins argues that the «twin transition to efficiency and renewables» «requires no new federal taxes, subsidies, mandates, or laws.

The Supremacy Clause (Article VI, Paragraph 2) establishes the Constitution, Federal Statutes, and treaties as «the supreme Law of the Land», mandating that state judges be bound by them, even if state constitutions or laws conflict.

Federal law mandates that oil companies use 12 billion gallons of renewable fuels such as ethanol in this year, rising to 15 billion gallons by 2015.

However, a court may reduce (modify) to include any of the requirements relating to probation and community control, a legal sentence imposed by it within 60 days of its imposition; after the receipt by the court of a mandate issued by the appellate court upon affirmance of the judgment and / or sentence upon an original appeal; after receipt by the court of a certified copy of an order of the appellate court dismissing an original appeal from the judgment and / or sentence; or if further appellate review is sought in a higher court or in successively higher courts, after the highest state or federal court to which a timely appeal has been taken under authority of law, or when a petition for certiorari has been timely filed under authority of law, has written an order of affirmance or an order dismissing the appeal and / or denying certiorari.

The case law to date has held that in order for the RCD to apply, all of the following requirements must be met: (i) there is valid provincial or federal legislation; (ii) conduct is legislatively mandated or authorized; (iii) the authority to regulate has in fact been exercised; and (iv) the regulated scheme has not been hindered or frustrated by the conduct (or used as a shield to engage in anti-competitive conduct).