Sentences with phrase «pass state protections»

Working with others in the state, and with your help, we were able to defeat all three of the industry's attempts to pass state protections that would have rolled back progress in Georgia toward stopping puppy mill cruelty.

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According to the Human Rights Campaign, more than 200 «anti-LGBTQ bills» were introduced across the country in 2016 sessions - most failing to pass - and more than 111 million people live in states without clear state - level protections against LGBTQ workplace discrimination.

Seven jurisdictions in the United States have so far passed legislation dealing with appearance discrimination, including San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Michigan is the only state in the union to offer such protections.

Earlier in the day, Paypal said it had canceled plans to open a facility in Charlotte, N.C. for 400 employees after officials in that state passed a law that withdrew protections for transgender people to use public restrooms that match their gender identities.

The lawsuits will also contend with the question of whether individual states have the authority to pass laws that would offer net - neutrality protections within their borders, something several states have moved to do following the FCC's repeal of its own protections.

The statement suggested two legal remedies: first, the Supreme Court could reverse Roe, returning the issue to the states; second, the nation could pass a constitutional amendment that would extend Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment due process protection to unborn persons.

Not only that, the federal RFRA does not protect against state laws that infringe upon religious liberty, and state religious protections are now vociferously opposed by progressive political adherents and large corporations — as Indiana discovered recently when it was threatened with economic ruin for attempting to pass an RFRA that extended to the operation of businesses.

They'll be back, provided they win out and figure out what's happening in their passing game, and also in pass protection, and also quit doing that swoony thing their offense does for extended periods of games, and oh there's also the matter of what happened on that blocked kick, and the strange pair of TD drives they allowed Penn State to get, and... there's a lot, Ohio State.

- October 1992: Congress passes the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), which bans all sports betting outside of a select few states (Nevada, Oregon, Montana and Delaware).

Some states have passed their own disability laws that may provide for additional rights and protections beyond those spelled out by the federal laws.

With the threat of losing our federal protections, it's up to us, the voters, to organize and pressure our electeds to pass the laws that would make us a truly blue state.

«I will fight to ban PFOA and similar toxins on the state level because I for one have very little faith that Washington, D.C., will be able to get its act together to pass meaningful protections from the federal level,» said Francis.

He will make the case that when the United Nations resolution 181 was passed in 1947, it was for the establishment of two states in historic Palestine, one Jewish and one Arab and with the Jerusalem - Bethlehem area under international protection.

This has led New York to not be able to pass tangible victories that to the left are all the more important in the age of Trump: the Dream Act, updating the state's antiquated voting laws and enshrining protections for transgender New Yorkers in law, not just regulation.

«As a New York State Assemblyman, Hakeem stood side by side with our members and fought on our behalf as we worked to pass the New York State Wage Theft Prevention Act in 2010, a bill that provides workers in New York State protections against irresponsible employers who fail to pay their workers.

He will also work to pass the Reproductive Health Act, which will update state abortion laws to fall in line with the federal protections granted in Roe V. Wade ensuring that New Yorkers have access to safe and legal abortions.

At our state conference last month, we overwhelmingly passed resolutions supporting guaranteed healthcare as a human right, free public education from pre-K through college or trade school, a living wage and fair compensation for all, investments in environmental protection and renewable energy, restoration of voting rights to former felons, public financing of elections to eradicate the corrupting influence of big money in politics, and other policies that serve the people.

An Expert Panel on how the AHCA could affect Health Care in New York State ~ «The House of Representatives recently passed the American Health Care Act (AHCA)-- a bill that, if passed, will leave 2.7 million New Yorkers without health insurance and will roll back protections for women, children and anyone with preexisting conditions.

Senate GOP spokesman Scott Reif said Republicans this year passed legislation requiring water in schools to be tested for lead, secured $ 300 million for the state's Environmental Protection Fund and $ 200 million for environmental infrastructure improvements.

Tuz said gun control advocates, like New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, want to see the Extreme Risk Protection Order passed by state lawmakers.

Samuels had funded a push to pass the convention referendum in order to usher in changes to state government, including overhauling campaign finance laws and providing protections to the LGBT community and bolstering the rights of women.

Her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State requests and requires, in the Name of Her Majesty, all those whom it may concern, to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance, and to afford the bearer such assistance and protection as may be necessary.

Normally, that by itself, should shield any one of the states which enacted Traditional Marriage protections against interlopers entering the state and demanding that their fake Sodomite «marriage» be recognized as valid, but in this day and age of a runaway judiciary, it is best that we somehow pass a Constitutional Amendment defining Traditional Marriage and / or slapping the hands of rogue jurists away from the issue altogether.

In 2006, when the New York State Court of Appeals shamefully ruled that the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community did not have equal protection under the law in relation to Marriage Equality, I predicted that passing legislation to right this wrong in the State Senate would be a profound personal and sadly political battle.

In a bid to cement support from upstate New Yorkers, the revisions would also stop that state from passing on over $ 2 billion a year in Medicaid costs to upstate counties, though it exempts Democratic - run New York City from that protection.

The Assembly passed the latest version of the Reproductive Health Act, which codifies the protections of the high court's Roe v. Wade decisions in state law, Tuesday evening by a 96 - 46 vote.

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New York is cracking down on mortgage fraud and beefing up foreclosure protections for homeowners and renters with a set of newly passed state mortgage laws.

Further opposition to performing elephants came from students from Pace University, who worked with Assemblywoman Amy Paulin and State Sen. Terrence Murphy to pass the Elephant Protection Act, which was signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo last October.

The New York State Assembly expects to pass legislation today calling for the strengthening of regulations and tenant protections at rent - regulated properties, Speaker Carl Heastie (D) announced.

The protections for teachers were expected to be enacted in some form after students were insulated from test - score consequences in the state budget passed on April 1.

According to Councilmember Dromm: «Before [Schneiderman] was Attorney General, he worked with our LGBT community to pass SONDA [2002] and DASA [2010] in the State Senate, laws that provide important protections against workplace discrimination and school harassment.»

Prompted by the widespread Russian influence campaign that targeted nearly two dozen states during the 2016 presidential election and the proliferation of secretive political advertising on social media platforms like Facebook, Cuomo proposed and the state Legislature successfully passed the «Democracy Protection Act,» which prohibits foreign entities from creating independent expenditure committees or buying political ads, requires anyone who purchases an online political ad to register as an independent expenditure committee, and also requires online ads to include information about who paid for them, as is currently required of traditional media platforms.

As far back as 1987, Paterson refused to pass a state hate - crimes bill that didn't provide protections for gays and lesbians.

The governor recalled how the 2002 Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act deliberately excluded transgender persons from its protections for fear it would poison the bill's chances of passage, and the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act — which would have extended those legal shields to individuals who do not conform to prevailing sexual identification norms — has passed the Assembly eight times, but State Senate leadership prevented it from coming up for a vote.

The state attorney general, Patrick Morrisey (R), is leading a 24 - state lawsuit to kill it, and the state Legislature last year passed a law that limits the kind of plan that the state's environment agency, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), can write to meet federal goals.

Two parks have been especially successful in reducing light pollution, the study says: Acadia, which worked with the neighboring city of Bar Harbor to implement a progressive lighting ordinance, and Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, which partnered with stakeholder groups to successfully encourage the state legislature to pass the New Mexico Night Sky Protection Act.

If the bill passes, Tennessee would join Louisiana as the second state to have specific «protection» for the teaching of evolution in the classroom.

That's getting easier to do, thanks to new laws that many states have passed against lighting up; meanwhile, the Clean Air Act prevented 160,000 early deaths in 2010 alone, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates.

Beyond these federal efforts, a handful of states have also attempted to clamp down on fraud in internet dating: new york has passed a consumer protection statute to regulate internet dating sites.

True.com has to respect the privacy protections passed by the court, such as to explicitly state in the privacy policy section how members» information is handled and to obtain their consent to transfer their information to a third - party buyer.

Lawyers for Minnesota's public - employee unions say that state's law, passed last December to help close a $ 312 - million budget deficit, is unconstitutional because it abrogates the workers» constitutional claims to contract and equal - protection rights.

Rep. Roy Ragland, a Republican, said in an interview last week that he introduced the School Textbook Marriage Protection Act after state voters «overwhelmingly passed an amendment to the Arkansas Constitution in November defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman.»

Of course, the Credit CARD Act passed last year provides some protection against these practices, but even the fact that the issue has come up in recent years offers a troubling look at the state of financial privacy in our society.

The United States Congress, in an effort to tighten the requirements for bankruptcy and reduce the number of debtors who were able to qualify to have their unsecured debts discharged by filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy, passed the Bankruptcy Abuse and Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005.

This proposal would aim to block states from passing laws intending to regulate student loan servicers.According to Mick Mulvaney, the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the previous administration was overzealous in its...

Several states have passed consumer protection laws that specifically address puppies.

One very pleasant surprise is that state officials, who are instrumental in passing important legislation (our panel included discussions of shark finning bans, puppy mill legislation, outlawing pigeon shoots, protections for companion animals, and the intensive confinement of pigs), were extremely happy about being invited to animal events.

Citizens from across Vermont participating in Humane Lobby Day 2011 will meet with lawmakers today at the State House and urge them to pass animal protection measures before the Legislature this session.