Sentences with phrase «protection legislation passed»

Dooley, for example, has been a supporter of NAR's efforts to get database protection legislation passed.

The Westchester County executive Wednesday issued an executive order on immigration, calling it a compromise after vetoing immigrant protection legislation passed by the Board of Legislators.

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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.

The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, S. 2115, was passed out of the Senate Banking Committee last year after the panel reached a bipartisan agreement on the legislation.

Rep. Ann Wagner, R - Mo., who sponsored the Retail Investor Protection Act, bipartisan legislation passed in the House that would require the Securities and Exchange Commission, not DOL, to take the lead on crafting a fiduciary rule, said Wednesday that she was «working closely with House leadership and members of the Education and Workforce Committee on using the Congressional Review Act to stop [DOL's] ill - advised rule.»

Kansas and Oklahoma lawmakers have passed legislation to grant legal protections to faith - based adoption agencies that won't place children in LGBT homes.

NAHB is urging the Senate to move quickly to pass the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act (S. 2155), banking reform legislation now pending in the upper chamber.

Mary Miller, the Treasury Department's under secretary for domestic finance, on June 13 called on the Senate to pass NAHB - supported legislation (S. 1217, the Housing Finance Reform and Taxpayer Protection Act of 2014) to revamp the nation's housing finance system to ensure that creditworthy borrowers will be able to access home mortgages.

The legislation, which passed 51 to 47 largely along party lines, is the latest Republican rebuke of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The New York City Council passed 18 bills as part of the Stand for Tenant Safety package of legislation that promises sweeping reforms to tenant protections in the face of abusive landlords and developers.

Legislation on education, unemployment, social insurance and tenant protection was also passed.

Today, the Assembly passed legislation strengthening and expanding protections against both sexual harassment and pregnancy discrimination.

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.

Challengers hoping to unseat Rep. Elise Stefanik (R - Willsboro) largely agreed that Congress should take a robust role in strengthening environmental safeguards, including passing legislation to combat climate change while bolstering regulations at the Environmental Protection Agency.

Shortly after the Trump administration's announcement, immigrant advocates and TPS recipients gathered at the headquarters of the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) to criticize the decision and call on Congress to pass legislation to grant permanent protection to TPS recipients.

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.

«This was a dark day for marriage and the family, which will suffer severe and long - term effects if this legislation is eventually passed,» Paul Tully, general secretary of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (Spuc), said.

The threat, from the anti-abortion group Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (Spuc), comes after David Cameron confirmed he would ensure same - sex marriage legislation is passed before 2015, when the country goes to the polls.

Lancman, a lawyer who served Assembly District 25 for six years, has also passed a significant volume of legislation, including theLibel Terrorism Protection Act, which aims to protect journalists writing about terrorism abroad from being hit with defamation lawsuits, and a host of bills related to equality andsafety in the workplace.

Additional legislation was passed by the assembly which allows the courts to issue an «extreme risk protection order» which prohibits a person who exhibits serious signs of being a threat to themselves or others from purchasing or possessing a firearm for up to one year.

Rosenthal branded herself as a leader who passed legislation that offered tenants protections from landlord harassment, who called for more funding for nonprofit organizations in the city, and who supported a controversial neighborhood school rezoning.

«NELA NY is against the current Senate and Governor's bill in their present form and we urge them to pass meaningful legislation that advances protections for employees who are victims of unlawful discrimination,» said Miriam Clark, president of NELA NY, in a statement.

Advocates and Democrats have tried for years to pass the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA)-- legislation granting protections in law to gender - nonconforming individuals — and a ban on gay - conversion therapy.

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 move to GDPR will be much needed, as the current Data Protection Act is based on outdated European legislation passed in 1995.

The Republican - controlled Arizona House and Senate passed the «pupil - rights protection» bill last week, after the Senate substituted an amendment that softened and generalized the original legislation's provisions.

Similar legislation emphasizing teacher performance over job security is pending in Louisiana and Minnesota, and bills overhauling tenure protections and / or evaluation systems have already passed in Maryland, Connecticut, Washington, Tennessee and Michigan.

The Student Advocacy Center Michigan worked with many students, parents and organizations to get this legislation passed; some of the other organizations included Michigan Protection and Advocacy, ACLU of Michigan, the Michigan School Justice Partnership and its county teams, NASW - Michigan, Education Trust, Michigan's Children, Michigan League for Public Policy and many others.

On May 22, 2009, President Barack Obama passed into legislation the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act, helping to usher in new consumer credit card protections.

According to bankruptcy and advisory firm BDO, similar legislation to curb misleading debt settlement practices is already in place in B.C., Alberta, Manitoba and N.S. «The Stronger Protection for Ontario Consumers Act passed by the Ontario government will help safeguard those struggling with debt, when they are most vulnerable, from making rash decisions with no way out,» BDO's Brian Pritchard said in a press released Monday.

«[Deposit insurance] is probably the single most important piece of consumer protection legislation ever passed in our country,» said Ann Graham, Professor of Law at Hamline University and former Regional Counsel with the FDIC.

Blair Maintin: No, it's an absence and it's such a conspicuous absence that there is really no consumer protection legislation in BC so we got a lot of US based debt settlement operators that were essentially outlawed in the U.S. because the Federal Trade Commission passed some legislation a few years ago as they set their sights on Canada and we've seen other provinces like your home province of Ontario, we've seen Atlantic Canada, we've seen Alberta put in legislation to protect consumers.

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.

The HSUS is working to pass the PAWS Act, federal legislation that includes protections for the pets of domestic violence victims.

At the same time, when my organization, the No Kill Advocacy Center, works with activists nationwide to pass legislation to add more protections, such as making it illegal for shelters to kill animals when rescue groups are willing to save them, these groups fight us, as HSUS has done in Minnesota and Best Friends did in New York.

If your state has laws that do not benefit shelter animals (such as allowing gas chambers, pound seizure, or have do not promote adoptions), contact one of these to offer your help in passing / supporting better legislation: HSUS State Director, ASPCA regional director, a large animal shelter in your state that works on legislation, or your legislator to ask him / her to support shelter animal protection legislation.

The Arizona State Legislature is in session and ADLA volunteers are working to pass animal protection bills and to kill damaging legislation.

The Humane Society of the United States applauds members of the Oregon Senate Consumer Protection Committee for passing legislation that strengthens penalties for animal abuse, including a provision that provides basic care standards for dogs at mass dog producing facilities known as puppy mills.

Citizens from across West Virginia participating in Humane Lobby Day 2010 are assembling Thursday at the state capital to rally in support of animal protection legislation and to meet with lawmakers to urge them to pass animal protection bills to make cockfighting a felony and establish standards for commercial dog breeders.

From puppy mill bans to wildlife protection ordinances, every year states pass legislation that makes animals» lives better and..

During the 2012 Michigan Humane Lobby Day, more than 75 citizens from across Michigan met with lawmakers at the Capitol and urged them to pass legislation to ban the euthanasia of shelter animals by gas chamber, increase protections for dogs at large scale breeding operations, and to increase protections for consumers who purchase sick animals from pet stores and puppy mills.

The HSUS applauds the Washington State House for passing legislation to strengthen protections for dogs at puppy mills.

Citizen lobbyists will urge the introduction of legislation to strengthen protections for dogs at abusive puppy mills and to pass H.B. 5762, a bill to prohibit primates as pets.

Phil also succeeded in passing the most progressive shelter animal protection legislation in the country; legislation that codifies into law many of the protections in the Matrix and guarantees animals in shelters certain rights, the most important of which is making it illegal to kill healthy or treatable animals.

Cari worked with City Clerk Susana Mendoza and Cook County Commissioner John Fritchey to help pass landmark legislation (The Companion Animal & Consumer Protection Ordinance) that banned the retail sale of commercially sourced puppies, kittens and rabbits from pet stores.

From puppy mill bans to wildlife protection ordinances, every year states pass legislation that makes animals» lives better and safer.

1993 - Mandatory spay / neuter law passed 1994 - Animal cruelty law (H.F. 637) passed 1997 - ARL sought custody of dog in Iowa court system 2000 - Felony animal torture law passed 2001 - Passage of law against bestiality 2002 - Bill introduced to make animal fighting a felony 2004 - Felony punishment animal fight law passed 2006 - Bill to have dogs classified as livestock defeated 2007 - Legislation banning exotic pets passed 2008 - Dangerous wild animals and Pet Protection 2009 - Puppy Mill Bill 2010 - Puppy Mill Bill signed into law 2011 - Additional Puppy Mill legislation 2012 - Whistleblower Ag BilLegislation banning exotic pets passed 2008 - Dangerous wild animals and Pet Protection 2009 - Puppy Mill Bill 2010 - Puppy Mill Bill signed into law 2011 - Additional Puppy Mill legislation 2012 - Whistleblower Ag Billegislation 2012 - Whistleblower Ag Bill (against)

Stopping in Brussels on a European speaking tour, Dennis Leaf, a senior adviser at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), sought to ease European fears that the US will not be ready to sign up to a successor to the Kyoto Protocol if the Senate does not pass domestic climate legislation, including a cap - and - trade scheme, ahead of Copenhagen.

Comprehensive climate change legislation was under consideration in the Senate after having passed the House, the Copenhagen Accords had been signed the previous month, the Environmental Protection Agency had announced its Endangerment Finding on greenhouse gases, and the climate science community was under vitriolic attack by the denial machine.

Brian Rogers, the executive director of America Rising Advanced Research, was briefly the research director for Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection, where he worked on a campaign «to pass comprehensive energy and climate change legislation.»