Sentences with phrase «several states enacted»

With more than 50 bills introduced addressing the opioid epidemic's impact on child welfare, several states enacted legislation.

In the United States, between 1908 & 1915, several states enacted compensation legislation.

In the United States, between 1908 and 1915, several states enacted compensation legislation.

Starting with California, several states enacted statutes prohibiting the mislabeling of food that is identical to the requirements of the FDCA and NLEA.

Not exact matches

With its «religious freedom» bill becoming law Thursday, Indiana is the first state to enact the measure that been introduced in several others.

Economists had said January's wage gains might have been a one - time jump, fueled by increases in the minimum wage that kicked in at the start of the year in several states, as well as raises spurred by tax cuts enacted at the end of 2017.

Several states have enacted «red flag» laws that make it easier to confiscate firearms from someone considered to be a danger to themselves or others, including two historically gun - friendly states: Florida and Vermont.

While there's been no movement at the federal level, several states have enacted tougher gun laws.

Many hospitals across the country have voluntarily adopted such a policy, and several states have enacted or have pending required - request legislation.

Since the Supreme Court, in the case of Furman v. Georgia in 1972, invalidated most existing laws permitting capital punishment, several states have enacted new legislation designed to meet the court's objections to the Georgia law.

Several state governments have enacted laws that require schools to hand out information on the vaccine to sixth graders and their parents and insurance companies to provide reimbursement.

Several states have enacted tax credits for adoptive families.

New York appears increasingly likely to join several other states that have enacted bail reforms.

Good Government Groups to Cuomo and Legislative Leaders: Pass Reform Before Budget Deadline Several good - government groups, including the New York Public Interest Research Group, Common Cause, Citizen Action, the League of Women Voters, and the Brennan Center, gathered in Albany on Tuesday to encourage state leaders to enact comprehensive campaign finance reform.

Newly elected Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie this week vowed to enact a «zero - tolerance» policy for sexual harassment cases, which in the last several years engulfed three state lawmakers no longer in the Assembly.

«The state budget enacted last year gave school district leaders hope after several difficult years that financial prospects for their schools might at last be turning around,» said Deputy Director Bob Lowry.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to enact a $ 15 wage is one of several issues to be decided as the Democratic governor and state lawmakers seek to work out a state budget deal before an April 1 deadline.

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD The state of North Carolina today, March 30, repealed HB2, the law enacted a little over a year ago that aroused heated protests and boycotts, generated several lawsuits, and sparked a national conversation about gender identity and sex - specific public bathrooms and locker rooms.

The last new revenue source was the payroll tax that the state Legislature enacted in 2009 and that has been modified several times since to mollify Hudson Valley and Long Island counties in the MTA's service territory.

Several good - government groups, including the New York Public Interest Research Group, Common Cause, Citizen Action, the League of Women Voters, and the Brennan Center, gathered in Albany on Tuesday to encourage state leaders to enact comprehensive campaign finance reform.

But several of Mr. Cuomo's proposals have been often advanced, and there's no reason they shouldn't be enacted quickly, including closure of the «LLC loophole» that allows virtually unlimited campaign donations to state candidates and expansion of the state Freedom of Information Law to cover all of state government.

In a feature article for the winter 2010 issue of Education Next, education researchers Jay P. Greene and Stuart Buck of the University of Arkansas, drawing on extensive previous research on the effects of special education vouchers, dispel several common myths about these programs and show how they have benefited handicapped children in states where they have been enacted, including those not in private placements.

It is also interesting to note that the huge increases in New York in 2006 were enacted despite a decision by the state's highest court several months earlier that a significantly lower appropriation was needed to meet constitutional requirements, indicating that something other than the court decision was behind the unprecedented increases.

Several midwestern states enacted their constitutions with provisions preventing the funding of religious schools before the rise of organized nativism and long before the Blaine amendment.

In a feature article for the winter 2010 issue of Education Next, education researchers Jay P. Greene and Stuart Buck of the University of Arkansas dispel several common myths about these programs and show how they have benefited handicapped children in states where they have been enacted, including those not in private placements.

Four of the five states that have so far enacted ESAs originally limited eligibility to students with special needs, although Arizona has since expanded eligibility to include several other categories of disadvantaged students.

In the five ESA programs enacted thus far, the state deposits a portion of the funds that would have been spent on the child in the public school system into the ESAs several times each year.

In the last several years, state policymakers have enacted a dizzying array of new policies on education issues ranging from assessment and accountability to cursive - handwriting and citizenship exams.

Education savings accounts (ESAs) are increasingly popular: while still a relatively new form of choice that has been enacted in several states, their popularity has increased for the second year, now at 75 % — up from 69 % last year and 65 % in 2016.

In order to better serve its student population, the state has enacted several reforms in recent years — and state funding for K — 12 education has increased for six consecutive years.

To encourage economic growth and home ownership, the state recently enacted several lending laws meant to protect consumers from anti-predatory lending practices.

Several states have enacted legislation to specifically cover pets in domestic violence situations.»

Several states have enacted laws to implement low cost spay neuter programs.

The law will enable Missouri to join several other states that have enacted similar laws through their state legislatures.

Good news, bad news about puppy mills: Several states have recently enacted tough laws to crack down on puppy mills (commercial breeders who supply pet stores and internet sellers; and lest we think this is only a dog problem, there are also plenty of «kitten mills»).

Andrew worked to develop and enact the Maryland Offshore Wind Energy Act, as well as several major legislative and administrative efforts that supported deployment of the state's first 180 MW of wind power.

Spam legislation has not been enacted on a federal level in the United States, although several bills are pending.

Texas has enacted several laws regarding fracking in the state.

The Volokh Conspiracy blog notes in this post, however, that several states have enacted statutes that impose a duty to rescue crime victims or report crimes.

As noted in the table, many of the Midwestern states recently enacted reforms to their joint and several liability laws.

Several provisions in the recently adopted 2018 - 19 New York State Budget (the «Enacted Budget») are intended to address the ongoing opioid crisis.

Several comments also requested that HHS continue to maintain and monitor the exception determination process, and update the database over time in order to provide guidance and certainty on the interaction of the federal rules with newly enacted or amended state laws that are produced after the final rule.

[NOTE: At this writing 4 states (California, Massachusetts, Oregon and Delaware) and several municipalities have enacted laws that prohibit employers from asking for your previous salary.

Several cities and states, including Philadelphia and Massachusetts, have enacted or are considering legislation that would make it illegal to ask candidates about their previous salary.)

Several states have enacted laws restricting the discretion that employers have in using credit reports for employment decisions, limiting when an employer can lawfully use credit reports and imposing additional notice and disclosure obligations on employers who do intend to use them.

Well, several states have enacted laws that do not allow employers to consider criminal convictions or even ask applicants if they have ever been convicted.

While federal law mandates that federal contractors and subcontractors in all states use E-Verify, several U.S. states have enacted laws mandating E-Verify usage, creating a confusing patchwork of regulations.

As of 2012, a few states have laws that specifically address breastfeeding while several others have enacted legislation that deals with breastfeeding in some form.

State Tax Credit Several states have enacted tax credits for adoptive families.

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