Sentences with phrase «signed a law protecting»

A version of this article appears in print on November 17, 1993, on Page A00018 of the National edition with the headline: Clinton Signs Law Protecting Religious Practices.

On July 28, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed a law protecting elementary to high school students from the potential severe effects of concussions.

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Despite the fact that the loan guarantees were approved by Congress mainly to protect jobs at Chrysler, the company has sent home nearly half of its employees, cutting its white collar work force by 20,000 and laying off 42,600 of its hourly workers since the loan guarantees were signed into law.

On April 11, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act (FHA) into law — effectively protecting Americans from discrimination when they are renting, buying, or securing financing for housing.

This week, we took a vital first step in protecting this ecological and economic jewel when Gov. Rick Scott signed my bill into law.

WASHINGTON / LOS ANGELES (Reuters)- U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law a steep tariff on imported solar panels on Tuesday, a move billed as a way to protect American jobs but which the solar industry said would lead to thousands of layoffs and raise consumer prices.

The laws that protect Fred Phelps» right to hold up reprehensible signs also protect the free speech of all other religions, whether we think them right or wrong.

Growth throughout the last five years has occurred in spite of anti-conversion laws, although an agreement signed in May promised to protect the rights of the Christian community.

Eventually Yeltsin signed a new law which, while maintaining a theoretical separation of church and state, protected the Russian Orthodox Church and, surprisingly, the other «traditional» religions of Russia — Islam, Judaism and Buddhism — from the supposedly foreign incursions of the Protestant and Catholic churches.

But, no matter what your opinion is on actual marijuana usage, the fact that the DEA is open to revisiting a legal classification that many view as deeply flawed could be a sign that government officials are finally going to fix laws that have had serious affects on the society it is supposed to be serving and protecting.

In 1967 then - governor Ronald Reagan of California made history by signing into law the Beilenson Bill, which protected physicians who must make choices that might involve abortions.

«Citizens who signed the on - line petition agree that releasing her from prison would minimize the lives of those killed and is a slap in the face to all law enforcement officers who dedicate their lives to protecting our communities.»

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law a package of 18 bills aimed at protecting tenants whose landlords use construction as a form of harassment.

«We strongly condemn security agencies who despite early signs failed the law abiding citizens they were supposed to protect».

Cuomo also signed rent law extensions that protected renters, though advocates say they didn't go nearly far enough (in part because the IDC - Republican coalition controlled the Senate with Cuomo's implicit support).

In 2011, the Governor signed the Good Samaritan 911 law» to protect individuals who seek medical assistance for a person experiencing a drug overdose or other life - threatening medical emergency from prosecution and arrest for certain drug crimes.

«Airbnb has flouted the laws that protect affordable housing for years, and now with new legislation to further crack down on the proliferation of illegal short - term rentals, I urge Governor Cuomo to send a strong message that New York prioritizes hard working New York families by signing this bill into law,» Van Bramer said.

A state bill, if signed into law, could protect more domestic violence victims from dying at the hands of their abusers.

«By signing this measure into law we are moving to protect young people across Erie County who may be experiencing their own identity issues and should not have attitudes and behaviors that may be contradictory to their natures forced on them,» said Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz.

Democratic Westchester County Executive George Latimer has signed a bill that protects undocumented immigrants from federal law enforcement agencies.

WHEREAS, Erie County has a long history of being at the forefront of protecting our environment, whether it be the passage of the first Clean Indoor Air Act in 1996 or the passage of a law in 2015 Prohibiting the Sale of Personal Cosmetic Products Containing Microbeads, which law became the an impetus to and model for the United States Congress passing, and President Barack Obama signing, the Microbead free - Waters Act of 2015;

«Governor Cuomo has taken bold and decisive action by signing into law legislation that protects the Hudson River from barges and tanker ships that carry dangerous petroleum - based products and other hazardous materials,» Ned Hudson, president of the environmental group Scenic Hudson, said Tuesday in a statement emailed to the media.

Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into law designed to protect Kodak retirees» from a dramatic increase in health care costs.

The law that protects our democracy from capture appears to make this behaviour illegal: when a sockpuppet signs your cheques, the spending still counts as yours.

A statement signed by Coordinator of the group, Uche Madu John, said «Nigerians will continue to support the army in its quest to protect law abiding citizens from any form of aggressors.

Resolution calling on the New York State Legislature to enact, and Governor Cuomo to sign into law, such legislation as shall protect the privacy of New York State Pistol License and Concealed Carry Permit Holders.

On July 6, 2012, the President signed into law the RESTORE Act, establishing a trust fund for programs, projects, and activities that restore and protect the environment and economy of the Gulf Coast region.

However, they can't get far, as acting on their own brands them as criminals, which means the Avengers who've signed the new law, led by Iron Man, must keep the peace so that costumed vigilantes aren't acting of their own accord, possibly causing more distrust from the public and governments they've sworn to protect.

Yielding to pressure from the Congress and lobbying groups, President Reagan signed into law earlier this month a bill that establishes a Pell Grant family - contribution schedule for 1983 - 1984 and 1984 - 1985 that protects about 1 million needy students from having their Pell Grant aid reduced.

Known as a whole - language state whose districts protected their independence, Arizona began to change rapidly when Jaime Molera was appointed state superintendent of instruction in May 2001 and Reading First was signed into law as part of No Child Left Behind eight months later.

Though South Africa opened its borders and welcomed refugees fleeing persecutions, the current approach towards treatment of refugees shows a sign of a fatigue of hosting refugees.45 It becomes a metaphysical question as to whether Rwandan refugees should blame South Africa for having laws that protect the human rights and interests of its citizens or whether they blame the superpowers foreign policies that led to the negation of the principles of human and refugee rights, resulting in their current sufferings and predicament or whether they blame the oppressive regime installed in Rwanda, a regime only interested in tracking them down for assassination.

This workshop will explore the signs and symptoms of youth involved in bullying behavior, effective intervention strategies and the federal and state laws that may apply to and protect pregnant teens.

Summary: When the New Jersey Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights was signed into law in 2011, it was considered a landmark piece of legislation to protect students from harm and a model for the country.

While there are no laws in place requiring renters to carry insurance in Tennessee, many landlords are now requiring tenants to get renters insurance when signing a lease as these policies protect both the landlord and the tenant.

On April 24, Governor Hogan signed a new law that will protect pets and consumers by banning the sale of dogs and cats in Maryland's pet stores.

On March 13, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe signed into law Senate Bill 852, which protects ethical breeders and retailers, as well as a bill we mentioned last month that better protects dog owners when their pet is involved in a biting incident.

New York local governments can now regulate large - scale commercial puppy mills and provide oversight of pet dealers, thanks to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's signing of A. 740a / S.3753 a. Sponsored by Assembly member Linda B. Rosenthal, D - New York, and Sen. Mark Grisanti, R - Buffalo, the law grants counties and municipalities the ability to enact regulations to protect dogs raised in puppy mills.

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While these biologically diverse and rich cultural environments have long met the criteria to be set aside as a national park, it wasn't until March 5, 1980 that President Jimmy Carter signed Public Law 96 - 199, establishing Channel Islands National Park as the fortieth national park thus protecting the nationally significant natural, cultural, scenic and scientific values of the Channel Islands.

As yet further proof of the government's long - term committing to protecting the environment, the Belizean legislature has passed a new law to establish a biological corridor in the northeast of the country.On February 18, 2018, the Belizean government signed into law a bill that established a 42 - square mile (110 - square mile) section of northeastern Belize as a wildlife corridor between the Shipstern Nature Reserve and the Freshwater Creek Forest Reserve.

Over 20 million hectares across the country have been identified, contracts signed, and on 20 May a new law was declared specifically permitting «the development of hydrocarbon exploration activities in the different zones and categories within protected areas,» and stipulating what companies should do if they make «commercially - viable discoveries» and want to exploit them.

Are there any laws that protect the home buyer once the deposit has been made outside of any contract that was signed?

58 It is apparent, furthermore, from the case - law of the European Court of Human Rights that the right to a fair trial, guaranteed by Article 6 (1) of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, signed at Rome on 4 November 1950, which corresponds to the second paragraph of Article 47 of the Charter, does not preclude «summons by public notice», provided that the rights of those concerned are properly protected (see Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Nunes Dias v Portugal [2003], Reports of Judgments and Decisions 2003 - VI).

A lawyer will be able to provide options to protect your legal interests, such as entering into a cohabitation agreement with your common law spouse or signing an interspousal contract before getting married.

U.S. President Obama today signed into law the «Speech Act,» which is aimed at protecting U.S. writers from foreign libel judgments from jurisdictions that, in the opinion of a U.S. court, do not adequately protect freedom of speech.

[An] example was this blurb: «Please sign the petition, circulate it to all of your friends and families and call Judge Amacker and Judge Gambrell during the hours of 8:30 to 5:00 starting Monday, August 15 to ask why they won't follow the law and protect these children.

Thanks to new legislation recently signed into law by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, drivers can rest assured that they will be protected on the road, and insurance companies will not lose out on revenue.

In 2015, Governor Nikki Haley signed into law Act No. 65 (H. 3266), codifies the common law and its limitations on liability by land possessors and provides exceptions; thereby, protecting landowners from frivolous lawsuits.

We also proposed to prohibit covered entities from requiring individuals to sign authorizations for uses and disclosures of protected health information for treatment, payment, and health care operations, unless required by other applicable law.