Sentences with phrase «under a law passed»

(The Fed in the United States publishes a monetary target, but this appears to be more an on - going obligation under a law passed in 1978 than an integral part of current policy making.)

More than 60 women with prostitution convictions have had their records cleared here under a law passed in 2010 that allows convictions related to sexual trafficking to be removed from a person's record.

However, under a law passed by the Legislature and signed by Governor Cuomo last spring, charters are poised to change the annual lottery process to set aside a significant number of seats for children of their employees, including employees of charter management organizations.

Under a law passed last year in Albany, the city will have to either find space for the new schools in public school buildings or pay a portion of their rent.

Under a law passed in 2015, any school district with a campus that receives a fifth straight «improvement required» rating for poor academic performance this year would be subject to the sanctions.

Under a law passed in 2010, districts with free or reduced - price lunches can offer the meals to every student at the school, regardless of household income.

Under a law passed last year that helped the state win $ 700 million in a federal grant competition, known as Race to the Top, each school district must find a way to evaluate teachers on a scale from «ineffective» to «highly effective,» with teachers facing potential firing if they are rated ineffective for two years in a row.

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The bill, which is backed by Bird, would allow scooters to be ridden on sidewalks unless local municipalities explicitly pass a law preventing it and only require riders under 18 to wear helmets.

Travelers may be asked to dispose of their weed or edibles, if they are detected, before passing through security, but under the California law individuals can have less than an ounce of marijuana on them.

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That's because under current law, profits from a small business «pass through» to the owner and is taxed at his or her individual rate, which can be as high as 39.6 percent.

In September, Bloomberg reported Russia's main intelligence agency told the company «it is obliged under Russian law passed last year to hand over keys allowing the government to decrypt any communications transmitted over it.»

Republicans last week passed a tax plan that repeals the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate under the guise of restoring consumer choice that the law supposedly stripped away.

Despite the demonstrable negative consequences in states that have passed laws that undermine LGBTQ equality, the coming months will indicate whether the ascent of Donald Trump to the White House is emboldening religious conservatives to press for more such bills after a series of gains for gay and transgender people at the federal level under the Obama administration.

The Congress faces an array of policy choices as it confronts the challenges posed by the amount of federal debt held by the public — which has more than doubled relative to the size of the economy since 2007 — and the prospect of continued growth in that debt over the coming decades if the large annual budget deficits projected under current law come to pass.

After the Australian Parliament passed the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Amendment Bill 2017 — which amended, revised, and expanded upon previous legislation from 2006 — cryptocurrency exchanges were brought under the regulatory oversight of AUSTRAC, which has firmly established AML / CTF laws.

Rounding out the top three most repeated claims, Trump has said the tax cut he signed into law in December was the largest in history, and larger than the one passed under President Ronald Reagan.

This discussion also does not consider any specific facts or circumstances that may be relevant to holders subject to special rules under the U.S. federal income tax laws, including, without limitation, certain former citizens or long - term residents of the United States, partnerships or other pass - through entities, real estate investment trusts, regulated investment companies, «controlled foreign corporations,» «passive foreign investment companies,» corporations that accumulate earnings to avoid U.S. federal income tax, banks, financial institutions, investment funds, insurance companies, brokers, dealers or traders in securities, commodities or currencies, tax - exempt organizations, tax - qualified retirement plans, persons subject to the alternative minimum tax, persons that own, or have owned, actually or constructively, more than 5 % of our common stock and persons holding our common stock as part of a hedging or conversion transaction or straddle, or a constructive sale, or other risk reduction strategy.

Under federal law, fully automatic weapons are technically legal only if made before 1986, when Congress passed the Firearm Owners» Protection Act.

In fact, many companies are making loans at higher costs than before the law passed under the Ohio Small Loan Act, Credit Service Organization Act, and Mortgage Loan Act.

At the other end of the spectrum, Bangladesh passed a law in 2014 stating that anybody caught using the virtual currency could be jailed under the country's strict anti-money-laundering laws.

... Trump has said he would love to have a law to execute all drug dealers here in America, though he's privately admitted it would probably be impossible to get a law this harsh passed under the American system.»

* While credit cards are open accounts and thus don't fall under laws governing written contracts, Arizona passed a law in 2011 lengthening the statute of limitations on them to six years.

For example, if a small business has $ 100,000 in income that will be passed through, only $ 80,000 of that would be taxable under the new tax law.

«Under current federal law this is not permitted,» said David Tawil, co-founder and President Maglan Capital, who believes that if Congress were to pass this type of framework for debt restructuring, holders of Puerto Rico's paper who are forced to take haircuts «will have quite a strong legal argument».

Under current law, the profits of those companies «pass through» directly to their owners and are taxed as personal income, often at the top 39.6 percent individual income rate.

if there is a law passed that helps the many but upsets the few, then so be it... as long as it falls in line with equal treatment under the law and doesn't cause harm to anyone physically.

Therefore we need to avoid non-Christians or convert them as fast as possible or try to pass laws to keep them under control and protect ourselves from them — until we can escape them forever in heaven.»

U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby issued a 53 - page ruling Friday saying Utah's law passed by voters in 2004 violates gay and lesbian couples» rights to due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment.

Legislators in Connecticut have passed what some are saying are the nation's toughest new gun laws — banning high - capacity magazines, creating a weapon offender registry, requiring universal background checks for firearm purchases and adding more types of guns under an existing assault weapons ban.

If should in case under the envisaged new UK citizenship Laws passed, the managers and players will have to apply for resident and work permits which will have to be approved first by the Homes Office before they will be allowed to continue playing and managing clubs in the UK.

Unlike formula, which they still haven't passed a law for despite signing the innocenti declaration there is a law preventing the marketing of any food, except for «breast milk substitutes» to babies under 6 months of age.

-LSB-...] In case you've been living under a rock — or you don't live the life of an erstwhile food blogger — let me start by announcing, a bit underwhelmingly late, that the government has just passed a new, important, and largely positive food law.

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Although North Carolina law allows local school boards to permit corporal punishment, under legislation passed in 2011, parents have the right to opt out of corporal punishment for their children in public schools.

Both Tailor and Dirk Van Beek, representing Dixmoor voters, argued that the park district could be dissolved under state law since the district failed to hold regular meetings for the last five years, failed to acquire and maintain land for park purposes, failed to have a planned program of recreation and failed to pass an annual budget and act to levy taxes.

Hence a law was passed in 1762 that no woman with child under 9 months would be allowed to nurse.

The bottom line facts you need to know: under the new school food law passed last year, school districts must bring the price for a paid lunch (that is, a lunch purchased by a student who does not qualify for free or reduced price meals) into line with what the meal actually costs, eventually charging an average of $ 2.46 per lunch.

The GOP has been a consistent advocate of the 14th Amendment, which they wrote and passed, that embodies such equal protection under the laws, and the other Civil War Amendments

The state Senate passed «Maddox's Law,» a bill named after a Syracuse toddler killed by her father in 2016 that would make murdering a child under age 13 a first - degree murder.

The airline companies flying into the US are subject to certain reporting requirements established under a certain US law written on a bipartisan basis and passed so after 9/11.

Certainly, the urge to get women involved some 60 years ago can not be downplayed with the involvement of Dr. Nkrumah himself in affirmative action policies and appointment of women propaganda secretaries and organisers right from inception of his government, It is remarkable that parliament under the CPP in 1960 passed Representation of the People (Women Members) Bill into law which amongst others made it possible for women to stand for parliamentary elections unopposed and subsequently saw the election of first ten female parliamentarians into the first session of the first parliament.

The Legislature passed a scaled - back version of Lavern's Law that would start the window to bring medical malpractice cases involving cancer when an error is discovered by the patient, not when the mistake occurred, as under current lLaw that would start the window to bring medical malpractice cases involving cancer when an error is discovered by the patient, not when the mistake occurred, as under current lawlaw.

The final vote was 238 to 183 on a bill that has now passed the House at least three times in the past three years, but never made it into law under former President Barack Obama.

Under a newly passed ethics reform law — which Ambrosino, King Sweeney and Blakeman voted against — Ambrosino would be barred from working for the town or running for re-election if he is convicted of the felony charges.

He can take credit for progressive accomplishments under his reign like a phased - in $ 15 minimum wage, paid family leave, and strict gun control measures, ignoring the fact that regular Democrats endorsed all these things and would have passed them into law if they too sat in the majority.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, the only potential 2012 candidate who would be legal to perform same - sex marriages under the New York law that passed last week, walked a delicate line today in his first public comments on the topic, per the Daily News politics blog:

A trivial example would be congress passes a law to create a seal for an agency, the president (under that law) says the background would be green.

ALBANY — The Cuomo administration on Wednesday detailed several proposals that could allow some higher - income, middle - class New Yorkers to avoid paying more federal taxes under the new tax cut law passed in Washington last month.

Cuomo used his authority under state law to appoint a panel with sweeping subpoena powers only after the Legislature refused to pass his anti-corruption bills.