South Africa has enacted laws to protect the rights of intersex persons.
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In the last year, Indiana and Texas have enacted laws on fertility fraud.
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A handful of states have enacted laws designed to help with situations like Reinking's.
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Government has often enacted laws or policies that specifically protect "its" buildings against dissent.
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Greg Abbott, Texas's governor, says his state's newly enacted laws will make communities safer.
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To date, 23 states have enacted laws based on, or like, this NASAA model.
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The government has enacted laws banning sexual harassment but does not define the term.
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Missouri's constitution gives citizens the right to veto a newly enacted laws by referendum.
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More than 20 states have enacted laws with some or all of the Texas restrictions.
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In response to the opioid epidemic, states have enacted laws to ease access to naloxone.
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Several states, including North Carolina, have enacted laws that restrict public access to the videos.
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Kansas is one of several states that have enacted laws requiring voters to prove their citizenship.
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"You've already seen a handful of states that have passed and enacted laws," Ms. Slane said.
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Successive governments, including that of Mr. Sharif, have enacted laws on women's rights, but implementation is weak.
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And 2202 states have enacted laws requiring those convicted of domestic abuse to give up their firearms.
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State legislatures in California and New York have enacted laws that gradually raise their minimum wages to $219.
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According to the National Conference of State Legislators, at least 42 states have enacted laws addressing that issue.
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Oklahoma and Kansas just enacted laws empowering publicly funded adoption agencies to reject serving married same-sex couples.
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Other European countries such as France, Britain, and Belgium have enacted laws against homophobia since the early 2000s.
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Likewise, in the first half of the Twentieth Century, Congress enacted laws that completely barred immigration from Asian countries.
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Several states, including Washington, New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois, and Maryland have already enacted laws to create such slush funds.
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So far 12 states have enacted laws to raise the minimum age to 21, including New Jersey and California.
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The government has enacted laws forcing into early retirement many Supreme Court judges, replacing them with its own nominees.
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Some states like Iowa have already enacted laws banning early abortion to put test cases in the judicial pipeline.
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Brazil has enacted laws to protect foreign intellectual property, and its geographic location offers a potential for space launch.
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Different levels of government enacted laws requiring seat belts, airbags, anti-lock brakes, and other safety requirements in cars.
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More than a dozen states have enacted laws that address surprise billing in insurance plans regulated at the state level.
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As of October 2019, 46 states, along with the District of Columbia and Guam, have enacted laws against revenge porn.
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Twenty-five states have enacted laws banning "gag clauses" that prohibit pharmacists from telling patients when this is the case.
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Five states have enacted laws promoting ADF opioids of which the full extent of their effectiveness remains to be seen.
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Legal battles are already developing over newly enacted laws restricting abortion, including one in Arkansas that effectively bans medication abortions.
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The Shark Conservation Act passed in 2010 and 10 states have enacted laws protecting sharks from finning and excessive fishing.
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States like Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota eventually enacted laws preventing cities from punishing residents for seeking police or emergency assistance.
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In response, a growing number of states have enacted laws that limit the number of painkillers a doctor can prescribe.
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Meanwhile, states including California and Texas have enacted laws that make deepfakes illegal when they're used to interfere with elections.
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Both states have enacted laws requiring utilities to get the vast majority of their electricity from renewable sources by 2030.
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Both states have enacted laws requiring utilities to get the vast majority of their electricity from renewable sources by 2030.
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On Wednesday, Maine outlawed conversion therapy, and New York and Massachusetts have also enacted laws banning the practice this year.
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Other states, including New York, Massachusetts and Maine, have enacted laws that limit prescriptions, but those limits are typically seven days.
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But more states have enacted laws to weaken their existing gun laws, so there's been a lot happening in the states.
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Washington and Pennsylvania recently enacted laws requiring collection of third-party merchants' sales taxes, and other states are expected to follow.
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More than 1003 states have enacted laws with some or all of the Texas restrictions, so this case had sweeping implications.
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In the past year, Washington State and Pennsylvania have enacted laws requiring internet retailers to collect taxes on third-party sales.
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Many states have enacted laws that make obtaining an abortion exceedingly difficult: About 90 percent of counties have no abortion clinics.
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Since the 1970s, various European countries enacted laws banning people from wearing masks to hide their personal identity at public events.
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Several state legislatures have enacted laws that seem calculated to try to force the Supreme Court to consider overruling Roe v.
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After the South lost the Civil War, state lawmakers in Florida, for example, enacted laws — the Black Codes — to constrain black rights.
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Georgia, Alabama, Missouri and other states have enacted laws placing sharp limits on abortion designed to test the Supreme Court's Roe v.
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Details: Utah and Oregon have enacted laws allowing mental health days, and students in Colorado, Florida and Washington are pushing similar bills.
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In 2016, Russia enacted laws to combat terrorism, which required messaging services to provide authorities with the ability to decrypt user correspondence.
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Mexico enacted laws that establish a long-awaited national "anti-corruption system", which creates independent authorities to monitor, investigate and punish corruption.
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Whether disdaining democratically-enacted laws, such as our voting or immigration laws, is a shrewd or foolhardy campaign strategy, we shall see.
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In the weeks that followed, the German government enacted laws including the "Aryanization" policy, which transferred Jewish-owned businesses to "Aryan" ownership.
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New York, Oregon, and California have enacted laws that either create statewide rent control laws or allowing municipalities to create their own.
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There are exceptions: Over the years, Congress has enacted laws exempting some legislative proposals, like budget resolutions and reconciliation bills, from obstruction.
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Congress has enacted laws giving the president the ability to activate enhancements to his normal powers if he declares a national emergency.
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And that the Trump administration, which otherwise has a duty to defend duly enacted laws, agreed with the shakiness of their argument.
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Some towns even enacted laws to prevent prisoners from being fed them too frequently, as it would be inhumane to give them more.
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On a tour of states that have enacted laws restricting the rights of LGBTQ people, music makes a difference on a personal level.
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Simple. From the founding to the present, Congress has enacted laws specifying that certain categories of foreign-born persons are citizens at birth.
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Several states, including Arizona, Georgia and Michigan, have enacted laws that prohibit the police from destroying firearms that have been used in crimes.
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Meanwhile, 19 states and the District of Columbia have enacted laws or mandates against blanket exclusions for gender-affirming treatment in benefits packages.
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Most states have enacted laws to prevent or create barriers to tanning establishments for minors, researchers note in JAMA Dermatology online October 25.
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Recognizing this, Congress has enacted laws that allow states to prevent firearms purchases and even seize guns under certain domestic violence protection orders.
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After diamonds were found in 1967 in Botswana the government enacted laws to share the proceeds and spend them on infrastructure and education.
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To date, 29 states have enacted laws that require their utilities to get a certain fraction of their power from wind and solar.
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Lawmakers in Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio and Tennessee have enacted laws preventing municipalities from putting so-called "fair workweek" laws into place.
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Most northeastern states have enacted laws that extend background check requirements for gun purchases to include firearms sold at gun shows and unlicensed dealers.
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Though some Republican-controlled states have enacted laws to make voting harder, many states — even some with Republican leadership — have done right by voters.
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Similarly, Democrats would need complete control if they intend to rescind the many Republican-enacted laws designed to restrict and constrain voting by minorities.
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Jackie Speier of California, who led the reforms passed in late 2018, said conduct like Mfume's couldn't be addressed through the recently enacted laws.
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Driving the news: In 2019, New Jersey, Illinois and Maryland have enacted laws to bring the minimum wage up to $15 in the near future.
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Though at-risk girls and women are thought to live in every state but Hawaii, just 25 states have enacted laws against female genital mutilation.
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Currently, some 25 states have enacted laws allowing for medical marijuana use, and Colorado, Washington, Alaska, Oregon, and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana.
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Forty-nine states have anti-pyramid scheme laws on the books, and 18 states enacted laws modeled on recommendations by the Council of State Governments.
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This year, at least 10 states have enacted laws or sent bills to governors to increase connectivity or establish broadband task forces and state authorities.
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Policies such as California's recently-enacted laws classifying gig economy workers as full-time employees, for example, hamper the kind of flexibility that workers need.
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Since 2008, 17 states have enacted laws requiring citizens to prove who they are at the polls, according to the National Conference of State Legislators.
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It energized a movement, as one state after another enacted laws making it possible to try children as young as 13 or 14 as adults.
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All 50 states and United States territories have enacted laws that require companies to immediately notify customers of unauthorized data breaches that compromise users' personal information.
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So far, 36 states have enacted laws restricting drones and an additional four states have adopted drone limits, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Lawmakers in 16 states, including New York, have enacted laws allowing undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition, according to the National Conference on State Legislatures.
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At least four states, including New Jersey, have enacted laws banning its use on minors, and more than a dozen other states are considering doing the same.
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Illinois has enacted laws governing TNCs but Chicago — the third-largest market in the U.S. — governs transportation locally and remains a "problem" city for Uber and Lyft.
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So far this year, thirteen state legislatures have enacted laws to strengthen the right to keep and bear arms, and none have passed new gun control laws.
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For instance, since she originally took these photos, the country enacted laws requiring health warnings on cigarette packaging and more strict regulation of the tobacco advertising industry.
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When two countries with a historically poor record of violence against women have enacted laws to protect them, why then is India continuing to fail their survivors?
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In both Shelby and Citizens United, five Republican appointees struck down democratically enacted laws, and in doing so wound up substantially increasing Republicans' odds of electoral success.
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Brunei is a tiny, oil-rich country that follows Sharia Law and, according to Reuters, recently enacted laws allowing the stoning and whipping of gay people and adulterers.
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Other regions that have enacted laws governing the use or testing of self-driving vehicles on their roads include Nevada, Florida, Michigan, Hawaii, Washington, Washington, D.C. and Tennessee.
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Since the conservation scheme began, the government has enacted laws and provided manpower to protect the forests, with the navy sending personnel to plant over 36,000 mangrove trees.
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Washington, Delaware, Missouri, Indiana and Alabama have enacted laws to address the issue and provide financial firms with the tools, procedures and assistance they need to prevent exploitation.
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"We will maintain our borders, we will enforce Congress' duly enacted laws, and we will protect our communities from the scourge of cartels and gangs," Sessions said Thursday.
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During that era, the stereotype of the drunken Indian was pervasive, and federal lawmakers enacted laws intended to "protect" Native Americans from both themselves and deceitful liquor traders.
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As of that year, legislatures in Georgia and twenty-five other states had enacted laws restricting the coverage of abortion in the Affordable Care Act health-insurance marketplaces.
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Five states -- California, Nevada, South Carolina, Florida and Connecticut -- have enacted laws that require some officers to use body cameras, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Parliament enacted laws in 2015 allowing Japan to exercise collective self-defense, or aid allies under attack, based on a reinterpretation of the constitution rather than a formal revision.
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In a statement, the mayor of Charlotte, which had actually enacted laws protecting the LGBT community before the state stepped in, said the city would remain dedicated to equality.
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"When it comes to sanctuary cities, all we are requiring is that they, just like every other individual in the United States, follow Congress' duly enacted laws," he said.
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Most states have now enacted laws to increase access to naloxone – an overdose-preventing drug – and provide Good Samaritan protections to those who help save a life from overdose.
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Recently conservative and progressive states, from Georgia to Colorado, have enacted laws requiring the recording of interrogations and improving eyewitness identification practices, to protect against false confession and misidentification.
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A handful of mainly progressive states have enacted laws expanding paid sick leave for workers who contract coronavirus or who must care for a loved one who becomes infected.
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Parliament enacted laws in 2015 allowing Japan to exercise collective self-defence, or aid allies under attack, based on a reinterpretation of the constitution rather than a formal revision.
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While Connecticut and Vermont enacted laws in 2013 that allow noncitizens to obtain licenses, a similar effort in New York has made little progress in more than a decade.
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Other countries such as Belarus and Kenya enacted laws that enable the government to prosecute people who spread false information, and immediately attracted criticism from the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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The move comes shortly after Brunei, a small Asian country just across the South China Sea from Taiwan, enacted laws making homosexual sex and adultery punishable by death by stoning.
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Just this week, Washington State enacted laws to make it easier for women to come forward about harassment, including by prohibiting nondisclosure agreements that prevent them from describing their experiences.
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There is still no federal law prohibiting discrimination against L.G.B.T.Q.+ people on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity (although some states and cities have enacted laws prohibiting it).
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So far in 2016, Florida, Indiana, Utah, Washington, and the District of Columbia have enacted laws governing the use of body cameras, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Similar battles have failed in states and cities like New Jersey and New York, and at least eight states have enacted laws that discriminate against LGBTQ people in sexual education curricula.
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Despite the fact that many of these recently-enacted laws reshuffle millions of education dollars and inject millions more, most students are unlikely to see significant differences in their own schools.
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To date, 33 states have enacted laws regulating patients' access to medical cannabis and nearly one in four Americans reside in a state where the adult use of marijuana is permitted.
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Although Britain and the United States enacted laws abolishing the importation of slaves in 1807, the debate over slavery in Britain's territories continued through the decision in favor of emancipation, in 1833.
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JPMorgan Chase has joined a boycott of hotels owned by the sultan of Brunei after Brunei earlier this month enacted laws that make gay sex punishable by death, the bank told CNN.
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All in all, 203 states plus Washington, DC, have enacted laws that allow for medical marijuana use, but only 220 states permit home cultivation, and such homegrowing allowances are becoming increasingly rare.
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More than half of the countries on the continent have enacted laws that make it illegal to be gay and in several, including Somalia and South Sudan, homosexuality is punishable by death.
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Currently, at least 18 states have enacted laws that give physicians authority to override step therapy requirements based on a patient's medical history, including legislation enacted this year in Iowa and Arkansas.
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The state has also recently enacted laws requiring vote-by-mail voters who forget to sign their ballot or whose signature doesn't match records to be notified and given time to fix it.
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Some years later this "tourism" stopped because the countries the young women had come from enacted laws which, though they did not always legalise abortion entirely, at least offered humane routes and exemptions.
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Consider that 38 out of 423 countries on the continent have enacted laws that make it illegal to be gay and in several, including Somalia and South Sudan, homosexuality is punishable by death.
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Within the past several years, California and Washington state have enacted laws that allow family members and/or law enforcement to petition a judge to temporarily remove firearms from an individual in crisis.
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Since then, Yameen's ruling coalition has enacted laws without a required quorum in parliament, approved by the Supreme Court after its chief justice was arrested in February for alleged corruption under emergency regulations.
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Since same-sex couples won the right to marry, many states have enacted laws that permit adoption and foster care providers, counselors, landlords and others to turn LGBT people away, citing religious beliefs.
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The process was triggered by the European Commission because the Polish government has enacted laws forcing into early retirement many Supreme Court judges, and it trying to replace them with its own nominees.
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The court is likely to confront other abortion cases, too, as several state legislatures have recently enacted laws that seem calculated to try to force the Supreme Court to consider overruling Roe v.
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In a contentious shift in 2015, parliament enacted laws allowing Japan to exercise collective self-defense, or aiding allies under attack, but based on a reinterpretation of the constitution rather than a formal revision.
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The fact sheet says Congress enacted laws in the 1980s and 1990s that prohibited probation and required mandatory minimum prison sentences for common federal crimes such as drug trafficking and possessing an illegal firearm.
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Forty-one states have enacted laws concerning the unmanned aerial vehicles, including how law enforcement and the public are allowed to use them, among other issues, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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We haven't got to the stage when we really have to engage in enacted laws by the chief executive with the executive council to, for example, enact anti-mask or interception of internet messages.
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So far in 2016, Florida, Indiana, Utah and Washington state as well as the District of Columbia have enacted laws governing the use of body cameras, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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There is nothing in the federal constitution that requires electors to honor that pledge, but many states have enacted laws that would punish so-called "faithless electors" who go against the outcome of the vote.
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The reason is that several states have enacted laws banning state-funded travel to certain other states because of legal climates seen as discriminatory, including those related to so-called religious freedom or bathroom bills.
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A year after the cabinet reinterpreted the constitution, parliament enacted laws that ended a ban on exercising the right of collective self-defense, or defending a friendly country under attack, if Japan's survival is threatened.
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In California, we have enacted laws to require 50 percent of our electricity come from renewable energy resources and that doubles the amount of energy efficiency economy wide in the state by the year 2030.
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Several countries have enacted laws pressuring such groups by making them register as foreign agents if they get funding from international donors, said Janet Walsh, acting director of women's rights division at Human Rights Watch.
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Many countries including Norway, Switzerland, India, Guatemala, Turkey, and Israel have enacted laws that mirror those of the EU and in Canada, Australia and Brazil legislation has moved or is moving respectively through national legislatures.
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Recently enacted laws curb short-term vacation rentals, keeping out companies like Airbnb and VRBO, and a legacy business program offers financial incentives to landlords who sign long-term commercial leases with qualifying Chinatown enterprises.
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The statement called him "a pious leader, who has nothing but respect for Gambian women and women around the world," and noted that he had enacted laws to abolish the practice of female genital mutilation.
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Last year, New York, Rhode Island, Illinois and Vermont enacted laws to protect the right to abortion — in fact, of all policies protecting abortion access passed since 2011, one-quarter were passed last year alone.
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When the Supreme Court ruled in favor of gay marriage, some states, including North Dakota and Virginia, had already enacted laws protecting private child placement agencies that acted in accordance with religious or moral beliefs.
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When congressional Republicans enacted laws to reconstruct Southern state governments, he vetoed the bills, dismissed Congress as illegitimate, expressed a willingness to see its leaders hanged and portrayed himself as a martyr, a Christlike figure.
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Although there are several gun control measures, such as universal background checks, that enjoy broad support among the general public, Congress has not enacted laws in the wake of mass shootings from Newtown to Parkland.
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Legal protections for LGBTQ+ folks vary from state to state, much as in the U.S.; for example, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, and Australian Capital Territory have enacted laws prohibiting inciting violence based on sexual orientation.
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Recently enacted laws in North Carolina and Mississippi and their impact on the rights of the LGBTQ community have brought to light a serious public health issue: an increased risk of HIV and gender-based violence.
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At the state level, the majority of legislatures have introduced bills or enacted laws to formalize blockchain working groups that would provide policy recommendations to lawmakers as its applications evolve in the private and public sectors.
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Many states have enacted laws that drastically limit access to reproductive health care, particularly for poor, rural and immigrant women who cannot afford to miss work and make repeated trips to clinics hundreds of miles away.
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A basket of states enacted laws mandating the pay floor gradually increase to $22017 an hour over the years, while some cities including New York and San Francisco have raised minimum wage to $26.53 an hour.
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Since 2012, 26 states have enacted laws to expand access to voting — but only four of those states were ones formerly subject to oversight, according to an annual survey of new voting laws by the Brennan Center.
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Several states have already enacted laws to protect consumers against surprise bills, although some of the statutes protect patients only in the case of balance bills for out-of-network ER services for a serious medical emergency.
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But other abortion cases are likely to follow the one from Louisiana, whatever its outcome, because several state legislatures have enacted laws that seem calculated to try to force the Supreme Court to consider overruling Roe v.
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SAN FRANCISCO/ TORONTO (Reuters) - At least a dozen countries are considering or have enacted laws restricting online speech, a trend that is alarming policymakers and others who see the internet as a valuable medium for debate and expression.
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China enacted laws requiring cloud services offered to its citizens be operated by Chinese companies and that Chinese customers' data be stored in the country, forcing Apple to choose between discontinuing iCloud service there or adjusting its operations.
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" A federal appeals court judge in North Carolina wrote in 2016, after receiving data on the use of voting practices by race, the GOP-controlled state legislature enacted laws designed to suppress African-American turnout with "almost surgical precision.
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Some states have outlawed leaving kids in cars alone As of July, 21 states have enacted laws that make it a crime to leave a child alone in the car in the first place, regardless of the outcome, NoHeatStroke.
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Having clumsily raised the issue, Mr. Trump needs to know that in the years since Britain held a national gun debate and enacted laws for public safety, it has suffered only one mass shooting involving four or more victims.
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In 2017, Alabama, South Dakota and Texas all enacted laws permitting adoption and foster care agencies to discriminate based on their religious beliefs, but have yet to adopt laws that protect LGBT parents and families from discrimination more generally.
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Three new states this year have enacted laws that allow residents to carry firearms without a permit or license, and numerous other expansions of gun rights were passed at the state level in the years between Newtown and Parkland.
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The ruling elite responded to these movements of, by and for the people by turning to an unelected and unaccountable Supreme Court, which created the illegitimate doctrine of "corporate constitutional rights" to allow corporate lawyers to overturn democratically enacted laws.
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The company has not generally collected taxes for items sold on its website by third party vendors, which constitute about half of total sales on the platform, although two states have now enacted laws to require it to do so.
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Revenge porn is an increasingly common form of online abuse, and although several states have enacted laws criminalizing it, in recent years victims of revenge porn have included everyone from celebrities to members of the military to members of Congress.
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South Carolina and Mississippi legislatures voted on similar bills, though they both failed to pass; Ohio is currently considering one; and Indiana and Louisiana have both enacted laws of their own, though both are currently on hold pending ongoing litigation.
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Since 2010, 23 states, mostly under Republican control, have enacted laws requiring voters to show identification before casting ballots, all in the name of curbing a voter-fraud threat that almost all experts and election officials say is largely mythical.
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Among many such changes in Wisconsin, for example, the legislators diluted the veto powers of Tony Evers, the Democratic governor-elect, and eliminated the solicitor general post in the attorney general's office, hindering any efforts to challenge Republican-enacted laws.
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By the end of 2016, seven states had passed legislation limiting opioid prescriptions; by October 2018, 33 states had enacted laws with some type of limit, guidance or requirement related to opioids, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Instead, he says he's a follower of Mexican presidents including the liberal Benito Juarez who enacted laws to separate church and state and Lázaro Cárdenas, a nationalist who in 19.033 kicked out foreign oil companies and took control of the industry.
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Plenty of legal scholars on both sides of the aisle have, for years, argued that the US goes too far in embracing judicial review; few other countries give their Supreme Courts the power we give ours to strike down democratically enacted laws.
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Since the launch of a nationwide reform movement called "New Voices" in 2015, six states -- North Dakota, Illinois, Maryland, Nevada, Vermont and Rhode Island -- have enacted laws assuring college and high school journalists that they can't be punished merely for questioning school authorities.
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Guartinaja is the Colombian word for the spotted, cat-sized rodent of Central and South America, also known as paca, whose rich loins are so desirable that neighboring Panama has enacted laws forbidding the hunting of the species to maintain its population.
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As my colleague Anna North has explained, Mississippi and Iowa have enacted laws banning abortions as early as 15 or even six weeks; those are likelier statutes to generate a Supreme Court battle than a federal ban, which surely won't pass the Democratic House.
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Scanlon, a former pro-bono attorney and legal services coordinator working on behalf of abuse survivors, pointed out that six Republicans cosponsored legislation that would have closed the boyfriend loophole last year, and 23 states have enacted laws to prevent abusers from getting their hands on firearms.
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"Under no circumstances should the President nominate or the Senate confirm any individual who is opposed — whether for ideological, professional, or any other reason — to the enforcement of the duly enacted laws and regulations that protect the transparency and fairness of our elections," the advocacy groups wrote in their letter Monday.
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"Despacito." At the same time, more than 20 states have enacted laws making English the official language, President Trump won the election with a platform that included building a border wall, and his push for new limits on legal immigration would require that applicants speak English to obtain legal residency green cards.
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WASHINGTON — In the years after Republicans swept state and congressional elections in 163, legislatures in 25 states — all but a handful of them dominated by the party — enacted laws that made it harder to register and vote, from imposing ID requirements and curbing voter registration drives to rolling back early voting periods.
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Arkansas, Indiana and Tennessee have enacted laws in recent years to limit interest rates to maximums set by existing consumer lending laws or to require disclosures from lenders, said Page Faulk, senior vice president of legal reform initiatives for the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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But now seven states and the District of Columbia have enacted laws banning military-style automatic weapons like the AR-15, a version of which was used in the Sandy Hook massacre — which took the lives of 211 people, mostly children — and the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Florida, where 22009 were killed and 22015 wounded.
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But now seven states and the District of Columbia have enacted laws banning military-style automatic weapons like the AR-22, a version of which was used in the Sandy Hook massacre — which took the lives of 207 people, mostly children — and the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Florida, where 49 were killed and 53 wounded.
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Fortunately, since 2014, more than 85033 states and the District of Columbia have enacted laws limiting asset forfeiture or making the civil asset forfeiture process more transparent, such as requiring the agency to disclose what property was seized, whether the property was forfeited, where the forfeiture proceeds are directed and whether the property owner was charged with a crime.
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The ruling was eventually struck down, but 20 other states have added restrictions since the 2010 midterm election: ten now have more restrictive voter ID laws in place, seven enacted laws that make it more difficult for citizens to register, six cut back on early voting days and hours, and three made it harder for those with past criminal convictions to restore voting rights.
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Viewing strip clubs (whether rightly or wrongly) as noxious businesses that may engender crime or depress property values, many states, municipalities, and landlords have slowly enacted laws that tightly restrict how and where clubs can operate, shoving all but legacy operations into out-of-the-way parts of town and at times denying them the ability to serve alcohol, long a key money-maker, or interact with patrons in this or that way.
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