Some states have passed laws on autonomous vehicles in Australia.
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Congress passed laws to protect the environment and curb pollution.
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Since then, several states have passed laws expanding religious protections.
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What countries or states have passed laws protecting marriage equality?
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Some states passed laws barring women from the profession altogether.
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Pennsylvania, Utah and California have passed laws to automate the process.
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European countries have recently passed laws to combat this environmental danger.
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Other conservative states have passed laws that will face legal challenges.
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Russia and Lithuania have passed laws on the interpretation of history.
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Japan has passed laws that seem designed to target the firm.
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Russia had passed laws criminalizing the promotion or normalization of homosexuality.
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More than 50 countries have passed laws that stifle citizen groups.
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In some states, like California, they've passed laws allowing pre-registration.
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There are good reasons Brazil hasn't passed laws like this before.
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Sixteen other states have passed laws allowing for legal cannabidiol (CBD).
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Washington and Minnesota have already passed laws to tax marketplace sales.
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States passed laws requiring drivers and passengers to wear seat belts.
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Go deeper: Where abortion restriction stands: The states that have passed laws
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Some states have passed laws allowing older methods of execution if needed.
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Notably, ten states have passed laws regarding post-election audits since 2016.
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Four more allow gay marriage but have not passed laws sanctioning it.
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Seven other states have not passed laws regulating rideshare companies' background checks.
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In fact, many states have already passed laws to address this issue.
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Other states have passed laws that were later struck down in court.
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The government has passed laws that could restrict the right to protest.
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Twenty-three states have passed laws for body cameras, the group said.
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Eight states have strengthened or passed laws requiring background checks since December 2012.
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Meanwhile, at least 22016 states passed laws in 210.8 to address drug pricing.
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This year Alabama, Ohio and Georgia passed laws to restrict access to abortions.
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Wade is overturned Where abortion restriction stands: The states that have passed laws
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Thirty-five states and Washington, D.C., have now passed laws criminalizing nonconsensual pornography.
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Some governments have passed laws that lean to one side of the debate.
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In January, the government passed laws banning all VPNs not approved by regulators.
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But he passed laws preserving mineral rights for the nation, not his chieftaincy.
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California cities and the State Legislature have passed laws banning Section 8 discrimination.
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Meanwhile, at least 183 states passed laws in 2019 to address drug pricing.
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California and Connecticut also recently passed laws restricting government access to digital messages.
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But before that, some states had already passed laws to outlaw pay secrecy.
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California, Mississippi and Arizona have already passed laws banning vaccine exemptions on religious grounds.
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However, a few states, including Missouri, have passed laws with similar protections for brokers.
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This year, 18 states passed laws to increase the minimum wage, although only incrementally.
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Many states also passed laws keeping such criminals away from schools, playgrounds and parks.
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They passed laws to break up banks, the emerging airline industry, and electric utilities.
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The big picture: Separately, 6 states including Missouri have passed laws banning most abortions.
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Wade fight heats up Where abortion restriction stands: The states that have passed laws
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More than a dozen have passed laws explicitly forbidding their license issuers from complying.
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Both have both passed laws lifting their bans on certain bladed weapons, including swords.
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Despite the victory, many states passed laws that prohibited African American women from voting.
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Seven states and the District of Columbia have passed laws legalizing recreational marijuana use.
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At least four other Republican-led states this year passed laws dramatically limiting abortion.
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Elsewhere, legislators have passed laws making it harder to vote, especially for minority groups.
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Already, multiple states have passed laws that amount to a total ban on abortions.
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Vermont and Maine have passed laws requiring school districts to phase in the system.
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In about half the country, states and localities have passed laws forbidding such discrimination.
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Recognizing the unfairness of the status quo, 43 states have passed laws mandating parity.
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This year, five states passed laws banning abortion before most people know they're pregnant.
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In Michigan and Wisconsin, lawmakers recently passed laws prohibiting bans on the salary question.
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Most of them recently passed laws that could prevent gays from adopting or fostering children.
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The newly passed laws are unlikely to make it before the top court anytime soon.
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France, Singapore, and Russia have passed laws designed to curb "fake news" on social media.
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Several states, including Alabama, Georgia, and Missouri have recently passed laws that effectively ban abortion.
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Some states, such as California, have also considered or passed laws that explicitly target swatting.
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Following the Holocaust, Germany passed laws cracking down on hate speech and praise of Nazism.
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Below are states that have passed laws to protect or expand abortion access this year.
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In November, California, Massachusetts, Maine and Nevada passed laws to allow marijuana use for adults.
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Congress passed laws in 1995 and 1998 making it harder to bring securities class actions.
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For decades now, states have passed laws that chip away at the right to choose.
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The move comes as a series of states have passed laws to restrict abortion rights.
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Many states have passed laws to restrict the use of mifepristone since its F.D.A. approval.
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An additional 85033 states have passed laws in regard to cannabidiol oil for therapeutic purposes.
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In 2017, the government passed laws that the industry complained would be costly and onerous.
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Eventually, many states even passed laws requiring electors to vote for their party's presidential nominee.
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In 2018, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Utah all passed laws legalizing medical use of the drug.
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Across the country, nine states and the District of Columbia have passed laws legalizing marijuana.
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There were 22 states that passed laws banning paramilitary training activity within their state borders.
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So far in 2019, Colorado, New Mexico and Delaware have passed laws joining the pact.
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Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine and Oregon have passed laws that take effect between 2021 and 2023.
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Cities like Baltimore even passed laws against these societies — a sure sign of their popularity.
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All 50 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws making naloxone more accessible.
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Some Spanish regional authorities have passed laws intended to clamp down on Wall Street's involvement.
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The catch: Legislatures in some states, including Tennessee, have passed laws on short-term rentals.
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Congress passed laws protecting the drug industry's monopoly pricing — with the support of many Democrats.
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Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Paris and Vancouver, British Columbia, have all passed laws restricting Airbnb rentals.
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For example, the EU has passed laws to enforce an idea known as the precautionary principle.
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Seven states have already passed laws that do this, and the momentum is on our side.
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Yet the fact remains that only five states have passed laws prohibiting reparative therapy for minors.
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Similarly, only six states and Washington D.C. have passed laws guaranteeing paid sick leave for employees.
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For example, Bush's team disregarded parts of congressionally passed laws in the name of national security.
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Parliaments have passed laws making it a criminal offence for their countries' citizens to fight abroad.
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Parliament has passed laws banning women from wearing the burqa or other face coverings in public.
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In recent years, many cities have passed laws restricting where and when food trucks can operate.
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Some countries, including Colombia and Peru, have passed laws that make it harder to renegotiate PPPs.
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In fact, 22 states have passed laws imposing higher gas taxes in the past five years.
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This number could drop, as many states have recently passed laws restricting insurance coverage of abortion.
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Several states, including Iowa and Indiana, have passed laws prohibiting abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
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In the last two years, 20 states have passed laws requiring audits of sexual assault kits.
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Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Paris and Vancouver, British Columbia, have all passed laws restricting short-term rentals.
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Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Paris and Vancouver, British Columbia, have all passed laws restricting short-term rentals.
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So far, 85033 states have passed laws banning contractors from engaging in economic discrimination against Israel.
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However, some states have passed laws that protect workers from getting fired for outside work activities.
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West Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana passed laws this year; none has yet to draw challenge.
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Several other states, including Georgia, have passed laws prohibiting undocumented students from paying in-state tuition.
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Already this year, at least five countries have passed laws regulating fake news online, he added.
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And only Oregon, Washington, D.C., and six cities have passed laws to reduce unpredictable scheduling practices.
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Some countries have passed laws against 'femicide,' but there's no consensus on what the term means.
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"Congress has passed laws that place obligations on us to supervise these financial institutions," she said.
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Certain states and cities have also passed laws that ban employers from asking about salary history.
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The new government passed laws banning most senior aides in his administration from holding office again.
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Over time, Congress passed laws that took more and more of the reservation away from us.
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That's why some states have passed laws that make it easier for women to prove discrimination.
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And Massachusetts has passed laws that ban co-pay coupons for brand drugs with generic equivalents.
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But many states and cities have passed laws to raise wages on their own as well.
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And, as we know from X-Men, America inexplicably hates mutants and has passed laws against them!
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It has passed laws aimed at weakening the courts and stifling the press and civil-rights groups.
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Missouri is one of several states that recently passed laws limiting abortions to eight weeks or fewer.
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Some states, such as Benue, have passed laws that ban herdsmen from grazing cattle on open land.
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You also suggested that Mr Kenyatta has passed laws to restrict the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission.
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China, where the virtual-item business model is very popular, has already passed laws restricting their sale.
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Congress has also passed laws increasing the power of the executive, which Mr Trump is now exploiting.
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In January, Beijing passed laws seeking to ban all VPNs that are not approved by state regulators.
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Between 1999 and 2007, North Carolina and about 30 other states passed laws targeting predatory lending practices.
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He took over the city, passed laws against all the best kinds of vice, and burned books.
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Both Peru and Bolivia have passed laws prohibiting this process, because of the frogs' critically endangered status.
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Last month, May's minority government passed laws that will end Britain's EU membership in March next year.
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Already this year, legislators in six states passed laws meant to present a legal challenge to Roe.
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Georgia and Alabama passed laws similar to that in Kansas but are not enforcing them, Ho said.
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Other countries launched national campaigns to end child marriage or passed laws to recognize same-sex relationships.
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They also said that Congress had already passed laws that kept out individuals with known terrorist activity.
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In recent years, more than a dozen states have passed laws to restrict contractors from boycotting Israel.
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Two U.S. states — Virginia and Idaho — have now passed laws to allow delivery robots to operate statewide.
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California, Nevada and Vermont have passed laws that require companies to disclose and justify certain price increases.
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States throughout the nation passed laws in the early 19th century that barred former felons from voting.
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During the Jim Crow era, many states and cities passed laws that institutionalized racial discrimination and segregation.
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And some state and local governments have passed laws that require companies to offer paid sick leave.
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Recently, nine states passed laws banning most abortions, with legal challenges wending their way through the courts.
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Just two states — California and New York — have officially passed laws prohibiting racial discrimination based on hairstyle.
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States passed laws targeting drunken driving, establishing firm limits for blood alcohol content and conducting Breathalyzer tests.
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Some liberal enclaves in college towns and on the coasts passed laws, and that was about it.
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Five states — including Arkansas, which expanded its requirements — have passed laws this year alone, according to HuffPost.
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Some states and cities have already passed laws increasing hourly wages to $15, including Seattle and California.
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Many states have even passed laws "binding" their electors to vote in accordance with the statewide outcome.
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Since 2010, many state legislatures have passed laws requiring that people show identification before casting a ballot.
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Since 2011, Indiana has systematically passed laws that erode access to abortion and other reproductive health services.
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Fourteen Latin American countries have also passed laws that prohibit discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation.
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Earlier this year, Michigan and Hawaii passed laws giving victims more time to report sexual assaults on children.
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Congress has passed laws banning the use of waterboarding by the military and the CIA, as you know.
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An additional thirteen states have passed laws specific to the possession of cannabidiol (CBD) extracts for therapeutic purposes.
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In the 1980s and 1990s Japan passed laws reducing the standard working week from 48 hours to 353.
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Two states have passed laws, and others have signed orders applying net neutrality rules on a smaller scale.
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Still, so far, at least four states have passed laws similar to the one proposed in North Dakota.
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In 2015, both California and Vermont passed laws removing personal belief exemptions amid a measles outbreak at Disneyland.
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According to the National Retail Federation, 30 states have passed laws regarding organized retail crime (ORC) since 2008.
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An additional fifteen states have passed laws specific to the possession of cannabidiol (CBD) oil for therapeutic purposes.
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Dozens have passed laws to lower the pharmaceutical price trajectory, and their work can inform the current debate.
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Since then, the group says, more than 170 cities have passed laws heavily restricting smoking in public spaces.
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Indiana, and 27 other states, have recognized that forced unionization as unconstitutional and have passed laws against it.
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Some states have passed laws requiring online marketplaces to collect sales taxes on behalf of third-party sellers.
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Several states, including California, Nevada, and Oregon, have passed laws extending trespass laws to aerial trespasses by drones.
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Nevada and Washington passed laws to prevent the practice this year, joining California, Delaware, Maryland, and New York.
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An additional thirteen states have passed laws specific to the possession of cannabidiol (CBD) extracts for therapeutic purposes.
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Kenya joins other countries in the region that have passed laws that activists say will curtail free expression.
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This after more than half of all states passed laws intended to impose similar or even shorter limits.
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The case: In 1828, Georgia passed laws prohibiting anyone except Native Americans from living on Native American land.
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Twelve states have passed laws about nondisclosure agreements in sexual misconduct cases, but only one effectively neutralizes them.
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We managed to weather the economic storm and passed laws to prevent a repeat of the credit crisis.
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Congress passed laws to stop the violence, but the federal government eventually gave up trying to enforce them.
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A slew of states passed laws this year containing what amount to de facto bans on the procedure.
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New York, for example, recently passed laws making it easier to hold employers liable for their employees' behavior.
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Colombia has passed laws supporting LGBT+ rights since 2015, allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt children.
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California and New York already passed laws to raise state minimum wages to $15 per hour over time.
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There's been fear-mongering every time a state has passed laws letting law-abiding citizens carry concealed handguns.
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He may not have to wait long, as a number of states have passed laws similar to Indiana's.
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There are states that have passed laws that will virtually prevent women from having access to reproductive health care.
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Go deeper: Where 2020 Democrats stand on abortion policy Where abortion restriction stands: The states that have passed laws
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Singapore, Hong Kong, Belgium, Austria and the United States have also passed laws restricting bearer shares in recent years.
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This is a far cry from Rajoy's previous term where he easily passed laws thanks to an absolute majority.
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States, such as South Dakota and Alabama, have already passed laws that attempt to regulate businesses beyond their borders.
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Parliament has passed laws to restrict the powers of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) and the courts.
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Lacking enough cash of its own, it has passed laws to encourage private investors to pay for the reconstruction.
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More than a half-dozen states have passed laws restricting the use of cellphone-tracking technology by the police.
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Five states — Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah — passed laws, but most have been limited by the courts.
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Connecticut and Maine have passed laws requiring labeling, but the measures are contingent on bordering states' adopting similar requirements.
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Mlambo-Ngcuka said many countries had passed laws on gender equality and created gender ministries but progress was slow.
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Michigan, Florida, and Tennessee are among other states that have also passed laws restricting physicians' ability to prescribe opioids.
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California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland and Oregon have passed laws requiring employers of various sizes to offer workplace retirement plans.
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Eleven states, beginning with Connecticut in 2012, already have passed laws requiring large employers to offer paid sick leave.
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So far, 10 states have passed laws saying they'd implement this system if enough other states do as well.
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There is an exception at the state level, where legislatures have passed laws imposing (and relaxing) restrictions on guns.
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Some cities, including San Francisco, Boston and New York, have also passed laws barring pharmacies from selling tobacco products.
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In 2018, the European Commission passed laws enshrining right-to-repair for appliances such as washing machines and refrigerators.
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Because of these high costs, several states passed laws to cap monthly copayments for patients with costly health conditions.
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The District of Columbia and 19 states have already passed laws to ban death-in-jail sentences for children.
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And a number of U.S. states have passed laws making protests opposing fossil fuel pipelines criminal offences, Alston said.
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Only three states — Texas, Mississippi and Wisconsin — have passed laws to allow drug testing for their unemployment insurance programs.
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Some states followed the lead of the Obama administration and passed laws requiring colleges to use the lower standard.
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This year, Washington state and Maine passed laws banning the use of intentionally added PFAS chemicals in food packaging.
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So far in 2019, at least seven states have passed laws to limit abortion at eight weeks or earlier.
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Since 2010, Viktor Orbán has passed laws that suffocate the free press, politicize Hungary's judiciary and demonize nongovernmental organizations.
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A number of more liberal states have passed laws explicitly protecting abortion rights in preparation for such an event.
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Uruguay, Argentina and Peru have passed laws similar to Chile's that limit the marketing of unhealthy food to children.
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Southern legislatures, controlled by Democrats, passed laws that ensured that blacks were not going to be able to vote.
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Nevertheless, eight states have passed laws requiring abortion clinics to be located within a certain distance of a hospital.
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A number of Republican-led states, citing the need to prevent voter fraud, have passed laws with stricter ID requirements.
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That's because numerous states have passed laws that make it hard for marginalized communities, particularly communities of color, to vote.
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In recent years, multiple states have passed laws legalizing death with dignity—including California and Gorsuch's home state of Colorado.
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Five Indian states have passed laws that explicitly penalise accusations of witchcraft, and in some cases can punish entire communities.
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In 2017, the government passed laws to reform the mining sector that the industry complained would be costly and onerous.
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What's next: Some states, including New Hampshire and Utah, have passed laws limiting police access to private plate-scan databases.
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Producers would still be able to export them if Britain, as expected, passed laws to comply with EU sanitary rules.
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Hopeful legislators in several states, including South Dakota, have passed laws taxing e-commerce transactions purposely to provoke court challenges.
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Several states, including New Hampshire and Massachusetts, have already adopted policies or passed laws to reduce the prescribing of opioids.
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Several U.S. states have passed laws to allow large-scale imports, but shipments would not be legal without federal approval.
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The federal assault rifle ban expired in 2004, and many states have passed laws allowing residents to carry concealed guns.
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Because of this flurry of lawsuits, 28 states passed laws requiring insurance plans to cover preventive medicine, including birth control.
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Becerra said the states — Alabama, Kentucky, South Dakota and Texas — all recently passed laws that discriminate based on sexual orientation.
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Pennsylvania and Washington state have recently passed laws requiring Amazon to collect sales on items sold by third-party vendors.
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Lawmakers in Connecticut have passed laws requiring electronic surveillance at access points to campuses, as well as tamper proof locks.
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Earlier this year it passed laws prohibiting the purchase of Belarus energy after the power plant gets going next year.
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Some countries, like Norway and Germany, have passed laws that require a minimum percentage of women on each corporate board.
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So the government passed laws to restrain businesses and occasionally broke up the largest, like Standard Oil and AT&T.
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Republican legislators have touted imaginary voter fraud and passed laws to suppress Democratic votes in a number of states. 4.
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Governments have passed laws against domestic abuse and discrimination against women, and many nations now have ministries of women's affairs.
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More governments would have passed laws regulating their activities and giving us a right to our privacy and our data.
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Congress passed laws years ago protecting this kind of information and entrusted the F.C.C. with the responsibility of enforcing them.
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None of the states that have so far passed laws permitting the use of autonomous robots are major population centers.
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Whites in other Northwest Territory states from Ohio to Michigan passed laws to make those states unwelcoming to African-Americans.
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Given that several states have already passed laws protecting trans employees from being fired, this is a more convincing response.
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Some states have passed laws that limit contributions from state contractors to prevent companies from trying to influence elected officials.
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While this is more likely to occur in red states, some blue states have not yet passed laws protecting abortion.
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Since 2017, at least twelve states have passed laws restricting their use, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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It has also passed laws legalizing its casinos after concerns unregulated gaming establishments were being exploited by transnational crime groups.
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Several other states, such as Texas and Michigan, have passed laws that allow for organizations to discriminate against LGBTQ people.
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New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have passed laws that would allow their residents to step around the SALT cap.
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Several conservative-leaning states have passed laws that would dramatically restrict the right to an abortion should Roe be overturned.
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In response, eight states have passed laws requiring employers to pay tipped workers the full state or federal minimum wage.
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But, but, but: Several states have independently passed laws matching the standards of the Bush-era rule, the Times notes.
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Last year, New York City passed laws that require ride-hailing operators to pay drivers a $17.22 per hour minimum wage.
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Since 2016, at least nine cities and states have passed laws banning employers from asking job candidates about their salary history.
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Turkey has even passed laws that have opened up its labour market to Syrian refugees, unlike many friendly and Allied countries.
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According to NYU's Brennan Center, between 2010 and 2014, at least 22 states passed laws that make it harder to vote.
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States have passed laws that require insurers to dispense larger amounts—a six-month supply, rather than three months, for example.
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Massachusetts, Vermont and the District of Columbia, which operate on locally run exchanges, have also passed laws restoring the individual mandate.
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California, Illinois, Maryland and Vermont have passed laws over the past two years requiring cost-free coverage of birth control options.
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He notes that many states have passed laws to prevent children under the age of 18 from using commercial tanning beds.
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In the US, medical marijuana is currently legal in 28 states, while eight states have passed laws to allow recreational use.
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But as the #MeToo movement gained attention, several states passed laws prohibiting the use of nondisclosure agreements in sexual misconduct cases.
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His government has passed laws making it impossible for labour unions and other pressure groups to criticise it without risking closure.
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Go deeper: Kirsten Gillibrand on the issues, in under 500 words Where abortion restriction stands: The states that have passed laws
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More than a dozen states have also passed laws that allow financial firms to pause disbursals when financial exploitation is suspected.
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In many states, they also passed laws requiring citizens to produce a state-approved photo ID before being allowed to vote.
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Democratic-led states such as California and Oregon, on the other hand, have passed laws that aim to register more voters.
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Republican state legislators who have passed laws paving the way for these changes say they are needed to fight voter fraud.
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In recent years, states including Connecticut, New York, and California have passed laws mandating that assault weapon owners register their firearms.
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Not surprisingly, then, politicians in Washington and Florida have now passed laws aimed at moving their states to DST year-round.
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Several states, including Alabama, Missouri and Ohio, have passed laws banning most abortions, with the goal of overturning Roe v. Wade.
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In 2015, Ukraine passed laws making it a criminal offense to deny the heroic nature of two World War II paramilitaries.
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But other states — many of them Republican-controlled — have passed laws demanding photo identification or some proof of citizenship from voters.
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Other states may be close behind: Anticipating Thursday's ruling, several states, including North Dakota, have passed laws modeled on South Dakota's.
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Several states have passed laws restricting the use of firefighting PFAS foams to actual emergencies, prohibiting its use in training exercises.
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New York is one of more than a dozen states that have passed laws allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses.
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In response, several states have passed laws that aim to boost protections for workers — but may also have unintended side effects.
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The government also passed laws criminalizing the open practice of Obeah, forbidding slaves from possessing guns, and preventing blacks from gathering.
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More than 2628 municipalities have already passed laws restricting flavored tobacco sales -- and more are likely to do so in 28503.
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This year Illinois, Maine, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont have all passed laws loosening restrictions on abortion later in pregnancy.
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A National Conference of State Legislatures report in July found that at least 23 states have passed laws to restrict prescribing.
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But Congress has passed laws in the past providing presidents with authority in national emergencies, laws that remain on the books.
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Some states, for instance, have passed laws making it illegal to leave a child alone at home or in a car.
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Some states have passed laws making their representatives to the Electoral College sign affidavits pledging to vote for a certain nominee.
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It means that Republican-passed laws that Democrats campaigned against — and won doing so — likely won't see much action in state court.
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Only a handful of countries including Sweden have so far passed laws that will require them to cut emissions to net zero.
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In addition to Washington and Pennsylvania, states including Colorado and South Dakota have passed laws compelling the collection of internet sales tax.
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By 1895, ten states had passed laws requiring public schools to display the flag on ordinary days as well as on holidays.
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Three states have passed laws to gradually raise their wage floors to that level, more than double the federal $7.25 per hour.
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Around that time, several states passed laws requiring genetic screening for sickle cell anemia, a blood disease that disproportionately affects African-Americans.
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And he has passed laws allowing Japan to come to the defence of allies if they are attacked—something previously considered taboo.
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Salary Inquiry BanSeveral cities and states have passed laws prohibiting employers from using or seeking a candidate's current or prior salary history.
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It also passed laws setting stricter penalties for these types of crime and set up a fund in honor of the victim.
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Without that protection, teachers often can't collectively bargain, and legislators in 38 states have passed laws that even make teacher strikes illegal.
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But many local governments have recently passed laws meant to protect elephants or remove exotic animals — including elephants — from city-owned facilities.
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Washington state, California, Virginia, Minnesota and Utah have passed laws requiring their police forces to seek warrants before using cell-site simulators.
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To address these shortcomings, eight states, as well as the city of Seattle, have passed laws to protect and strengthen domestic work.
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The Arkansas and Tennessee legislatures have passed laws that, like North Carolina's, ban local anti-discrimination ordinances that differ from state law.
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So far, only a handful of states, including New York and Mississippi, have passed laws to enable ambulance crews to transport dogs.
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It is indisputable that some Republicans at the state level have passed laws that make it harder for certain people to vote.
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Such a move would surely trigger a showdown with lawmakers, who have passed laws barring detainees from being housed on U.S. soil.
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In 303, the Philippines and British Columbia both passed laws that barred companies from forcing women to wear high heels at work.
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Certainly the Iowa legislature has passed laws that could test the Court, if the Iowa litigation reaches the Court for a decision.
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Some US cities including San Francisco and Oakland in California and Portland, Oregon have passed laws banning police use of facial recognition.
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Cities including Honolulu, San Francisco, Colorado Springs and Charleston, S.C., have passed laws or regulations against sitting or lying down on sidewalks.
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Sanders home state of Vermont is one of several states that have passed laws to keep the older federal standards in place.
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Several states have passed laws that are more protective of people's cellphone location data, but Congress has avoided the issue so far.
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Some states have passed laws requiring that animals have access to outdoor space, but the egg industry has bitterly opposed such rules.
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By the late 1960s, as the first lady, Lady Bird Johnson, started a national "beautification" campaign, communities passed laws against using neon.
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A growing number of states and cities — including Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York City — have passed laws banning flavored e-cigarettes.
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As of the start of this year, 29 states have passed laws to increase hourly wages above the federal minimum of $7.29.
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This year eight states passed laws giving child sex abuse victims more time to legally confront their abusers, according to Child USA.
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Some states have passed laws allowing for the testing of higher levels of automation, but most have yet to take up any legislation.
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At least six states — Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Washington, Illinois and Maryland — have passed laws allowing some form of surveillance in nursing homes.
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We have also passed laws so that people who smuggle packages over prison walls, including drugs, face up to two years in prison.
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More than 30 states already have medical marijuana use, and 10 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws allowing recreational use.
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Go deeper: State-by-state chart of where things stand if Roe falls Where abortion restriction stands: The states that have passed laws
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So far, nine states have passed laws extending labor protections to domestic workers: Oregon, California, Connecticut, Illinois, New York, Massachusetts, Hawaii, and Nevada.
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So far 44 states have passed laws against this practice and it's time for the remaining states and Congress to do the same.
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In 2018 alone, 20 states passed laws that require more accountability from PBMs, which serve as "middle men" in the drug supply chain.
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They passed laws of return (Germany, Israel, Eritrea) that privileged ethnic nationals from diaspora communities over resident minorities who lived in their homelands.
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Thirty-three states and Washington, D.C., have passed laws legalizing or decriminalizing marijuana in some form, but it remains illegal under federal law.
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In New York, neither the City Council nor the State Legislature has passed laws specific to police policies relating to body camera footage.
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While abortion opponents have made little headway against that decision federally, dozens of GOP-led states have passed laws restricting access to abortion.
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A number of other states, including New York and Texas, have also recently passed laws to raise the minimum legal age to marry.
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Several dozen states have passed laws allowing voters to register to vote online, which makes registration better for voters and election officials alike.
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Since the Great Depression, Congress has passed laws that allow state municipalities to file for federal bankruptcy protection and pare down their debts.
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Bermuda, Malta, Gibraltar and Liechtenstein have recently passed laws, or have legislation in the works, to make themselves more welcoming to cryptocurrency companies.
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There was a huge public outcry last year when Alabama, Georgia and several other states passed laws banning all or nearly all abortions.
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Alaska and Minnesota have passed laws to establish such reinsurance programs, which they say are lowering premiums below what they would otherwise be.
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In recent years, dozens of states have passed laws related to self-driving safety, some of which carmakers view as too heavy-handed.
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Congress passed laws to dismantle bureaucratic road blocks that kept agencies from working together, and require administrators to have considerable emergency response experience.
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Five states have taken the lead and passed laws authorizing gun violence prevention restraining orders to date: California, Connecticut, Indiana, Oregon and Washington.
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In 2019, states including New York, Illinois, Vermont and Rhode Island passed laws that will guarantee the right to abortion if Roe v.
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Then, in the early 2000s, my home state, California, passed laws preventing employers and insurers from discriminating based on medical or genetic conditions.
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So far, eight states have passed laws extending labor protections to domestic workers: Oregon, California, Connecticut, Illinois, New York, Massachusetts, Hawaii, and Nevada.
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We've already seen the politics of this dynamic play out in states like Wisconsin, which have passed laws hobbling the public-sector unions.
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A couple of states have passed laws dramatically restricting police's ability to confiscate property before the owner is actually convicted of a crime.
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In April 1938, Hungary passed laws limiting Jews' ability to work; later that year, a law was passed banning the exportation of intellectual property.
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Over two dozen U.S. states have passed laws similar to California's authorizing businesses to stock epinephrine, according to advocacy group Food Allergy Research & Education.
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Most of those 12 states said they wanted to buy new machines that produce paper ballots, and some have even passed laws requiring that.
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Talking about "sanctuary cities" that have passed laws limiting local law enforcement cooperation with his agency, Mr Homan suggested prosecuting mayors and council members.
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As we've previously noted, twenty one states have now passed laws at ISP behest banning towns and cities from getting into the broadband business.
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While many states in the US have passed laws specifically addressing revenge porn, up until now, Canada's response to the issue has been middling.
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The shooting generated a bipartisan interest in banning the devices: at least seven states passed laws banning them in the year following the shooting.
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Both are cities that have been abandoned by Uber after their governments passed laws seen as onerous by the famously prickly ride-hailing service.
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Knowing this and knowing how guns can exacerbate the problem, legislators have passed laws that try to curtail domestic abusers from getting a gun.
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Both the United Kingdom and Australia have recently passed laws moving in that direction, though it is unclear how widely they are being wielded.
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Of the 5003 states that have passed laws or rules regulating rideshare driver background checks and eligibility, none require fingerprint-based checks, CNN found.
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Every one of them decided that the benefits would be dubious at best and the societal dangers unacceptably dire, and passed laws against it.
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Several states have passed laws that will ban abortions six weeks into pregnancy, and Alabama passed a law that will ban nearly all abortions.
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They have passed laws like so-called "right-to-work" that actively chipped away at workers' ability to unionize and bargain for wage increases.
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Already, 10 states have passed laws that prevent local governments from acting against plastic pollution — some prevent plastic bag bans and others are broader.
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After decades of anti-LGBTQ discrimination in the workplace, housing, schools, and other settings, most states haven't passed laws that explicitly protect LGBTQ people.
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When voters in North Carolina and Wisconsin elected Democratic governors in recent years, Republican legislators passed laws to strip the offices of their powers.
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Connecticut, New York and Maryland passed laws limiting sales of assault rifles and high-capacity magazines following the massacre, but federal laws were unchanged.
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And most critical, Republicans have passed laws that have made the hallmark of full citizenship — the right to vote — more difficult for black Americans.
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The increase came even as several cities and states have passed laws to prohibit local law enforcement from cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Starting last year, legislatures in Michigan, Arizona and California passed laws that pre-emptively bar local governments from imposing such taxes in the future.
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In 2014, for instance, Washington state and Oregon passed laws ensuring all guns have to go through background checks, including those sold between individuals.
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Wyoming and Delaware have passed laws aimed at welcoming certain blockchain businesses, though they have been less focused on ones that trade in tokens.
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In the last two years, more than a dozen states passed laws to constrain domestic abusers who own firearms, according to The Associated Press.
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Four states -- Florida, Vermont, Colorado and Maine -- recently passed laws to set up drug importation programs, though any action would need approval from HHS.
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Several states and cities including California, New York and Philadelphia have passed laws which prohibit employers from asking job candidates about their salary history.
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Recently, two regional parliaments in Belgium passed laws to end religious slaughter starting in 2019, though both measures face legal challenges in Belgian courts.
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Over the last several years, California has passed laws requiring insurance companies to cover the procedure, as well as Medicare and Medi-Cal plans.
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We grew up in the Obama years, under an administration that gave us the Affordable Care Act and passed laws to protect marriage equality.
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States passed laws making life without parole an option for certain aggravated murders, meaning there was a sufficiently harsh alternative to the death penalty.
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That's part of a trend: Since 2010, 11 states passed laws that make it harder for citizens to vote, the Brennan Center for Justice says.
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Since Columbine, 22013 states have passed laws requiring schools to conduct lockdown drills or some form of emergency drill to keep students safe from intruders.
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A number of states have passed laws that ban a method of abortion used during the second trimester of pregnancy, known as dilation and evacuation.
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Seven states passed laws this year to limit abortion at eight weeks or earlier; one of those states, Alabama, moved to ban almost all abortions.
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Nonetheless, his rhetoric has given succour to autocrats in other countries, who have passed laws outlawing "fake news" and quickly set about persecuting political opponents.
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To China's disquiet, Congress has passed laws signalling solidarity with Taiwan, urging the government to allow cabinet secretaries and American warships to visit the island.
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Lawmakers in California, Texas, Los Angeles, Miami and elsewhere have passed laws that limit where drones can be flown and how they can be used.
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They passed laws that made English the official language of Missouri, a constitutional amendment against gay marriage, and a measure that criminalized stem cell research.
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To date, 28 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws that prohibit smoking in public places and workplaces such as restaurants and bars.
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California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, and Oregon have already passed laws that will require employers without a plan to automatically enroll their workers in auto-IRAs.
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Illinois and New York State both passed laws that now await their respective governor's signature; Connecticut eliminated the tampon tax in its budget, effective 2018.
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More than a dozen states have passed laws pertaining to heirs' property disputes, and the federal government passed agricultural legislation in December toward that end.
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All states have passed laws aimed at increasing the drug's availability, and in most states it can be requested at a pharmacy without a prescription.
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State governments in Arkansas, North Dakota and Iowa have passed laws banning abortions after fetal heartbeat detection that were overturned in courts before Kavanaugh's nomination.
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Stroul said other states, including Georgia and New Jersey, have passed laws and stepped up efforts to help children get treatment while in parental custody.
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Some states — like Washington, Minnesota and Rhode Island — have passed laws requiring online marketplaces to collect sales taxes on behalf of its "third-party" sellers.
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In recent years, more than 20 cities and states around the country have passed laws mandating paid sick leave, which voters generally support, polls show.
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So far, nine states have passed laws extending labor protections to domestic workers: Oregon, California, Connecticut, Illinois, New York, Massachusetts, Hawaii, Nevada, and New Mexico.
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"I have sponsored and passed laws with colleagues who I likely wouldn't have spoken to, let alone gotten to know, without this team," she said.
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While it did not specify which states, Mississippi and North Carolina recently passed laws that critics say can allow discrimination against gay and transgender people.
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In Vermont, for example, the legislature passed laws requiring background checks, raised age limits for owning guns and banned bump stocks and high-capacity magazines.
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California's authority to set its own pollution standards dates back to the 1960s, when the state passed laws to deal with its crippling smog problem.
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But it's not just what we say, we passed laws that reflect it, and we will continue to do so, no matter what happens nationally.
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Already in the past year, according to a new NWLC report, eleven states and two localities have passed laws to strengthen protections against workplace harassment.
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Multiple states in recent weeks have passed laws aimed at restricting abortion, including a 15-week ban in Mississippi, the most stringent in the nation.
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Eight states, plus the District, have also passed laws that require workers or their employer to pay into state paid leave funds through payroll contributions.
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The federal government had argued that Congress passed laws in 2002 and 2008 that abrogated the settlement, terminating the minors' right to a bond hearing.
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Alabama and Tennessee both passed laws expanding capital punishment, the center said, and Arkansas made it a felony to disclose the sources of execution drugs.
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In the past year, both New Hampshire and Maryland have passed laws phasing out the use of sub-minimum wage over the next several years.
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Over the ensuing decades, Congress passed laws disestablishing the tribes' governments and, in 1907, consolidated the so-called Indian Territory into the new state of Oklahoma.
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The Dominican Republic, along with 15 other countries in Latin America, have passed laws in recent years that define and punish femicide as a specific crime.
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Various state legislatures controlled by Democrats and Republicans have, for example, passed laws allowing police and even private individuals to carry naloxone, which reverses opioid overdoses.
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Those states include Georgia, Louisiana and Missouri, which have passed laws that would ban abortions early in a pregnancy -- before many women know they are pregnant.
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Most states in the US oppose the practice, but three states — Oregon in 1997, Washington in 2008, and Vermont in 2013 — have passed laws approving it.
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Japan and South Korea, both liberal democracies, have passed laws designed to regulate a video-gaming industry whose products are increasingly seen as addictive and harmful.
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WASHINGTON — Over the past few months, state after state has introduced or passed laws that would essentially ban abortion, counting on abortion rights groups to sue.
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Revenge porn has become a prevalent enough problem that 26 states to date— including Florida, where Hogan's case is being argued — have passed laws limiting it.
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Voters in Nevada, California and liberal Massachusetts passed laws legalizing marijuana for recreational purposes, with Maine possibly following suit as votes there are still being counted.
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Minnesota is one of dozens of states that has passed laws on public access to body camera footage, limiting who can see what videos and when.
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Multiple states have passed laws to end cash bail, reduce mandatory sentences, invest in addiction and mental health treatment, and divert convicts toward alternatives to incarceration.
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As states passed laws to limit abortion access, Planned Parenthood's clientele became increasingly desperate for information, said its acting president and chief executive, Alexis McGill Johnson.
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Strategies for Youth's survey found that 24 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws that mandate SRO training — 20 in the past five years.
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Having already defanged the constitutional tribunal, the Polish parliament passed laws in July that would, among other things, have obliged many Supreme Court judges to resign.
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MassLive notes that other states including New York, as well as Washington, D.C., have also passed laws to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
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The House of Commons and the House of Lords passed laws to strip away his powers, attaching funds to them so he would give royal assent.
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Over the course of a little more than a week, four states passed laws banning abortion in rapid succession, each seemingly more extreme than the last.
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Europe has enacted tough policies to curb the behavior of companies like Facebook and Google and passed laws to deal with privacy, hate speech and disinformation.
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Meanwhile, the tech giant is removing virtual private network services from its Chinese app store after newly passed laws there require state approval for all VPNs.
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Over the course of the year, states like Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri, Ohio, Mississippi, and Iowa have passed laws that ban abortions in early stages of pregnancy.
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Go deeper ... Where abortion restrictions stand: The states that have passed laws Editor's note: This article has been updated with more details on the Guttmacher report.
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Philadelphia and the state of New Jersey passed laws banning cashless stores last month, and New York, San Francisco, Chicago and Washington are considering similar bills.
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Massachusetts, Philadelphia, and New Jersey have passed laws that require stores to accept cash payment, and New York City and San Francisco are considering similar measures.
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In recent years, for just this reason, a number of states have passed laws banning employers from restricting their employees' ability to discuss salaries with each other.
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For the first time in its history, the island has passed laws providing vouchers for students to attend private schools and paving the way for charter schools.
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Twenty U.S. states have passed laws making young trafficking victims immune from crimes such as truancy and underage drinking, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Over the past two decades, though, states across the country have passed laws aiming to hold more people legally liable for sex crimes committed many years earlier.
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In recent years, states struggling with a surge in overdose deaths have passed laws making the drug available to police officers, firefighters and addicts' friends and family.
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States have passed laws requiring that schools use phonics-centric curriculums and screen students more aggressively for reading problems — or even hold back those who struggle most.
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Australia passed laws last year allowing the indefinite detention of anyone convicted of terror-related offences if authorities believed that person posed a threat after their release.
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Kansas passed laws at Kobach's urging requiring people not only to show photo ID at the polls but also to prove their citizenship when registering to vote.
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Yet a wave of cities and towns have passed laws curbing the expansion of Dollar General (DG) and Dollar Tree (DLTR), which bought Family Dollar in 2015.
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After the collapse of communist rule in 1989, Romania passed laws to return property to the original owners but the process has been hampered by red tape.
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In the past two years, Illinois, Maryland, and Vermont have passed laws that require private insurers in the state to cover contraception including vasectomies at no cost.
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"And the Supreme Court has passed laws regarding marriage, regarding abortion, and under no condition do we have to follow laws that violate the word of God."
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States like Maine, California, and Washington have proactively and successfully passed laws that limit the use of certain flame retardants and chemicals like BPA in children's products.
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Since 2.1, Congress has passed laws capping pay for top federal executives at a certain level, but the cap expires Saturday unless Congress moves to extend it.
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In the past few years, for instance, Washington state and Oregon passed laws ensuring all guns have to go through background checks, including those sold between individuals.
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Also, half the American states have already passed laws that specifically rely upon the existing Obama administration definition, which would then be jeopardized by federal preemption issues.
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Some states have passed laws requiring high school seniors to pass the U.S. immigration test to graduate, the same test that applicants for American citizenship must pass.
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Now, however, recently passed laws regulating taprooms accommodate on-premise, direct-to-consumer imbibing; New York's taproom laws, for instance, only changed five years ago, in 27.
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The reversal came during a time of heightened concern among abortion rights activists, as numerous states, primarily in the South, have passed laws sharply limiting the procedure.
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Governments have passed laws to fix the gender wage gap, and some companies, such as PwC and Shell U.K., are making an effort to narrow the discrepancy.
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In France, where the government has passed laws to stop the spread of misinformation on social media close to elections, officials are investigating Facebook's content moderation policies.
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Similar battles have been waged across the country, as many cities, including San Francisco, Las Vegas and New Orleans, have passed laws regulating the home-sharing industry.
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The cases are a sign of the broader pushback facing state lawmakers who have passed laws aimed at reducing the prison population and the cost of incarceration.
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Since then, several states have passed laws banning them, and the Justice Department has said it may reverse a 2010 decision and ban them under federal law.
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Three of the four states with job growth higher than the U.S. median have passed laws that will raise the state minimum wage to at least $13.50.
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All 50 states have passed laws expanding access to this lifesaving drug, but only a few states give pharmacists the ability to act independently in dispensing naloxone.
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To address the flaw, the U.S. and Britain passed laws allowing private enterprises to bring lawsuits against foreign governments in courts in, say, New York or London.
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Over half of the states have passed laws that either establish websites with health care prices or require plans, doctors and hospitals to disclose them to patients.
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With those words, our founders courageously began our Declaration of Independence from an oppressive monarch, for among other grievances the king's refusal to follow rightfully passed laws.
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Federal law says marijuana is illegal, but a majority of states and the District of Columbia have passed laws legalizing or decriminalizing its use for medical reasons.
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Individual states that had passed laws restricting donations from people with HIV are working quickly to match federal legislation, said Segev, who help draft the HOPE Act.
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Afterward, some states passed laws to ensure victims of future thefts are notified, and Target became one of the first large retailers to embrace the chip reader.
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Mexico introduced legislation this week to ratify the USMCA, and, as mentioned, has already passed laws to bring it into compliance with the deal's new labor provisions.
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Ten states, including Kansas, passed laws giving students independent control, although administrators can still remove material that is obscene, defamatory or poses a danger to the school.
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While states and cities have passed laws to increase their pay floors to that level, a $15 wage will not actually take effect for years in many areas.
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They follow the lead of states like Georgia and Ohio, which have passed laws banning abortion at six weeks of pregnancy, before most women even know they're pregnant.
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China has also passed laws, which will come into effect from early 2018, that require telecommunications providers and tech firms to play a greater role in removing VPNs.
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State officials have also passed laws to protect consumers, but they don't have authority over many insurance plans offered by large employers, which cover nearly half of Americans.
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But considering that 28 states have passed laws making it legal to use the drug in some way, this is one we're kinda gonna need an answer on.
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In the months since the story, New York, Maryland, Kansas, and New Hampshire have passed laws explicitly barring police officers from having sex with people in their custody.
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California has passed laws regulating pharmacy benefit managers, requiring a justification for prescription drug price hikes above a certain amount, and creating more oversight of health plan mergers.
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Several states have passed laws requiring drugmakers to disclose price increases, but the Maryland law is one of a few drawing the most attention from the drug industry.
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And until the 1960s or 1970s, while you couldn't call Afghanistan a beacon of women's rights, they put in the right protections; they passed laws promoting women's equality.
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In 220, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, Kentucky, and Ohio all passed laws that could ban abortion at as early as six weeks, before many people even know they're pregnant.
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Yet, numerous other states such as California and Indiana have passed laws banning ocular telemedicine, thereby emboldening Big Eye and its quest for profits and harming the citizenry.
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In the face of these protests, the Indian government passed laws increasing penalties for sexual violence and established a special committee dedicated to finding ways to reduce it.
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Russia passed laws that will ban VPNs in November; in 2018, it will require instant message services to identify users and/or ban users at the government's request.
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Connecticut, California, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and the District of Columbia have all passed laws or other measures banning the practice.
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Over the last year, a handful of states across the South and Midwest have passed laws that would ban abortion as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.
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Blumenauer noted that 24 states, along with the District of Columbia, have passed laws allowing access to medical marijuana to treat conditions including anxiety and traumatic brain injury.
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Blumenthal and Klobuchar noted that at least 11 states have passed laws requiring schools to keep epinephrine on hand for students who may experience a severe allergic reaction.
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They analyzed data from 213,83 adults in three states - Utah, Michigan, and North Carolina - that passed laws permitting services to be denied to same-sex couples in 28.
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Eight states and the District of Columbia have passed laws allowing the recreational use of marijuana, while more than half of states allow the use of medical marijuana.
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Blumenauer noted that 85033 states, along with the District of Columbia, have passed laws allowing access to medical marijuana to treat conditions including anxiety and traumatic brain injury.
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They participated in debates and votes on treaties, passed laws that made the government run and protected the most vulnerable Americans, and actually gave consideration to presidential nominees.
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Maryland and New York, with support from the NYPD, have also recently passed laws that bars cops from having sex with people they take into custody or arrest.
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Paid sick leave is standard in other developed nations, and 13 U.S. states, beginning with Connecticut in 2011, have passed laws requiring employers to offer paid sick leave.
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Already, eight states have passed laws that could challenge federal protections for abortion, with more on the way, prompting jubilation on the right and fear on the left.
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Both measures were supposed to head to the November ballot for voters to consider, but were removed after lawmakers passed laws identical to what the voters would approve.
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Since 2011, some 22 states, mostly controlled by Republicans, have passed laws to restrict access to the ballot, which disproportionately target Democratic constituencies such as people of color.
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No state has passed laws denying government contracts to critics of political correctness; such measures are only for supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel.
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Elsewhere, Fiji lengthened paid maternity leave and introduced paid leave for fathers, Cyprus also introduced paid paternity leave and Barbados passed laws governing sexual harassment in the workplace.
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Other states have passed laws against hair discrimination None of this exists in a bubble, and Arnold isn't the first to be put in this kind of dilemma.
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The city has since arrested a debt collector, waived millions of dollars in fees owed by medallion owners and passed laws to prevent similar abuse in the future.
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Go deeper: CDC: Abortions are steadily dropping in the U.S. Where abortion restrictions stand: The states that have passed laws Planned Parenthood plans massive spending campaign for 2020
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In recent years, the E.U. has passed laws on digital privacy and penalized Google and others on antitrust matters, which has inspired tougher action elsewhere in the world.
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At least five states — California, Connecticut, Michigan, Texas and Wyoming — have passed laws to explicitly criminalize ransomware and computer extortion, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Recently-passed laws in Germany give social media networks 24 hours to delete or block obviously criminal content and seven days to deal with less clear-cut cases.
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Here is a guide to keeping up with the swift changes in laws and what they mean: The new Legislature first passed laws to ease voting for residents.
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At least 15 states — by and large dominated by Republicans — have passed laws tying public assistance to drug testing or screening, according to the National Conference for State Legislatures.
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Marijuana use is still illegal in the United States at the federal level, though many states have passed laws legalizing the use of cannabis for medical or recreational purposes.
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At least six states have also recently proposed or passed laws banning abortion whenever a fetus is diagnosed with Down syndrome, though several have been blocked from taking effect.
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Currently there are 29 states plus the District of Columbia that have passed laws legalizing medical marijuana, but federal regulations have made it complicated to conduct large-scale trials.
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In 22016 alone, three states passed unconstitutional "pre-viability" bans: Mississippi and Louisiana both passed laws banning abortion after 235-weeks, while Iowa passed a 6-week abortion ban.
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"[T]he Supreme Court has passed laws regarding marriage, regarding abortion, and under no condition do we have to follow laws that violate the word of God," he said.
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The United States propagated this killer's hate when it deported and jailed our community of color and when it supported politicians who passed laws to legalize discrimination against us.
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More than a dozen countries in Latin America have passed laws in recent years that define and punish femicide as a specific crime, including El Salvador, Mexico and Colombia.
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Other states, including nearby Rhode Island, have passed laws explicitly allowing ballot selfies, partly reasoning that the trend has helped younger voters show their enthusiasm for the democratic process.
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Marijuana use is still illegal in the United States at the federal level, though many states have passed laws legalizing the use of cannabis for medical or recreational uses.
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Cities like Seattle and New York have passed laws in recent months mandating predictable scheduling so that workers can plan family care, attend school or work a second job.
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States such as Colorado, Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Maine, and Massachusetts have all passed laws in support of recreational cannabis, but some are further along in implementation than others.
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That's because elected Republicans (and many conservative intellectuals, for that matter) have essentially decided that because Democrats passed laws when they had majorities, Republicans will boycott health legislation forever.
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Three of Mexico's 32 states (Michoacán, Colima and Morelos) have recently passed laws permitting gay marriage, joining Mexico City, Campeche, Coahuila and Nayarit in a liberal group of seven.
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In total, 22011 states and Washington, DC, have passed laws easing access to naloxone since 22015, but just how much access is eased greatly varies from state to state.
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Only days after legislators passed Oklahoma's statehood act in 1906, for example, they passed laws referencing the Creek Nation's boundaries as a point of reference in a surveying law.
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Many states have passed laws that aim to stamp out payday lending, but some lenders evade the restrictions by offering their loans online within those states, Pew researchers found.
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Many states have passed laws allowing pharmacies to dispense naloxone without a prescription to police and fire departments and to individuals at risk and their friends and family members.
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The two note the multiple state legislatures that have passed laws that ban abortions after a heartbeat is detected, something that generally occurs within six weeks of a pregnancy.
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Six other states similarly passed laws permitting adoption and foster care services agencies to discriminate based on religious beliefs including Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Virginia, North Dakota and South Dakota.
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At least a dozen states have passed laws ensuring that employees are allowed to share information about their salaries with one another, which proponents say can help uncover disparities.
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Of those 17 states, roughly a half-dozen, including New Jersey and Rhode Island, have passed laws legalizing sports betting, or are close to doing so, Mr. Kilsby said.
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He stacked the country's courts with political allies, passed laws restricting the ability of journalists to criticize the government, and consistently sought ways to remove checks on his power.
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California, Connecticut, Illinois and New Jersey are among several states that have passed laws to incrementally increase the minimum wage until it hits $15 in the next few years.
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Here is a transcript of the exchange: MODERATOR: Many states, including right here where we are tonight in Georgia, have passed laws that severely limit or outright ban abortion.
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Apple – Apple is removing VPN (virtual private network) services from its Chinese app store, after China passed laws that ban all VPNs that are not approved by state regulators.
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In recent years, California, New Jersey, Rhode Island, New York, and Washington, DC, have all passed laws requiring employers to offer some sort of paid leave benefit to workers.
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Various countries have passed laws in recent years to crack down on "fake news", drawing concern from free speech advocates, but Burkina Faso's would be among the most restrictive.
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Whether your heirs can gain access to private accounts depends on certain state laws, however, and only a handful of states have passed laws that deal directly with digital inheritance.
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Britain is considered a leader in global efforts to combat slavery, having passed laws to crack down on traffickers, check supply chains and protect people at risk of being enslaved.
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There are states that have passed laws that will virtually prevent women from having access to reproductive health care, and it is not an exaggeration to say women will die.
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That was especially important in so-called "sundown towns," which passed laws designed to drive black people out of town that prohibited them from being on the road at night.
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State laws have increasingly passed laws that regulate abortion clinics more aggressively, like requiring doctors to have admitting privileges at a local hospital, for example, or adopting stricter building requirements.
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Just this month, we passed laws to hold the government accountable for fixing aging dams and irrigation systems on the Wind River Reservation and in tribal communities across the west.
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Alabama, Mississippi and West Virginia have passed laws to ban the use of the second-trimester surgical technique even though courts in Oklahoma and elsewhere have previously overturned such laws.
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A handful of states have passed laws to protect unpaid interns from harassment and discrimination, including New York, California, Connecticut, Maryland and Oregon, as well as the District of Columbia.
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With drug overdoses now killing more people than car crashes in most states, lawmakers in all but three — Kansas, Montana and Wyoming — have passed laws making naloxone easier to obtain.
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A year before the Brexit referendum of 2016, Portugal and Spain passed laws which offered Sephardic Jews—those whose families once lived on the Iberian peninsula—a path to citizenship.
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Across the country, dozens of cities and states have passed laws or resolutions targeting 100 percent carbon-free electricity — most recently 20 communities in Utah and the state of Virginia.
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In recent years, some states have passed laws allowing extreme risk protection orders, which let law enforcement confiscate guns from people who are deemed a danger to themselves or others.
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Responding to waves of crime in the 1960s through the early 1990s, lawmakers around the country passed laws that increased prison sentences and pushed for more incarceration to combat crime.
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Last year, in one of Fidesz's occasional political mistakes, the government passed laws allowing companies to demand that employees work longer overtime to be paid for at a later date.
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To date, more than 236 states have passed laws or enacted changes that address bail practices, while several still have pending efforts or bail procedure review committees in the works.
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In response to some of these efforts at removal, Republican-dominated state legislatures in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia have passed laws making the taking down of Confederate statues illegal.
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While only five states have passed laws requiring paid leave for employees, many of them are states with some of the most workers and businesses (like New York and California).
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In the early 1990s, California passed laws mandating life sentences for a third felony and allowing minors to be charged as adults if they were determined to be gang members.
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More than 20 states have passed laws banning local governments from starting their own broadband service, largely at the behest of internet providers that want to avoid competition at all cost.
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Some states have taken matters into their own hands and passed laws this year barring the practice, but Colvin warns they may not hold up if companies challenge them in court.
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More than a dozen states have passed laws to curb the possibility of Sharia law making its way onto the books in the US. ACT for America often promotes this legislation.
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Currently, only 27 states have passed laws expanding on these federal protections, making it illegal for people convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence offenses—including dating partners—to buy or own guns.
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Some states have passed laws toughening prison sentences related to opioids, and more have encouraged police and prosecutors to use old "tough on crime" laws to crack down on drug addiction.
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The federal government has passed laws or signed contracts committing to pay military and civilian salaries, Social Security benefits, and payments to hospitals for Medicare services, to give just three examples.
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Eleven states have passed laws in recent years that require training for painkiller prescribing, according to a 28503 report, and opioid abuse has become a major issue in the 22019 elections.
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The United States and Luxembourg are the only two countries in the world to have passed laws giving corporations ownership of materials mined in space, but only after they've been extracted.
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While abortion remains legal nationwide, many states have passed laws that advocates of abortion rights say restrict women's access to the procedure and other reproductive health services and sidesteps federal protections.
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The federal government passed laws requiring that this information be collected, analyzed, and shared as a matter of public good—but it has lately failed to follow through on this imperative.
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Yet while members of Congress are regularly introducing new laws aimed at preventing addiction, changing the drug classification process or sanctioning fentanyl producers, these already-passed laws sit unaddressed and unenforced.
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The state had already passed laws mandating that any abortion provider must have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles; without renewed privileges, abortions at that clinic were effectively banned.
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According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 29 of the 50 states have passed laws "binding" their electors to vote in accordance with the presidential popular vote in their state.
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By 1851 whites in Indiana and Illinois created new state constitutions and passed laws completely barring any further free African-Americans from entering the states they helped to settle and defend.
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Some states, including New York and California, have passed laws mandating yes means yes standards on college campuses in response to studies reporting the prevalence of sexual assault in student populations.
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Washington (CNN)Delaware has joined a growing list of states that have passed laws to potentially allocate their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote in future presidential elections.
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Over the past decade, Southern legislatures have passed laws requiring approval from state legislatures before any historical monuments can be moved, removed, or altered — thereby freezing those private decisions in place.
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But he also stacked the country's courts with political allies, passed laws restricting the ability of journalists to criticize the government, and consistently sought ways to remove checks on his power.
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Just under a dozen US cities — including Seattle, Nashville, and Cambridge, Massachusetts — have passed laws using that framework to give their local officials more power to regulate the use of surveillance tools.
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"There are states that have passed laws that will virtually prevent women from having access to reproductive health care, and it is not an exaggeration to say women will die," Harris said.
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In the meantime, Americans wishing to save the sales tax on online purchases had better get going: several states, including North Dakota, have already passed laws forcing companies to collect the taxes.
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There are a host of cities and states that have passed laws over the years making it illegal to sell toy guns that don't have a large orange stripe on the barrel.
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Go deeper: State-by-state chart of where things stand if Roe falls Where abortion restriction stands: The states that have passed laws Some states rush to protect abortion as Roe v.
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Other Spanish cities, including Madrid, Barcelona, Malaga, Seville and Valencia, have passed laws, or are examining regulation, to curb tourism rentals via the sites because of their effects on local rental prices.
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Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said in an email that the federal government had given APRA another A$150 million in the most recent budget and passed laws to give the regulator greater power.
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Since 22006, seven states have passed laws to crack down on cages for egg-laying hens, and more than 200 food companies have committed to source exclusively cage-free eggs by 2025.
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The mess in North Carolina originated partly in response to an anti-discrimination ordinance implemented by the council in Charlotte; Tennessee and Arkansas had previously passed laws squashing related city-level initiatives.
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Recognizing this, Congress has passed laws in the past to give automatic benefits to veterans of a few specific exposures — Agent Orange in Vietnam or the atomic tests in Nevada, among others.
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At least 15 states have passed laws that establish "earned compliance credits," which typically permit offenders to earn a month off of their supervision terms for each month that they're in compliance.
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Not to be outdone, Virginia passed laws in 2009 and 2010 that exempted sales taxes on things like data center computer servers, software, power generators and chillers to cool all that equipment.
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At times, this debate has led to fights between city and state governments, especially in states that have passed laws prohibiting local governments from doing anything with their monuments without state input.
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According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, about 30 of the 50 states have passed laws "binding" the electors to vote in accordance with the presidential popular vote in their state.
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According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, about 30 of the 103 states have passed laws "binding" their electors to vote in accordance with the presidential popular vote in their state.
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Since the shooting at Columbine High School in 1999, 32 states have passed laws requiring schools to conduct lockdown drills or some form of emergency drill to keep students safe from intruders.
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In small countries and territories including Bermuda, Malta, Gibraltar and Liechtenstein, officials have recently passed laws, or have legislation in the works, to make themselves more welcoming to cryptocurrency companies and projects.
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So far, the U.S. and Luxembourg are the only two countries in the world to have passed laws giving corporations ownership of materials mined in space, but only after they've been extracted.
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All states have passed laws aimed at increasing the drug's availability, according to a surgeon general's news release, and in most states it can be requested at a pharmacy without a prescription.
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Several countries — including France, Belgium, Austria and the Netherlands — have either passed laws that led to bans on full face-covering veils in public, or are considering legislation that would do so.
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According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, about 30 of the 50 states have passed laws "binding" their electors to vote in accordance with the presidential popular vote in their state.
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And in a 2017 review, The New York Times tallied more than 50 countries that had passed laws in recent years to gain greater control over how their people use the web.
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They found that, on average, economic growth increased by 1.5 points after a country passed laws opening up to foreign trade: China is, of course, the most dramatic example of this effect.
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Kentucky, Ohio, and Georgia have also passed laws that would ban abortion at six weeks of pregnancy; Missouri's governor signed into law Friday a bill that would ban it at eight weeks.
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But schools are attempting to address the problem Some states, including New Mexico, California, Oregon and Iowa, have passed laws prohibiting schools from singling out students and "shaming" them for having unpaid charges.
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Most states still allow the monstrous practice of shackling pregnant women who are in labor, and even the states that have passed laws against it still don't always enforce those laws very well.
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Since 2012 several states have passed laws requiring prospective voters to show state-issued identification at the polls—documents which poorer and minority voters, who mostly lean Democratic, are less likely to possess.
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Driving the news: In recent weeks, New Jersey and Philadelphia have passed laws prohibiting cashless stores, and four more cities — Chicago, New York City, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. — are contemplating doing so.
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Louisiana is also weighing a bill to add a constitutional amendment declaring that the state doesn't protect abortion rights, per AP. Go deeper: Where abortion restrictions stand: The states that have passed laws
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In recent years, Arizona and Colorado have passed laws to regulate body brokers, but the vast majority of states do not have explicit rules for how donated cadavers must be stored or sold.
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While some municipalities have passed laws, to date 42 states have zero laws against conversion therapy, a scientifically disproven practice to change a person's sexuality or gender identity to heterosexual and cisgender norms.
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In my own investigation, I found at least 16 states, including Kentucky, that passed laws in recent years that stiffened penalties for opioid painkillers, heroin, or fentanyl — largely in response to the epidemic.
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In the absence of federal regulation in the United States, many states have already passed laws that ban using e-cigarettes in public places, regulate their sale and, in some cases, tax them.
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Since 2010, nearly half of the states have passed laws that make it harder to vote—from restrictions on early voting to I.D. requirements, mandatory proof of citizenship, and purges of voting rolls.
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Angered by the move, New York and New Jersey passed laws that set up charitable funds for state services, such as schools, and awarded state tax credits based on donations to those funds.
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Many Democratic-led states have passed laws designed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, in response to the Trump administration's sustained efforts to loosen or abandon environmental regulations on power plants and vehicles.
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Ms. Harris, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for president, called for what is known as a "preclearance requirement" in the plan, released as numerous states have passed laws to sharply limit abortions.
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Seven states have passed laws tightening the sale of firearms at gun shows since the Newtown massacre, and retailers such as Target and Chipotle have begun asking patrons not to bring in weapons.
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After the law was passed, about half of the 50 states objected to the program, and some even passed laws to stop their DMVs from caving to federal pressure, the Washington Post reported.
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In recent years, some states have passed laws requiring automatic payroll withdrawals from private-sector workers' paychecks into state-sponsored retirement plans if the worker is not eligible for an employer-sponsored plan.
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At state and national level, the BJP has passed laws, such as one that sharply restricts cattle-trading on "humane" grounds, or taken actions that promote the dominance of a conservative brand of Hinduism.
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" Harrison Rudolph, an associate at the Center on Privacy and Technology, told the Times that states "never passed laws authorizing ICE to dive into driver's license databases using facial recognition to look for folks.
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New Jersey is one of 15 U.S. states to have passed laws that require insurance companies to cover infertility diagnosis and treatment, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, which tracks state laws.
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In recent months, Alabama approved a near-total ban on abortion, while Louisiana, Georgia, and Ohio passed laws that bar abortion as early as six weeks, before many women even know they are pregnant.
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He has passed laws to allow Japan to come to the aid of allies and to permit the SDF to use its weapons in a wider range of circumstances while on UN peacekeeping missions.
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Maryland, Vermont and Illinois last year passed laws that also eliminated co-pays for vasectomies and allowed women to fill a birth control prescription for at least six months rather than one to three.
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Washington state and Oregon, for instance, passed laws ensuring all guns have to go through background checks, including those sold between individuals (while other states, such as Kansas and Texas, have weakened gun restrictions).
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By the 6900s, the federal government passed laws eliminating parole for federal prisons, and in 2628, established mandatory minimums for federal drug offenses and instituted the 28503:22019 crack-to-powder cocaine sentencing ratio.
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Congress passed laws in the 2000s that would eventually require the Department of Homeland Security put unaccompanied children in the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, within the Health and Human Services Department.
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It is only after women suffered terrible health consequences, including death, at the hands of poorly-regulated abortion clinics that states like Texas have since passed laws raising the health standards of these facilities.
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Twelve states have passed laws with strict photo ID requirements, the nub of the current confusion, but in six of those states the legislation has been struck down or substantially softened by the courts.
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Some states have passed laws that allow pharmacists to dispense naloxone to people without a prescription, and public health experts have long called for the government to approve an over-the-counter naloxone product.
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Colorado has employed Safe2Tell, a tip line for reporting possible dangers, and passed laws that require background checks for all gun buyers and that permit the authorities to confiscate firearms from potentially dangerous people.
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This map formed gradually, abortion rights advocates say, as red states passed laws that tested the boundaries of abortion restrictions, and federal appeals courts — in particular in the Eighth and Fifth Circuits — upheld them.
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California, New Jersey, and Rhode Island have paid leave insurance programs in place, and New York, Washington, and the District of Columbia have passed laws to roll out programs over the next several years.
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Ironically, it was Congress that passed laws that restrict other federal government officials from owning stocks or assets that would benefit from the officials' decisions — or require them to recuse themselves from such decisions.
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Under the agreement, Moldova also will need to have met an approved 2017 budget deficit target of no more than 3 percent of gross domestic product and have passed laws to boost financial stability.
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Since Trump's inauguration in 2017, six other states -- Georgia, Ohio, Mississippi, Kentucky, Iowa and North Dakota -- have passed laws banning abortions when a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which occurs as early as six weeks.
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State attorneys general (in addition to public advocacy groups) have sued these servicers on behalf of aggrieved borrowers, while state legislators have passed laws that bring them under the jurisdiction of their financial services regulators.
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Hungary, Ireland, France, New Zealand, Norway and Britain have also brought in plain packaging laws, while another seven countries have passed laws yet to be implemented - Burkina Faso, Canada, Georgia, Romania, Slovenia, Thailand and Uruguay.
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This year, Illinois, Maine, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont have passed laws loosening restrictions on abortion later in pregnancy, codifying protections for abortion rights, or allowing medical workers other than doctors to perform them.
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Michigan also recently passed laws that make it among the most amenable regulatory environments in the U.S. for testing autonomous vehicles, including a path towards allowing them on public roads without drivers behind the wheel.
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According to the Guttmacher Institute, since 2010, 17 states have passed laws banning abortion after a certain point—either 203 or 20 weeks post-fertilization—citing a fetus's ability to feel pain at that stage.
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Researchers looked into the staying power of the drug as eight states and Washington, D.C. have passed laws allowing for recreational use of marijuana, and 30 states allow it in some form for medicinal use.
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Some states have passed laws outlawing wage secrecy, and a few states have even banned employers from asking job candidates to disclose salary history, a question that often puts women and minorities at a disadvantage.
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Britain, Japan and numerous U.S. and Australian states have passed laws criminalizing revenge porn, and social media giant Facebook said in March that it would use artificial intelligence to remove accounts that share such images.
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And while the president is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, Congress has passed laws like the Posse Comitatus Act to constrain when and how those forces can be used on U.S. soil.
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The Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority (APRA) in February proposed that lenders adopt higher risk weightings on some kinds of loans as the government passed laws aimed at avoiding public bailouts of banks in a crisis.
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Legislators in several states have passed laws guaranteeing free menstrual products in schools, because they recognize that students can't be full and equal participants in class if they're worried about meeting their basic bodily needs.
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Several states, including Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin, have passed laws aimed at weakening them, and membership has declined, even in places where unions continue to represent teachers and other public sector workers in contract negotiations.
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Many of those states have passed laws in recent years that increase wages at the start of each calendar year, and many Americans are likely to see a pay raise now that 2020 has begun.
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One of the law's grant programs was reserved for states that passed laws to require violent offenders to serve 85 percent of their sentences or more, or states in which these offenders already were doing so.
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Since Republicans passed the tax bill in December, New Jersey, Vermont and Washington, D.C., have passed laws enacting an individual mandate, joining Massachusetts, which famously enacted an individual mandate while Mitt Romney was governor in 2006.
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Lawmakers in Georgia, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Ohio have also passed laws that outlaw abortions after a doctor can detect a fetal heartbeat — which is usually at about six weeks, before many women are aware they're pregnant.
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Fidesz has also demonized Hungarian-born U.S. billionaire George Soros and the liberal NGOs he backs, and has passed laws to narrow the scope of activity of civil groups that are accused of helping illegal migration.
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Several years later Wisconsin, North Dakota and California, citing privacy concerns over the "tagging" of humans, passed laws that banned the forced implantation of RFID chips in humans, legislation championed by the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Congress passed laws that regulated campaign finance, attempted to outlaw direct quid-pro-quo corruption where donors paid politicians so they could win government contracts, and anti-trust laws that curtailed the power of large corporations.
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Two dozen states have already passed laws to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers, and bills have been introduced in a slew of legislatures to expand background checks and introduce red flag laws.
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State reform: In the last three years, there have been 24 states that have passed laws providing better protection for property owners in these instances, says Johnson, and the directive is "an attack on those reforms."
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It comes days after Australia passed laws forcing tech companies to help police access private user data, and amid growing concern from authorities worldwide about the giants' commercial behavior and distribution of so-called "fake news".
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Quick facts: California, Delaware, Maryland and New York have passed laws mandating that prisoners be counted as residents of their home addresses, according to the Prison Policy Initiative, which has been advocating for an overhaul nationwide.
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From Texas to Alabama to Wisconsin, more than a dozen Republican-run states in recent years have passed laws requiring that abortion clinics have hospital-grade facilities or use doctors with admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.
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When the forces of intolerance and bigotry prevail, as they have lately in Southern states that passed laws institutionalizing discrimination against gay and transgender Americans, it can be tempting to think they are impervious to argument.
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The Brennan Center for Justice has identified 14 states that have passed laws limiting voting rights in 2016, including the implementation of voter ID laws, reduced voting hours and making it harder to register to vote.
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Katie Hill says she will campaign against revenge porn after nude photos prompted her to resign from CongressHere's a map showing which US states have passed laws against revenge porn — and those where it's still legal
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There has been a slow-creep takeover of the Republican Party by a very small and very extreme minority who has very stealthily passed laws and had to go to fairly extreme measures to do so.
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Ardern's center-left government passed laws last year that restricted many non-resident foreigners from buying existing homes in New Zealand, as part of efforts to contain house price increases and reduce high rates of homelessness.
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And yet at the same time, states have passed laws intended to speed up the capital appeals process, despite the growing evidence of legal errors and prosecutorial misconduct that can be hidden for years or longer.
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And many of the countries' moves are already having an effect, with dozens of companies — including the largest exchange in the world — announcing plans to set up offices in the small jurisdictions that have passed laws.
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The Center for Reproductive Rights noted that eight states including North Dakota have passed laws requiring abortion providers to tell women they can reverse medication abortion and that five of those laws were passed this year.
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Some states have passed laws allowing patients to access emergency supplies without a current prescription, to cut down on tearful last-minute pharmacy visits by those caught unawares by an expired prior authorization with their insurer.
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Republican-controlled legislatures across the country have passed laws aimed at preventing voter fraud that have made it harder for African-Americans to vote, and some of these laws have been declared unconstitutional by federal judges.
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In the wake of the film's release, Congress passed laws and the Pentagon enacted reforms aimed at mitigating the military's culture of hyper-masculinity and its deeply ingrained tendency toward reflexive victim blaming, shaming, and retaliation.
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He had serious authoritarian tendencies: He stacked the country's courts with political allies, passed laws restricting the ability of journalists to criticize the government, and consistently sought ways to do away with checks on his power.
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RELATED: Why Brexit could hurt the US, too Obama defended his record, but said he could do little to alter recently passed laws in states like North Carolina and Mississippi that restrict the use of public bathrooms.
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Some states have bitterly opposed the requirements out of privacy concerns, and more than a dozen have passed laws barring their motor vehicle departments from complying with the law, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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And countries like Vietnam have passed laws requiring social media companies to localize their storage and have a presence in the country — typically an indication of greater content regulation and pressure on the companies from local governments.
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While more than half of the states in the U.S. have legalized some form of medicinal marijuana, and several others have passed laws permitting recreational cannabis use, under federal drug laws the sale of cannabis remains illegal.
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After the FDA approved mifepristone in 2000, some states passed laws that require doctors to be physically present when the drug is administered; often making for costly trips to doctors' offices for women living in rural areas.
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Australia, which has passed laws forcing technology companies to help police access user data amid growing concerns about the distribution of so-called "fake news," ordered the ACCC inquiry as part of wider media reforms in 2017.
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But abortion remains a disputed issue in the United States, as it does in many countries, and some states have passed laws aiming to place a variety of restrictions on a woman's ability to terminate a pregnancy.
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UNODC said the number of countries that passed laws criminalizing trafficking grew to 158 this year from 33 in 2003 but there was still too few convictions with 15 percent of countries reporting no convictions at all.
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Texas is one of 6900 states that have passed laws on surgical-center requirements and and one of eight states that require doctors to have admitting privileges, according to a report released Tuesday by the Guttmacher Institute.
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Australia, which has passed laws forcing technology companies to help police access user data amid growing concerns about the distribution of so-called "fake news", ordered the ACCC inquiry as part of wider media reforms in 2017.
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More than a dozen states, typically more conservative ones like Oklahoma or Mississippi, have passed laws that preempt local bag policies and put the question of taxes or bans solely in the hands of the state legislature.
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Three states, one county, and 10 cities passed laws in 2016 that require workers to be able to earn paid sick days, and New York State and Washington, DC, both passed very generous family leave insurance programs.
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In the past few years, states have passed laws restricting some of the worst cruelties of factory farming, and courts have overturned laws banning undercover investigations on factory farms and limiting sales of plant-based meat alternatives.
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The state's cost-control experiment goes back to the 1970s, when economists and policy wonks in the United States started panicking about health care costs and Congress passed laws encouraging states to experiment to address the problem.
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First of all, presidential signing statements to "spin" congressionally passed laws more to the executive's liking — to justify creative enforcement or to influence future court rulings on the statutes — are nowhere to be found in the Constitution.
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New York, New Jersey and Connecticut recently passed laws to create a workaround: They will permit municipalities to establish charitable funds to pay for local services and offer property tax credits to incentivize homeowners to make contributions.
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At least six states have passed laws, some making it harder for non-union workers to stop paying the fees and others making it easier for unions to sign up new members, and more are expected elsewhere.
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When South Carolina issued its secession ordinance in 1860, it even complained that Northern states had passed laws nullifying the Fugitive Slave Act; complained, in other words, that Northern states were refusing to obey the federal government!
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Legislatures in several states passed laws banning abortion after a heartbeat is detected, measures that could effectively prohibit the procedure as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, when many women do not yet know they are pregnant.
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New York, New Jersey and Connecticut recently have passed laws to create a workaround: They will permit municipalities to establish charitable funds to pay for local services and offer property tax credits to incentivize homeowners to make contributions.
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The N.C.A.A. made a surprise announcement: All its championships are being moved from North Carolina for this academic year because the state passed laws the group said violated the civil rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
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They passed laws to tightly regulate who can use the NSR and how they can do so, and argue that those laws are justified by section 234 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
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Some state and local governments have passed laws that require companies to offer paid sick leave, and an executive order signed by former President Barack Obama requires federal government contractors to offer paid sick leave to their employees.
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Between 1885 and 1908, all 22016 post-Confederate states passed laws establishing poll taxes, literacy tests, property and residency requirements and other measures aimed at stripping African-Americans of their voting rights — and locking in Democratic Party dominance.
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Thousands of women in the U.S. have received an abortion in another state in recent years as certain states have passed laws restricting the practice and the number of clinics has decreased, according to an Associated Press analysis.
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Violence against women in the region is so prevalent that 18 countries have passed laws to protect them, creating a class of homicide known as femicide, which adds tougher penalties and greater law enforcement attention to the issue.
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The work is critical to enabling YouTube's existence: many countries have passed laws that legally require the company to remove videos containing terrorist material, some of them in as little as 24 hours after a report is received.
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Last year, Nebraska and West Virginia passed laws that limit how companies can monitor employees' social media accounts, while legislators in Hawaii, Missouri and elsewhere are pushing similar bills for employees, as well as for students and tenants.
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Violence against women in the region is so prevalent that 18 countries have passed laws to protect them, creating a class of homicide known as femicide, which adds tougher penalties and greater law enforcement attention to the issue.
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At least 14 of those passed laws that pull nearly verbatim from the Reynolds template, while at least eight others have enacted similar language that health groups say was promoted by Lorillard Tobacco, which Reynolds bought last year.
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Some wonder whether abortion is still legal (it is, in every state in the country), whether it's on the rise (it's not), and how recently passed laws around the country would affect patients (the answers vary by state).
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In the wake of the opioid addiction crisis that has claimed thousands of lives, many U.S. states have passed laws like Pennsylvania's, which allow the drug to be dispensed without a prescription and mandate that every drugstore carry it.
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Vox's Alexia Fernández Campbell detailed the scope of pending school safety laws last year: Since Columbine, 32 states have passed laws requiring schools to conduct lockdown drills or some form of emergency drill to keep students safe from intruders.
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In the 20th century, the US passed laws that outlawed lead in paint and gasoline, that defined how much privacy a landlord needs to give his tenants, and that determined how much a phone company can surveil its customers.
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"This has gotten quite absurd, and I think Alabama is just one more example of the many states that have now passed laws to treat women as if they do not have control over their bodies," Speier told CNN.
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The company says other Latin American markets, including Mexico City in Mexico, Rio de Janeiro and San Pablo in Brazil, and La Paz in Bolivia, have passed laws in its favor enabling the use of apps for transporting passengers.
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Switzerland has shed some of its secrecy and passed laws to ease asset recovery and repatriation, but implementation tends to be patchy; Mr Sharman thinks weak laws and strong enforcement do more good than strong laws and weak enforcement.
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Australia, which has passed laws forcing tech companies to help police access user data amid growing concerns about the distribution of so-called "fake news", ordered the inquiry into their influence as part of wider media reforms in 2017.
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But Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, pointed out that 39 states haven't passed laws making recreational marijuana legal, and that police practices and attitudes toward drugs vary among law enforcement agencies across the nation.
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In fact, union allies passed laws in numerous states ahead of the Janus decision preventing employers from sharing union opt-out information, preventing organizations from obtaining contact information for public employees, and narrowing the opt-out windows even further.
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When, in response to the crack epidemic of the 1980s, Congress passed laws mandating longer sentences for a wide variety of drugs crimes, prisons filled up with people who might have been better served by treatment or alternative sentencing.
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In just the past few months, three cities — San Francisco, Oakland, and Somerville, Massachusetts — have passed laws to ban government use of the controversial technology, which analyzes pictures or live video of human faces in order to identify them.
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On the other hand, in many states, most of them divided or Democratic leaning, access to the franchise continues to expand: Since 2015, nine states have passed laws to automatically register new voters when they interact with government agencies.
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At stake, they say, are many different federal and state proposed or recently passed laws that either restrict abortion access or could potentially find their way to the Supreme Court, where a now-conservative majority could reverse Roe v.
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Several cities, including New York City and Cincinnati, passed laws outlawing hair-based discrimination, and Michigan, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maryland, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia and Kentucky are all considering similar legislation, according to the Crown Coalition.
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In the last several years, red state after red state passed laws that wrapped abortion providers in red tape, with the purported goal of protecting women by making the procedure safer but with the real purpose of closing clinics.
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But with addiction treatment, the problem is particularly bad, as demonstrated by the fact that these issues still surface time and time again even after the federal government and states passed laws effectively requiring insurers to cover addiction treatment.
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In response to Sandy Hook, states like Kansas and Georgia passed laws allowing concealed carry in schools for the first time, and the Ohio-based Buckeye Firearms Association launched FASTER Saves Lives, a program offering firearms training to teachers.
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A dozen states have passed laws stiffening penalties for attacks on police officers (to vomit on an officer in Georgia is now a felony); a handful of them, including Texas and Kentucky, have classified attacks on officers as hate crimes.
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I remember the hypocrisy of President Bill Clinton giving historic amounts of funding to HIV/AIDS even though he proudly passed laws like the Defense of Marriage Act and Don't Ask, Don't Tell that inhibited the rights of taxpaying American citizens.
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Arkansas was among several states that passed laws — both to curb and protect abortion rights — after President Donald Trump's second pick to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, was confirmed as a justice in October, giving conservatives a solid 5-4 majority.
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And Congress has passed laws that give the executive branch even more powers in the case of a national emergency — though an emergency declaration unlocks a long list of specific powers, not a blank check to do whatever the president wants.
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At least 19 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws on public access to police body camera footage, according to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the National Conference of State Legislatures, which track such laws.
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But he argued that the justification for the ban — insufficient information sharing and state tolerance of terrorism — was already a problem Congress knew about, and that it passed laws to address the problem that weren't as blunt as country-based bans.
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Most states have passed laws allowing net metering, but a 40 percent drop in the cost of residential solar installations in the last five years has prompted some to review those policies amid calls by utilities to roll them back.
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In response to the new tax code, those three states passed laws to create a workaround: Municipalities will be permitted to establish charitable funds to pay for local services and offer property tax credits to incentivize homeowners to make contributions.
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The numbers: Twenty-nine states are considering net neutrality legislation, two -- Oregon and Washington -- have already passed laws and five Democratic governors have signed executive orders banning their states from doing business with internet providers that violate net neutrality principles.
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Lay of the land: Her speech comes as a host of red states, emboldened by a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, have passed laws banning abortion often before most women even know they're pregnant, culminating in Alabama's near-total ban.
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It's a tricky dilemma for Americans, when our own country is persecuting asylum seekers and separating children from their parents at our southern border, or when certain states have passed laws criminalizing people with uteruses who don't carry pregnancies to term.
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Bulgaria on Friday passed laws envisioning jail terms of up to 5 years for those who fail to observe quarantines for those who have been in contact with people who tested positive or who have returned from countries such as Italy.
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The nationalist-minded, eurosceptic PiS passed laws earlier this year that made it more difficult for the constitutional court to pass rulings, a move that led the European Commission to say democracy and rule of law were threatened in Poland.
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In her speech, the chancellor referred to recently passed laws designed to help decrease Germany's carbon emissions — regulations that many have criticized as being too weak, but which Ms. Merkel says lay the framework needed to take effective environmental action.
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As the Wall Street Journal noted earlier this year, they've been facing additional international pressure after the governments of the UK and Australia passed laws "that make it easier for law enforcement to compel tech companies to turn over data."U.
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Over the past year, California, Colorado, Maine, Nevada, New Mexico, New York and Washington have all passed laws aimed at getting 100 percent of their electricity from carbon-free sources by midcentury, which would eventually mean phasing out conventional gas plants.
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Last week, Missouri's legislature passed a bill to ban abortion after about eight weeks, or before many people know they're pregnant; another four states have also passed laws that would ban abortion as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.
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Two recently passed laws on presidential transitions require candidates to start planning to take office long before they're actually elected, because the short period between Election Day and inauguration is important, and a federal requirement shields candidates from accusations that they're being presumptuous.
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The Supreme Court in 1973 legalized abortion nationwide, but many Republican-governed states have passed laws seeking to impose a variety of restrictions, some so demanding that they may shut down abortion clinics and make the procedure far more difficult to obtain.
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This fight heated up after the 2010 midterm elections, when many state legislatures with new Republican majorities passed laws establishing new voting restrictions, including measures that limited absentee, early, or Sunday voting, and laws requiring that people show identification before casting a ballot.
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But nearly two dozen states have passed laws designed to thwart community broadband—laws that were often pushed by lobbyists working at the behest of the nation's largest telecom companies, including Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T, as my colleague Jason Koebler has documented.
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Ten states have already passed laws that allow state-licensed child welfare agencies to refuse to provide services to LGBTQ people and same-sex couples, if doing so conflicts with their religious beliefs, according to the pro-LGBTQ think tank Movement Advancement Project.
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States are ramping up efforts too: Rhode Island, Virginia, and the District of Columbia require HPV vaccination for secondary school attendance, and a handful of states have passed laws allowing minors to self-consent to HPV immunization even if their parents object.
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They found that, on average, economic growth increased by 1.5 points after a country passed laws opening up to foreign trade: China is, of course, the most dramatic example of this effect: Its incredible economic growth since 1981 came principally from exports.
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Raqqa was the first big city Islamic State captured in early 2014, before its series of rapid victories in Iraq and Syria brought millions of people under the rule of its self-declared caliphate, which passed laws and issued passports and money.
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Khan grew up as an outcast, so as the leader of what would become the largest contiguous empire ever, he passed laws to level systems of status, like making it illegal to kidnap women and eliminating the social construct of illegitimate children.
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Nine states have already passed laws that would uphold a woman's right to choose abortion before viability or when necessary to protect her life or health, including California and Nevada to the west, as well as Connecticut and Maryland to the east.
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Motivated in part by grassroots agitation from groups like Fight for $22016, the affluent Pacific Northwest metropolis — along with a number of other liberal-leaning cities — passed laws raising the minimum wage much higher than the federal mark of $2016 an hour.
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Motivated in part by grassroots agitation from groups like Fight for $15, the affluent Pacific Northwest metropolis — along with a number of other liberal-leaning cities — passed laws raising the minimum wage much higher than the federal mark of $7.25 an hour.
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There has typically been an uptick in disaster preparation in the immediate aftermath of a catastrophe — the 1994 Northridge earthquake here prompted many people to stockpile water and batteries, and some cities passed laws requiring vulnerable buildings to install reinforcing walls and pillars.
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But in several states, voters approved ballot measures like Michigan's Proposition 2 banning ethnic preferences, or legislatures passed laws placing controls on illegal immigration (the latter, such as Arizona's Senate Bill 1070, sometimes undone, in part or in whole, by the courts).
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This year, legislators in at least twenty-five states have proposed more than a hundred bills limiting L.G.B.T. rights, often under the guise of protecting religious freedom; North Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi have passed laws that, in various ways, make anti-L.
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Seventeen states have passed laws requiring de-escalation training for police officers (nine of them did so after the 2014 shooting and protests in Ferguson, Mo.), and several departments, including those in Salt Lake City, Nashville and Philadelphia, have independently adopted the practice.
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New York is one of more than a dozen states that have passed laws allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses, contending it would make roads safer, provide more economic opportunity and reduce the fear of being deported for a driving violation.
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Once we amended the Constitution and passed laws to protect people of color from being treated differently in ways that were harmful to them, the government had trouble enacting programs that treat people of color differently in ways that might be beneficial.
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Meanwhile, California and Washington state passed their own net neutrality laws last year, and other states, including New York, Montana, Vermont, and Oregon, passed laws or imposed executive orders banning state agencies from buying services from broadband providers that violate net neutrality.
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But we really tried to continue to have a united front to push Congress to work with governors and mayors and pass laws around the country; paid leave, paid sick days, lots of cities and states have passed laws for those two, for example.
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But there is zero evidence this actually happens — and none of the states or US jurisdictions that have passed laws protecting trans kids in bathrooms have reported any incidents along the lines of what North Carolina and other opponents of LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections claim.
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Now, like Mega Financial, companies across Taiwan are working to get staff and systems up to speed after the island passed laws to meet international standards on combating money laundering and was taken off a watchlist by the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG).
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Despite the ferocious attention paid to newly passed laws in Mississippi and North Carolina, nearly 200 bills have been proposed in legislatures in 2016 that could lead to discrimination against gay, lesbian and transgender people, according to Eunice Rho with the American Civil Liberties Union.
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As school shooting incidents continue to rise — in 2018, more than 55 people were killed by gun violence in schools; the previous high, in 1993, was 20143 — at least 42 states have passed laws requiring schools to train students and teachers for an attack.
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Congress has passed laws, appropriated billions of dollars for the agency technology, funded Executive Branch systems through national security budgets, and interrogated tech industry leaders for their civic failings; yet it has not turned a lens on itself and fully recognized how vulnerable it is.
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Politico reported that U.S. District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell ruled on Friday that the FEC regulation allowing for those donors to remain anonymous fell below the standard that Congress meant to set when it passed laws on disclosing the sources of political donations.
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San Francisco, New York City and the state of Oregon have all passed laws to require one to two weeks of advance notice of work schedules, to regulate on-call shifts and to allow for greater access to work hours for existing part-time employees.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Pakistani Parliament on Thursday passed laws to increase sentences for rapists and those who commit so-called honor killings of women, and closed a loophole that allowed many of the killers to go free, after hours of heated opposition from Islamist lawmakers.
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An analysis by "Frontline" found that more than 207,85033 people under the age of 18 were married between 2000 and 2014 in the U.S. New York, Connecticut, Texas and Florida have all passed laws over the past year raising the minimum age to marry.
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And when the Polish government passed laws this month that politicized judicial appointments by giving the Law and Justice-dominated legislature control over the body that makes the selections, the commission was left with no option but to invoke Article 7 of the union treaty.
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Other states have moved in the opposite direction: Texas, where Hernandez lives, as well as Mississippi, Indiana, and Georgia have all passed laws this year that punish jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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"We are very concerned that several U.S. states have passed laws severely restricting access to safe abortion for women, including by imposing criminal penalties on the women themselves and on abortion service providers," U.N. human rights spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told Reuters Television in Geneva.
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Booker, for example, said he would create a White House Office of Reproductive Freedom, while Harris said she'd require states that have passed laws that violate Roe in recent years to obtain DOJ approval for any abortion-related laws they'd like to implement down the line.
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Legislatures in Ohio, Missouri, Kentucky, Mississippi and Georgia were among the states that passed laws banning abortion after a heartbeat is detected, measures that could effectively prohibit abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, when many women do not yet know they are pregnant.
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Kevin McCarthy — the House minority leader — told reporters that Alabama'a new law "goes further than I believe," adding he think exceptions should be made for "rape, incest and life of the mother," per the AP. Go deeper: Where abortion restriction stands: The states that have passed laws
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Wade 2-1, per AP. Meanwhile a Gallup poll showed that 57% of adults who considered themselves anti-abortion rights, still said abortion should be legal in the case of rape or incest, per AP. Go deeper: Where abortion restrictions stand: The states that have passed laws
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Just as the Free Soil Party opposed slavery not out of concern for Black people as human beings, the state of California, shortly after the abolition of slavery across the country, quickly passed laws limiting voting, property, and marriage rights for Black people and other minorities.
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Now that Utah and Idaho have finally passed laws to protect nursing mothers, breastfeeding in public is officially legal across the United States — something that nursing mothers are forced time and again to remind judgmental strangers of, especially when they're finding themselves breastfeeding in some unusual places.
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"With the governor signing this yesterday, now more than 25 percent of the US population lives in states that have passed laws to remove the prohibition and allow for retail sales of marijuana to adults," said Beau Kilmer, co-director of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center.
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"The lobbying and litigation expenses show no signs of abating," said Dan Wallach, a gaming and sports lawyer at the commercial law firm Becker & Poliakoff, who added that while more than two dozen states had introduced daily fantasy sports legislation, only a small number had passed laws.
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The Department of Justice's (DOJ) conditions came as part of the Trump administration's efforts to enforce hardline stance on immigration, which is being challenged by sanctuary cities that have passed laws allowing local law enforcement to avoid compliance with federal authorities seeking to arrest undocumented immigrants.
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But at this point in the Obama presidency, which did inherit a mess, Congress had passed laws aimed at dragging the economy back from the brink of depression while committing $800 billion in Recovery Act spending to projects ranging from housing to roads to advanced energy technologies.
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Some of the men are now able to sue the BSA after several states, including New York, Arizona, New Jersey and California, passed laws extending their statute-of-limitations rules and granted people who were abused as children more time to file their cases, the AP reported.
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CNN also reported that the fishermen who helped Chau travel to the island had been arrested as India has passed laws banning people from going near the island and its inhabitants to protect the tribe's health and way of life — and to protect outsiders from possible violent incidents.
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CNN also reported that the fisherman who helped Chau travel to the island have been arrested as India has passed laws banning people from going near the island and its inhabitants to protect the tribe's health and way of life and also to protect outsiders from possible violent incidents.
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CNN also reported that the fisherman who helped Chau travel to the island have been arrested as India has passed laws banning people from going near the island and its inhabitants to protect the tribe's health and way of life — and to protect outsiders from possible violent incidents.
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One amicus filing, from a group of 17 Internet companies including Twitter Inc and LinkedIn Corp, asserted that Congress has already passed laws that establish what companies could be obliged to do for the government, and that the court case amounted to an "end run" around those laws.
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To help residents deal with the pain of losing that deduction, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut recently passed laws to create a workaround: Municipalities will be allowed to establish charitable funds to pay for local services and offer property tax credits to incentivize homeowners to make contributions.
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Several other countries — and states and jurisdictions in the United States, including California, Washington, D.C., and Oregon — have passed laws allowing assisted suicide, in which doctors, in certain cases, may prescribe or suggest a means in which patients may end their own lives, without directly assisting in the act.
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While it's promising that seven states and the District of Columbia have passed laws that require paid family and medical leave, most workers still cannot leave their jobs to cope with a difficult pregnancy, bond with a child or care for an aging parent while still getting paid.
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Pleck wrote that "from 1640 to 1680, the Puritans of colonial Massachusetts enacted the first laws anywhere in the world against wife beating and 'unnatural severity' to children," noting that the Puritans "developed the concept of family violence as a public concern" and passed laws designed to punish transgressors.
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Shortly after assuming power, the party — led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the twin brother of Lech Kaczynski, the Polish president killed in the 2010 crash in Smolensk, Russia — passed laws that effectively hobbled the highest constitutional court and firmed up government control over public news media and state prosecutions.
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In addition, California and at least five other states (Washington, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois and Vermont) and the District of Columbia passed laws in 23543 that raised the minimum age from 18 years old to age 21 for the purchase of long guns, and many of those laws take effect Jan.
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For example, 18 states, plus Washington, D.C., passed laws that make bullying or harassing trans students in school a crime, but courts in some instances have ruled that those anti-harassment provisions also guarantee access to bathrooms consistent with gender identity, such as the landmark case in Maine three years ago.
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Together with Brazil's Dilma Rousseff and Argentina's Cristina Fernandez, Bachelet embodied the major strides made by women across a region that has passed laws deterring rampant violence against women and set quotas for political participation that have given Latin American women a bigger share of parliamentary seats than in Europe.
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In the decades since Roe, states have also passed laws that have chipped away at abortion access in the US.Many restrictions have made women's' ability to get an abortion increasingly dependent on where they live or whether they have the means to travel hundreds of miles to the nearest location.
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In the years since 2010, many states have also passed laws requiring an ultrasound and a 24-hour waiting period before a patient can get an abortion, making the procedure more time-consuming and expensive for patients who now have to take two long trips to a clinic instead of one.
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California's ban, which also places a 22012-cent tax on paper or reusable bags, is one of the most extensive in the nation, while all of Hawaii's counties have passed laws that ban single-use bags, with some also tacking on a tax as high as 24 cents on other bags.
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But if the strikes in West Virginia and Oklahoma -- two "right to work" states that have passed laws to make it harder for workers to come together and fight for their shared interests -- have taught us anything, it's that the power of organizing can overcome almost any obstacle in its way.
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Over the last decade, seven states — Connecticut, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire and South Carolina — have passed laws that channel most young offenders into juvenile courts, where they can receive counseling and support, instead of into adult courts and adult prisons, which are not equipped to deal with adolescents.
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But over the past few weeks, as more and more states passed laws that would greatly restrict abortion access — coming to a head with Alabama's near-total ban on abortion — voters have flooded the internet and the streets, seeing this trend as a quickening path to destroying the national right to abortion access.
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Over the past two years, the government of Viktor Orban, Hungary's increasingly autocratic prime minister, has passed laws requiring all non-profit groups that receive large donations from abroad to declare themselves foreign-funded organisations, and to post that information like a brand of shame on all printed or audiovisual materials they produce.
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Related: Animal Rights Group Hopes Graphic Footage Will End France's Foie Gras Love Affair The United States doesn't have a single law that covers animal welfare in general, though the Congress has passed laws that ban dog fighting, mandate humane slaughtering, protect endangered wildlife, and set rules for laboratories and similar facilities.
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Though a handful of states like Texas, Mississippi, North Carolina and Alabama have passed laws banning sanctuary jurisdictions, where state legislators have not specifically targeted sanctuaries, advocates believe state laws and constitutions will generally favor the authority of the state to determine how its local law enforcement interacts with federal immigration authorities.
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In Delaware, this year alone, the state legislature passed laws to expand the use of civil citations instead of criminal charges, to end shackling of youth except where it's necessary for safety, to provide free legal representation to all children charged with a crime, and to make it easier for juveniles to expunge their records.
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If congressional leaders had recognized that the jobs of the future for the U.S. are in medical diagnostics, personalized medical treatments, artificial intelligence, the internet of things and self-driving cars, to name a few, it should have passed laws to overrule the court's anti-patent decisions and maintained a strong U.S. patent system.
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"Many small towns and rural areas have turned to municipal networks to provide broadband access in places that the private market has failed to serve—but today, as many as 26 states have passed laws hindering or banning municipalities from building their own broadband infrastructure to protect the interests of giant telecom companies," Warren said.
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More than 50 countries have passed laws over the last five years to assert control over how their people use the increasingly fragmented web, and some of the biggest companies in the world — Google, Apple, Amazon and Alibaba — have had to dispatch envoys to contain the damage such divisions pose to their global ambitions.
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And since that's the case, the administration said, trans people should be allowed to use the bathroom that aligns with their gender identity in schools — rebuking newly passed laws like North Carolina's, which effectively forced trans kids to use the bathroom that aligns with the gender they were assigned at birth instead of their gender identity.
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Yet in the past three months at least 33 mostly Republican states have introduced or passed laws requiring local police to comply with ICE requests to hold a soon-to-be-released inmate for a further 48 hours to work out whether he can be deported, according to Muzaffar Chishti at the Migration Policy Institute, a think-tank.
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The disgust that the Orlando gunman Omar Mateen reportedly felt at seeing two gay men kiss in front of his son was political, the product of a culture where leaders have for decades compared same-sex love to bestiality, portrayed gay people as threats to children and passed laws to stop them from adopting and even marrying.
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Among the Republican bills being weighed this week, Democrats were especially incensed about one that would allow legislative leaders to assign private lawyers to replace the attorney general on certain lawsuits, ensuring that Republican-passed laws get a full-throated defense if challenged in court and that Josh Kaul, the incoming Democratic attorney general, would have less say.
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What's next: Byrant will be leaving office in January, but will be succeeded by Republican Tate Reeves, who is also an abortion opponent, per AP. Go deeper: Where abortion restrictions stand: The states that have passed laws CDC: Abortions are steadily dropping in the U.S. How many steps it takes to get an abortion in each state
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Anti-abortion legislators and proponents have written and passed laws like Alabama's not so that they will actually go into effect in the states, but in the hope that when the laws are inevitably challenged in court they will eventually reach the Supreme Court, be taken up by the justices, and potentially change the interpretation of the Constitution as it relates to abortion.
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The challenges for Democrats But the impact of this demographic change has been blunted by consistently low turnout for nonwhite voters in Texas, where Democrats and other liberal groups have lacked the funds to conduct meaningful voter drives for years, and GOP-passed laws, from strict voter identification requirements to limits on voter registration drives, have erected hurdles to greater minority participation.
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That's encouraging for companies that have been bullish on driverless technologies, but have until now faced a patchwork of cautious legislation: Only a handful of states have passed laws relating to the testing of autonomous cars, and no state expressly allows a completely driverless vehicle on the road California's Department of Motor Vehicles recently proposed requiring a licensed driver to be in the car at all times.
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Further, states like New York have passed laws that make it illegal to ask a job applicant for their salary history, and these laws have expanded across the U.S. Democrats have attempted to level the playing field by trying to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act — which would close such loopholes — multiple times, but Republicans have refused to even bring the bill to the floor for a vote.
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What's next: The law is due to come into effect 90 days after the Legislature adjourns, expected in mid-June, according to AP. The big picture: Another bill that would allow state funding for abortions for Medicaid recipients at an estimated cost of $375,000 a year is before the Maine legislature's appropriations committee for funding consideration, per AP. Go deeper: Where abortion restrictions stand: The states that have passed laws
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Several states passed laws last year stating that graduating seniors should pass the civics test administered to immigrants in order to earn citizenship, in response to President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's immigration crackdown.
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Guttmacher further notes that four states (Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, and South Dakota) have passed laws to automatically ban abortion should Roe be overturned, 10 have retained pre-Roe abortion bans, and eight have laws that "express their intent to restrict the right to legal abortion to the maximum extent permitted by the U.S. Supreme Court in the absence of Roe"; in total, 18 states fall into one or more of those categories.
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Across the country, state leaders have recently passed laws to create more alternatives to prison when dealing with crimes committed by people struggling with addiction, mental health challenges, or those who made a bad decision at a low point in their life — for good reason: prison isolates people from their family; takes a mom or dad miles away from their child; and starkly removes any chance to engage with the community, hold a job and be self-sufficient.
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