State and federal legislation against racial discrimination in employment was called for yesterday in a report of a `` blue ribbon '' citizens committee on the aid to dependent children program.

The Community acquis or acquis communautaire (; ), sometimes called the EU acquis, and often shortened to acquis, is the accumulated legislation, legal acts, and court decisions which constitute the body of European Union law.

This can be voluntary or ( if mental health legislation allows and varying state-to-state regulations in the USA ) involuntary ( called civil or involuntary commitment ).

After the completion of the Corpus Juris Canonici, subsequent papal legislation was published in periodic volumes called Bullaria.

Eastman has been called one of the United States ' most neglected leaders, because, although she wrote pioneering legislation and created long-lasting political organizations, she disappeared from history for fifty years.

Clinton called for legislation to overturn the ban, but encountered intense opposition from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, members of Congress, and portions of the public.

Vermont historian Samuel Williams called it " an act which for its savage barbarity is probably without parallel in the legislation of any civilized country ".

The EU issues secondary legislation on environmental issues that are valid throughout the EU ( so called regulations ) and many directives that must be implemented into national legislation from the 27 member states ( national states ).

Party leader John Gormley called publicly in November 2010 for a general election in the state to be fixed by the latter half of January 2011, allowing time for the Oireachtas to pass legislation for European Union and International Monetary Fund financial support for Ireland ; the date of the election was eventually set for March 2011.

Pierce that read, “ except the eighth section of the act preparatory to the admission of Missouri into the Union, approved March 6, 1820, which was superseded by the legislation of 1850, commonly called the compromise measures, and is declared inoperative .” Identical legislation was soon introduced in the house.

The house leadership then began a series of roll call votes in which legislation ahead of the Kansas – Nebraska Act was called to the floor and tabled without debate.

The Knights primary demand was for an eight hour day ; they also called for legislation to end child and convict labor.

In the years since the bombing, scientists, security experts, and the ATF have called on Congress to develop legislation that would require customers to produce identification when purchasing ammonium nitrate fertilizer, and for sellers to maintain records of its sale.

Sometimes a private member's bill may also have private bill aspects, in such case the proposed legislation is called a hybrid bill.

In response to allegations that Michigan's militia fired upon Ohioans, Lucas called a special session of Ohio's Legislature on June 8, 1835 to pass several more controversial acts, including establishment of Toledo as the county seat of Lucas County, the establishment of a Court of Common Pleas in the city, a law to prevent the forcible abduction of Ohio citizens from the area and a budget of $ 300, 000 to implement the legislation.

To define the language used in the Amendment, Congress enacted enabling legislation called the National Prohibition Act, better known as the Volstead Act, on October 28, 1919.

Most Worldcons run a small surplus, which under the rules of WSFS and the non-profit legislation in their jurisdiction, they are required to disburse to qualified organizations ; typically half the surplus is donated to future Worldcons, in a tradition called " pass-along

A second radio conference was called in 1923, and this time Secretary Hoover was successful at obtaining radio regulation power without legislation passed.

In a burst of legislation, a War Powers Act is approved ; and HMG order the Royal Navy to be put on a war footing, all leaves to be cancelled, and the Naval and coast defense reserves to be called up, especially radar and anti-aircraft units.

For example, in October 2001, Japan adopted legislation allowing the creation of " Japan-version 401 ( k )" accounts even though no provision of the relevant Japanese codes is in fact called " section 401 ( k ).

* July 25 – The U. S. Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army ( now called " 5-star general "); Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to have this rank.

but legislation called the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act extended copyright from 50 to 70 years after the author's death, cutting off its supply of new material.

Britain has what is called an unwritten constitution: centuries of legislation and legal precedent dating back to before the Magna Carta guarantee the rights of its subjects.

In May 2010, U. S. President Barack Obama signed legislation intended to promote a free press around the world, a bipartisan measure inspired by the murder in Pakistan of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter, shortly after the September 11 attacks in 2001.

He also took part in important cases, and was the sole associate of Daniel Webster in that which settled the limits of the state and federal legislation in reference to bankruptcy and insolvency.

McCann served from 1968 until stepping down to join the faculty June 6, 1977 when former Governor Daniel J. Evans, who signed the legislation creating Evergreen, assumed the presidency.

The legislation set a deadline and directed that the island be sold at a fair market value, but gave the city and state of New York the right of first refusal, a provision that was inserted into the legislation by New York senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan who envisioned the island with great potential as a public and civic resource.

Another important pre-Civil-War milestone in the history of due process was Daniel Webster's argument as counsel in Dartmouth College v. Woodward, that the Due Process Clause forbids bills of attainder and various other types of bad legislation.

As a senator, O ' Daniel was ineffective, and most of his legislation was defeated.

A plan proposed by Democratic state senator Ed O ' Daniel was expected to provide the framework for legislation considered in the session.

* United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal following the disclosure of widespread actual and alleged misuse of the permitted allowances and expenses claimed by Members of Parliament and attempts by MPs and peers to exempt themselves from Freedom of Information legislation.

The MFP began lobbying Congress in 1990, and in 1991 Senator Brock Adams ( D-Washington ) and Rep. Barbara Boxer introduced the Military Freedom Act, legislation to end the ban completely.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act was not part of the original Senate legislation, but was added in conference with the House, where it had been separately introduced by Representatives Christopher Cox ( R-CA ) and Ron Wyden ( D-OR ) as the Internet Freedom and Family Empowerment Act and passed by a near-unanimous vote on the floor.

" ALEC's role in drafting and distributing model legislation through its lawmaker members became public knowledge as the result of a Freedom of Information Act filing and a leak of ALEC's internal library of model legislation, resulting in scrutiny and controversy over the group's role in the legislative process.

* Freedom of information legislation

Freedom of information in the United States refers to the independent bodies of Freedom of information legislation at the federal level and in the fifty states.

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* Freedom of information legislation

Freedom of information laws by country detail legislation that gives access by the general public to data held by national governments.

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The government brought in auto insurance reforms ( including a price cap ), rolled-back a series of corporate and personal tax cuts that had been scheduled for 2004, passed legislation that enshrined publicly-funded healthcare into provincial law, hired more meat and water inspectors, opened up the provincially-owned electricity companies to Freedom of Information laws and enacted a ban on partisan government advertising.

One tool used to increase everyday participation in political processes is Freedom of Information legislation and requests.

Transparency International have questioned whether the Central Bank should continue to have an exemption from Freedom of Information legislation.

Freedom of religion is protected by the Basic Law and relevant legislation.

* British Security Service files on Jewish terrorist activities, The National Archives, released through Freedom of information legislation in March 2006.

Since the election, the UPP have pursued their anti-corruption aims by passing a trio of government legislation: the Prevention of Corruption Act, the Freedom of Information Act and the Integrity in Public Life Act.

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Freedom Party submitted its application for registration in 2004 but its application was voided by a change in party registration and funding legislation.

* Freedom of information legislation in Sweden

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