Amendments to some of Britain's key constitutional documents, including the Bill of Rights and Coronation Oath Act of 1688, the 1701 Act of Settlement and the 1707 Act of Union between Scotland and England, will be necessary to enact the bill.
Lloyd George replaced the Third Home Rule Bill, now in law as a suspended Act of Parliament, with a fourth Bill.
She has testified twice as a Congressional expert witness on Crowdfunding and played an active role in the shaping and passage of the Crowdfunding Bill of the JOBS Act.
The 1985 law that led to the creation of the U.S. Mint legal tender bullion coin was largely his doing, the outgrowth of The Coinage Act of 1983, a bill sponsored by Dr. Paul.
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As to the use of the Parliament Act, well this Bill is still before the House of Lords at the moment so it would be premature to discuss that.
The prime target of the protest is the Communications Decency Act , the part of the telecom bill that would outlaw the transmission of sexually explicit materials to minors.
Given the first two bills are pretty chewy, I doubt there will be much time left for Mark Hendrick's International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill, still less for Barbara Keeley's Social Care (Local Sufficiency) and Identification of Carers Bill or Douglas Carswell's European Communities Act 1972 (Repeal) Bill, or the considerable number of other bills on the order paper.
The Conservative manifesto at May's general election pledged to replace the Human Rights Act with a British bill of rights.
If it is passed then Royal Assent is given and the bill becomes an Act of the Scottish Parliament.
The SDLP's John Dallat said he felt members were being asked to embrace "an act of faith" and claimed the bill was not robust enough to deliver what it was supposed to.
With the utmost simplicity, if the Wyden-Coats Bipartisan Tax Fairness and Simplification Act of 2011 gains momentum, the bill will eliminate the tax exempt interest on all new municipal bonds issued after 2011.
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She is also a vocal supporter of the DREAM Act, a bill that aims to offer an opportunity for legalization to illegal immigrants who finish high school and go on to college or enlist in the military.
The band was known to fight discrimination by demanding that a black act appear on the bill at each of their concerts.
Jim Jeffords, R-Vermont, author of the Clean Energy Act, a bill to clean up the polluting power plants, joined PIRG in releasing the report.
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While in Congress, he supported a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, voted for the Defense of Marriage Act and voted for a bill prohibiting gay couples in Washington from adopting.
Banks, meanwhile, have uniformly raised rates ahead of the implementation of the federal CARD Act, a bill passed in May that banned certain fees and made it harder for college students to open credit card accounts.
In 2006, Ms. Powell Jobs backed an effort led by College Track students to collect signatures backing passage of the Dream Act, a federal bill to put an estimated two million young people on a path to citizenship.
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Instead of calling this the Financial Reform Bill it should be called the Securities Lawyer Employment Act of 2010.
George Rathman is the Bill Gates of biotechnology...if Bill Gates would look and act a bit more paternal.
In the U.K., it says, the overall impact of the 1999 Immigration and Asylum Act and the 1999 Immigration Bill "proved detrimental to refugees, " while, "cruel and dangerous methods of restraint, including the deliberate blocking of breathing passages, " were the subject of inquiries in Switzerland and Belgium following deaths by asphyxiation during forcible deportation.
In part because of the Credit Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act (known as the CARD Act), a bill passed with bipartisan support last year that outlawed a number of billing practices, financial institutions have introduced a host of new fees to make up for their lost revenue.
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But in fact such a law is already in force: the Defence of Marriage Act of 1996 was sanctioned by his predecessor, Bill Clinton, to stop gay partners claiming welfare benefits.
How much, if any, of the proposed Act would make it into the Bill eventually tabled in Parliament?
The bill, called the Patient Protection Act of 2005, would have no effect on the approval process for drugs.
The Bill repeals the Prevention of Terrorism Act but re-enacts provisions giving special powers to the police to counter terrorism.
Mike Enzi of Wyoming, a sponsor of the Marketplace Fairness Act, has brought the bill to the Senate floor as an amendment to the budget resolution.
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Bill Clinton signed the Defence of Marriage Act, which barred federal recognition of gay marriage.
They sponsored a bill about Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2006 with 40 Democratic co-sponsors, no Republican co-sponsors.
On the issue of budget cuts, these are the product of a bipartisan bill, the Budget Control Act that was passed, as you know, in August.
The bill, called the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, faces its first hurdle later on Monday when the House votes on it, says the BBC's Justin Webb in Washington.
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