Similar anti-abortion rights bills approved by the Oklahoma Legislature and in other conservative states in recent years have been stopped by the courts as unconstitutional, but proponents have been buoyed by the Supreme Court's decisionto allow new Texas abortion restrictionsto remain in place. The...
Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon on Friday signed 11 bills passed by the 2024 Wyoming Legislature into law. Gordon Signed These Bills Into Law HEA0033 HB0145Open banking-amendments. HEA0034HB0141State land oil and gas leases-operator requirement. HEA0035HB0093Animal reimbursement program account amendments...
RALEIGH:Today, Governor Roy Cooper signed two bills into law: House Bill 2: 2022 Budget Technical Corrections Senate Bill 174: Rev. Laws Tech., Clarifying, & Admin. Chngs He also declined to sign the following bill: House Bill 11: Schools for the Deaf and Blind ...
New York Governor Kathy Hochul poses for photographers with 11-month-old Terrence Trafton after signing a package of bills to strengthen gun laws in New York, U.S., June 6, 2022. /CFP New York State Governor Kathy Hochul on Monday signed an order to confiscate guns from potent...
The laws funding the border barrier and making crossing illegally a state crime go into effect in early March. The human smuggling law goes into effect in early February. Abbott, who was in Brownsville on Monday to sign the bills, said Texas needs to defend itself from drug cartels, blaming...
Johannesburg— Uganda's president signed one of the world'sharshest anti-LGBTQ billsinto law Monday morning. The law signed by President Yoweri Museveni calls for life imprisonment for anyone found to have engaged in same-sex sexual acts. ...
Nixon Signs Three Laws to Further Protect Missouri KidsMissouri Gov. Jay Nixon came to St. Louis Children's Hospital on Tuesday to sign two bills into law to better protect children from child abuse and to broaden mandatory medical screening for newborns.Cambria, Nancy...
The bills have been criticized by theNew York-based Center for Reproductive Rights, which has successfully sued to overturn numerous anti-abortion laws in recent years. “These extreme bills are designed to cut off abortion access for people in Oklahoma — a state that already has more abortion...
Here's how the Montana Family Foundation describes the bills Gov. Gianforte signed into law: HB 136: This bill would prohibit the abortion of a child gestationally old enough to feel pain. The bill sets that line at 20 weeks gestation. ...
Big changes are coming for New York’s youngest social media users after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed two bills into law Thursday clamping down on digital platforms’ algorithms and use of children’s data. The unprecedented move makes New York the first state to pass a law regu...