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    A bill is a proposal for a new law, or a proposal to substantially alter an existing law. A bill does not become law until it has been passed by the legislature...
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  • Andy and Bill's law is a statement that new software will always consume any increase in computing power that new hardware can provide. The law originates...
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  • forthcoming government bills are often listed in the King's Speech, a speech from the throne which precedes each session of Parliament. Law portal Politics portal...
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    Various iterations of the Brady Bill were discussed and rejected by Congress between 1987 and 1993, when it finally became law. On February 4, 1987, two Ohio...
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  • Look up Bill or bill in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bill(s) may refer to: Banknote, paper cash (especially in the United States) Bill (law), a proposed...
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    seven bills known as Megan's Law in the New Jersey General Assembly in 1994. 89 days after Megan was murdered, New Jersey enacted Megan's Law, which...
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    record. A rival bill to implement the Alan Turing law, in second reading at the time of the government announcement, was filibustered. The bill received royal...
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  • Proposed bills are often categorized into public bills and private bills. A public bill is a proposed law which would apply to everyone within its jurisdiction...
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    Law Enforcement Act of 1994, commonly referred to as the 1994 Crime Bill, or the Clinton Crime Bill, is an Act of Congress dealing with crime and law...
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  • does not permit bills of attainder or bills of pains and penalties. The word "attainder" is part of English common law. Under English law, a criminal condemned...
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    Benford's law, also known as the Newcomb–Benford law, the law of anomalous numbers, or the first-digit law, is an observation that in many real-life sets...
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  • The California Child Actor's Bill (also known as Coogan Act or Coogan Bill) is a law applicable to child performers, designed to safeguard a portion of...
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  • An omnibus bill is a proposed law that covers a number of diverse or unrelated topics. Omnibus is derived from Latin and means "to, for, by, with or from...
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  • December 28, 2020. "Veteran Law takes it in style". Ottawa Journal. December 7, 1976. p. 27. Retrieved December 28, 2020. "Bill Law". Ottawa Journal. November...
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    circumference of a circle to its diameter. The bill, written by a physician and an amateur mathematician, never became law due to the intervention of C. A. Waldo...
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  • law in relation to other federal statutes. It was the earliest expression of human rights law at the federal level in Canada, though an implied Bill of...
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  • and Bill Gates, for example "What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away" and Andy and Bill's law: "What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away". Gates's law ("The...
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    The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (introduced as Arizona Senate Bill 1070 and commonly referred to as Arizona SB 1070) is a 2010...
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  • Pocket veto (category Law of the United States)
    bill by taking no action ("keeping it in their pocket"), thus effectively killing the bill without affirmatively vetoing it. This depends on the laws...
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  • Canada William John Law (1786–1869), British judge William A. Law, former director of Chatham and Phenix National Bank Bill Law, English drummer, formerly...
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    Commercial law covers complex contract and property law. The law of agency, insurance law, bills of exchange, insolvency and bankruptcy law and sales law trace...
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  • A private member's bill is a bill (proposed law) introduced into a legislature by a legislator who is not acting on behalf of the executive branch. The...
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  • law. It is often a constitutional convention that the upper house may not block a money bill. There is often another requirement that non-money bill-type...
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    Rights into UK law. In the 21st century, there were proposals for a British Bill of Rights and the UK Parliament debated a Bill of Rights Bill but it was...
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    Chairman of Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili signed the bill into the law. The bill was met by international condemnation from Western countries...
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  • Pornography Law (Undang-Undang Pornografi), is a law in Indonesia on pornography which was passed on 30 October 2008. It was proposed as the Bill against...
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  • appropriation bill, also known as supply bill or spending bill, is a proposed law that authorizes the expenditure of government funds. It is a bill that sets...
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    proposals, including a red flag bill. The General Assembly subsequently passed an emergency substantial risk order (ESRO) law, on a party-line vote in the...
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    supporting and opposing the Bill took place nationwide. The Supreme Court of the Philippines delayed the implementation of the law in March 2013 in response...
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  • Thumbnail for Appropriations bill (United States)
    appropriations bills are the twelve standard bills that cover the funding for the federal government for one fiscal year to be enacted into law by October...
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