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Representative José E. Serrano (D-NY) introduced legislation, [32] dubbed the Voting Rights Language Assistance Act of 1992, to extend the provision for 15 years, making its term coterminous with the other special provisions scheduled to expire in 2007. The legislation also expanded the coverage formula and the Section 203(c) bilingual ...
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A core special provision is the Section 5 preclearance requirement, which prohibited certain jurisdictions from implementing any change affecting voting without first receiving confirmation from the U.S. attorney general or the U.S. District Court for D.C. that the change does not discriminate against protected minorities. [12]
The coverage formula, contained in Section 4(b) of the Act, determines which states are subject to preclearance. As enacted in 1965, the first element in the formula was whether, on November 1, 1964, the state or a political subdivision of the state maintained a "test or device" restricting the opportunity to register and vote.
A provision excluding clothing under $50 from sales tax was repealed as of July 1, 2011. [182] There are no additional sales taxes imposed by local jurisdictions. In 2001, Connecticut instituted what became an annual sales tax "holiday" each August lasting one week, when retailers do not have to remit sales tax on certain items and quantities ...
Growing up, my dad would keep pre-shredded mozzarella cheese in the fridge for pizza-making on Friday night. Some of my earliest memories of cooking were making pizza this way: rolling out dough ...
According to authorities, Murphy stopped at a London area gym on Sept. 13, 2024, between 8:10 and 9:25 a.m. local time, when he observed a fellow gym member enter a four-digit pin into his locker.
Before special provision was made in the case of foreigners resident in such countries for application to their property of their own law of succession, for their trial on criminal charges by Courts which will command their confidence, and for the settlement of disputes between them and others of the same nationality by such Courts, the ...