Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Trafficking Victims Protection Act was renewed in 2003, 2006, 2008 (when it was renamed the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008). The law lapsed in 2011. In 2013, the entirety of the Trafficking Victims Protection was attached as an amendment to the Violence Against Women Act and passed. [2]
The PROTECT Act of 2003 (Pub. L. 108–21 (text), 117 Stat. 650, S. 151, enacted April 30, 2003) is a United States law with the stated intent of preventing child abuse as well as investigating and prosecuting violent crimes against children.
According to Article 1 of the Act, "victim" in UK law means "a person who has suffered harm as a direct result of being subjected to criminal conduct". [127] A key provision within this Act is the requirement that the Secretary of State issues a non-statutory Victims' Code regulating all public services that are provided to victims.
• Allow U.S. military service members to act as immigration and border enforcement officers as part of Trump's promised mass deportation program. Trump’s order covers the Ready Reserve and National Guard, military property that could be used as detention space, ground and air transport vehicles and “other logistics services in support of ...
The Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991 (TVPA; Pub. L. 102–256, H.R. 2092, 106 Stat. 73, enacted March 12, 1992) is a US statute that allows for the filing of civil suits in the United States against individuals who, acting in an official capacity for any foreign nation, committed torture and/or extrajudicial killing.
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act is a landmark United States federal law, passed on October 22, 2009, [1] and signed into law by President Barack Obama on October 28, 2009, [2] as a rider to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2010 (H.R. 2647).
Democrats favor raising the minimum wage and believe that all Americans have the right to a fair wage. [15] They call for a $15.00/hour national minimum wage and believe that the minimum wage should be adjusted regularly. [25] The Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 was an early component of the party's agenda during the 110th Congress. In 2006 ...
The Victims Protection Act of 2014 was introduced into the United States Senate on January 14, 2014, by Sen. Claire McCaskill (D, MO). [4] On March 10, 2014, the Senate voted in Roll Call Vote 62 to pass the bill 97–0.