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In July 2021, local government minister Robert Jenrick approved plans for two new unitary authorities, Westmorland and Furness and Cumberland. Parliamentary approval would be sought around the end of 2021, with the intention of holding elections for the new councils in May 2022 and the councils going live in April 2023. [11]
After two deadly mass shootings in May 2022—the shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York and the Uvalde school shooting—the Democratic-majority House (on a near party-line vote) passed a package of gun-control bills, including a safe storage bill and bills to increase in the minimum age to buy semi-automatic rifles to 21, ban ...
The law required local governments to update their ordinances to conform with the law. [8] The effective date was later postponed to July 1, 2021 to give local governments more time, in part due to the COVID-19 pandemic's effects on government operations.
To provide enhanced authority for the President to enter into agreements with the Government of Ukraine to lend or lease defense articles to that Government to protect civilian populations in Ukraine from Russian military invasion, and for other purposes. Pub. L. 117–118 (text), S. 3522, 136 Stat. 1184, enacted May 9, 2022: 117-119
An Act to make provision about public service pension schemes, including retrospective provision to rectify unlawful discrimination in the way in which existing schemes were restricted under the Public Service Pensions Act 2013 [d] and corresponding Northern Ireland legislation; to make provision for the establishment of new public pension ...
The Constitution of New York enumerates the powers of local governments, such as the power to elect a legislative body and adopt local laws. [3] [4] A local law has a status equivalent with a law enacted by the Legislature (subject to certain exceptions and restrictions [5]), and is superior to the older forms of municipal legislation such as ...
On February 24, 2022, the Florida House of Representatives passed the Parental Rights in Education Act with 69 in favor and 47 against. [15] Commonly referred to as the "Don't Say Gay" bill by its opponents, it prevents public schools from holding discussions on sexual orientation and gender identity, stating that lessons "may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is ...
The 2021 election saw the SNP returned to government, this time in a coalition with the Scottish Greens rather than as a minority government; both parties featured the bill in their manifestos. The Bute House Agreement between the two parties committed to introducing a Gender Recognition Reform Bill before the end of May 2022. [14] [15] [8]