New York City adopted a similar ban in 2006 — it became fully effective on July 1 — and Philadelphia, Stamford, Conn., and Montgomery County, Md., have done so as well.
Most of the proposed cuts, part of a broader package that Mr. Pataki is expected to reveal on Tuesday in his budget proposal, would not become fully effective until 2008 or 2009.
Registrants should notice a gradual reduction in unsolicited sales and marketing voice calls after a few days, although it can take up to 28 days for the service to become fully effective.
ROME — Hundreds of small Italian fishing boats from Venice to Porto Palo in Sicily drew up their nets on Tuesday to protest a European Union Council regulation regarding sustainable fishing in the Mediterranean that became fully effective on June 1.
As matters stand now, the lower tax rates will not become fully effective until 2006, the estate tax will not be fully repealed until 2010, the doubling of the tax credit for children will not take place until 2010 and new benefits for married couples will not begin until 2008.
If it had not been partially offset by subsequent tax increases before it became fully effective, the Reagan plan as passed would ultimately have amounted to an annual tax cut equal to 4percentt of the gross domestic product, according to a calculation by Robert S. McIntyre, the director of Citizens for Tax Justice, a liberal research group.
