The Legislature approved a bill on Monday that would broaden state laws against prostitution, which cover only pimps and madams.
*The governor and both houses agreed to a bill that greatly broadens state laws against money-laundering, including applying those laws to wire transfers.
Noting the passage of time between the crime and the arrest in the 1998 case, Mr. Vance is also pushing harder to broaden state laws to allow the collection of biological evidence from more people.
However, the definition of senescence has since been broadened, stating that DNA damage and cellular stress, caused by expression of certain oncogenes, unscheduled DNA replication, oxidative stress, or dysfunctional telomeres, can both induce cellular senescence (Nishiyama et al., 1999; Collado et al., 2007).
Democrats, including the governor, have said that even with so much still unclear, enough is known to pass comprehensive gun legislation, including broadening the state's ban on assault weapons and outlawing the sale of high-capacity ammunition magazines.
The report also proposes giving students more choice in where they go to school and shifting the tax burden away from property taxes, perhaps by broadening the state sales tax to include services.Several recommendations are more radical.
Anticipating the panel's recommendation, the Citizens Budget Commission issued a report in November exploring other options for financing, like taxing gambling receipts, broadening the state sales tax to cover more goods and services and eliminating waste.
Each service brought a new rationale for broadening the state's interest and investment in the early years.
Carcieri brought down rates by broadening the state's tax base cutting the number of tax credits and limiting itemized deductions.
He has set up a Forensic Sciences Cold Case Unit, whose mission is to train prosecutors to expand the use of DNA evidence to include assaults and property crimes; to re-energize efforts to solve unsolved homicides from decades ago; and to push for the new state law to broaden the state's DNA databank to include all types of crimes.
