Sentence examples for crime amendment from inspiring English sources

The NSW Christian Democratic party MP last Thursday introduced crime amendment (Zoe's law) bill 2015 to give personhood to a foetus.

6.19pm BST Victory for knife crime amendment MPs have voted to introduce amendments to the Criminal Courts and Justice Bill, which will see tougher jail sentences imposed for people caught twice with a knife.

Mr. Leahy sponsored the hate-crimes amendment to the military bill and called its passage a worthy tribute to the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, who first introduced hate-crimes legislation in the Senate more than a decade ago.

The state passed the crimes amendment (sexual offences and other matters) bill in August 2014 to both criminalise nonconsensual sharing and to protect young people who take and share images of themselves consensually.

The latest piece of legislation, the Crimes Amendment (Psychoactive Substances and Other Measures) Bill 2014, was introduced to the lower house of federal parliament by Minister for Justice, Michael Keenan on July 17.

Billionaire Republican donors Charles and David Koch have been pushing for the corporate crime relief amendment.

Bart Gordon, a Democratic representative from Tennessee, sponsored the 1994 crime-bill amendment that barred prisoners from receiving Pell Grants.

The last of these may see an interesting battle over knife crime, with amendments down from the Conservative backbencher Nick de Bois, calling for mandatory imprisonment for the second offence of possession of a knife for adults and juveniles.

He'll tape until midnight on the West Coast, then fly to New York in time for a segment on "Today" about missing children and be in Washington in the afternoon lobbying for the crime victims' rights amendment -- all this before he even starts working on the talk show.

When I was in the Air Force, way back in 1989, there was a big movement to make desecrating the flag a crime, via an amendment.

In addition to abolishing slavery and prohibiting involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, the Thirteenth Amendment also nullified the Fugitive Slave Clause and the Three-Fifths Compromise.