We obtained data on the effective date of FSC legislation for all 50 states and DC from the website of the Coalition for Fire-Safe Cigarettes, a group coordinated by the National Fire Protection Agency.
If it is signed, it takes effect on the effective date of the legislation, usually October 1 of that year.
While versions of the bill have cleared key committees in both the House and Senate, Lillis notes that the bank lobby has already exacted its pound of flesh, convincing members of Congress to delay the effective date of the legislation until you guessed it the middle of 2010.
"Spies spy, but they should not be able to write their own rules, exploiting woefully out-of-date legislation to collect information on millions of innocent people.
It is proverbial that lunatics, criminals and peers are banned from serving as MPs; but today in the Commons, the Conservative Gavin Barwell won cross party support for his efforts to cut through the tangle of contradictory and out of date legislation around the question of MPs' mental health.
Secretly, some First Nations activists and government officials alike may be hoping that we're witnessing the first breaths of a drive towards overhauling the Indian Act, a set of dated legislation born out of racist ideologies (it still makes reference to Residential Schools), colonialism, and paternalism.
It's a huge piece of work which replaces measures that were previously scattered across nine different pieces of legislation dating back to the 1970s.
And then their troubles began.The UUCA is a notorious bit of legislation dating from 1971 which instituted a sweeping ban, barring any student from joining any political party—or indeed any society or organisation in or outside the university whether it be in Malaysia or even in a foreign country, unless with the express permission of a vice-chancellor.
New laws, for example a Lokpal Act passed in December to create a new anti-graft agency, just add to the huge weight of legislation dating back to the 1980s that is cynically passed and not enforced.There is certainly a lack of will to enforce rules.
It was decided to replace the National Stadium at Cardiff Arms Park after a review found it was out of date; new legislation also required stadia to be all seated.
