Instead, they said, it is designed to clear up a timing confusion about the 2010 law, which for the first time requires most Americans to buy health coverage or face a penalty.
Finally, the bill for the first time requires FISA court warrants for surveillance of Americans overseas.
WASHINGTON — More than one-third of all Americans will soon receive better insurance coverage for mental health treatments because of a new law that, for the first time, requires equal coverage of mental and physical illnesses.
The Justice Department announced on Thursday that it had reached an agreement with a Mississippi county that, for the first time, requires a local government to provide an array of options intended to reduce mass incarceration.
Last month, the EPA issued a guidance document outlining how it would implement a bipartisan 2016 law that for the first time requires the agency to rule on a new chemical's potential risks before allowing it on the market.
Creating digital products for the first time requires a sense of design thinking and exposure to successful and failed products.
For each of these companies, reclaiming their good reputation (or establishing a good one for the first time) requires working off a trust deficit.
But lawyers representing the state officials argued that the insurance requirement was unconstitutional because it would, for the first time, require citizens to buy a commercial product.
The bill would for the first time require importers to verify that their products from overseas meet U.S. safety standards.
The city will, for the first time, require disclosure of independent expenditures — spending that is not coordinated with a campaign.
Although, according to the Times, antibiotic use will for the first time require a veterinarian's prescription, the drugs can still be used preventatively.
