McConnell spokesman Don Stewart said the minority leader was pleased that Bergdahl is safe but still has questions about the administration's handling of the situation, including the lack of mandated notification and concerns that the Taliban detainees may return to the battlefield.
In other locations, physicians have a duty to warn partners through mandated notification programs.[ 31] Further, professional ethics codes may differ from local laws, complicating these issues.[ 32] Lastly, laws pertaining to medical care and observational research conducted outside medical settings may differ.
In California, meanwhile, voters turned back an attempt by abortion-rights opponents to mandate parental notification, the issue's third ballot defeat in the state in four years.
A bipartisan group of senators has reintroduced legislation that would mandate customer notification and require companies that maintain personal information to establish internal policies to protect it.
Viviane Reding, the European telecommunications commissioner, said the commission, the executive arm of the European Union, would seek approval by the end of 2012 for a broad mandate requiring notification when data are lost or stolen.
The Conservatives' bill S-4, while flawed, proposes to mandate customer notification in the event of a business data breach.
In Norway, the law does not mandate obligatory notification of bovine babesiosis, and no systematic study on the distribution of this parasite has been undertaken since the work of Thambs-Lyche from 1933-1940 where 1388 cases per year were reported [ 18].
What it boils down to is this: many of the laws mandating Congressional notification of covert action programs were enacted after the Senate's Church Committee hearings in the late 1970s had revealed widespread abuses by the intelligence agencies domestically and overseas.
In Montana, however, voters approved a parental notification mandate that will require physicians to notify parents of minors under the age of 16 at least 48 hours before performing an abortion.
The nuclear-plant accident in the Soviet Union dramatically points up the immediate necessity of an international conference for drafting a treaty to establish standards for construction and safety of all future nuclear plants and that would also mandate immediate worldwide notification of a nuclear-plant accident.
