But in a sign of the changing times, all five Republicans in the 38-member State Senate supported the measure — the only time in any state where the entire caucus of either party has approved such a measure unanimously — making Rhode Island the latest indication of growing acceptance of same-sex marriage across the country.
A bill to amend Section 207 of the Criminal Code was drafted, and passed unanimously, making it an offence to make, print, publish, distribute, sell, or own "any magazine, periodical or book which exclusively or substantially comprises matter depicting pictorially the commission of crimes, real or fictitious", on 10 December 1949.
FILA's executive committee in Lausanne, Switzerland, unanimously made the decision to call off the event through respect for the families of the people killed in the recent tragic eventsin the United States.
The bill, which passed both houses of Congress unanimously, makes it easier for mutual funds and private pension fund managers to sell their investments and allows states to prohibit debt financing for companies that do business in Sudan.
A decision was however unanimously made that the 2008 award should go to Ms. Jelena Marinkovic for TV story WHITE-PAINTED WALLS broadcast on TV Pirot.
A committee of senior ministers – including the home, foreign and justice secretaries – finally decided last month to close the compensation loophole, but unanimously rejected making the scheme retrospective, deciding that the price tag could be too high.
On the following day, just hours after the OPCW Executive Council approved a detailed implementation plan for the U.S./Russian Framework, Security Council Resolution 2118 was unanimously passed, making the OPCW plan binding on the Syrians.
The legislative council ended up voting unanimously to make part of the overall report public.
Israel has gone furthest: in January the Knesset voted unanimously to make posting intimate images without the subject's agreement count as sexual harassment, punishable by up to five years in jail.
It voted unanimously to make them wear helmets when riding scooters, and the Council speaker, Peter F. Vallone, defended his proposed new smoking restrictions in restaurants by saying, "My concern here is basically for children and the health effects of smoking".
This morning, the Connecticut Board of Education voted unanimously to make students' answers to multiple-choice questions on grammar, punctuation and spelling account for 40percentt of their overall grade in the test's writing section.
