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BIGSTOCK In a rare display of like-mindedness, the New Zealand Parliament a couple of weeks ago unanimously passed a bill adding three days to a working woman’s bereavement leave to cover the miscarriage or still-birth of a child. The new entitlement extends to spouses and partners, including a separated biological parent, to couples adopting an expected baby, and to those using IVF and surrogacy. And it applies to the whole of pregnancy, even where the mother herself was unaware that she had...

Even as the Opposition stayed away from Parliament, the Anti-Gang Bill was passed without their support. A simple majority was required to pass the legislation. The Anti-Gang Bill, 2021 was passed in the House at Third Reading with 19 members voting for, none against, no abstentions. The Bill reintroduces anti-gang law in Trinidad and Tobago, to protect against the proliferation of criminal gang activity. It was passed in the Senate four weeks ago.  The Opposition has since explained that its ...

Zimbabwe: Constitutional Amendment (No.1) Bill Sails Through Senate Zimbabwe: Constitutional Amendment (No.1) Bill Sails Through Senate 6 hours ago By Anna Chibamu President Emmerson Mnangagwa is set to sign Constitutional Amendment No. 1 Bill into an Act after it sailed through Senate on Tuesday by 70 votes to one. The rescheduling of the vote follows the Constitutional Court application for an extension to regularise the Amendment after it was deemed to have been unconstitutionally passed in...

By Anna Chibamu PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is set to sign Constitutional Amendment No. 1 Bill into an Act after it sailed through Senate on Tuesday by 70 votes to one. The rescheduling of the vote follows the Constitutional Court application for an extension to regularise the Amendment after it was deemed to have been unconstitutionally passed in the Senate in 2017. However, the Bill may face new challenges after it has become clear that the 9th Parliament cannot constitutionally pass a bill ...

Wyoming Legislature Off Today For Easter Recess, Returns Tuesday The Wyoming Legislature is off today for Easter Recess. Lawmakers are set to return on Tuesday before wrapping up the general session on Wednesday, April 7. According to the session calendar posted on the Wyoming Legislature website, here is the schedule of events for the remaining days of the session: Day 33 Tuesday, April 6 Last day for Third Reading in the second house. Concurrence on Amendments/Joint Conference Committee Repor...

HELENA, Mont. - An act that aimed to revise election procedures on Native American reservations failed to pass the third reading in the house. HB 613, Native American Rights Act, failed by a vote of 48 to 51 a release from Western Native Voice says. Keaton Sunchild, Western Native Voice Political Director gave the following statement regarding the bill failing to pass: “The Governor’s office and House Republicans had a chance to work alongside us in a bipartisan fashion to create fair...

State House Roundup: Tale of two March 11s Katie Lannan March 11 was the first day mass vaccination site signups opened to Massachusetts teachers, the last day - before a preregistration system went live Friday - that thousands of appointments at those sites would be released all at once and swiftly snatched up in a stressful scramble, and the day President Biden said thered be enough COVID-19 vaccine doses for all American adults by the end of May. Here in the infinite time loop that is daily ...

Ahead of a debate over a major climate change action bill, a Senate committee released details of its recommended changes late Wednesday night as Democratic leaders scrambled to prepare the

Almost a month after Gov. Charlie Baker returned sweeping climate legislation to lawmakers with a series of recommended amendments, House Speaker Ronald Mariano said hes willing to work with the governor on some technical changes but will "not back down on our ambitious emissions reduction targets." The bill — which the House and Senate passed for the second time in January after Baker rejected a version sent to him in the final days of the last legislative session — proposes to lock ...

Doctors will not refer patients for treatment abroad without consulting the government.