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November 20, 2013
Beata Leja
Illinois Same-Sex Marriage Bill to be Signed into Law
Historic law to become effective on June 1, 2014 Today Illinois’ governor Pat Quinn will sign the Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act into law, which passed the Illinois legislature November 5, 2013. The bill is scheduled to be signed...
House Democrats Introduce Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill
BREAKING: On October 2, 2013, House Democrats released their own version of a comprehensive immigration reform bill. Democrats Nancy Pelosi, Xavier Becerra, Ruben Hinojosa, Joe Garcia, Joe Crowley, Judy Chu, and others presented the legislation. The text of the bill...
U.S. Senate Passes Comprehensive Immigration Legislation
Comprehensive immigration reform took a major step forward last week after the U.S. Senate passed Senate Bill 744, the "Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act." The U.S. House now takes up immigration reform, but with a Republican majority...
CIR Update: Senate Bill Passes Judiciary
On May 21st, 2013, the Senate Judiciary Committee finished weeks of work on immigration reform by passing S. 744, the comprehensive immigration reform bill, by a bipartisan vote of 13 to 5. The Senate Judiciary Committee considered 300 amendments filed...
Get Ready for CIR
As the Senate debates Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR), the news is full of information about potential changes to the country’s immigration laws. At this time, Congress has not yet passed legislation to reform the immigration system, but it seems likely...
Immigration Reform Update: Senate Bill (S. 744) Introduced
On April 15, 2013, a comprehensive immigration reform bill (S. 744, the "Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act") was introduced by Senators Schumer, McCain, Durbin, Graham, Menendez, Rubio, Bennet, and Flake (the “gang of eight”). The eight hundred...
Update: House Passes Senate Bill 47 to Reauthorize Violence Against Women Act
On February 26, 2013, MMHPH wrote about the US Senate passing a bill to reauthorization the Violence Against Women Act. You can read it here. On February 28, 2013, the same Senate bill passed the U.S. House of Representatives with...
U.S. Senate Votes to Reauthorize Violence Against Women Act
Next step: a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was first passed in 1994, with the purpose of increasing protections for targets of violence against women—including domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and...
