This legislation strengthens the existing Health Code requirement that each food service establishment must be in “compliance with . . . applicable federal, state and city laws, rules and regulations,” by mandating additional requirements designed to prevent entities and principals who repeatedly violate employment, discrimination and workplace safety laws from operating food service establishments. This legislation will help government and community groups play an active role in promoting a safer and healthier industry by requiring that persons applying for a license or a renewal of a license to operate food service establishments disclose past violations of employment laws.

Requires grocery employers to make prevailing health expenditures on behalf of its employees. The law specifically recognizes the industry is not doing so.

This is a sample ordinance based on the Milwaukee Ethical Purchasing Bill.

In July 2005, the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council passed the Blackfeet Tobacco Free Act, which states that all public places will be smoke-free and spit-tobacco-free on the Blackfeet Reservation. The passage of the Tobacco-Free Act is part of many tribal health initiatives to address commercial tobacco health related diseases and deaths on the reservation.

In July 2005, the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council passed the Blackfeet Tobacco Free Act, which states that all public places will be smoke-free and spit-tobacco-free on the Blackfeet Reservation. The tribe passed the Blackfeet Tobacco Free Act to recognize the harmful effects of tobacco and to protect public health. The law still recognizes the traditional aspect of tobacco use. The passage of the Tobacco-Free Act is part of many tribal health initiatives to address commercial tobacco health related diseases and deaths on the reservation.

A group of organizations representing a diverse group of Los Angeles public transportation patrons succesfully brought suit against the Los Angeles MTA, charging them for violating the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits government agencies that receive any federal funds from distributing them in a discriminatory manner. The plantiffs charged that MTA fostered a separate and unequal public transit system for riders of color.

Introduced to the SF Board of Supervisors in March 2006, but currently pending committee vote. Strengthens the City's Minimum Wage Ordinance to impose an annual fee upon employers to defray the City's costs of implementing and enforcing the Minimum Wage Ordinance to expand the powers and duties of the Office of Labor Standard Enforcement to implement and enforce the Minimum Wage Ordinance.

Oregon passed a law enabling voting by mail. This policy gives local communities greater access to participation in voting.

In 2000 Lac Court Oreilles Bank of Lake Superior Chippewa and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and U.S. Forest Service signed a Joint Agency Management Plan that identified the common interest that protecting the wilderness quality and preventing development that might threaten its quality. In doing so, they keep in mind the aesthetic, cultural and recreational values and interest.

This prohibits smoking in public places and places of employment. The language states that smoking is prohibited in all areas of employment without exception. This type of ban protects many low-wage workers and people of color, who work in places less likely to have a nonsmoking policy.

Students in Colorado lobbied their state legislature in support of HB 1124, a bill that would have made undocumented students eligible for in-state tuition rates at Colorado universities.

Students in Colorado lobbied their state legislature in support of HB 1124, a bill that would have made undocumented students eligible for in-state tuition rates at Colorado universities.

The Cultural Resources Protection Program excels in the protection of cultural resources through the enforcement of Federal and State Laws and regulations within the tribal lands. Federal laws include the Archaeological Resources Protection Act, the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act, the National Historic Preservation Act and others.

The bill mandated an addition to Section 8315 of the Government Code that adoped the UN International Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination's definition of "racial discrimination". The bill specifies that the state is able to able to focus on racial discriminatory outcomes rather than intent.

Jovenes Unidos found that youth of color in Denver are being pushed into jail cells instead of being put behind school desks. Nationwide, youth of color are targeted for more and harsher discipline than their white counterparts. Colorado students proposed solutions to their school boards and city council, including changing city policy, changing district policy, creating alternative disciple measures and a community oversight board.

Requires the New York City Human Resources Adminstration to provide equal access to Food Stamps, Medicaid and public assistance to all limited English proficient (LEP) New Yorkers. LEP New Yorkers have the right to receive free language assistance services and varying departments must document the language access needs of clients and agency capability.

The bill has four major parts that attempt to improve welfare programs for communities of color: ensure equal access, strengthed fair treatment and anti-discrimination protections, establish fairness for immigrants, encourage racial equality. Version introduced in Senate: S.770

Chartered under the laws of the Winnebago Tribe and wholly owned by the tribe, Ho-Chunk Inc. (HCI) was launched in 1994 to diversify the Tribe's business interests while maintaining a separation between business and tribal government. HCI has a simple mission: to use the Tribe's various economic and legal advantages to develop and operate successfully tribally owned businesses and to provide jobs and opportunities for tribal members.

Chartered under the laws of the Winnebago Tribe and wholly owned by the tribe, Ho-Chunk Inc. (HCI) was launched in 1994 to diversify the Tribe's business interests while maintaining a separation between business and tribal government. HCI has a simple mission: to use the Tribe's various economic and legal advantages to develop and operate successfully tribally owned businesses and to provide jobs and opportunities for tribal members.

Chartered under the laws of the Winnebago Tribe and wholly owned by the tribe, Ho-Chunk Inc. (HCI) was launched in 1994 to diversify the Tribe's business interests while maintaining a separation between business and tribal government. HCI has a simple mission: to use the Tribe's various economic and legal advantages to develop and operate successfully tribally owned businesses and to provide jobs and opportunities for tribal members.