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The GSE Conservatorships: Fifteen Years Old, With No End in Sight

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

One, it placed the companies into conservatorship, an obscure legal status in which they would continue to operate, but with their regulator, the FHFA, [3] in operational control of the companies in lieu of their stockholders and boards of directors. This was publicly disclosed by Treasury Secretary Mnuchin in 2019.

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COVID-19: Employer-Based Insurance (with Dave Jones)

Policy Chats

He previously served as California’s Insurance Commissioner from 2011 to 2019. The California Department of Insurance regulates the nation’s largest insurance market in the insurance industry which collects about 257 billion dollars in premiums annually from California. Learn more about Dave Jones via [link].

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COVID-19: Employer-Based Insurance (with Dave Jones)

Policy Chats

He previously served as California’s Insurance Commissioner from 2011 to 2019. The California Department of Insurance regulates the nation’s largest insurance market in the insurance industry which collects about 257 billion dollars in premiums annually from California. Learn more about Dave Jones via [link].

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

But in recent years, California’s state government has stepped in to accelerate housing production by reforming zoning regulations, removing some of the red tape that has slowed production, and cracking down on localities that have historically resisted densifying.

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CONTRACTS: Emergency Orders and Delayed/Excused Action

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

2d 342, 345 (2004); see also Restatement (Second) of Contracts § 264 (1981). 2d 306, 312 (1996) (regulations offer no excuse "where a party has assumed the risk of such regulation"). 2019); Specialty Tires of Am., Brown Amusement Co. , 366, 371, 601 S.E.2d Dashiell , 195 Md. 677, 689, 75 A.2d 222, 230, 465 S.E.2d

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How AWS supports the 10th anniversary of National Voter Registration Day with digital tools for civic engagement

AWS Public Sector Blog

requirements, every state has different voting rules and regulations. Since 2019, Voterly has partnered with HeadCount , a non-partisan organization that uses the power of music to register voters and promote participation in democracy. Since 2004 HeadCount has supported the registration of over one million voters.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). In the UK this is the Civil Contingencies Act of November 2004. To illustrate that, consider just one of the 102 provisions and 29 schedules.