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    Information Technology Acts Paper BIS/220 December 17‚ 2012 Information Technology Acts Paper The advances in information technology have resulted in new ethical issues necessitating the creation of many important acts. Two in particular acts are Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Children’s Internet Protection Act (2000). Both of these acts were implemented to protect humans from harmful content and healthcare information. The Health Insurance Portability and

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    United States Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the Children’s Internet Protection Act of 2000 are to be addressed in this paper. The advancement in information technology such as the world wide web‚ search engines‚ YouTube‚ and virtual databases have made it easily accessible to obtain personal information‚ but also grant anyone access to age-inappropriate sites. The United States Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (referred to in this article as the "Act") was an amendment to the Counterfeit

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    Chris Merriam-Leith DRUG AND MEDICAL Jan 20‚ 2010 History of the FD&C Act of 1938 The Food‚ Drug and Cosmetic Act (FD&C) of 1938 was the final culmination of a series of legislative actions and tragic events in the United States that spanned a period between the years of 1820 to 1937. The final impetus for the passage of the FD&C act was a direct reactionary result for a series of tragic poisoning incidents that occurred before its enactment‚ as much as it was in response to a progressive series

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    Zack Cearley 11/15/2012 Accounting 1101- Mason The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002‚ often abbreviated as SOX‚ is a legislative act passed by Congress in response to the Enron and WorldCom financial scandals. The primary purpose of SOX is to protect shareholders from errors or fraudulent reporting by the company they have invested in. The Sarbanes-Oxley act is enforced by the Securities and Exchange Commission‚ a department dedicated to ensuring compliance to SOX from

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    The Mental Health Act The mental health act is an act design to protect people with mental illness. It was originally written in 1983 and reformed in 2007. It sets out clear guidance for a health professional when a person may need to be taken into compulsorily detained in a hospital. This is known as sectioning. This helps carers who are unable to cope without help. People can be sectioned if the health care profession thinks they are a danger to themselves‚ they are a danger to another person

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    AFFORDABLE CARE ACT 1 Affordable Care Act Upper Iowa University AFFORDABLE CARE ACT 2 Abstract The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is also known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) this law is the landmark health reform legislation passed by the 111th Congress and was signed into law on March 23‚ 2010. The legislation includes a long list of health-related provisions that began taking effect in 2010 and will continue to be rolled out over the next four years

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    The Welfare Reform Act Summary The Welfare Reform Act‚ also known as the “The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996”‚ was intentionally designed to help needy families with children dependents and/or people receiving Supplemental Security Income with cash benefits‚ who in turn would be eligible for Medicaid Health Insurance (Valerius‚ Bayes‚ Newby‚ & Seggern‚ 2008). The Welfare Reform Act replaced a program called “AFDC (Aid to families with dependent children)”

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    Republic Act No. 9173             October 21‚ 2002 AN ACT PROVIDING FOR A MORE RESPONSIVE NURSING PROFESSION‚ REPEALING FOR THE PURPOSE REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7164‚ OTHERWISE KNOWN AS "THE PHILIPPINE NURSING ACT OF 1991" AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled: ARTICLE I Title Section 1. Title. - This Act shall be known as the "Philippine Nursing Act of 2002." ARTICLE II Declaration of Policy Section 2. Declaration

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    Equality Act 2010

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    discrimination. Disability: The act introduces a new protection from discrimination arising from disability. It is discriminatory to threat a disabled person less favourably because of something related to their disability. It is only justifiable if an employer education or service provider can demonstrate that such treatment is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim. Gender reassignment: It means the process of transitioning from one gender to another. This Act cover people who have proposed

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    The Kansas-Nebraska Act

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    the United States. Each political‚ social‚ or economic happening had its own part in causing the Civil War. One of the bloodiest events was something termed "Bleeding Kansas‚" which was caused by the inception of the Kansas-Nebraska Act into United States Law. The Act was introduced to Congress by Stephen A. Douglas in an attempt to establish the Kansas and Nebraska territories. The Kansas-Nebraska Bill caused territorial problems that destroyed the National Party system. It was introduced by Stephen

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