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Legislatures

Legislatures | Legislature

Legislatures meaning

plural of legislature

Example sentences (20)

That’s a huge problem because the vast majority of state legislatures don’t pay lawmakers enough to afford the cost of living in their states, to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 61% of Black children, 51% of Hispanic children, 40% of White children and 23% of Asian children have experienced an ACE.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, it is one of 41 states that do not require seat belts.

After depositing a quarter of the surplus into Louisiana’s rainy-day fund and putting ten percent towards the retirement debt – as required by the Louisiana Constitution – that will be approximately $473 million for legislatures to utilize.

Also, through a unified voice with the Health Federation of Nigeria to the legislatures a cancer health fund (CHF) is now available to provide funding and healthcare services to indigent cancer patients in the country, she added.

And in the identical approach that gun rights teams have made speedy progress with permitless carry legal guidelines in purple states, liberal-dominated legislatures have pushed opposing measures.

And they had skepticism about state legislatures and the quality, perhaps, of their decision-making.

Anyway, I implore ALL women to stand up and demand that these GOP dominated and gerrymandered state legislatures acknowledge the plain and simple fact that it takes a man’s overt act just as much as a woman’s overt act to start a pregnancy.

As for the legislatures at the national and state levels, 18% of Virginians approve of the way Congress is handling its job and 44% approve of the way the Virginia General Assembly is handling its job.

Constitutional law experts say such a move would require the approval of both state legislatures and Congress.

Democrats are also pushing back against the way Republicans have exercised their power in Tennessee and other states where they hold overwhelming majorities in the legislatures.

Fewer than 10 Indian Americans were serving in state legislatures.

Florida expanded on this concept in 2005 when it passed the country’s first “stand your ground” law, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

He said 26 states, including neighbors Ohio and Virginia, have similar laws; neighbors Kentucky and Pennsylvania have similar bills moving in their legislatures.

However, successive federal governments, including legislatures, have initiated and implemented a series of interventions to stem the tide.

I’m skeptical that those legislatures have moderated much based on anecdotal evidence, but I’m open to other ways to elect lawmakers who are more interested in governing than, say, posturing about climate change and whatnot.

In interpreting state law in this area, state courts may not so exceed the bounds of ordinary judicial review as to unconstitutionally intrude upon the role specifically reserved to state legislatures by Article I, Section 4, of the Federal Constitution.

In the absence of a privacy framework, state legislatures are taking the lead in developing a patchwork of privacy and social media laws, which are widely variable and sometimes heavy-handed.

In the U.S., much of the Republican Party has embraced the baseless claims of election-fraud, states have passed laws that make it harder to vote, and voters have elected election-denying candidates to Congress and state legislatures.

It is perverse and un-American to applaud legislatures like ours in Florida that seek to pass laws suppressing rights and restricting popular power to challenge injustices.