How to Use legislation in a Sentence

legislation

noun

• They passed new state legislation this week.
• One of the important functions of government is legislation.
• More legislation is needed on this matter.
• Two new pieces of legislation are being considered.
• She introduced legislation for protecting the environment.
• Certain animals are protected under state legislation.
• Then there’s the devil in the details of the legislation.
  — Daniel Borenstein, The Mercury News, 25 May 2024
• Why did the House add the TikTok legislation to the foreign aid bill?
  — Gillian Brassil, Sacramento Bee, 24 Apr. 2024
• Pringle said he was not involved in adding the new guidelines to the legislation and did not know who was.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 14 Aug. 2023
• Thompson and others, though, said that the cap could be lifted at the same time legislation curbs some of the tax breaks for the wealthy.
  — David Lightman, Sacramento Bee, 3 Jan. 2025
• Bills, bills, bills Since legislation is no longer pre-filed, the bills started pouring in with the start of the session.
  — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 6 Jan. 2024
• Congress has just a few days when both the House and Senate are in session to pass legislation.
  — Lisa Mascaro, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2023
• Three weeks later, legislation that would have the same effect appeared in the U.S. House.
  — Matthew Perrone, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2023
• This will likely be needed should two pieces of legislation pushed by the GOP be signed into law.
  — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
• Patrick said that legislation would have allowed his business to survive, but the bill went nowhere.
  — Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 22 Mar. 2023
• But even with the agreement, getting the legislation passed through Congress in time for the deadline may be difficult.
  — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2024
• After the Scottish legislation was passed, the British government had 28 days to decide whether to block it.
  — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2023
• All three senators voted for the legislation to force a sale.
  — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 16 Jan. 2025
• President Joe Biden’s legislation has a suite of other goals aside from just getting projects off the ground.
  — Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 4 May 2024
• The legislation has won support from both Democrats and Republicans in the senate, as well as the Teamsters union.
  — William Gavin, Quartz, 3 May 2024
• Michigan just unveiled a sweeping package of 11 gun control laws, and the group has been pushing for the legislation to get hearings and votes.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 23 Feb. 2023
• Backers of the legislation acknowledged that the proposals have a hard road ahead with slim odds of passage.
  — Jenna Carlesso, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2023
• With hours left before the deadline, the Senate required the unanimous consent of all 100 members to pass the legislation in time.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
• Stroebel and Wittke in a memo to colleagues seeking support for the bill said the legislation would give more control over hiring to local school boards.
  — Journal Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2024
• This legislation would erase that threshold and extend the insurance to.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 21 July 2023
• The vote on part of the legislation is just the first of three readings required for parliamentary approval, a process that is expected to take months.
  — Laurie Kellman, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Feb. 2023
• People on the broad left are disappointed that Biden didn’t get even more legislation passed.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 10 July 2023
• As the authors concede, Congress has refused to follow the scheme established by the legislation in all but four years since 1974.
  — WSJ, 19 Oct. 2023
• Three Republicans as well as the two Democrats on the House committee were skeptical of the new Idaho legislation.
  — Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 7 Feb. 2025
• Texan highways started seeing autonomous semi trucks by 2021, the same year the Texas House passed legislation that filled in some missing gaps.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 10 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 25 Feb 2025