How to Use legislature in a Sentence
legislature
noun- Each state has its own legislature.
- Our legislature passed a law requiring people to wear safety belts.
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The legislature has considered a bill that sought to ban drag story hours, but it has been amended.
— Amy Beth Hanson, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2023 -
This issue will again come to a head soon, when the Israeli legislature votes on next year’s budget.
— Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2024 -
The statement was signed by 21 members of the Montana state legislature.
— Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2023 -
The bill moved virtually unchanged through the legislature, though not without criticism.
— Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2023 -
Democrats and Republicans in the legislature and a commission deadlocked on drawing the new map but broke the tie when a Democrat’s name was drawn from a hat.
— Megan Crepeau, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2024 -
The legislature must work in partnership with AI developers.
— Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024 -
The legislature should position Colorado to be a leader in renewable energy.
— The Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2024 -
The legislature changed the law in the late 1960s to make it the second Monday in August.
— Brittany Bowker, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2023 -
The state legislature moved quickly to pass a bill to block the ban.
— Kinsey Crowley, The Courier-Journal, 24 June 2024 -
The measure was placed on the ballot by the state legislature — the first time this has happened in the country.
— Matt Vasilogambros, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2023 -
Yet the State legislature over the past eight years has done the opposite.
— Elizabeth Neumann, ABC News, 10 May 2023 -
In a letter to the board ahead of its Sept. 20 vote, Carr said the state legislature hadn't legally authorized the board to pass the rule.
— Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2024 -
The rule does not carry the same weight as laws passed by Congress or state legislatures.
— David Hamilton, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024 -
Once passed in the budget, the pay raises still had to be approved by a committee in the legislature.
— The Editors, National Review, 18 Dec. 2023 -
But the speech during the filibuster must be connected to the bill the legislature is trying to pass.
— Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 11 May 2023 -
In past years, gun rights took center stage in the Kentucky legislature.
— Hannah Pinski, The Courier-Journal, 25 Mar. 2024 -
The bill passed the state legislature, but rideshare giants Uber and Lyft threatened to reduce their presence in the state because of it.
— Brian Schwartz, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2024 -
The change would require action from the state legislature.
— Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2024 -
Gutierrez spent 14 years in the legislature, most of that time in leadership roles.
— Daniel Gonzalez, USA TODAY, 11 May 2024 -
During a speech to a joint session of the legislature, Noem said the U.S. was in a time of invasion, which was coming over the southern border.
— Greg Wehner, Fox News, 4 Feb. 2024 -
This means that the issue will need to be addressed within state legislatures.
— Gillian Brassil, Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 2024 -
And his team is laser-focused on helping his party take control of the state legislature this year.
— Chuck Todd, NBC News, 12 July 2023 -
Koenig introduced the measure as one of the first bills filed for the Missouri legislature’s 2023 session.
— María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2023 -
The Supreme Court could decide to restore the map that the Republicans drew or order the legislature to create a new map.
— Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 17 May 2023 -
People who want to sue the state need approval of the claims commissioner’s office and the legislature.
— Dave Collins, Fortune, 6 May 2024 -
But Republicans in the State legislature balked at the idea.
— Elizabeth Neumann, ABC News, 10 May 2023 -
Two bills introduced in the California legislature last week want to make the state’s bag ban even stronger.
— Angela Rodriguez, Sacramento Bee, 12 Feb. 2024 -
The bill was spawned, in part, after a college professor had gone to the state legislature pushing for reform.
— Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2023
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