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"legislature" Definitions
  1. a group of people who have the power to make and change laws
"legislature" Synonyms
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"legislature" Antonyms
individual one

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It doesn't say the Legislature may, it says the Legislature shall.
There's some credible candidates for Georgia's state legislature, the Kansas legislature, Oklahoma state Senate.
Nevada became the first majority women legislature, and Colorado's legislature is nearing gender parity.
The new, loyalist-controlled legislature then stripped the opposition-controlled legislature of its powers.
ET. View election results Virginia legislature All 140 seats in the state legislature are on the ballot Tuesday.
She served in the Missouri state legislature and in the Jackson County, Mo., legislature, and was elected state auditor.
Arizona's legislature is now 40 percent female, leapfrogging Nevada's 39.7 percent to become the most female-heavy legislature in America.
I have friends in the legislature, or outside of legislature who are women in leadership, and we are able to commiserate.
And it will be brought to the attention of the legislature and the legislature demand that a faculty member be fired.
He correlated respondents' reported votes in state legislature races against their approval ratings for their legislature, governor, and the US president.
In 2014, the New Jersey legislature legislature voted to allow pharmacists to give the flu vaccine to children age 7 and older.
"Now, it is said that the legislature of Virginia, (old Virginia,) has consented; but it is not pretended that the legislature of West Virginia has consented, nor that there is, in fact, any such legislature to give consent," he noted.
The law passed in state legislature earlier this month on a strict party-line vote (Democrats currently control 75 percent of the California legislature).
"I observed the same phenomena when she was in the legislature," said Massachusetts Representative Alice Peisch, who served with Clark in the state legislature.
Taking the veto power into consideration, it could be argued that in important ways we have a tricameral legislature, and not merely a bicameral legislature.
Beyond clearing that hurdle, the DoJ will also need the approval of the US legislature (the UK will need approval from its legislature as well).
The legislature says he is illegitimate, and that Juan Guaidó, the head of the legislature, should take over, as the constitution requires, pending proper elections.
"The 2013 Legislature was not obligated to show that it had 'cured' the unlawful intent that the court attributed to the 2011 Legislature," he wrote.
A political crisis peaked in July when President Nicolas Maduro replaced the opposition-controlled legislature with an entirely new legislature filled only with his supporters.
But that wave didn't really affect the makeup of the state Legislature, so Evers is facing what many new Democratic governors are: a conservative legislature.
The legislature wants the study commission to include 23 members, including various members of the legislature but also a wealth of experts in various tech fields.
The state of emergency must then be approved by the legislature within 15 days, according to the agreement, although the legislature is yet to be formed.
The bill stated that the state legislature had the power to regulate bathroom access, but the legislature did not take action at that time to define access.
It recognizes that the people act through their representatives in the legislature, and leaves it to the legislature exclusively to define the method of effecting the object.
Scott Schwab, was sworn in to the Kansas legislature and told fellow politicians that he's learned that there are more important things than what happens in the legislature.
But eventually, they cut a bipartisan deal reforming state legislature redistricting — it passed the legislature with huge majorities and was overwhelmingly approved in a statewide vote in 13.
After Cuomo proposes the amendment, both chambers of the state legislature have to approve it — and not just this session of the legislature, but the next one as well.
Each update must be approved by the state legislature — where each of its three iterations have been unanimously approved — and its annual funding plan also must pass the legislature.
That concession from the state legislature didn't meet the teachers' full demands, but it was a huge win considering the state legislature hadn't approved a tax increase since 1990.
Gretchen Driskell, a Democratic member of the Michigan legislature who is now running for Congress, said she has seen evidence in her time in the legislature that women govern differently.
The former Republican governor of Virginia, Bob McDonnell, was concerned enough about this to ask Virginia's Republican legislature to loosen the law — but the legislature couldn't agree on a bill.
Another bill gives the legislature control of the state's economic development authority, and a third would give the legislature the authority to hire its own attorneys to defend state laws. Gov.
In 2000, both houses of the New Hampshire legislature voted to end the death penalty, only to have Democratic Governor Jeanne Shaheen veto the bill; the legislature failed to override her.
In Missouri and Wyoming, for instance, the state Legislature decides a contest over presidential electors, although in Missouri the Legislature receives the aid of a state judge who can gather evidence.
The idea is that the legislature passes a law, the court says it's unconstitutional for this or that reason, and then the legislature has an opportunity to respond to the court.
In the seven years since, nine more states and Washington, DC, have legalized, with Illinois' legislature most recently becoming the first legislature to legalize commercial sales of marijuana for recreational uses.
As of 2015, the average age in the New Hampshire State Legislature was 66, making it the oldest state legislature in the country, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
But after Northam called for a session to consider his proposals earlier this year, the Republican-controlled legislature quickly voted along party lines to adjourn the legislature until after the elections.
Fight on -- in the legislature, not on the streets.
Here, for instance, is the relationship his analysis finds between respondents' stated approval of their state legislature in 2012 and their odds of voting for the dominant party in that legislature (the solid line), and the relationship between respondents' approval of Barack Obama and their odds of voting Democratic in state legislature elections (the dashed line): Respondents' opinions of Obama play a much bigger role in their state legislative voting than their opinions of their legislature.
"I think there are a lot of people here who really don't agree with the impression you might get from the legislature or decisions that come out of the legislature," she says.
The state's Republican legislature seemingly gave them no other option because they had passed a law making it impossible for anyone but the very same Republican legislature to remove such oppressive monuments.
He sees all this building pressure, he knows what the Legislature is revving up to do and all these interest groups that are a deeper part of that appetite than the Legislature.
The Portland Press Herald reports that the legislature an initial $3.8 million expenditure to fund administrative costs and new hires has been caught up in a political fight in the state legislature.
While universal health care legislation has recently been introduced into California's state legislature, it must pass through committee and both houses of the legislature before being signed into law by the governor.
The legislature directly chose the governor in eight states and in two others, they legislature made the choice if no candidate received a full majority of vote (Vermont still has the later model).
Some members of the New Jersey legislature have questioned why the two bills are on a fast track toward passing Monday, the last day during which the legislature will hold votes in 2016.
The initiative required a two-thirds vote in the legislature to hike any future taxes, so the legislature began implementing new revenue-raisers it categorized as fees to get around the tax requirements.
He visited the White House and lobbied the state legislature.
Virginia's next state legislature elections will occur later this year.
Republicans in the state legislature, in turn, would repeal HB2.
The state legislature could well be up for grabs too.
Both those offices and the city's legislature were closed Monday.
Only the state legislature can remove a mayor through impeachment.
A bill is currently making its way through the legislature.
The legislature has seven days left in this year's session.
The same concerns have been raised in South Carolina's legislature.
Virginia elected a Democratic majority legislature in 2019, and Gov.
Unfortunately, what the Georgia legislature passed is worse than Indiana's.
The Legislature will have its own say in the process.
Dan Patrick, the legislature wouldn't even be in session now.
The legislature had sent the bill to him in May.
In the legislature, he earned a reputation as a peacemaker.
Yet he has no alternative strategy to command the legislature.
California's legislature is more popular than it was (see chart).
She's the first Iranian American elected to the Florida Legislature.
And he had the overwhelming support of the state legislature.
The Legislature will consider these proposals in its 2016 session.
Each member must have the agreement approved by its legislature.
Both houses of the legislature must still approve the proposal.
The California legislature would likely advance all of these ideas.
The body calling itself Libya's sole legislature is largely sterile.
I've worked in the executive branch and in the legislature.
Whether it's a legislature or a convention, anything can happen.
Massachusetts currently has a Democratic supermajority in the state legislature.
She's also the youngest lawmaker in the Legislature this year.
TC: But you didn't get it through your state's legislature.
This legislature coincides with the country's changing attitude towards pets.
The Legislature is deciding not to send me either budget.
The EU legislature has a limited role in foreign policy.
The budget as passed by the legislature contained a surplus.
The European legislature was due to adopt it on Wednesday.
The current legislature is not scheduled to end until 2018.
Ultimately, however, no legislature or major university banned the sport.
It doesn't control a single state legislature in the South.
On March 23, the North Carolina legislature passed, and Gov.
It fell to the State Legislature to decide the issue.
Republicans have big majorities in both houses of Tennessee's legislature.
And yet the national legislature has suddenly sprung into action.
It holds 73 of 130 seats in the unicameral legislature.
Where things could get interesting is in the state legislature.
Previously, the legislature was supposed to be the ultimate authority.
The state legislature approved new legislative districts on Aug. 30.
New York's legislature adopted its rules covering harassment in 1984.
The legislature has returned to Raleigh to fix that wording.
Northam's party also scored big gains in the state Legislature.
The Kentucky legislature on Friday overrode a veto from Gov.
Since his 2012 election to the Washington state legislature, Rep.
Sources: Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, KFYR, North Dakota Legislature
Most New Jersey insiders think the legislature will go along.
The hypocrisy of California's liberal dominated legislature is mind numbing.
Gavin Newsom (D) and the California legislature (The Associated Press).
In July, the Oregon legislature passed ERPO with bipartisan support.
New Hampshire's legislature even enshrined this into law in 1948.
Both houses of the Montana Legislature are controlled by Republicans.
Both houses of the Wyoming Legislature are controlled by Republicans.
Both houses of the Nevada Legislature are controlled by Democrats.
Both houses of the Vermont Legislature are controlled by Democrats.
Both houses of the Texas Legislature are controlled by Republicans.
Both houses of the Georgia Legislature are controlled by Republicans.
Both houses of the Idaho Legislature are controlled by Republicans.
Both houses of the Louisiana Legislature are controlled by Republicans.
Both houses of the Mississippi Legislature are controlled by Republicans.
Both houses of the Arizona Legislature are controlled by Republicans.
Both houses of the Indiana Legislature are controlled by Republicans.
Both houses of the Florida Legislature are controlled by Republicans.
Both houses of the Oklahoma Legislature are controlled by Republicans.
Both houses of the Missouri Legislature are controlled by Republicans.
Both houses of the Alabama Legislature are controlled by Republicans.
Both houses of the Washington Legislature are controlled by Democrats.
Both houses of the Wisconsin Legislature are controlled by Republicans.
Both houses of the Massachusetts Legislature are controlled by Democrats.
Both houses of the Hawaii Legislature are controlled by Democrats.
Both houses of the Michigan Legislature are controlled by Republicans.
Both houses of the California Legislature are controlled by Democrats.
No momentum exists to change the law in the Legislature.
Calaveras County Fair and Frog Jumping JubileeSource: California State Legislature
California's state legislature this week sent a bill to Gov.
The North Dakota legislature is considering a moratorium on wind.
Since 1998, Republicans have had total control over Florida's legislature.
Since Republicans captured the legislature in 28500, and Republican Gov.
The legislature appropriates funds, writes laws and approves administrative rules.
On Saturday, the National People's Congress, the country's legislature, convenes.
With Democrats winning the legislature in Washington State, Democratic Gov.
Alabama's law, HB 379, passed the state legislature in May.
Her nomination must be confirmed by New York State's legislature.
Unsuccessfully ran for the North Dakota legislature as a Republican.
By 2012, Democrats held a supermajority in the state legislature.
Others, most notably Madison, wanted the legislature to be preeminent.
The State Legislature met in a short session this year.
The Legislature voted to expand the number of protected zones.
Both houses of the Legislature are controlled by Democratic majorities.
The Legislature revamped a law that kept evidence from defendants.
Democrats will control both chambers in the legislature next session.
But that might not be enough to convince the legislature.
But the state legislature is still firmly in Republican hands.
They don't control the Legislature, the executive or the judiciary.
The legislature has overridden nearly a dozen of his vetoes.
A governor can't do much unless the legislature goes along.
She also urged the Maryland legislature to "correct" the law.
"We haven't seen big shifts in the Legislature," he said.
He said the legislature should pass legislation allowing such appeals.
Betty Price has served in the state Legislature since 2015.
The new Democratic legislature plans to go beyond the commission.
Others in the legislature want to further tie Krasner's hands.
It is also represented in every state legislature in Germany.
Ruth Buffalo a first in the North Dakota state legislature.
The Oklahoma Legislature has been cutting education spending for years.
A Cambodian represents part of Lowell in the state legislature.
Now, they also have the support of the Maine legislature.
The legislature has not moved to overturn the ruling — yet.
Hixon's legal troubles continued after he resigned from the legislature.
The national legislature has been hopelessly paralyzed by partisan gridlock.
The legislature increased the gas tax to fund infrastructure improvements.
The legislature is not nearly serious ... enough about this issue.
Medicaid expansion has put Virginia's legislature in a stalemate. Gov.
Ultimately, the legislature didn't budge and road funding stayed flat.
"Serving in the Legislature is a great honor," she said.
But, the agreement still has to pass the state Legislature.
The bipartisan proposal announced Thursday must still pass the Legislature.
The Maoists are the third biggest group in the legislature.
The agreement by the New York Legislature to approve Gov.
Despite the threat, the California legislature passed its bill unanimously.
Terry McAuliffe for a 2015 run for the state legislature.
Both chambers of the Texas Legislature are controlled by Republicans.
The legislature failed to reach an agreement with Democratic Gov.
The booksellers hope the next Legislature will clarify the law.
The Ukraine legislature voted to oust Shokin in March 2016.
Herbert and Republicans in the legislature courting with this move?
That prompted the Legislature to create a Bonneville restoration project.
The legislature is not, however, expected to grant that request.
The Alabama Legislature is made up of 84 percent men.
The Illinois legislature is considering a measure by state Sen.
The measure was passed by California's state legislature last month.
That map was permanently enacted by the legislature in 28500.
Trump likely should have also called out the state legislature.
"That's up to the Legislature of North Carolina," Emmert said.
After the State Legislature stalled in considering several measures, Gov.
To succeed, however, he needs the cooperation of the Legislature.
Now a record 131 women are serving in the Legislature.
Now he and his fellow Democrats control the State Legislature.
The state legislature passed the bill last week, and Gov.
They gained seven governorships and nearly 350 state legislature seats.
And gun control legislation gained traction in the state legislature.
But Montana's Legislature only funded the program for four years.
That bill now has enough support to pass the Legislature.
Its clearly again an inexperienced legislature who really doesn't understand.
Outside the legislature, Prayuth appears to have some support already.
The law Scott signed, which cleared Vermont's Legislature on Jan.
The legislature and the president check and balance each other.
But allowing governors to apply for waivers without the support of their legislature could lead to more of them, particularly from states where the governor's house and legislature are controlled by different political parties.
And because CAISO and its board were created by the legislature, presumably a new act of the legislature would be required to expand them, so these legislators will have to be heard and satisfied.
Omar attended North Dakota State University and worked as a Minneapolis City Council policy aide before winning a seat in the State Legislature in 2016, the first Somali-American woman elected to a legislature.
"This level of activism is anything but standard," Carolyn Fiddler, the former communications director at the Democratic Party's state legislature arm, who has worked in Virginia state legislature politics since 230, told VICE News.
"This level of activism is anything but standard," Carolyn Fiddler, the former communications director at the Democratic Party's state legislature arm, who has worked in Virginia state legislature politics since 0003, told VICE News.
In Utah, just over 50 percent of voters created a seven member advisory commission, appointed by the governor and leaders of the state legislature, to submit plans for the legislature to approve or reject.
In most cases, the state legislature controls the redistricting process, which means that the party with control over the legislature has the ability to gerrymander, or redraw congressional districts in the interests of that party.
The legislature will take the data it receives from the 2020 Census and draw district lines for congressional seats and the legislature itself, and the governor will decide whether to approve or veto those maps.
Apple is planning to fight proposed electronics "Right to Repair" legislation being considered by the Nebraska state legislature, according to a source within the legislature who is familiar with the bill's path through the statehouse.
" As National Review writer Charles C.W. Cooke — who has written extensively on gun policy — told me in an interview: "Democrats run the legislature and the executive branch, but they don't run the legislature by much.
Democrats in Colorado's legislature are also eyeing a public insurance option.
De Leon's bill cleared the Legislature with support only from Democrats.
Ultimately, the Michigan state legislature blocked the plan from going forward.
By that time, they could already be serving in the legislature.
Security forces dragged parliamentarians opposing the bill out of the legislature.
I think the legislature does need to act on it expeditiously.
Jim Justice signed a bill passed by the legislature into law.
She also is a former candidate for the Wisconsin state legislature.
But the state Legislature is trying to take away that choice.
Republicans control the governor's mansion, the state legislature and both Sen.
Similar bills have languished in the New York legislature since January.
There is a bill in the legislature to promote more density.
Kay Ivey approves a bill recently passed by the state legislature.
A competing heartbeat bill in New York's state legislature has stalled.
DeWine's proposal could meet resistance in the Republican-controlled Ohio legislature.
Bakari Sellers is a former member of the South Carolina legislature.
In 2013, the state legislature passed a law known as HB2.
Florida's legislature comes after several other states have created similar frameworks.
It has been talking about a bicameral legislature for a decade.
To quote Peppermint Patty, "Mississippi state legislature, you blockhead."3. Crockpots.
Maryland's legislature passed a similar bill in March, but Republican Gov.
Before entering Congress, Kihuen spent a decade in the Nevada legislature.
Republicans hold large majorities in both chambers of the state legislature.
And a record number of women won primaries for state legislature.
It is one thing for the executive and legislature to disagree.
The repeal of the religious exemption was progressing in the legislature.
If the legislature does not act, the ban will automatically lapse.
A legislature "work-around" is not always feasible, or even logical.
The ruling puts pressure on the Mexican legislature to take action.
Wisconsin's Republican-controlled legislature has overhauled the powers of the governor.
Elected in 2012, she served in the state legislature before that.
The bill is headed back to state legislature with Scott's suggestions.
Cabinet approval sends the bill to the legislature for a vote.
How unlike the previous session of the biennial legislature, in 2017.
Unclaimed funds revert back to state programs authorized by the Legislature.
Four months later our legislature proposed a bill to reverse that.
The shift won't be complete until Democrats again control the legislature.
Kentucky's legislature approved a sizeable increase after teachers there walked out.
Half a century later, the state legislature is reviewing those decisions.
He urged the California Legislature not to make the same mistake.
Whether it actually passes the legislature, though, remains to be seen.
You have to deal with a legislature that's very, very difficult.
But there are Republican majorities in both houses of the legislature.
The legislature must also sign on to parts of the plan.
The state Legislature approved the package in June with bipartisan support.
Parts of it, like the legislature and the presidency, are elected.
Budd encouraged Massachusetts' legislature to require data collection on traffic stops.
It's unclear if the Republican-controlled Legislature will approve the plan.
Or consider Colorado, where the legislature passed Medicaid expansion in 2013.
Nevada's Legislature is biennial, so its last session was in 2017.
New York legislature appoints new attorney general  to replace disgraced Schneiderman.
They don't have to rely wholly on what the legislature says.
LePage, a Republican, submitted his budget to the Legislature in January.
Democrats regained control of the state legislature, winning several Senate seats.
Redistricting typically is done by the party controlling a state's legislature.
As expected, the court chose not to second-guess the legislature.
They do not control a single state legislature in the South.
The legislature, meanwhile, is moving to make California a sanctuary state.
The Alabama legislature is ignoring science, criminalizing abortion, and punishing women.
"We're a diverse state, we need a diverse legislature," said Burdick.
South Dakota's legislature passed its own version last year, though Gov.
The youngest woman ever to serve in the Hawaii state legislature!
What an opportunity these students have given the Legislature and Gov.
In 1980, the Texas legislature made Juneteenth an official state holiday.
Terry McAuliffe (D) to McCabe's wife's bid for the state legislature.
The court and the Legislature have been at odds ever since.
I've known Tony Cardenas since our days in the state Legislature.
But the state legislature this week voted to override the veto.
Under a bill that the New York State Legislature and Gov.
A bill to ban "gender pricing" failed in the California Legislature.
Republicans hold supermajorities in both chambers of the North Carolina legislature.
The Vermont Legislature passed a bill last month allowing dental therapists.
A strong executive is not the sign of a weak legislature.
Swearengin could run for office again, maybe for the state legislature.
The legislature passed that measure, Initiative 2628, on party-line votes.
Alternatives to tax increases should be fully explored by the legislature.
I will bring that attitude of public service to the legislature.
But the Legislature exempted absentee voting from the photo ID requirement.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Europeans will elect a new EU legislature next week.
I don't think there's much appetite to legalize through the legislature.
At the time, the legislature was eighty-six per cent Democratic.
The Legislature would need to give its consent along with Congress.
Both houses of the New Mexico Legislature are controlled by Democrats.
Both houses of the Utah State Legislature are controlled by Republicans.
Both houses of the South Dakota Legislature are controlled by Republicans.
Both houses of the North Carolina Legislature are controlled by Republicans.
Both houses of the West Virginia Legislature are controlled by Republicans.
Both houses of the New Jersey Legislature are controlled by Democrats.
Both houses of the New York Legislature are controlled by Democrats.
The bill, passed by the state's legislature, is now on Gov.
Scott Walker has to sign the bills passed by the legislature.
If the Legislature persists in passing this meddling bill, then Gov.
Maduro responded by attempting to strip the legislature of its powers.
The state legislature had traditionally drawn the maps every 85033 years.
Republicans who dominate the legislature have shown support for the bill.
Update: Ilhan Omar was officially elected to the Legislature on Tuesday.
Andrew M. Cuomo and the full Legislature should enact this proposal.
"  "For my transgressions, I was summarily unelected from the Texas Legislature.
Republicans control every statewide office and both chambers of the Legislature.
I am hopeful that the State Legislature will enact these measures.
Representative Cannon is not your average state legislature in the South.
But in New York, the proposal died in the state legislature.
Democrats in the state legislature felt like they've been set up.
Bills swiftly approved by the legislature could potentially land on Gov.
Is it a combination of the state legislature and the governor?
I will bring that attitude of public service to the Legislature.
In 1998, the last time the Legislature won a raise, Gov.
Wanda Vazquez signed a resolution that passed through the island's legislature.
Mississippi's legislature is considering a bill that would reinstate firing squads.
Of the three countries, only Mexico's legislature has ratified the deal.
But that was the last time the Oklahoma Legislature raised taxes.
The law passed with broad bipartisan support in the state legislature.
The Legislature would study possible exceptions for some patients, he added.
And he said they should raise those concerns to the Legislature.
Mr. Hogan vetoed the bill, but the Legislature overrode his veto.
He plans to make the case to the state legislature soon.
The Hong Kong legislature ultimately rejected Beijing's version of voting reform.
Women now outnumber men in Nevada's Legislature and in Colorado's House.
In Sacramento, Democrats hold a new supermajority in the State Legislature.
Democrats have significant majorities in both chambers of the state's Legislature.
We don't know what the legislature is going to pass yet.
A bill currently before the state legislature, sponsored by state Sen.
The Democratic legislature could also pass a more permanent funding plan.
The GOP legislature approved Medicaid expansion in 2017, but then-Gov.
He has made strides to dismantle the country's opposition-led legislature.
The issue is coming to a head in the California Legislature.
McCoy environment in the legislature, and it's hurting the American people.
"The Legislature is going to have more power than ever before."
Three states were divided, and Nebraska has a unicameral, nonpartisan legislature.
Only the state Legislature can convert park land to other uses.
Or directing racial hate against a sitting member of the legislature?
They make up less than 23 percent of the State Legislature.
With an emergency allocation from the Legislature and pressure from Gov.
While the Legislature has not moved on the statute, neither Gov.
Last night she won a nomination for the Ohio state legislature.
The movement has support from some Republican lawmakers in Oregon's legislature.
Pro-democracy representatives in Hong Kong's local legislature rejected the proposal.
I'm here in Nevada with a woman majority state legislature, hello!
The Legislature, however, exempted absentee voting from the photo ID requirement.
It is unclear whether elections would produce a dramatically different legislature.
The GOP-controlled legislature swiftly took advantage of this new authority.
Will our courts continue to act as an unelected quasi-legislature?
Democrats control both the governorship and legislature in only five states.
The Florida Legislature has been wrestling with this issue for decades.
However, her proposal failed to pass Iowa's Legislature earlier this year.
Paul LePage (R) told the state Legislature in a letter Monday.
Tim Huelskamp, who also served with Jenkins in the state legislature.
West Virginia's only clinic is under similar attack from its Legislature.
Democrats face a challenge in retaking seats in the state legislature.
The Utah congressional delegation, the governor, the State Legislature, the county.
But the Secretary of State ignored the will of the legislature.
In New Jersey, the Democrat-held Legislature has clashed with Gov.
The State Legislature recommended the pardon in a resolution this month.
Well, the New York Legislature is not known for moving quickly.
Resignation On Tuesday, Morris said she was done with the Legislature.
Our American legislature is the world's most powerful national democratic assembly.
The legislature has also pushed back against destruction of the Amazon.
California's legislature sent the bill, known as AB 85033, to Gov.
First, the state legislature stripped away some significant powers from Gov.
Let's be the kind of legislature the United States should have.
Maine's legislature also passed a resolution last year opposing the monument.
Republicans control both chambers of the state Legislature in West Virginia.
Kentucky's Republican governor and legislature refuse to raise the state rate.
Vox asked several Republican members of the state legislature for comment.
Following the Aurora shooting, the Colorado legislature passed background check legislation.
Still Bagby believes, it shouldn't take place in Virginia's legislature either.
Dayton, centrally involved in negotiations with Republican leaders in the legislature.
Another won a seat in the state legislature on Election Day.
The Legislature promised to revisit the issue, but inertia set in.
Would he or she be eligible to serve in the legislature?
Republicans who control Wisconsin's Legislature suggested that the arrival of Gov.
Schlafly deployed decades ago resurfaced in the recent state legislature debates.
The new Legislature will be ruled by a huge Democratic majority.
In fact, North Carolina's legislature enacted it just four years ago.
Larry Hogan, a Republican, or the legislature, currently controlled by Democrats.
He is also slated to address the Israeli legislature, the Knesset.
Even today, women make up only 32.9 percent of the Legislature.
Too often, it acts as a kind of super-empowered legislature.
A sensible bill before the Legislature would restore the old rules.
For much of his tenure, he worked with a divided legislature.
The court's two-page order said the legislature has until Feb.
That plan passed the Nevada legislature but was vetoed by Gov.
The state Legislature eventually gave them a 5 percent pay raise.
David Vitter's seat in the state legislature, along with 23 others.
Andrew Cuomo and every member of the New York state Legislature.
Bevin and his Republican peers in the legislature can think up.
But the Republican legislature is scaling back the voter-approved plan.
Republicans in the legislature never let it come to a vote.
We need more female representation in Congress and the state legislature.
Meanwhile, the California legislature is seeking to clamp down on bots.
Daily Kos rates the Legislature as safe for Democrats to keep.
And they are hard to dislodge from the state legislature, too.
" On May 17, the legislature passed the so-called "Heartbeat Bill.
" On May 17, the legislature passed the so-called "Heartbeat Bill.
It also didn't stop West Virginia's state legislature from overriding Gov.
Hong Kong's legislature voted to ban all ivory sales by 2021.
Bamberg is also leading Democrat in the South Carolina state legislature.
At the time, in eight of the 219 states, Governors were selected by the state legislature, not the voters, and in two others states, the legislature made the choice if no candidate received an absolute majority.
The Supreme Court and an all-powerful legislature called the Constituent Assembly have stripped Congress of its powers, meaning it does not have the capacity to remove the president as would a legislature in many countries.
"The legislature gets to make the laws, but when the legislature starts to try and undermine the ability of the governor to effectuate and implement the laws, they're getting out of their lane," Ms. Riggs said.
This is, after all, a lifetime appointment to a de facto super legislature, and the people—not just those who voted for a given president—should probably have some say in who sits on that super legislature.
If it were not for the significant effects redrawn districts have on "the composition of a legislature" and "the things that a legislature does", legislators would not take such pains in "drawing, contesting and defending districting plans".
Under state law, the vacancy will be filled by a joint vote of the State Assembly and the State Legislature, effectively leaving the decision to Assembly Democrats, who comprise a formidable majority of the 213-member Legislature.
"The Republicans have proven we can win and hold federal offices and win and hold the state legislature," Jennings said, noting that the state's legislature is very powerful and that Republicans hold the majority in both chambers.
That makes the Nevada Legislature 50.8% female, a first for the state and the US. The women got together for a group photo -- complete with corsages -- before the 80th Nevada Legislature convened for its first session Monday.
North Carolina is, on Tuesday, considering amendments to move control over the judiciary and state ethics board from the executive to the legislature: a pretty blatant effort by the Republican-controlled legislature to disempower the Democratic governor.
In New York, for example, raucous opposition in the Legislature led Gov.
Democrats have a tight grip on both chambers of the State Legislature.
As the bill, SB411, made its way through the state legislature, Gov.
When I became lieutenant governor in 1993, the legislature was 90% Democrat.
The Oregon Legislature is expected to look at the issue next year.
Maduro and his acolytes then stripped the legislature of all its powers.
Politicians donned pyjamas for an all-night slumber party in the legislature.
" Another wrote that Gauland is "just a fly in the current legislature.
Rick Bertrand told Reuters shortly after the bill passed the state legislature.
The lawsuit was headed by leaders of the Republican-controlled state legislature.
In Texas, the state legislature passed a white primary law in 20163.
Bullock got a Republican legislature in a Trump state to expand Medicaid.
In 2012, the legislature granted funding to expand the three garbage sites.
It is time that the New Mexico Legislature flat-out declare war.
It's no sure bet either Drye will make it to the legislature.
Alabama's legislature passed the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the country.
Nebraska is the lone state with a single-body, or unicameral, legislature.
Right now, there is a bill moving through the California state legislature.
True, he did not always bow to the wisdom of the legislature.
The Kansas legislature just overwhelmingly passed a law to disarm domestic abusers.
It is the reform of the legislature, however, that is most contentious.
AB-857 just passed through the state's legislature and sits on Gov.
Gerrymandering had already helped to assure Republican supermajorities in the state legislature.
Frustrated, he might then lash out against the legislature and the courts.
I call on the Legislature to close the L.L.C. loophole this year.
But the Republican-controlled legislature has yet to agree on a fix.
Lam has promised to withdraw the bill once the city's legislature resumes.
Frank Magnitz was elected to Germany's national legislature, the Bundestag, in 2017.
Why it matters: Democrats lost 1,000 state legislature seats during Obama's presidency.
Now, a bill to try to regulate fracking is dividing the Legislature.
Pence and the state legislature ultimately made some changes to the law.
" She continued, "A lot of our legislature doesn't agree with Planned Parenthood.
Before that, the government, rather than the legislature, drew up most laws.
The legislature was trying to discourage [undocumented] immigrants from settling in Tennessee.
But Republicans, who control the state legislature, have stood firmly against it.
In 2009 there were 14 states where Republicans controlled the whole legislature.
Annual inflation is 1.7m per cent, according to the opposition-controlled legislature.
The New York state legislature passed a similar law in March 4.83.
To some degree, that's because their position in the legislature is secure.
Serious about avoiding government overreach, the legislature meets only every other year.
Mr Whitley resigned after the legislature did not vote to confirm him.
That will not be clear until 2021, when the legislature next convenes.
In 2015, however, the Michigan legislature passed a regulation that eliminated it.
The bills have until August 31st to be approved by the legislature.
One chamber of the legislature, however, presents a much more promising opportunity.
If the legislature rejects Pierluisi's nomination then Rosselló could pick another candidate.
The legislature passed the measure, but judges in Quebec courts suspended it.
In several cases, propositions exist only because the legislature cannot take action.
But here's the punch line: The legislature put it on the ballot!
Instead, the court ruled, the state's constitution required action by the legislature.
The Wyoming legislature paid no mind, killing the bill the following month.
If this bill can't get through an overwhelmingly Democratic legislature, what can?
Democratic candidate for NC legislature drops out after &aposMexicans&apos rant resurfaces .
Hammer helped pass "Stand Your Ground" through the GOP-led Florida Legislature.
Convention, the power to appoint judges was assigned to the legislature. But
The Missouri Legislature passed HB 126 last week, days after Alabama Gov.
Amid the pressure, Sirisena announced the legislature would be summoned Nov. 14.
The state legislature said he'd have to pay a $212 million fee.
Venezuela's legislature on Tuesday ratified a 2016 resolution declaring the bond null.
The career politician has become a fixture in the United States legislature.
With today's development, the legislature now has a rare 50-50 split.
Other issues could yet refreeze relations between the legislature and the government.
Seven in 10 say they disapprove of Republican leaders in the legislature.
Biggs pledged to keep close tabs on the legislature from now on.
Last year, the GOP-led Legislature overrode a veto by Democratic Gov.
The Niagara County Legislature helped finance the act, allocating $35,000 last month.
The 2023nd Texas Legislature passed Chapter 537 into the Texas Government Code.
In the legislature, 21.03 of the 28.67 seats are up for election.
In 1003, the state legislature passed a law signed by then-Gov.
Centrist allies of the president have secured nearly half of the legislature.
Sure, any party would love to keep a majority in the legislature.
"You don't have a clear path forward for the legislature," Smith added.
The group's president, Edgardo Roman, recommended the island's legislature begin the process.
The awarding of electoral votes is determined by each individual state legislature.
A revised version of the accord was ratified by the country's legislature.
But even this would leave the rotten legislature in place until 2019.
Then we want to take this grassroots support to the Pennsylvania legislature.
In Virginia, two measures in the Republican-led legislature died after Gov.
Leaving that choice to the legislature is arguably wise policy, as well.
They are the men and women who serve in the national legislature.
The legislature voted earlier this year to expand gun rights as well.
The stunt spurred the California legislature to ban open carry of firearms.
However, the Republican-led legislature approved the citizen-initiated bills in September.
Carolina legislature started to put measures in place to prevent another such
Wyoming's legislature is just 2023 percent female, the lowest in the nation.
San Nicolas has been a senator in the Guam Legislature since 2013.
Teacher Kelly Craig said the legislature should brace for change in November.
The Florida legislature instead tried to break the teacher's union just days
The regular session of the Legislature is set to end May 18.
In 1949, the Legislature decriminalized football, basketball and soccer after 2 p.m.
The measure was largely passed by party-line vote in the legislature.
Virginia voters elect a pro-equality majority in the Virginia State Legislature.
Sam Brownback (R), who declined to expand Medicaid coverage, told his legislature.
Instead, Hickenlooper said, he thought about addressing the legislature by tweet storm.
In 2014, the Louisiana legislature passed a law to protect student privacy.
Becerra, a closely-watched case arising from the California Legislature and courts.
That's when many decided to make a bid for the state Legislature.
Unless the Legislature steps in, they will become law within 20 days.
The legislation was passed in the Republican-controlled state legislature last week.
She went on to serve in the Iowa Legislature for 16 years.
Following the speeches, the Colorado legislature voted to throw out state Rep.
It is expected to be adopted by both houses of the legislature.
He did not want the Legislature to participate in the budget process.
Daniel Webster (R-Fla.), who served in the state legislature with Rubio.
I am so disappointed in the governor and legislature of North Carolina.
Gavin Newsom's desk before the Legislature goes into recess on September 13.
Illinois is the first state in which a legislature approved commercial sales.
The New Jersey Legislature voted to repeal the family cap last month.
She will be the county's first black representative to the state Legislature.
The State Legislature revised the law and a price war broke out.
The measure was still in committee when the Democratic-controlled legislature adjourned.
Oklahoma Legislature approves ban on taxing plastic bags, the Associated Press reports.
Yvanna Cancela, a Democrat, who touts the nation's first majority-female legislature.
In 29, the legislature passed the Trust Act, but Brown vetoed it.
Authority shifted, in effect, from parole boards to the legislature and prosecutors.
Stand Your Ground was introduced in the Florida legislature in December, 22006.
A Democratic assemblymember is behind that bill, and Democrats control the legislature.
But in 1972, the legislature allocated $2.7 million to restore the building.
What if a rural state legislature is hesitant to empower its cities?
The State Legislature, after passionate debate, eventually agreed to remove the flag.
The Louisiana legislature that passed the act had sixteen African-American members.
The legislature overruled it with a new statute to repeal the measure.
The New York legislature just voted to expand its existing decriminalization laws.
You're more interested in reporting that the legislature and the governor disagree.
The Legislature should not hesitate to override his veto later this year.
Just over a quarter, 26.2 percent, of the state legislature are women.
The Republican-led legislature passed the bill by a 110-44 vote.
Milo Smith (R) reportedly introduced the bill in Indiana's legislature this week.
It flipped two state legislature seats in Georgia and 14 in Virginia.
Thankfully, not everything that comes out of the California legislature is bad.
Her father served in the state legislature for more than a decade.
Frank Wagner, a senator in the commonwealth's legislature, trailed in third place.
A high school student shepherded a symbolic bill through the legislature Rep.
If I were the state Legislature, that's the question I'd be asking.
A similar bill failed in the North Dakota legislature earlier this month.
The legislature is solely responsible for setting tax rates, exemptions, and deductions.
The Maine state legislature passed the conversion therapy ban late last month.
After that, both houses of the Legislature will vote on the bill.
Democrats control the Illinois Legislature, but the state has a Republican governor.
The Muslim world's first parliamentary republic today has a rubber-stamp legislature.
He is also a young black Democrat in an overwhelmingly Republican legislature.
Despite the controversy, the Republican-controlled legislature has failed to repeal HB2.
Kentucky: Teachers managed to pressure the Republican legislature to override education cuts.
A constitutional amendment requires the approval of 60 percent of the legislature.
Now, however, she's running for a seat in the Ohio state legislature.
They're changing the legislature, and they're taking it from the inside out.
The Democrat-controlled legislature was receptive to legalization before Murphy was elected.
Women will hold 41 out of 140 seats in Virginia's state legislature.
Virginians headed to the polls on Tuesday for their state legislature races.
James White, who has served in the Legislature for nearly a decade.
Taxpayers remembered a special state legislature vote for a $295 million package.
In 18 states each party controls one house (Nebraska's legislature is nonpartisan).
Republicans control the state Legislature, the governor's office and the congressional delegation.
The state Legislature is controlled by Republicans, as is the governor's office.
The Pennsylvania Legislature is weighing a bill aimed at curtailing the practice.
Fixing this will require action from the State Legislature and the governor.
The state legislature is controlled by Democrats, as is the governor's office.
The current legislature remains in session only until the end of May.
The Five Star Movement will be the pillar of the next legislature.
A year ago, the legislature there voted overwhelmingly to prohibit metal mining.
The same has happened elsewhere in special elections for state legislature seats.
Carter helped push the bill through the legislature, along with other advocates.
Still, major bills are supposed to be approved by the entire legislature.
Still, the law itself could simply be changed by a future legislature.
There is renewed interested in the State Legislature in three stalled bills.
Protesters mostly cleared out of the legislature after three hours of occupation.
The deployment of the police to keep demonstrators out of the legislature.
No date has been set for when the legislature will resume meeting.
The New York state legislature also took a step toward doing this.
The proposed fund would need to be created by the state legislature.
Susana Martinez, and the party expanded its majorities in the state legislature.
The New Jersey legislature passed three relevant bills to make this happen.
The party, Ennahda, continues to play a major role in the legislature.
The legislature passed a bill aimed at helping workers recover stolen wages.
Though the state still holds caucuses for congressional and state legislature races.
The legislature also approved a message requesting a study on marijuana legalization.
"It will work in the legislature and up and down the ballot."
A legislature with its foot on his throat is an insurance policy.
He also held office in both the provincial legislature and federal parliament.
Some members of the state legislature are calling on her to resign.
The dissenters said the term legislature should have been read more narrowly.
The Oregon state legislature will return to the state Capitol next year.
Conservatives have often touted textualism for its neutral deference to the legislature.
China's national legislature has also toughened laws against disrespecting the national anthem.
The legislature tightened boxing regulations in the state but never banned it.
Last year, the mostly white Mississippi legislature enacted an anti-sanctuary law.
The sources requested anonymity because they have other business before the legislature.
The law approved by the Democratic-controlled legislature and signed by Gov.
Idaho's two-chamber state legislature are both controlled by Republicans and Gov.
And any revised agreement must still be approved by each country's legislature.
Bolivia's legislature, controlled by his party, had not yet accepted his resignation.
ALBANY — Faced with a recalcitrant Legislature and a failed negotiating strategy, Gov.
The parliamentary election produced a divided legislature, with some 20 parties represented.
Arizona's Republican-controlled Legislature said the ban was needed to control fraud.
Both houses of the Virginia Legislature approved the ratification resolution on Wednesday.
The Democratic Party also controls both the governor's office and the Legislature.
The California State Legislature approved a similar measure in 2017, but Gov.
The legislature tried in 123, then again in 1987, and in 1989.
Democrats last year won the legislature running on a gun control platform.
The Legislature announced in January that it would consider a similar bill.
The Hawaii State Legislature did so 32 minutes after Congress approved it.
Only its defeat by the State Legislature in 2005 defused public anger.
The Commission said PiS secured 235 seats, in the 460-seat legislature.
The gas tax passed by the Legislature clearly divides Democrats from Republicans.
It also surprised lawmakers in the Legislature who had approved the laws.
Now the Democratic-led legislature was unable to agree on a budget.
The push also failed in the New Jersey state legislature in 2019.
Then came the threats of override from a once-loyal State Legislature.
Members of the Texas Legislature and their aides strolled past, without pausing.
The measure the Legislature passed on Wednesday codifies and broadens that decision.
The Legislature is not scheduled to be back in Albany until January.
One lawmaker complained that the exemption was being rushed through the Legislature.
It didn't even make it out of committee in the Tennessee legislature.
The law was passed by the Legislature and signed by then-Gov.
"There are many issues the Legislature simply doesn't take up," he said.
The Legislature bailed the program out, pledging $538 million to support it.
The legislature was empty of staff and not sitting at the time.
The final decision will be made in 2017 by the Florida legislature.
Bills introduced this week in the California State Legislature confront them directly.
The State Legislature could also act to permit the testing, she said.
"The Court cannot and does not second guess the Legislature," Garcia continued.
Like Kansas, each have a Democratic governor but a Republican-majority legislature.
Jeanne Ives (R), who voted against the firearms restrictions in the legislature.
But Republicans in the state legislature passed it into law last year.
The students will put pressure on the legislature by holding a rally.
He vetoed the tax increase; the Legislature tried to override his veto.
The Republican-controlled legislature passed the voter ID law the following year.
In 1991, the Hawaii Legislature created the Hawaii Property Insurance Agency (HPIA).
Richard Pan in February and was approved by the legislature last week.
Republicans currently hold a majority in both chambers of the Texas Legislature.
A new bathroom bill was introduced this week in the Tennessee legislature.
The Ohio legislature is considering a new anti-discrimination law this week.
Before being elected to Congress, he served in the California State Legislature.
Women have never held a majority of seats in a state legislature.

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