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.
  • 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
  • Thanks to Walz and Democrats in the state legislature, Minnesotans are fleeing the state in droves.
    Nicole Russell, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The fight for cityhood has gained traction over the years but has been shot down in the legislature.
    Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 8 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • Democrats were on track to take control of both chambers of the legislature as well.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Nov. 2022
  • It was placed up there late on March 7 as the state legislature was wrapping up.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The rule does not carry the same weight as laws passed by Congress or state legislatures.
    David Hamilton, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Sanchez will propose the Protect Girls’ Sports Act to the state legislature.
    Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The Act passed both chambers of the Illinois legislature on Jan. 10.
    CBS News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The typical deadline for the legislature to pass a new state budget is June 30, the end of the state’s fiscal year.
    Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 31 Jan. 2023
  • 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 legislation never made it to a vote on the floor of the state legislature this year.
    Sean McLain, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • The legislature never dealt with how to pay for the teachers’ union nirvana.
    Kevin Igoe, Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2025
  • In past years, gun rights took center stage in the Kentucky legislature.
    Hannah Pinski, The Courier-Journal, 25 Mar. 2024
  • From there, state legislatures of three-fourths of the nation’s 50 states would have to ratify the amendment.
    Stephanie Murray, The Arizona Republic, 18 Dec. 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 legislature was unable to agree on a version of the bill to move forward, disbanding for the month of August.
    Caroline Kitchener, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The law had been passed by a legislature under full GOP control.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
  • 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 change would require action from the state legislature.
    Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2024
  • There is no conceivable way for the people of Wisconsin to put Democrats in charge of the legislature.
    Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Gutierrez spent 14 years in the legislature, most of that time in leadership roles.
    Daniel Gonzalez, USA TODAY, 11 May 2024
  • And in states like Utah, where license fee increases must be approved by the legislature, politicians are more likely to put the squeeze on out-of-staters than their own constituents.
    Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Two laws since passed by the Florida legislature to pre-empt local zoning regulations appeared to thwart those wishes.
    Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 23 Mar. 2025

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