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California is the latest state to adopt a statute permitting what is called flexible-purpose corporations, new companies that are part social benefit and part low-profit entities.

In December, Vojvodina's provincial assembly adopted a statute giving the ethnically mixed region a new constitution.

Oklahoma recently adopted a statute requiring all of its companies to have staggered boards on the heels of a similar law in Indiana.

Across Connecticut, 37 cities and towns have adopted scenic road ordinances since the General Assembly adopted a statute in 1981 allowing municipalities to do so.

Adopting a statute along the lines of the parliamentary commission's recommendation might have some modest deterrent effect on financial executives, who could fear that they might be made an example by prosecutors seeking to hold someone accountable for a bank's failure.

The report proposes that states adopt a "model statute on legal remedies for climate change" that can open doors to those directly affected by climate change.

Most recently, this motley band fended off efforts to adopt a Texas-style statute in Idaho.

It said the Legislature could broaden marriage statutes or adopt a domestic partnership system.

Connecticut recently adopted such a statute, and there are similar considerations in California and New Jersey.

"We're urging the homeowners' association to adopt a less limited interpretation of the statute," said Dan Pochoda, the legal director for the civil liberties group.

German members of the European Parliament have led calls for the EU to adopt a law similar to Germany's own statute banning Nazi symbols.