The phrase "adopt statutes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal or governmental contexts when referring to the act of formally accepting or enacting laws or regulations.
Example: "The legislature decided to adopt statutes that would enhance environmental protection."
Alternatives: "enact laws" or "pass legislation".
The decision was widely criticized, and spurred lawmakers across the country to adopt statutes to prevent similar uses of eminent domain.
Thirteen years later, the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research endorsed this opinion, recommending that all states adopt statutes to give doctors the right to pronounce brain-dead people legally deceased.
That rise had several causes, among them the greater number of people imprisoned for non-violent crimes and the heavier sentences that came with new laws laying down mandatory minimum terms.Another factor was the decision of South Carolina, like many states, to adopt statutes in the mid-1990s that said certain criminals had to serve 85% of their sentence before becoming eligible for parole.
As part of his four-part plan, Holder called on European countries to adopt statutes similar to one in the US and, more recently, in France and Norway, that make it illegal to provide support for terrorists or to plan acts of terrorism.
Both the Article I processes of bicameralism and presentment and the rules of procedure adopted by each House are designed, on balance, to make it hard to adopt statutes and easy for political minorities or outliers to insist upon compromise as the price of assent.
The most widely adopted statutes cover custodians of public funds.
Many of the states have adopted statutes expressly providing that such associations may be sued.
As of 1927 some eighteen states had adopted statutes similar to § 269.
Many U.S. states, influenced by the Model Penal Code, have adopted statutes that do not make one an accessory to the other crime by virtue of the conspiracy alone.
Under an amendment to that act, all states adopted statutes collectively known as Megan's Law — named for a 7-year-old girl who was raped and murdered in New Jersey in 1994 — that require local law enforcement authorities to notify neighbors about a sex offender's presence in their community.
Countries that adopt antidumping statutes, he writes, "often find it a bit like letting the genie out of the bottle -- it is difficult to give one industry protection without encouraging other sectors to also seek protection".
