The phrase "apply to the state" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to submitting a request, application, or proposal to a governmental body or authority.
Example: "To receive funding for your project, you must apply to the state for a grant."
Alternatives: "submit to the state" or "request from the state".
Bystanders can apply to the state Office of Victim Services for reimbursement of their medical bills and other expenses.
"I think this experience indicates it is very likely that charter schools that intend to promote religion will apply to the state and be approved".
At the same time, rent-regulated tenants who are constructively evicted can apply to the state Division of Housing and Community Renewal for a reduction in rent to $1 a month until their apartments are restored.
The new law, which covers about three million people enrolled in small-employer or individually purchased plans, requires insurance companies to apply to the state Insurance Department before they can raise premiums.
It would be much more effective to create a proper body of privacy legislation that specifies acts that illegally damage or compromise a person's privacy, and this would apply to the state, the press and the big corporations that gather and store personal details.
Still, as the July 1 deadline nears for approval of next year's $27.4 billion budget, rumors have begun to circulate that Horizon may apply to the state to convert later this year -- though it will not happen without an outcry from lawmakers, hospitals and competing health insurers about where the money will go, and how the move will affect the delivery of health care.
He adds that if the industry intended to apply for recognition as the self-regulator for the industry, it would have to apply to the state-backed recognition panel, and it will be for the industry "to ensure that the self-regulator complies with the appropriate criteria at the time of that application, and for the recognition panel to assess this".
It does not apply to the states or municipalities.
Also, which, if any provisions of the Bill of Rights apply to the states.
That's true, in the literal sense that Supreme Court decisions apply to the states.
Microsoft had argued, in an appeals court brief last week, that the Expediting Act does not apply to the states' lawsuit since it applies only to federal cases.
