Sentence examples for approved a statute from inspiring English sources

In 1993, Michigan approved a statute outlawing assisted suicide.

In Oregon, where a schoolteacher had become Dr. Kevorkian's first assisted suicide patient, state lawmakers in 1997 approved a statute making it legal for doctors to prescribe lethal medications to help terminally ill patients end their lives.

Late last year, the Montgomery County Council approved a village statute banning smoking in all public places.

It has passed a constitutional amendment making them possible and approved a "constitutional statute" that creates their autonomous legal framework.

Seven years later the court approved a Mississippi statute requiring segregation on intrastate carriers in Louisville, New Orleans & Texas Railway v. Mississippi (1890).

At the assembly, the delegates approved a programme and a statute, elected Lyuben Karavelov as the organisation's leader and authorised Levski as the BRCC executive body's only legitimate representative in the Bulgarian lands.

In rapid-fire unanimous votes on Wednesday, the Senate approved a new securities-fraud statute calling for up to 10-year prison terms for using a "scheme or artifice" to defraud investors, and approved a plan to send senior corporate executives to jail for up to 10 years if they recklessly or knowingly publish misleading financial statements.

The Russian Cabinet on Thursday approved a bill reducing the statute of limitations on investigating privatization deals to three years from ten years.

In addition to the outright six-weeks ban, Mr. Dalrymple also approved a copy of a 2012 Mississippi statute (which is under federal court challenge) that requires doctors performing abortions to get admitting privileges at a local hospital.

In fact, professional intervention has evolved across the years and has become obvious in the new law on the juridical adoption statute which was primarily approved a while ago (Presidência do Conselho de Ministros [Board for the Council of Ministers]).

The Palestinian delegation became eligible to ratify the Rome Statute — the treaty that established the ICC — after the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution upgrading Palestine from observer status to a "non-voting member state" in 2012.