The phrase "approved an act" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where a governing body, organization, or individual has formally accepted or sanctioned a specific piece of legislation or action.
Example: "The committee approved an act to enhance environmental protections during their meeting last week."
Alternatives: "ratified a measure" or "sanctioned a bill".
Royal Assent is the method by which a country's constitutional monarch formally approves an act of that nation's parliament, thus making it a law or letting it be promulgated as law.
The Nationalist Association (predecessor of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party), under the presidency of José Coll y Cuchí, was able to convince the Puerto Rican Legislative Assembly to approve an act that would allow the transfer of the mortal remains of Puerto Rican patriot Ramón Emeterio Betances from Paris, France to Puerto Rico.
On February 12th Parliament approved an infrastructure act which will cut delays on projects that have received planning permission.
Parliament subsequently approved an emancipatory act that gave all enslaved people in British colonies their freedom by 1838.
Elise Keaton points out that the region's rich coalfields were a major part of the reason President Abraham Lincoln approved a controversial Act of Congress in 1863 to carve out West Virginia as a new state.
Having approved an Irish Language Act, before reneging and then publicly dismissing the idea of ever accepting one, former First Minister Arlene Foster has painted herself into a corner.
Mail Rail was approved by an Act of Parliament a century ago, and during its heyday its driverless trains carried 12 million postal items daily on the line stretching from East End's Whitechapel to west London's Paddington.
Erection of the monument was approved by an act of Congress on March 2 , 1889
Due to the delay in processing the citation, however, the award had to be approved by an act of Congress, so Brown attached it as a rider to a 2008 defense authorization bill.
In January 1835, frustrated by the political stalemate, Michigan's acting territorial Governor Stevens T. Mason called for a constitutional convention to be held in May of that year despite Congress' refusal to approve an enabling act authorizing such a state constitution.
