The phrase "authorizing legislation" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in legal or governmental contexts to refer to laws or statutes that grant authority to act or implement certain actions.
Example: "The new policy was implemented following the passage of the authorizing legislation by Congress."
Alternatives: "enabling legislation" or "empowering statute".
An appropriation usually follows enactment of authorizing legislation...
If Congress wrote authorizing legislation of the type Pearlstein recommends, it might adapt this provision, the thought was.
And it also places restrictions on corporations, along with "other artificial entities," by specifically authorizing legislation "prohibiting such entities from spending money to influence elections".
The voters approved an amendment to the State Constitution authorizing legislation to provide information about sex offenders to "the general public".
The new sanctions, imposed by an executive order signed by President Obama, were the second round since Congress passed authorizing legislation in December after opposition arrests and human rights abuses during anti-government protests.
"The decision by Metropolitan State College of Denver to proceed on its own to create a new tuition category, undeterred by the legislature's repeated rejection of specific authorizing legislation, is simply not supported by governing law," Mr. Suthers said in a statement at the time.
It authorizes legislation with respect to all the subjects of foreign and inter-State commerce, the persons engaged in it, and the instruments by which it is carried on.
Two days ago I blogged about the reason other countries generally do not have government shutdowns: when negotiations break down the budget does not revert to $0 but to last year's budget for all previously authorized legislation.
As governor, he famously authorized legislation that stripped most collective bargaining rights from public-sector workers, sparking protests from labor unions around the country.
The taskforce would work with the New York State senate and assembly to pass legislation authorizing implementation of the plan.
States that fail to pass legislation authorizing police to enforce immigration laws could lose federal funding for jailing criminal immigrants.
