Sentence examples for enact amendments from inspiring English sources
Before the session began, Roberts had expressed interest in sponsoring legislation to revise the process by which the Colorado Constitution is amended through ballot measures, proposing that supermajority popular votes be required to enact amendments.
The threat from our nation's capitol led the Goldwater Institute to draft a model state constitutional amendment to protect the right to secret ballot, and inspired activists mobilized to enact amendments last fall in Arizona, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Utah.
They can include amendments by Rep. Bobby Scott that provide comprehensive child-appropriate EPSDT benefits for all children and they can enact amendments offered by Rep. Bobby Rush to simplify the health bureaucracy and to make sure that millions of children are better off, and not worse off, than they are today.
L. 99 145, § 1102(a)(3), which enacted amendments similar to those provided in Pub.
When Congress enacted amendments to the Clean Air Act in 1990, environmentalists hailed them as powerful weapons in the fight to reduce acid rain.
Only four states have enacted amendments concerning same-sex marriage, but nearly two dozen are now considering enshrining prohibitions in state constitutions, according to the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights group that tracks such legislation.
The legislative purpose is to assist Congress in appraising the administration of the Communist Control Act of 1954 and to enact such amendments thereto as the exigencies of the situation require.
Currently, efforts are underway to enact legal amendments that will permit a doctor to direct a patient to a physiotherapist, with the physiotherapist creating the physiotherapy program him- or herself.
After the 1989 decision, supporters of a flag-burning ban tried to enact an amendment to the Constitution to make an exception to the First Amendment, but it twice fell short in the Senate.
The resolution calls on Congress to "enact" the amendment (though it should be noted that Congress can't actually enact a Constitutional amendment on its own -- once two-thirds of both houses vote for the amendment, then the states also have to ratify it).
Still, even many Republicans who hold traditional views of marriage are asking whether it is really worth the enormous effort required to enact an amendment.
