Sentence examples for enacted amendments from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

In addition to the state of Chihuahua, which amended its constitution in 1994, 16 other states had enacted these amendments by the end of 2011.

Mr. Mugabe's supporters dominate Parliament and would have enacted the amendments anyway.

Thirty-one states have enacted Constitutional amendments barring same-sex marriage and undoing those could take a lifetime or more.

Of those, 29 states have enacted constitutional amendments defining marriage as between a man and a woman.

In 1996 the government enacted constitutional amendments that barred foreign nationals and those with foreign parentage from running for president, a change that generated heated debate.

In December 2015 the National Assembly enacted 15 amendments to the constution, including the removal of term limits for elected office, the implementation of which was to be transitional until 2021.