Sentence examples for first legislative body from inspiring English sources

Last week the California Senate Judiciary Committee made history as the first legislative body in the nation to debate and move legislation forward that would allow us to say no to any company that wants to track us or our family online without our consent.

The European Commission is not the first legislative body to propose a progressive stance toward legal highs.

And in January the state House was the first legislative body in the country to vote to legalise marijuana for recreational use, although lawmakers backed down when Governor Maggie Hassan, a Democrat, proved reluctant.Some locals feel that the anti-government agitators have gone too far.

"We are the first legislative body -- we are the first state in the union -- to invest in children without legal status," said Senate President Pro Tem Kevin De Leon (D-Los Angeles) in a news conference.

Third legislative body to move a bill, but not pass it?

Toward that end, the accord calls for a second legislative body, a senate, with broad veto powers that would be split evenly by ethnicity.

"We're the third legislative body in the country to move a marriage bill without being ordered by the courts," he said, pointing out that it passed easily in the Assembly in 2007.

Earlier this week, leaders of the Governing Council said they would like to back away from their agreement to dissolve the council as soon as elections are held in June, and instead to preserve it as a second legislative body, a kind of senate.

On Tuesday, the Assembly becomes the first state legislative body in the nation to be led by a black woman.

Women secured 45 parliamentary seats in all, which meant that the election produced the world's first national legislative body with a female majority.

New Hampshire On Jan . 15 the New Hampshire House of Representatives became the first U.S. legislative body to vote in favor of legalizing marijuana for recreational use.