'legislative trends' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to the way that legislation changes over time. For example, "Recent legislative trends show that the government is taking a more progressive stance on certain social issues."
The influences of activism in multiple directions may manifest in state legislation over the scope of lawful prenatal testing and pregnancy termination; current legislative trends in the US include increasing restrictions on abortion [ 68].
It is simply to warn that a win for Obama will mean a continuation, and even a worsening, of the cultural and legislative trends we've witnessed in the last few years.
A number of major legislative trends have emerged so far in 2011, including gestational limits on abortions, bans on insurance coverage for abortions, mandatory ultrasound bills, and attempts to defund Planned Parenthood, America's largest family planning services provider.
Disposing of PS in landfill or by incineration creates environmental problems, and legislative trends in many countries are restricting the amount and types of materials that are permitted to be disposed of by landfill [ 1].
Judge Wolf acknowledged that there had been no legislative trend corresponding to the one reflected in the recent verdicts.
Texas's omnibus law – known as HB2 – is part of a legislative trend to limit access to abortions by regulating facilities, providers and doctors.
A legislative trend establishing recycling requirements for end-of-life products is also identified as having a potential future impact on the technology.
But combine a few established concepts in the Russian political consciousness with a longstanding legislative trend, and suddenly the proposal makes a lot of sense.
The plaintiffs' lawyers appeared to have less success in convincing Tashima that the law was part of a broader legislative trend that targeted mostly Hispanics.
We also examined whether there was an increase or decrease in the slope of the trend after the legislation, compared with pre-legislative trends, by adding an interaction term between the binary predictor for smoke-free legislation and the linear predictor for time to the models.
Success or failure should be measured in terms of a company's net impact on the environment, and if there is to be any reversal of many of the world's most pressing problems, e.g., social, environmental, local legislative, ethical trends and so on, a different kind of CSR is needed.
