The Maryland legislature authorized the construction of a penitentiary in East Baltimore in 1804, and the first inmates arrived seven years later.
More than 100,000 signatures were collected urging the legislature to fund construction of the Erie Canal.
The legislature approved the construction of the Kentucky State Penitentiary at Eddyville, but it was Knott's predecessor, Luke P. Blackburn, who laid most of the groundwork for this project.
The project was approved by the Virginia legislature in December 2007 and construction was begun in the shadow of the 2008 Economic Crisis.
His initial "Million Solar Roofs" drive had enjoyed bipartisan support, but it dimmed in the state legislature this year, reportedly after construction unions demanded prohibitively high wages for solar panel installers.
Genesee Road was approved by the state legislature in 1794, and construction began in sections from Utica to Canandaigua.
Nunavut's legislature is kick-starting construction of a new seaport for the high Arctic: a deep-water port at the mouth of the Northwest Passage in Iqaluit, the territory's remote capital city on Baffin Island.
The law makes no mention of nuclear, probably because the archipelago state has no reactors and requires a minimum two-thirds vote from both houses of the legislature to approve the construction of a nuclear plant or radioactive waste site.
Assemblyman Richard H. Baggar, a Republican from Westfield, said he was disappointed that the legislature failed to address school construction, adding that it would be on the front burner next session.
(The governor, who is prevented by term limits from seeking re-election, delivered his last State of the State address on Tuesday, and in it, he urged the legislature to proceed with the construction of a civil rights museum in Jackson, calling the civil rights struggle "an important part of our history").
