Sentence examples for legislature extends from inspiring English sources

The assigned-counsel system, stitched together to supplement legal services and public defender agencies, has become increasingly burdened as those services are cut and the Legislature extends the right to counsel to more types of cases.

In 1945 the state legislature extended the name State University of New Jersey to all colleges and divisions of the institution.

The rubber-stamp legislature extended compulsory education to 12 years from 11, promised more classrooms and said that teachers would be given priority in the distribution of food and fuel rations, according to the North's official Korean Central News Agency.

The decision will have little impact on future cases in California, says Sacramento deputy district attorney Laurie Earl: As of 1 January the state legislature extended the statute of limitations on sexual assault cases in which only DNA evidence is available, putting no limit on the amount of time allowed to find who it belongs to.

The state legislature extended SR-128 about 3 mile at its east end in 1969, due to the pending construction of Interstate 70.

The state legislature extended the highway in 1925, defining it to run from near the intersection of Army Street (Cesar Chavez Street) and San Bruno Avenue in San Francisco to a point in San Jose.

That's likely to be sometime this summer because the Arkansas legislature often extends its session.

California voters recently passed Proposition 22, which says that only marriages between men and women are officially recognized, and yet the state legislature already extends some benefits to domestic partnerships.

We have achievements to celebrate: the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell;" the release of San Suu Kyi in Burma; the enactment of the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights by the NY legislature that extends important labor rights to 200,000 nannies and housekeepers; the victories of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers; and the exposure of secret US and other country machinations by Wikileaks, among others.

Tuesday's vote brings the legislature a major step closer to ending a budget impasse that has caused the legislature to extend its session nearly a month beyond its scheduled adjournment.

The change is also a sweet victory for Jon Cooper, who had repeatedly introduced bills in the County Legislature to extend such benefits and to create domestic-partner registries.