The Hawaii exemption, a measure that allows the state to keep its own health care system.
Russia has previously threatened to veto any United Nations Security Council measure that allows Kosovo to become a state.
The Senate also passed on Wednesday, 70 to 28, an alternative stem cell measure that allows for research on embryos that are "naturally dead".
In Washington state, voters backed a measure that allows judges to keep individuals they consider a threat, such as domestic abusers, from possessing weapons.
Last year, New Jersey voters passed a bail-reform measure that allows judges to release nonviolent offenders on their own recognizance.
Next may be Guatemala: on December 19th, its Congress approved a measure that allows dollars to be used freely alongside the quetzal.
Elsewhere in the country, Maryland overwhelmingly endorsed a ballot measure that allows some illegal immigrants to qualify for in-state tuition at public colleges.
On Tuesday morning, members of the state assembly in South Carolina approved a measure that allows them to consider removing the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds.
North Carolina legislators have approved a bill that prevents cities and counties from passing their own anti-discrimination rules, including a measure that allows transgender people to use the restroom aligned with their gender identity.
The government is raising revenue, as all previous governments have done, under a measure that allows its tax-raising powers to go on while a budget is being debated in parliament.
Ms. Brown recommends that cautious parents investigate potential nannies before hiring them, which they can do under Kieran's Law, a 1998 state measure that allows them access to caretakers' criminal, educational and credit records.
