Sentence examples for model legislature from inspiring English sources

As a Boy Scout, he was awarded the God and Country emblem; at the state Hi-Y model legislature, he was elected governor; at Kauai High School, he was student-body president.

It was the Woooo-Whee Kid from 'That's My Mama.' " She went on, "And Diane Davis, fifteen, who appeared as Fred Sanford from "Sanford and Son.' " The sisters had approached the contest with the same tenacity with which they pursued every opportunity to escape their circumstances — model legislature, cross-country running, basketball, arts club.

In our model, the legislature designs a budget bill that can include a cap on total spending and earmarked allocations to designated public projects.

Professor Garrett said the decision would provide a model for legislatures and courts around the country that "have been at a loss for what to do" and needed "a structure for how judges should handle identifications in the courtroom".

The statute aims to serve as a model for European legislatures in passing laws against incitement to discrimination and hatred.

First, we consider the models for elected legislatures (model 1).

It has formed close partnerships with gun makers and business organizations around the country, working to protect manufacturers from liability and introduce model bills in state legislatures.

In 2000 it solicited the Uniform Law Commission, a nonprofit group that writes model bills for state legislatures, to draft a law codifying its restrictions on interactions between student-athletes and agents—including bans on players accepting payments or gifts, and on their agreeing to sign with an agent before their collegiate careers end.

The bill's lead sponsor, Michelle Litjens, is a freshman representative from the Appleton area and also a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a Washington-based organization that brings together corporations, legislators and interest groups to draft and disseminate model legislation for state legislatures around the country.

The real voter fraud is that being committed by dishonest Republican legislatures instituting model laws drafted by ALEC and pushing them on unsuspecting citizens.

This disclaimer is the thread uniting all versions of DI's model bill introduced in state legislatures in 2008 and 2009.