California notwithstanding, marriage equality has made progress in the states — legislatively and electorally — with a speed rarely witnessed on such controversial social issues.
We will likely prevail in one to two New England states legislatively in 2015, and as necessary in a major state in 2016 via the initiative process, as we keep bringing a bigger, better and more strategic fight.
Additionally, Arkansas was the first state to legislatively mandate the measurement and collection of BMI for every public school student starting in 2004 and so these data provide a unique opportunity to study child weight status and potential factors that impact BMI.
In 1970 California was the first state to legislatively create no-fault divorce [signed by Governor Reagan].
After the legislature passed and he signed it into law, New Jersey became the first state to legislatively eliminate capital punishment since 1965.
Likewise, many states have legislatively placed caps on pain and suffering awards over the years; others have not.
In states around the nation, pro-pot legislators bolstered by public opinion and the examples set by Colorado and Washington are putting the once-taboo issue before their colleagues, hoping to become the first state to legalize legislatively.
The four state-maintained segments were legislatively designated, but not signed, as State Highways 574, 574A, 1290, and 1836, respectively, for inventory purposes.
New Jersey politicians representing mostly minuscule constituencies will resort to the tired old argument of home rule, a principle that does not exist in the New Jersey Constitution, legislatively enacted state law or New Jersey case law.
New York would become the first state to do so legislatively, rather than by referendum.
The east west piece between Tipton and Death Valley Junction legislatively received the State Route 190 designation in the 1964 renumbering, and the north south part became State Route 127, which it had been signed as; the branch to Lone Pine became a new State Route 136.
