By 1900, legislators at the urgings of the American Medical Association had enacted laws banning abortion in most U.S. states.

In Maryland the legislators overwhelmingly enacted a law that prohibits the desecration of a flag under circumstances that could cause a breach of the peace.

Due to such potential legal complications, he recommends that legislators enact special tax laws for the undead.

The legislators then enacted a constitution that provided for a prime minister and council of ministers responsible to a bicameral parliament.

Most important, in recent years legislators in 38 states and the District of Columbia have enacted laws granting patients some control over whether they are to receive life-sustaining treatment.

The Republican Party has blamed Mr. Gulotta for the troubled budgets even though Republican legislators enacted them.

Nevertheless, the legislators enacted USE in February 2007.

If legislators can't enact new legislation to deal with a headline-making scandal, then who needs them?

State officials in New York, where legislators enacted the school-overhaul law after years of political battling, also urged the Justice Department not to block the effort.

Gibbs quickly asked the legislature to provide a $150 enlistment bounty, which the legislators enacted before going home.