How to Use legislation in a Sentence

legislation

noun
  • They passed new state legislation this week.
  • One of the important functions of government is legislation.
  • More legislation is needed on this matter.
  • Two new pieces of legislation are being considered.
  • She introduced legislation for protecting the environment.
  • Certain animals are protected under state legislation.
  • Getting to know the legislation on the books is a good idea.
    — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 21 June 2025
  • Then there’s the devil in the details of the legislation.
    — Daniel Borenstein, The Mercury News, 25 May 2024
  • The heart of the legislation would extend Trump's 2017 tax cuts which are set to expire at end of the year.
    — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 30 June 2025
  • Why did the House add the TikTok legislation to the foreign aid bill?
    — Gillian Brassil, Sacramento Bee, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Pringle said he was not involved in adding the new guidelines to the legislation and did not know who was.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Thompson and others, though, said that the cap could be lifted at the same time legislation curbs some of the tax breaks for the wealthy.
    — David Lightman, Sacramento Bee, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The legislation next heads to the Senate, which could take it up as soon as Thursday.
    — Lauren Peller, ABC News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Bills, bills, bills Since legislation is no longer pre-filed, the bills started pouring in with the start of the session.
    — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Passing the legislation through the House in the face of drama on the floor would deliver Trump a major win.
    — Lauren Peller, ABC News, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Congress has just a few days when both the House and Senate are in session to pass legislation.
    — Lisa Mascaro, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2023
  • The legislation has been raised more than a dozen times in Connecticut.
    — Jenna Carlesso, Hartford Courant, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Three weeks later, legislation that would have the same effect appeared in the U.S. House.
    — Matthew Perrone, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2023
  • The legislation forces ByteDance to sell the app to a non-Chinese buyer or face a nationwide ban.
    — Angela Yang, NBC News, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Clearly, there are many ways to look at this legislation.
    — Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 19 July 2022
  • This will likely be needed should two pieces of legislation pushed by the GOP be signed into law.
    — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Patrick said that legislation would have allowed his business to survive, but the bill went nowhere.
    — Giacomo Bologna, Baltimore Sun, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The new legislation makes Iowa one of the latest states to pursue such requirements.
    — Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
  • Edgmon said his legislation builds on the work done by the governor’s Task Force on Broadband last year.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Even in places where camping bans were on the books prior to the law, such as Orlando, the state legislation has led to stricter enforcement.
    — Ryan Gillespie, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2025
  • But even with the agreement, getting the legislation passed through Congress in time for the deadline may be difficult.
    — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2024
  • After the Scottish legislation was passed, the British government had 28 days to decide whether to block it.
    — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2023
  • All three senators voted for the legislation to force a sale.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 16 Jan. 2025
  • In recent months, there have been secret meetings, last-minute legislation, and rushed proposals jammed through the process in just four days.
    — Suzette Valladares, Oc Register, 31 Aug. 2025
  • State lawmakers say the bill is modeled after bipartisan legislation in Congress that hasn't become law.
    — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025

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