How to Use legislative in a Sentence

legislative

adjective

• She is interested in the legislative process.
• The House only has 12 legislative days left in this year.
  — Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 27 Nov. 2023
• The site also has links to livestreams of legislative hearings.
  — Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2024
• Tuesday was the final day of the state’s legislative session.
  — Ike Morgan | [e-mail], al, 7 June 2023
• Most of the bans were passed during this year’s legislative session.
  — Azeen Ghorayshi, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
• The legislative fix wouldn't allow clerks to count the ballots early.
  — Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
• And the Senate is the peak of legislative power in America.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• More than 30 bills have been filed this year, according to a legislative tracker from the ACLU.
  — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2024
• The Quorum Court is the legislative body of county government and its members are called justices of the peace.
  — Mike Jones, arkansasonline.com, 16 Nov. 2023
• The plan to speed up income tax cuts will be on the agenda for the regular legislative session, which will begin next month.
  — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 5 Dec. 2023
• Jean-Pierre discounted the idea that the president doesn't want to defend his legislative record.
  — Christian Datoc, Washington Examiner, 21 Dec. 2023
• This would be an affront to the American people—who have voiced their strong disapproval of Section 702—and to the integrity of the legislative process.
  — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 30 Nov. 2023
• The bill, which includes sections that appear to be copied word-for-word from the Texas law, failed to come up for a vote in the state’s Senate before the legislative session ended Wednesday.
  — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 14 Apr. 2024
• The revelations fueled calls for the Supreme Court to adopt a binding code of conduct, or have Congress step in and take legislative action.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2023
• The model could be approved by the full council before its summer legislative recess, which will run from Aug. 2 through Sept. 5.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2023
• For years, these rules have been challenged — and upheld — by the church's global legislative body, the General Conference.
  — Sarah Maddox, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2023
• Proposals for tighter laws have stalled or failed in recent legislative sessions.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 1 Nov. 2023
• The severity and novelty of the problem suggests the need for a federal legislative response, and Congress can’t be said to have ignored the issue.
  — Tim Wu, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2023
• The measure focusing on the trafficking of guns from the U.S. into Mexico joins other legislative efforts to curtail the flow of firearms across the border.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 14 Nov. 2023
• Last month, when the committee slapped Harvard with a subpoena – the first time the legislative body has issued such a demand to a university – Sidechat played a big role in that request.
  — Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2024
• To further complicate matters, the House is only scheduled to be in session for 11 legislative days between now and the new March 1 funding deadline.
  — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 19 Jan. 2024
• That’s the liberals’ pitch anyway as the state Legislature grapples over the ages-old issue of taxes in the hectic final days of this year’s legislative session.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• If the House recesses instead of adjourning, the legislative day continues until the next adjournment, which could mean many days or weeks.
  — Norman J. Ornstein, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2023
• The key example offered for this line of reasoning was Virginia’s state legislative elections, in which Democrats held the Senate, losing only one seat, and flipped the House by picking up three.
  — Karl Rove, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2023
• Yoon’s efforts may be hampered after the legislative elections in 2024, if his party cannot win a majority.
  — Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
• But state leaders have been unable to agree on how to implement legislative reforms, while some charter school leaders have questioned the extent to which any are needed.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
• The most recent legislative increase in the standard deduction was from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which nearly doubled the standard deduction for most taxpayers.
  — E. Napoletano, wsj.com, 14 Nov. 2023
• These are symbolic, as well as legislative, victories in the fight to protect children from clinical abuse.
  — The Editors, National Review, 20 July 2023
• Leo has repeatedly declined the committee's request, and his lawyer told the panel in a letter Oct. 19 that its inquiry lacked a valid legislative purpose.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 30 Nov. 2023
• Kentucky lawmakers voted to legalize gambling on sports on the final day of the 2023 legislative session.
  — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 12 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024