"legislature" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But as the result of testimony offered by experts at the joint committee hearings, the Legislature raised the limit to $250,000.
- Under state law, a Legislature cannot raise its pay during its two-year term.
- Yet the only taxes that the Legislature can raise without a constitutional change are regressive ones like the sales tax, officials say.
- The participants say they want to press the Legislature to raise the state minimum wage above the federal minimum of $5.15.
- He had been unable to persuade the Legislature to raise other taxes.
- In 2001, the Legislature reversed itself and raised the age of consent from 14 to 16.
- Since then, the Legislature has raised the index fee, and this year's law raised it again, to $210 from $185.
- A lobbying effort is under way to encourage the Legislature to raise the state's minimum public teacher's salary from $18,500 a year to $40,000.
- "Doing that may give us the impetus to ask the Legislature to raise the caps."
- The Legislature raised the monthly benefits of a mother and two children to $201, from $188.
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