Now that's not a reasonable construction of what the Legislature would have intended.

"The legislature never intended it to be applied to pregnant women."

Its purpose is to determine the amount of review that the legislature intended.

The Legislature intends to deal with these matters in separate measures.

"The Legislature clearly did not intend to create a new class of protected tenants."

"It's a perfect example of applying a law in the manner that the Legislature intended."

"But we find no evidence that the Legislature intended to bar referenda for such reasons."

"It's a matter of what the Legislature intended when it passed that assault statute," she said.

Nine months after the veto, the project has strayed far from what the Legislature intended.

Those involved in drafting the law, however, say the State Legislature intended to make the board strong.