The Legislature can amend or revise it, or Mr. Halpin can ignore it, if he wants a court fight.

The Legislature has revised or extended the rate-setting law, known as the New York's Prospective Hospital Reimbursement Methodology, five times since it was first enacted in 1983.

The Governor, who is also a Baptist minister, asked the Legislature to revise the wording so he could sign it in good conscience.

If the Legislature revises the formula, top-ranked students will still be admitted, but fewer of them.

The Legislature is revising the law to satisfy the judges.

As explained above, in 1999, the Legislature substantially revised the contest provision of the election code.

He ruled that the state could not walk away from the court-ordered agreement it reached with the pre-1996 offenders, even though the Legislature had revised the law.

Good-government groups, citing what they say are loopholes in the law, have urged the Legislature to revise it.

His aides would prefer that the Legislature simply hold on to the bill and revise it next year.

He said the Legislature had recently revised the law "to streamline it."