1.   The state legislature passed the statute by an overwhelming margin.

2.   Our legislature passed a law requiring people to wear safety belts.

3.   The legislature has passed a measure aimed at protecting consumers.

4.   Around the county, more than half a dozen state legislatures have recently passed laws requiring insurers who cover prescription drugs like Viagra to cover contraceptives as well.

5.   -- In Indiana, too, the legislature has passed a law helping police to bypass schools with their seizures.

6.   -- State legislatures can pass laws similar to those enacted in four states.

7.   A less dysfunctional state legislature would have passed many of these reforms by unanimous agreement during the normal course of business.

8.   Bush, in a statement issued by his campaign headquarters, called on Congress and state legislatures to pass laws to restrict access to tobacco by minors.

9.   But after the handover, the Beijing-appointed legislature here passed new laws making it tougher for mainland Chinese to move to Hong Kong.

10.   But increasingly, legislatures pass specific laws for specific purposes, leaving courts far less dependent on broad common-law guidelines to settle disputes.