11.   Actually, laws have been adopted here and there.

12.   Advocates testified recently that crime goes down in states that adopt such laws, she said.

13.   After all, the case had spurred a national movement to adopt new laws to notify communities of the presence of sex offenders.

14.   Alaska, Nebraska, New Mexico and Pennsylvania adopted laws banning such incentives this year.

15.   All states have adopted such laws.

16.   But it takes more than a House vote to adopt a law.

17.   But other states adopted laws banning such clauses this year, and many of the bills were sponsored by Republicans.

18.   But once the law was adopted, the chancellor said he would create his own.

19.   By coincidence, Moore was the president of the Michigan Probate Judges Association when the law was adopted, and the association endorsed the law then.

20.   California is the third state to adopt the law at the polls.