11.   Legislators first passed these laws as consumer protection measures, reasoning that large ticket brokers should be prevented from cornering the market.

12.   Legislators passed laws that are expected to make it more difficult for minority-owned businesses to qualify for contracts from state agencies.

13.   Legislators passed two bills this year that would have increased the cost of buying Everglades land and allowed the state to scrutinize federal restoration plans.

14.   State legislators passed the bill to start a registry last spring.

15.   State legislators passed tougher juvenile crime laws, sending younger offenders to prison and nonviolent offenders to state jails for shorter sentences.

16.   The legislators passed some other good bills on health care for poor children and consumer rights for health-care insurance policy holders.

17.   The logical time to decide on changes was last year, when legislators passed a law changing how schools are governed.

18.   After the handover, provisional legislators passed amendments to immigration laws denying such children automatic right of abode.

19.   But they demand that legislators pass an amnesty law for the former rebels before giving up remaining northwestern villages still under their control.

20.   Chinese legislators passed laws to limit arbitrary punishments and approved economic plans Sunday as they wrapped up an annual session overshadowed by tensions with Taiwan.