41.   It would require states to adopt performance exams for all new teachers to demonstrate subject knowledge.

42.   It would be the first significant anti-smoking measure the state has adopted since the governor took office.

43.   Many states adopted similar statutes.

44.   Many states have adopted similar policies by establishing drug courts, which sentence people to treatment as a way to keep them out of jail.

45.   Most states have adopted specific laws since then, which differ from place to place, though a few still use common law.

46.   Nationwide, states have adopted zero-tolerance policies in an attempt to curb school violence.

47.   New York state adopted legislation last year that offers consumers many of the same protections outlined today in New Jersey.

48.   Nor was Texas unique, as nearly every state has adopted some type of school reform in the past decade.

49.   Only Louisiana and Oregon have found it wise, and no state has adopted it over the past quarter-century.

50.   Other states have adopted similar time limits.