Legislators approved calling a referendum on a constitutional amendment – supported by Collins – to make the state superintendent of education an appointive, rather than elective, office.

Other groups supporting their repeal include the National Conference of Insurance Legislators, the American Bar Association, the American College of Emergency Physicians, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the National Commission Against Drunk Driving, and the American Medical Association.

Legislators first elected on or before June 5, 2012 are restricted by the previous term limits, approved in 1990, which limited legislators to three terms in the State Assembly and two terms in the State Senate.

Legislators in both chambers serve two-year terms.

Legislators are elected to two-year terms and are not subject to term limits.

Legislators are one such group, and state legislators have major responsibility for educational legislation.

The National Conference of Insurance Legislators ( NCOIL ) also works to harmonize the different state laws.

Legislators rewrote all of the human rights laws in the state, restricting discrimination based on " race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, military status, sexual orientation, or unfavorable discharge from military service in connection with employment, real estate transactions, access to financial credit, and the availability of public accommodations.

ALEC first came into being in Chicago as the " Conservative Caucus of State Legislators ", a project initiated by Mark Rhoads, an assistant to an Illinois state senator.

Greens, Libertarians and others have elected state Legislators and local officials.

He began his political career in 1969 with his election to the Montana State Senate and in his 16-year tenure, he served as floor whip, majority leader, and senate president. In 1986 Stephens was recognized by the National Republican Legislators ' Association as one of the country's 10 most outstanding state lawmakers.

Legislators, particularly those opposed to slavery, feared that any delay would allow Missouri to apply for statehood before Illinois, and that since Missouri was a slave state, this would cause so much turmoil in Congress that it would delay Illinois ' admission even longer.

Legislators also responded to Blackburn's call for a warden system, authorizing the state to employ a warden, deputy warden, clerk, physician, and chaplain for the penitentiary.

This is done to increase the number of trial judges in the state for felony crimes, as it can be easier for Legislators to vote to increase the number of Court of Claims judges than Supreme Court Justices in view of differences in the manner of selecting the judges.

Legislators from the northern counties will often reflexively oppose what is seen as " meddling " from the majority in the south, and the legislators from the south have been too divided on the issue to push through a state-wide ban.

Legislators from outlying rural districts are chosen on a plurality basis, while districts located in more populous towns and cities elect multiple legislators by means of a proportion-based formula.

The power of the Legislative being derived from the People by a positive voluntary Grant and Institution, can be no other, than what the positive Grant conveyed, which being only to make Laws, and not to make Legislators, the Legislative can have no power to transfer their Authority of making laws, and place it it in other hands.

Prentiss and Shirley Smith were chosen to serve on the executive committee of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators during the organizations conference in Philadelphia.

The Westchester County Board of Legislators is the legislative, policy-making branch of Westchester County.

Legislators also receive an " office allowance " of $ 1, 000 per month, ostensibly for the maintenance of an office area devoted to their legislative work in their homes or elsewhere within their district.

Legislators insisted on more legislative control of the lottery and did not favor explicit earmarks for the proceeds, preferring to allocate them in the 1990 legislative session.

Ford also became prominent in the National Conference of State Legislators and the National Caucus of Black State Legislators, and served for a period as chairman of the Shelby County legislative delegation.

Legislators also receive mileage for " actual daily attendance on legislative days, but not after the legislature shall have been in session for 45 legislative days or after the first day of July following the annual assembly of the legislature.

* October-Almost half of Vermont's Legislators regard war as needless and impolitic ; but Vermont imposes a penalty of $ 1, 000 for every unauthorized communication with Canadians.

He wrote to Prevost's Adjutant General, My situation is most critical, not from anything the enemy can do, but from the disposition of the people – The Population, believe me is essentially bad – A full belief possesses them that this Province must inevitably succumb – This Prepossession is fatal to every exertion – Legislators, Magistrates, Militia Officers, all, have imbibed the idea, and are so sluggish and indifferent in all their respective offices that the artful and active scoundrel is allowed to parade the Country without interruption, and commit all imaginable mischief ... What a change an additional regiment would make in this part of the Province!

The Puerto Rico Legislative Assembly also receives support services from the Council of State Governments ( CSG ), CSG's Eastern Regional Conference, the National Conference of State Legislatures ( NCSL ) and the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators ( NHCSL ).

In 2004 Yee became the first Asian Pacific American to be appointed Speaker pro Tempore in the California State Assembly and was elected President of the National Asian Pacific American Caucus of State Legislators.

Legislators from the Iraqi Accord Front, Sadrist Movement and Islamic Virtue Party all opposed the bill.

The County is divided into five districts with three Legislators from each district.

Legislative authority is vested in the county Board of Legislators which consists of 15 members each elected from single member districts.

Legislators representing Atlanta and southwestern Fulton County, who feared tax revenue that would be lost from incorporation, blocked the bills using the procedural requirement that all local legislation be approved first by a delegation of representatives from the affected area.

Legislators such as Social welfare constituency legislator Fernando Cheung Chiu-hung and those from Hong Kong Association for Democracy & People's Livelihood had for years demanded that such concessions be put in place.

Legislators in countries using the Westminster system, such as the United Kingdom, are protected from civil action for slander and libel by parliamentary immunity whilst they are in the House.

" Legislators ’ vital work veiled from public ’ s eye ".

Irish Legislators began to comment publicly from 2003, some tentatively suggesting legislation, and some referring to Catholic teachings.

Van Rensselaer's effect on the history of the United States cannot be underestimated: the American van Rensselaers all descend from Kiliaen's son Jeremias and the subsequent family is noted for being a very powerful and wealthy influence in the history of New York and the Northeastern United States producing multiple State Legislators, Congressmen, and two Lieutenant Governors in New York.

Such figure is not supported by actual test, nor is it confirmed by Shell and which is contradicted from a reading material for Legislators of Legislative Council.

Legislators from all parties demanded Chan's resignation for attempting to mislead the public, thus precipitating a crisis of confidence in the company, and putting the company into disrepute by her lies.

Legislators also exempted from forced sale the items then considered necessary for making a living – a horse, a plow, a hoe, and an ax.

Legislators included a classified annex to the Defense Appropriations Act that preserved funding for TIA's component technologies, if they were transferred to other government agencies.

Legislators and other officials, as well as human rights groups, met with Judge Rimondi, but the decision was not reversed.