The state legislature had passed resolutions instructing their representatives in Washington to support pro-slavery and popular sovereignty measures such as the LeCompton Constitution and the Kansas – Nebraska Act.

Elections were held on December 10 and the fledgling legislature passed its first local legislation on December 31, 1831.

Early incorporated entities were established by charter ( i. e. by an ad hoc act granted by a monarch or passed by a parliament or legislature ).

Neither bill was passed in the legislature.

On 19 March, a constitutional referendum was voted on and passed reforming the laws surrounding the power and election of the presidency, limiting the presidency to two four-year terms, providing judicial supervision of elections, requiring the president to appoint a deputy, calling for a commission to draft a new constitution following the parliamentary election, and providing easier access to presidential elections by candidates ( 30, 000 signatures from at least 15 provinces, 30 members of a chamber of the legislature, or nomination by a party holding at least one seat in the legislature ).

The governor has a duty to enforce state laws, and the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the New York State Legislature, to convene the legislature, and to grant pardons, except in cases of treason and impeachment.

Most countries require that all bills passed by the house or houses of the legislature be signed into law by the head of state.

The Kentucky state legislature passed the first resolution on November 16, 1798 and the second on December 3, 1799.

The Virginia state legislature passed it on December 24, 1798.

A bill was passed in the Michigan legislature making it illegal to net pigeons within two miles ( 3 km ) of a nesting area, but the law was weakly enforced.

In the Province of Canada, responsible government was put to the test in 1849, when Reformers in the legislature passed the Rebellion Losses Bill.

Even free blacks in more distant states were at risk, and the New York legislature passed a law in 1840 to protect its African-American residents and try to recover any who were kidnapped.

The New York legislature had passed a law in 1840 requiring the state to recover any free blacks kidnapped and sold into slavery.

The newly created state legislature had passed racial segregation laws, commonly known as Jim Crow laws, as one of its first orders of business.

The Ohio legislature, in turn, passed repeated resolutions and requests asking Congress to take up the matter.

In 2011, the legislature of the state of Utah passed a bill to accept federally issued gold and silver coins as legal tender to pay taxes.

The following November, the Druk Gyalpo renounced his veto power over National Assembly bills and said he would step down if two-thirds of the legislature passed a no-confidence vote.

There was no violent protest when the Act was passed, and it has been suggested that rioting could have been avoided if the legislature had been more circumspect in enforcing it, although the historical background suggests that insurrection was never far away, and only needed a reason to spark into life.

This relatively conservative legislature passed an early declaration of sovereignty ( November 16, 1988 ); a law on economic independence ( May 1989 ) confirmed by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union that November ; a language law making Estonian the official language ( January 1989 ); and local and republic election laws stipulating residency requirements for voting and candidacy ( August, November 1989 ).

In the early 1980s several states attempted to introduce creationism along with teaching of evolution, and the Louisiana legislature passed a law, authored by State Senator Bill P. Keith of Caddo Parish, entitled the " Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and Evolution-Science Act.

Perot led the Texas War on Drugs Committee that proposed five laws, all of which were passed by the legislature.

This bill passed both houses of the Oregon legislature during the 2009 legislative session.

On, the Moscow City Duma passed a resolution, demanding establishment of an elected national legislature, full freedom of the press, and freedom of religion.

Although Lincoln believed it was not within Congress's power to free the slaves within the states, he approved the bill in deference to the legislature.

As of 2011, a bill has been proposed in the state legislature to end the prohibition on Sunday liquor sales.

In 1933, Bert Bell, understanding that prerequisites to a NFL franchise being granted to him were changes in the blue laws, played the primary role of convincing then Governor Gifford Pinchot to issue a bill before the Pennsylvanian legislature to deprecate the Blue Laws.

They may have authority to veto a bill until the houses of the legislature have reconsidered it, and approved it a second time ; reserve a bill to be signed later, or suspend it indefinitely ( generally in states with royal prerogative ; this power is rarely used ); refer a bill to the courts to test its constitutionality ; refer a bill to the people in a referendum.

As a result, Irsay began serious negotiations with Indianapolis Mayor William Hudnut in order to move the team before the Maryland legislature could pass the bill and was able to secure loans from Indianapolis on the Hoosier Dome and a training complex.

In 1897, a bill was introduced in the Michigan legislature asking for a ten-year closed season on Passenger Pigeons.

In April 2008, King spoke out against HB 1423, a bill pending in the Massachusetts state legislature that would restrict or ban the sale of violent video games to anyone under the age of 18.

In that first year, after a bill to create the holiday failed in the Arizona state legislature, Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt had issued an executive order creating the holiday.

The bill would mandate action against what the state legislature perceives as unconstitutional federal legislation.

* October 28 – American Civil War: The Missouri legislature takes up a bill for Missouri's secession from the Union.

* April 30 – A bill is signed in the New York State legislature forming the Niagara Falls State Park.

Garfield's signature effort in the state legislature was a bill providing for the state's first geological survey to measure its mineral resources.

It is at this third reading of the bill that the entire legislature gives consideration to its passage.

Sometimes what the legislature wishes to accomplish cannot be done simply by the passage of a bill, but rather requires amending the state constitution.

Subsequently, the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association voted to submit to Congress a bill to remove the limit on the amount of whiskey that could be prescribed and questioning the ability of a legislature to determine the therapeutic value of any substance.

State Senator John Lewis Gervais of Ninety Six introduced a bill that was approved by the legislature on March 22, 1786, to create a new state capital.

The first Trustees on the school's Board were James W. Reid ( who had done the most to shepherd the authorization bill through the legislature ), Norman B. Willey ( who had just stepped down as Idaho governor ), Benjamin Wilson ( a previous gubernatorial candidate ), J. Morris Howe, and C. W. Schaff.

In April 1848, the legislature then gave the settlement the name of " Lansing ".

On 30 December 1875 this seat was again abolished, but only for a few years as it was reinstated on 8 April 1879, and remained the single parliamentary representation from Africa anywhere in a European legislature until the fall of the third republic in 1940.

Primaries in April decided single presidential candidates for each party, and national elections on October 31 determined representation in the legislature.

In April, Burr's successful mobilization of the vote in New York City succeeded in reversing the Federalist majority in the state legislature.

Only after a month-long standoff, during which Yeltsin threatened to dissolve the legislature, did the Duma confirm Kiriyenko on a third vote on April 24.

The legislature passed the laws prepared by him, and on 10 April 1866 the ASPCA was legally organized, with Bergh as president.

A week later, Minh was chosen by the legislature and became president on 28 April 1975.

On April 18, 1870, the Pennsylvania state legislature incorporated the school.

On April 26, 1854, the legislature of Washington Territory created Clallam County from the northwestern portion of this original area.

Paulding County was organized by the legislature on April 1, 1820 from lands that were formerly part of Williams County.

The county was then recreated by the 1905 state legislature, with the county government first organizing on April 20, 1905.

Grand Traverse County was established by an act of the state legislature on April 7, 1851.

Barry County was formed by an act of the legislature of the Michigan Territory on April 29, 1829.

The county was created by the state legislature on April 1, 1840.

The petition was created and the legislature of the Commonwealth of Kentucky granted the act of legislature, enacting the creation of the county on April 1, 1820.

Archuleta County was created by the Colorado legislature on April 14, 1885, out of western Conejos County.

The Arkansas legislature established Dorsey County as Arkansas's 71st county on April 17, 1873, naming it for Stephen W. Dorsey, the U. S. Senator from Arkansas.

Formerly a town, it was incorporated by the Georgia state legislature in 1992, effective on April 1 of that year.

The name " Glasco " was adopted officially by the Kansas legislature in 1878 and incorporated as a city of the third class April 14, 1886.

In 1844, the group petitioned the legislature to act as a coporation, known as the Essex Company, which incorporated on April 16th, 1845.

The legislature overlooked legislation it had passed earlier on April 12, 1827, that prohibited the incorporation of any new township with the same name as any existing post office.