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Six example sentences with legislation, each labelled with its topic.
The legislation passed the upper house at midnight after three amendments and a debate that ran eleven hours.
Politics
New legislation requires every coastal town to publish water quality readings within a day of taking the sample.
Environment
Hospitals hired coding staff for a year before the legislation took effect, expecting the paperwork to double overnight.
Medicine
Minimum wage legislation raised pay in the hotels, and economists spent a decade arguing about its effect on hiring.
Economics
Factory legislation of 1833 limited the working day for children and sent the first inspectors into the mills.
History
Privacy legislation forced the app to ask permission before reading contacts, and the update shipped a week before the deadline.
Technology
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