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enabling legislation

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enabling legislation noun establishing legislaaion, first initiative, law giving authority, law giving power, law granting authority, law granting license, law investing power, original ordinance, seminal measure, underlying act, underlying legislative pronouncement
Associated concepts: enacting clause


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46, Net Assets Restricted by Enabling Legislation, and Technical Bulletin 2004-2, Recognition of Pension and Other Postemployment Benefit Expenditures/ Expense and Liabilities by Cost-Sharing Employers: and (2) guidance in the GASB staff's Comprehensive Implementation Guide-2004.
The guidance, which is effective for periods beginning after June 15, 2005, clarifies that external parties-for example, citizens or the judiciary--can legally enforce such laws in order to compel a government to use resources only as stipulated in their enabling legislation.
And it wouldn't be politically easy, since the establishment of such a health authority requires enabling legislation at the state level, where much compromise would be needed to get any bill to the governor's desk.
 
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