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To decree; to establish by legal and authoritative act; to make into a law; especially, to perform the legislative act with reference to (a bill) which gives it the validity of law.
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To act; to perform; to do; to effect.
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To act the part of; to represent; to play.
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To pass and send to the Governor for signature.
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order by virtue of superior authority; decree; "The King ordained the persecution and expulsion of the Jews"; "the legislature enacted this law in 1985"
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act out; represent or perform as if in a play; "She reenacted what had happened earlier that day"
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To enact a bill is to make it into law. Generally, a bill is enacted into law when it passes both houses of a legislature in identical form and is signed by the president or governor; when it becomes law without the president's or governor's signature; or when it is passed over the president's or governor's veto.
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When a bill becomes a law.
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to pass a law
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Parliament's act in making a Bill into an Act.
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