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New York state has required both public and private universities to disclose foreign funds since 1984, prior to the enactment of federal Section 117 regulations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

And that’s his persistent campaign to preserve Social Security — indeed, to enhance it so it serves today’s workers as well or better than it has served Americans since its enactment in 1935.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

The housing bill's quiet enactment would mark an unusual conclusion to months of cross-party negotiations, as a significant congressional accomplishment that the president declined to celebrate, but chose not to stop.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

The bill’s imminent enactment comes as housing affordability is front and center for many Americans.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026

Few criticisms of the legislation could be heard en route to enactment.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

In general, that anxiety shows up in the defenses against it through a wide variety of hypermasculine poses, declarations and enactments.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2024

Such stories and dramatic enactments can bring shared attention to these kinds of challenges, and we know that shared attention is one mechanism that can help people cooperate and solve coordination dilemmas.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 20, 2023

It includes films, a parade and historical enactments.

From Washington Post ● May 31, 2022

For example, one of the first significant congressional enactments was the Sedition Act of 1798, which basically made it a crime to criticize the government.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2020

By a series of legislative enactments and decisions of courts, special privileges have been conferred upon railroad companies antagonistic to, and destructive of, the rights of the people.

From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud