This year there was a concerted legislative and judicial push toward enfranchisement of released felons.

Legal experts and the public are debating the idea ahead of discussions and a legislative push.

Backers say even if the bill does not pass, the legislative push will help inform the public.

That much-ridiculed amendment has become Exhibit A in a legislative push to weaken the citizen initiative process.

As lieutenant governor, Calley is widely credited for leading a successful legislative push to require insurance companies cover evidence based treatments for autism.

The next legislative push came in 1973.

But even if it does not, they said, the legislative push will help inform the public about the difficult conditions many domestic workers face.

That helps explain why labor's campaign for the bill, the Employee Free Choice Act, represents its biggest legislative push in 30 years.

The legislative push is a reaction to what its advocates call overprescription of the drugs.

The new measures are not specific to the tobacco industry, but both cigarette makers and state officials acknowledge that the industry is behind the legislative push.