enactment

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Given the repeated warnings states have received about this issue, one might ask why CMS hasn’t insisted on enforcing the new restrictions retroactive to the enactment of the Big Beautiful Bill in July.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026

All legislation should require that any challenge must be commenced within, say, 30 days of the law’s enactment.

From Slate • Dec. 29, 2025

The law calls for Attorney General Pam Bondi to release all Epstein-related documents held by the Justice Department within 30 days of its Nov. 19 enactment.

From Barron's • Dec. 18, 2025

The ECOA’s enactment made it illegal for lenders to refuse to lend to certain groups, or charge them higher interest rates because of their race, color, religion, sex or other protected status.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 17, 2025

The next play we did for assembly was an enactment, totally adapted by Mrs. Finley, I believe, of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers