How to Use trigger law in a Sentence

trigger law

noun
  • Then being in Texas, knowing the trigger laws that had been passed in the lead-up to that decision.
    — Rachel Epstein, Men's Health, 23 June 2023
  • Twelve states have trigger laws in place that would automatically end expansion or require changes if the federal match rate drops.
    — Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 May 2025
  • That's because the states have trigger laws that would swiftly end their Medicaid expansions if federal funding falls.
    — Phil Galewitz | Kff Health News, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2024
  • But at least 10 states have trigger laws, Brayboy said, which would eliminate the extended postpartum care.
    — Cheyanne M. Daniels, The Hill, 20 Apr. 2025
  • The state had several trigger laws that went into effect immediately after Roe was overturned.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 22 June 2023
  • Tennessee has a trigger law to permanently adopt daylight saving time if federal legislation is passed.
    — Jordan Green, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Those trigger laws, unenforceable at the time they were passed, became a stark reality for millions of people of childbearing age when Roe was overturned.
    — Kavitha Surana, ProPublica, 27 Nov. 2023
  • States activated trigger laws banning the procedure that were drafted years or decades earlier, designed for the eventual fall of Roe.
    — Sonel Cutler, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
  • Tennessee is among several states that have passed trigger laws to permanently switch to daylight saving time if Congress passes a national bill.
    — Jordan Green, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Some of these same states have trigger laws that would go off if Medicaid funding from the federal government went below a certain amount, meaning funding would entirely collapse in those locations.
    — Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The clinic was at the center of the case that overturned Roe, and a restrictive trigger law went into effect 10 days after the attorney general certified the court’s decision.
    — Sonel Cutler, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
  • Additionally, a trigger law went into effect in Texas in August 2022 following the Dobbs decision.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 July 2023
  • But 12 states have trigger laws in place that would automatically end the Medicaid expansion, or that would require significant changes to the program should there be reductions to the amount of money the federal government provides.
    — Alana Semuels, Time, 7 May 2025
  • The amendment also creates a trigger law so that if recreational marijuana becomes federally legal, existing dispensaries in Arkansas would be able to sell recreational marijuana.
    — Alex Golden, Axios, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Significant cuts could prove disastrous, particularly for governments that have trigger laws that could cause state Medicaid funding to drop off partially or entirely if Federal support drops below a certain level.
    — Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025

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