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Legislative intent is a statement of justification (by legislators) for passing a bill. If the bill relates to a wide-spread public policy, the legislative intent may be written into the statute the bill is amending.

For example, if there is a serious drug problem among teenagers in a particular state, the legislature might write something like: The Legislature finds that there is wide-spread drug abuse among teenagers in this state. In fact, there has been a 40% increase in juvenile drug cases in the past three years. To address this problem, X statute is being amended to provide special procedures in juvenile drug cases.

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