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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><strong>Sustaining Tenth Amendment Truths for Every State Act of 2022 or the STATES Act of 2022</strong></p> <p>This bill provides that an action of a state agency taken pursuant to state law shall have effect within the state notwithstanding federal law to the contrary, if the federal law purports to apply under authority to create such law that is not explicitly delegated to the federal government within the stated words of the U.S. Constitution.</p>]]></text>
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