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3 Jul 2017, 6:55 am
The Legislature’s budget bill includes an appropriation of $38.2 million from the state’s rainy day fund for plugging of orphaned oil and gas wells. [read post]
7 Oct 2007, 3:13 pm
Those who carry water for the Texas Taliban in the state legislature engaged in quite a lot of mischief in the last session, in their unrelenting efforts to make public education in Texas an outpost of various Christian sects dominant... [read post]
22 Apr 2021, 7:16 am
The surgical approach taken by the Bill’s drafters, who took into account advice from certain notable legal scholars on how to amend the Texas version of the UCC, is a prudent step for a state like Texas. [read post]
5 May 2011, 7:40 am
Texas Tribune by Julian Aguilar Despite the growing clamor for Texas businesses to adopt a federal employment verification system that some say would clamp down on the hiring of illegal immigrants, state lawmakers say they need more time to evaluate the system. [read post]
14 Oct 2009, 10:11 am
Last week the Texas legislature killed (or "stuck a fork in") the Trans-Texas Corridor. [read post]
5 Sep 2013, 8:58 am
Texas prisons and state jails house nearly 20,000 fewer prisoners than LBB at one point projected would be the case.The Texas Legislature deserves kudos for averting that pointless extra spending. [read post]
6 Jun 2009, 8:03 pm
As previously blogged, the 81st Regular Session of the Texas Legislature adjourned on June 1st. [read post]
23 Jul 2008, 9:44 pm
As if it wasn’t bad enough that the Texas legislature passed a law last year promoting Bible classes in the public schools, now the State Board of Education, in a 10-5 vote, approved curriculum guidelines [...] [read post]
3 Jul 2023, 10:36 am
Texas. [read post]
15 Aug 2007, 12:22 am
Earlier this year, the Texas legislature passed and the governor signed the Religious Viewpoint Anti-Discrimination Act that requires schools to establish "a limited public forum for student speakers at all school events at which a student is to publicly speak". [read post]
15 Apr 2016, 6:03 am
In this case, the Texas legislature has, very reasonably, determined—as have many other state legislatures—that the benefits of issuing subsidized licenses to many categories of aliens (and to citizens) outweigh the costs. [read post]
23 May 2007, 1:59 pm
As the Texas Legislature comes down to the wire still waiting to determine whether the state will build new prisons, media around the state finally are paying more attention to the fact that Texas can't find enough guards to staff the prisons we've got now. [read post]
21 Dec 2023, 7:33 am
“Over the last year, we have seen an increased commitment to animal protection on both sides of the aisle in the Texas State Legislature. [read post]
4 Oct 2019, 1:00 am
Given the mootness doctrine constraints in Texas, it will be difficult to have the state courts review TADA. [read post]
28 Oct 2022, 5:55 am
Transferring that much power from state actors to the federal courts presents, in the words of the Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, “the biggest federalism issue in a long time. [read post]
27 Sep 2011, 12:27 pm
Legislative Reference Library of Texas Short post on using the National Conference on State Legislatures' site to track legislation. [read post]
31 Aug 2011, 7:42 pm
Effective September 1, 2011, the Texas Legislature repealed Texas Occupations Code, Chapter 2105, and removed registration requirements for, and the authority to regulate talent agencies. [read post]
14 Jul 2021, 1:47 pm
by Paul Premack, JD, CELA The Texas Legislature passed SB 968, and the Governor signing it into law on June 16, 2021. [read post]
14 Jul 2021, 1:47 pm
by Paul Premack, JD, CELA The Texas Legislature passed SB 968, and the Governor signing it into law on June 16, 2021. [read post]
29 Jan 2013, 4:00 am
As reported by Courthouse News Service yesterday, a bill has been introduced in the Texas legislature that would give offsetting state tax refunds or credits to any business that pays a federal fine for refusing on conscience grounds to offer employees a health insurance plan that includes emergency contraception. [read post]
