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10 Sep 2018, 7:49 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Her public policy and regulatory affairs experience encompassess advising and representing domestic and multinational private sector health, insurance, employee benefit, employer, staffing and other outsourced service providers, and other clients in dealings with Congress, state legislatures, and federal, state and local regulators and government entities, as well as providing advice and input to U.S. and foreign government leaders on these and other policy concerns. [read post]
10 Sep 2018, 3:28 pm by Kevin
“At first glance,” the court stated, this does look like something a legislature has power to do. [read post]
10 Sep 2018, 6:12 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Abbott's sudden interest, bail reform is shaping up to be a major #cjreform topic during the 86th Texas Legislature. [read post]
6 Sep 2018, 9:01 pm by Jim Sedor
The Legislature also spent months developing a new process for handling its own investigations of inappropriate behavior. [read post]
5 Sep 2018, 9:47 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Of the 3 million drivers who owe surcharges, nearly half (1.4 million) have had their licenses revoked for nonpayment.This colossal failure of a program increasingly has become not just a cost-driver for DPS license centers but even a drag on the economy, and by extension, state and local government revenue.Your correspondent remains hopeful that the 86th Legislature marks the moment when Texas stops looking at driver surcharges as a cash cow and begins to think of them as… [read post]
4 Sep 2018, 7:39 am by John McFarland
So if the Texas legislature were to adopt a forced-pooling statute, could that statute apply to oil and gas leases entered into before adoption of the statute? [read post]
3 Sep 2018, 9:46 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Now we know that those criticisms were misplaced and the new law is working even better than anticipated.At the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee on Thursday, Office of Court Administration Director David Slayton testified for the first time on the results of "debtors prison" legislation passed by the Texas Legislature in 2017. [read post]
3 Sep 2018, 4:53 am by SHG
First, the ruling issued against the Texas penal code making it a crime to “procure an abortion. [read post]
2 Sep 2018, 10:28 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Grits has been critical of state officials who responded to long lines at Texas DPS driver-license facilities by blaming drivers who don't use online systems, in part because of dramatic understaffing of the Customer Service Center to the point that 80 percent of customer calls go unanswered and 83 percent of those answered wait on hold than 10 minutes before they talk to a person. [read post]
State legislatures have enacted Right to Farm laws to protect producers who follow state regulations from nuisance lawsuits. [read post]
31 Aug 2018, 8:46 am by Jeffrey Carr
Very few people are likely surprised that news reports surfaced that one of the victims of Sunday’s shooting at a Madden NFL 19 tournament retained an attorney who plans to file a lawsuit on their client’s behalf. [read post]
30 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm by Jim Sedor
Many more are running for state Legislatures and local offices. [read post]
30 Aug 2018, 1:29 pm by Ilya Somin
Breaking up big states such as California and Texas could help facilitate beneficial competition and open up new opportunities for people to "vote with their feet. [read post]
30 Aug 2018, 5:13 am
"...States have repealed straight ticket devices in the past fifty years are Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas (effective 2019), and Wisconsin. [read post]
29 Aug 2018, 7:03 am by Dan Carvajal
At minimum states should allow sellers to register with SSUTA rather than requiring state-by-state registrations, allow SSUTA service providers to work with their state, restrict multistate audits, and provide taxability, exemption, rate, and boundary data for download on their websites. [read post]
25 Aug 2018, 3:37 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
" So TDCJ is asking the state spend less than $250 million per biennium but the medical providers say they should be spending $528.5 million to meet "minimum standards. [read post]
25 Aug 2018, 9:01 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The press and politicians around the state are blaming the Texas Department of Public Safety for creating a list of 87 under-utilized rural driver-license centers for possible closure. [read post]