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4 Jun 2013, 8:00 am by Karl Bayer
Jefferson presented his State of the Judiciary speech before the 83rd Texas Legislature in Austin. [read post]
2 Jun 2007, 2:20 am
A new research paper from the Urban Institute called Returning Home (available here) says the removal of drug treatment from Texas state jails in 2003 by the Legislature made it more likely offenders would commit new crimes. [read post]
16 Jun 2017, 9:00 am by Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D.
The Texas Legislature passed two bills that revise Informal Dispute Resolution procedures for Assisted Living and providers participating in certain Medicaid waiver programs. [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 8:22 am by Jaclyn Belczyk
The emergency appeal [JURIST report] challenged an interim map drawn up by the US District Court for the Western District of Texas while a separate map drawn up by the state legislature is currently being challenged in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official websites] for compliance with the Voting Rights Act (VRA) [Cornell LII backgrounder]. [read post]
9 Jan 2012, 11:33 am by Jaclyn Belczyk
The court agreed last month to hear an emergency appeal [JURIST report] challenging an interim map drawn up by the US District Court for the Western District of Texas while a separate map drawn up by the state legislature is currently being challenged in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official websites] for... [read post]
10 Dec 2011, 8:07 am by Jaclyn Belczyk
The emergency appeal challenges an interim map drawn up by the US District Court for the Western District of Texas while a separate map drawn up by the state legislature is currently being challenged in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official websites] for compliance with the Voting Rights Act [Cornell LII backgrounder]. [read post]
17 Dec 2018, 1:07 pm by skelly
The Texas Department of Insurance (“TDI”) has released its 2018 Biennial Report to the 86th Texas Legislature. [read post]
31 Aug 2007, 11:40 pm
Today's the day Texas laws passed during the 80th Legislature take effect, if they haven't already, and several new gun laws deserve Grits readers attention:Legal, stowed weapons okay in vehicleReacting to Texas prosecutors who'd continued to arrest legal gun owners in spite of the Legislature's intent in a bill from 2005, this year the Texas Legislature set in stone the rights of legal gun owners to carry a weapon in their… [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 12:26 pm by John Sirman
The 82nd session of the Texas Legislature began Tuesday, January 11. [read post]
17 Feb 2009, 5:30 pm
Sharon Keller, the highest ranking criminal judge in Texas, is facing a bid by the Texas state legislature to remove her from office. [read post]
20 Jun 2007, 11:24 am
On June 15, Texas Governor Rick Perry signed House Bill 3732 which was passed by the Texas legislature on May 30th. [read post]
17 Jul 2021, 1:00 pm by Michael Lowe
The Texas Legislature has created a range of felony punishments for criminal acts as defined by state law, and state jail felonies are the lowest level felony sentence. [read post]
25 Mar 2008, 7:00 am
House Bill 3 as passed by the Texas Legislature in 2006 expanded the reach of the revised franchise tax so that it now applies to virtually all types of entities with limited liability, most of which weren’t previously taxable. [read post]
” Thus, because the Texas legislature has never repealed the 1925 law, the state Supreme Court agreed that it should be given effect, stipulating, however, that for now only civil actions can be brought under the law. [read post]
29 Dec 2015, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Post-war Texas grew rapidly as migrants poured into the cotton lands of the state. [read post]
14 Oct 2013, 8:44 am
Fundraising rarely ceases, except just after an election.The Railroad Commission has been up for review by the Texas Sunset Commission in the last two sessions of the Texas Legislature, and both times the legislature failed to enact any of the recommendations of the Sunset Commission --- save one. [read post]
28 Dec 2011, 3:49 pm by Lyle Denniston
The Administration takes the position that two of the legislature’s maps — for seats in the state house and for the state’s congressional delegation in the U.S. [read post]
3 Feb 2011, 6:38 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
I just noticed a document from the Legislative Budget Board's website titled "Texas At-Risk Youth Services Project," (pdf), a report to the 82nd Texas Legislature dated January 2011, the Introduction to which begins as follows:The Texas At-Risk Youth Services Project (ARYSP) is an interim research project directed by the Criminal Justice Data Analysis Team of the Legislative Budget Board (LBB). [read post]