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5 May 2012, 11:23 pm
House Bill 3328 has already been passed by the Texas state legislature and signed by Governor Perry. [read post]
19 Apr 2007, 8:03 am
Man, the Texas Legislature is now moving through legislation fast and furious as members begin to realize there are only 40 days left in the regular 80th session. [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 5:04 am
The goal was to obtain a Republican majority in the Texas Legislature which would then be able to gerrymander Congressional districts to increase the number of Republicans in the Texas delegation, strengthening Delay’s position in the Congress and in the state. [read post]
7 Jul 2015, 9:01 pm
Even though red states like Texas would seem to benefit from the plan (insofar as their voters would get more attention under a scheme in which every vote nationwide counted equally), a large number of red state legislatures seem not to get it. [read post]
17 Jun 2016, 4:50 pm
Unfortunately, Texas’s dram shop act has been, um, watered down by the state legislature and courts. [read post]
IS IT TIME FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION? “It would take 34 states to approve such a convention, …
7 Apr 2011, 8:14 pm
Yet at least 30 state legislatures, including Texas, Missouri and Virginia, are mulling over resolutions either calling for a national Article V convention or urging Congress to propose changes to the Constitution. [read post]
26 Jan 2016, 5:08 am
The statute that specifically authorizes the payments from Texas Mutual was passed at a time when the company, created by the Legislature amid a market meltdown, was subject to robust state control. [read post]
6 Sep 2011, 10:02 am
(Grits may have more to say on this topic after reviewing details of the Anonymous document dump.)Back in the good old days before the Texas Supreme Court and the Legislature gutted access to law-enforcement information under the Public Information Act ('96-'97), one saw frank discussions like these in response to open records requests fairly frequently, up to and including expressions of racial prejudice, etc.. [read post]
23 Jun 2008, 10:04 am
Congress or voluntary compliance by the State of Texas". [read post]
19 Jun 2013, 10:41 am
The majority of state legislatures have adjourned for the year, but we hope they’ll follow Montana’s lead when they take up location tracking next session. [read post]
5 Jun 2021, 6:21 am
” Nevada’s expansion of mail voting comes at a time when many state legislatures are proposing or passing laws restricting voters’ rights and access. [read post]
29 Jun 2021, 2:55 am
Thirteen states have notable tax changes taking effect on July 1, 2021, which is the first day of fiscal year (FY) 2022 for every state except Alabama, Michigan, New York, and Texas.[1] 2021 Corporate Income Tax Changes Indiana Indiana has been incrementally reducing its corporate income tax rate since July 2012,[2] and the final planned phase of that reduction will take effect this July, when the rate will drop from 5.25 to 4.9 percent.[3] Montana Montana is among a… [read post]
26 Sep 2014, 6:14 am
State legislatures have started to fill that void. [read post]
26 Dec 2007, 9:29 am
Two state legislative bodies — the House in New Mexico and the Senate in Montana — passed bills to abolish capital punishment, and in Nebraska, the unicameral legislature came within one vote of doing so. [read post]
6 Jun 2018, 2:50 pm
One response is to engage in a basically metaphysical argument that, whereas for regular elections, we're talking about real individuals, in the ratification process we're talking about some mysterious entity called "states" that have a collective mind altogether independent of the representatives who comprise the relevant legislative institutions (assuming, of course, that Congress has designated legislatures as the vehicle for ratification). [read post]
18 Feb 2007, 11:01 am
According to the LA Times, the Texas legislature may soon pass a "stand your ground" law that extends the no-retreat rule to vehicles and places of bidness. [read post]
27 May 2022, 9:00 am
The State Bar of Texas Legal Services to the Poor in Criminal Matters Committee announced Michael J. [read post]
21 Apr 2009, 5:56 am
I've already lamented the bipartisan effort to scale back the too-small number of "prison industries" programs employing Texas convicts while they're incarcerated, so rather than separately analyze SB 1169 by state Sen. [read post]
26 Dec 2007, 9:25 am
At the end of 2006 in this post, I created a top ten list of the most important Texas criminal justice stories, many of which still rank among the state's most vexing public policy dilemmas.In a link-rich post, I described how Governor Perry's 2005 vetoes ensured Texas' prison overcrowding crisis, and the 80th Legislature responded with the worst possible scenario: Building prisons the state can't staff or afford to operate.Innocence… [read post]
20 Jan 2007, 5:59 am
(She works for the Texas Coalition Advocating Justice for Juveniles.) [read post]
