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22 Dec 2016, 4:21 pm
ROLAND of Texas introduced the following bill; whichwas referred to the Judiciary Committee.A BILLTo provide remedies for violations of rights, privileges,and immunities of persons by government actors.Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofRepresentatives of the United States of America inCongress assembled,SECTION 1. [read post]
22 Dec 2016, 4:21 pm
ROLAND of Texas introduced the following bill; whichwas referred to the Judiciary Committee.A BILLTo provide remedies for violations of rights, privileges,and immunities of persons by government actors.Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofRepresentatives of the United States of America inCongress assembled,SECTION 1. [read post]
22 Dec 2016, 6:32 am
In 1910, following a series of newspaper investigations of the Texas prison system, the Legislature formally ended the practice; by 1914 all prisoners were back under the exclusive control of the state. [read post]
20 Dec 2016, 4:07 am
And those states, like New York, Texas, California, have proven fairly intransigent in their politics, such that they can be reliably trusted to vote one way or another. [read post]
19 Dec 2016, 11:11 am
We cannot fathom that either Congress or our state legislature intended for a person to be able to proceed down both paths and receive both benefits at the same time. [read post]
19 Dec 2016, 10:00 am
If state legislatures refuse to go along, voters should take matters into their own hands with ballot initiatives to require that their states adopt the NPVA. [read post]
19 Dec 2016, 6:56 am
THE CRISIS IN ENFORCING RRC RULES AND ABANDONED WELLS In the world of oil and gas in Texas, the State Legislature proposes, votes and passes laws that it determines are in the best interest of the people of the State. [read post]
13 Dec 2016, 9:01 pm
Last week, the Ohio legislature passed a bill that would ban abortion of any fetus with a “detectable heartbeat. [read post]
13 Dec 2016, 8:47 pm
In 2009, the Washington legislature passed the Zachary Lystedt law. [read post]
10 Dec 2016, 8:24 am
When the bill comes back this time in the 85th Texas Legislature, they should pass it again and Greg Abbott should sign it.In a related, poor state policy decision which likely resulted in more heroin deaths, the Texas Department of State Health Services recently failed to solicit a federal grant to pay for first responders to have access to Naloxone, an opiod antagonist with no significant side effects which can keep overdose victims from dying. [read post]
9 Dec 2016, 10:21 am
The state refuses to protect drivers This shouldn’t be happening in Texas. [read post]
6 Dec 2016, 2:30 pm
Texas police and fire pensions in the big cities are a mess the Legislature is ill-prepared to deal with in the coming 85th session. [read post]
4 Dec 2016, 9:01 pm
The Framers sought to control power by separating it.They divided the federal legislature (feared as the “most dangerous” branch) into the House and Senate, with different methods of selection and different terms of office. [read post]
28 Nov 2016, 9:01 pm
The rules vary not only in substance—e.g., are surrogacy contracts legally enforceable or not—but also by whether they are dictated by the legislature, by courts, or in some combination; come in the form of bright-line rules or multi-factored standards; rely on objective determinants or subjective states of mind; and favor formal or functional tests.In this recent Texas appellate case, Interest of P.S., we see one state’s fairly typical approach… [read post]
27 Nov 2016, 10:41 am
A Texas appellate court recently affirmed the dismissal of the city of Austin’s lawsuit claiming commercial and vacant property are being undervalued during property tax appraisals. [read post]
24 Nov 2016, 9:30 pm
District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, who granted a nationwide preliminary injunction in response to arguments from 21 states and a number of businesses that the Labor Department had exceeded its statutory authority in promulgating a rule which raised the overtime salary limit so significantly. [read post]
21 Nov 2016, 11:30 am
Favorable Scientific Evidence Statute In 2013, the Texas Legislature enacted a new forensic science statute and codified it in Article 11.073 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. [read post]
16 Nov 2016, 2:03 am
Texas Marijuana Revenue Understandably, there are efforts right now in the Texas Legislature to decriminalize pot as well as passing other laws to free up marijuana use and access here. [read post]
15 Nov 2016, 12:32 pm
State legislatures are gradually working on that deficiency, but experience significant pushback because of perceived threats to the rights of citizenry. [read post]
15 Nov 2016, 7:16 am
But how will the 2017 debate at the Texas Legislature be framed on the question of reforming criminal laws governing pot? [read post]
