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28 Dec 2015, 2:00 pm by Cale
The legislature made a substantial commitment to improving our roadways and rail lines. [read post]
28 Dec 2015, 1:55 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
In a 2-1 R controlled Legislature, realistically nothing happens just because Democrats want it. [read post]
27 Dec 2015, 5:51 am by Gritsforbreakfast
For that matter, the legislature's rebuke of DPS' unilateral move to gather all ten fingerprints from Texas drivers was a pretty big deal. [read post]
23 Dec 2015, 4:54 pm by Michael Markarian
Shark Finning Texas became the tenth state (along with three U.S. territories) to ban the trade in shark fins. [read post]
23 Dec 2015, 9:47 am by Michael Lowe
All around the state, people are asking questions and searching for answers on what they can and cannot do once the new Texas Open Carry law goes into effect. [read post]
23 Dec 2015, 7:20 am by John McFarland
Meanwhile, the Legislature is looking into the well classification issue. [read post]
23 Dec 2015, 6:58 am by Jim Sedor
Some Legislatures are trying to collect and publish the sources of these donations, but most states allow independent groups to spend unlimited cash on political ads with little transparency. [read post]
23 Dec 2015, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
The Texas State Preservation Board has a policy that allows displays in public areas of the Capitol upon filing of an appropriate application and a letter of sponsorship from the governor, lieutenant governor or a member of the state legislature. [read post]
21 Dec 2015, 12:15 pm by Lindsay Stafford Mader
More of our state’s beloved courthouses will be restored and modernized with the next round of grants from the Texas Historic Courthouse Preservation Program. [read post]
21 Dec 2015, 2:58 am by Amy Howe
” At the National Conference of State Legislatures, Lisa Soronen discusses the brief that the State and Local Legal Center filed in a pair of energy cases before the Court, arguing that “Maryland directing its local utilities to enter into a long-term contract providing stable revenue to the successful power plant bidder isn’t field- or conflict-pre-empted. [read post]
19 Dec 2015, 7:58 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Texas Legislature formally repealed the speedy trial act in 2005. [read post]
17 Dec 2015, 2:59 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
(May was previously ordered into outpatient treatment as a repeat sex offender) Earlier this year I submitted an article contemplating the proposed changes pending in the 84th Texas Legislature concerning amendment of the Texas Health & Safety Code Chapter 841, the law providing for the civil commitment of repeat sex offenders. [read post]
16 Dec 2015, 7:39 am by John McFarland
He spent more than $1 million of his own money in an unsuccessful effort to take Comptroller Glenn Hegar’s former senate seat, losing to Lois Kolkhors in a special election – the fourth time he failed to win an election for the Texas legislature. lJohn Greytok, Republican. [read post]
15 Dec 2015, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Since 1997, Texas has offered admission to its flagship state university to students who graduated in the top ten percent of their Texas high school classes. [read post]
14 Dec 2015, 12:07 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
While costs for legally required benefits, including Social Security, Medicare, unemployment insurance (both state and federal), and workers’ compensation, for state and local governments averaged $2.63 per hour worked. [read post]
14 Dec 2015, 6:15 am by Joy Waltemath
In 1997, the Texas legislature enacted the Top Ten Percent Law which is designed to increase diversity without taking race into account. [read post]
13 Dec 2015, 5:06 pm by David Markus
If you want to change the definition of marriage, then you need to go to state legislatures and get them to change it. [read post]
11 Dec 2015, 4:28 pm by Cynthia L. Hackerott
In 1997, the Texas legislature enacted the Top Ten Percent Law which is designed to increase diversity without taking race into account. [read post]
11 Dec 2015, 10:18 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
She both helps her clients respond to and resolve emerging regulations and laws, government investigations and enforcement actions and helps them shape the rules through dealings with Congress and other legislatures, regulators and government officials domestically and internationally. [read post]
10 Dec 2015, 12:10 pm by John Floyd
  This past March, the Texas Legislature moved to correct this disconnect. [read post]