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16 Jan 2012, 4:07 pm
In the meantime, though, the state may not use the legislature’s plan. [read post]
24 Aug 2012, 7:34 am
Ward attributed the decline to alternatives to incarceration enacted by the Legislature in 2007, as well as "A decrease in crime rates, changes in demographics and an aging state population [which] also have a role in emptying Texas' prison beds. [read post]
3 Dec 2010, 6:34 pm
According to Mothers Against Drunk Driving MADD, these are the statistics for 2010 for the State of Texas. [read post]
2 Oct 2009, 6:11 am
Since Texas has a state constitutional ban on gay marriages, the only way to get jurisdiction over the case is to vault over the state's ban and declare the law invalid under the federal constitution. [read post]
3 Apr 2011, 11:34 am
" Texas Property Coce, Section 55.002. [read post]
7 Feb 2011, 5:32 am
" Here's a little more background on the legislation authorizing the new rules from the agency's website:During the 79th Regular session of the Texas Legislature, two companion bills became law which potentially impact deregistration of some sex offenders in Texas. [read post]
8 Dec 2017, 6:48 am
This is an issue taken very seriously by the state as the legislature passed Senate Bill 459 in 2011 to provide penalties to employers for willfully misclassifying employees. [read post]
26 Jun 2010, 3:30 pm
Equal division of property is the standard in some other states, but not in Texas. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 9:06 am
Under the Constitution, each state appoints presidential electors “in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct,” giving state legislatures broad authority to define through state law how that state’s electors should be allocated. [read post]
5 Nov 2021, 7:47 am
Beyer, Estate Planning Highlights of the 2021 Texas Legislature, Est. [read post]
12 Dec 2019, 5:45 am
The Multistate Tax Commission (MTC)’s working group on Wayfair implementation and marketplace facilitator laws is still meeting, and issued a white paper in December 2019 sketching the ongoing debate about the design of post-Wayfair laws and regulations.[2] The State and Local Tax Task Force of the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) reported model marketplace facilitator legislation to the full executive committee in late November.[3] Many… [read post]
16 Mar 2017, 8:40 am
Now that the issue is out in the open, the Legislature should require it statewide.More detail on new Harris County pot rulesNot everybody benefits.For the data geeksSome new BJS publications for the data nerds among you: Jail Inmates in 2015Correctional Populations in the United States, 2015 Prisoners in 2015 Probation and Parole in the United States, 2015Penal Populism: Rise of the DicksThe phrase "penal populism" is new to me, but the concept is familiar. [read post]
28 Sep 2015, 3:30 pm
Nearly everything they raise is spent traveling around the state by car to party events and forums where they'll get to speak for 2 minutes, half of which is spent explaining that Texas has two high courts and this is the criminal one. [read post]
3 Apr 2015, 5:34 am
Of major Texas cities, Dallas and El Paso never voted to adopt Ch. 143, but many other large and mid-sized jurisdictions did back in the day.In 1989, at the behest of the big Texas police unions, the then-Democratic controlled Legislature changed the civil service law to create a secret personnel file, exempting it from what was then called the Texas Open Records Act. [read post]
12 Jan 2007, 5:00 pm
Lynaugh that judges instruct jurors to consider mitigation evidence, and 1991, when the Texas Legislature revised the state's jury instructions in §37.071 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure to include a mandatory mitigation question. [read post]
29 Jul 2016, 10:00 am
A look at what’s been happening in state legislatures suggests that they could. [read post]
9 Mar 2010, 11:56 am
States slashing spending costs, closing unitsSome states actually shutting down prison unitsEmptying prisons makes Wired magazine's 'Smart List'California's partisan prison meltdown: Why Texas didn't go thereGood news for once: Texas among national leaders at reducing incarceration ratePew: One in 22 adult Texans under control of criminal justice system [read post]
12 Apr 2012, 8:48 am
Jones that the proper scope of privacy protection might be a topic better left to legislatures than courts. [read post]
27 Dec 2020, 9:57 am
The Legislature placed then-autonomous task forces under DPS in an attempt to reform their practices. [read post]
23 Apr 2008, 11:45 am
The Bexar County Commissioners Court has begun to come to grips with what it would mean if the state of Texas were to "abolish" the Texas Youth Commission (TYC) and shift responsibility for housing youth incarcerated from the county in county-owned facilities, reports Elizabeth Allen of the San Antonio Express News ("Commissioners' Chorus: Juvies's Comin'," April 23):County Budget Officer David Smith said his staff's initial… [read post]
