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21 Apr 2021, 10:50 am
Your correspondent is beginning to despair that the 87th Texas Legislature may come and go without meaningful reform a the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, the state's police-and-jailer-licensing agency.The TCOLE Sunset bill - which drew attention because of an especially harsh critique by Sunset staff calling it a broken system that's failing to achieve its mission - is now languishing with others in House Calendars and appears likely to be pushed… [read post]
18 Mar 2013, 4:49 am
The Legislature should pass Stickland’s bill and begin to reinvigorate Fourth Amendment protections for the modern era.Scott Henson writes a blog, gritsforbreakfast.org, on Texas criminal justice issues and is working with the Texas Electronic Privacy Coalition to support HB 3164. [read post]
21 Dec 2020, 7:49 am
The decisions arose from the state Legislature's legalization of hemp in 2019, which made it difficult for law enforcement officers to distinguish between legal and illegal cannabis. [read post]
17 Apr 2023, 5:41 am
Republican state legislatures across the country are debating significant reforms in state university systems. [read post]
2 Sep 2012, 9:45 am
Giving Juveniles Intensive Counseling, The New York Times, Texas To Mr. [read post]
30 Oct 2014, 7:57 am
The part of me that appreciates political theater (particularly comedic performances like Charley's column) would enjoy it if CLEAT and Co. decided to employ this sort of over-the-top rhetoric at the Lege.Since the GOP took over the Texas Legislature in 2003, it for the most part has forsaken the sort of union bashing that have occurred in Wisconsin and elsewhere. [read post]
17 Jan 2014, 12:51 pm
More than half of Texans say that more should be done about global warming at all levels of government--from Congress (62%) and President Obama (57%), to Governor Perry (59%) and Texas's state legislature (56%), to local government officials (60%). [read post]
12 May 2011, 6:02 am
Small Claims: Hawaii going from $3,500 to $5,000; Nevada from $5,000 to $7,500 Mandatory judicial retirement age increases pass committees in Massachusetts (to 76) and New York (to 74) Texas House gives a majority, but not two-thirds majority, to increases trial judges terms from 4 to 6 years Maine, Missouri, North Carolina, and Texas legislators all vote to make it easier to collect fees/fines owed to courts Massachusetts committee approves restructuring of state… [read post]
23 Sep 2009, 8:53 am
"In my opinion, the fee this lawyer is trying to charge is obscene," Turner said.The Tim Cole Act, passed by the 2009 Texas Legislature, was HB 1736. [read post]
2 Mar 2017, 5:06 pm
In response to concerns that virtually every merger transaction was attracting at least one lawsuit, Delaware’s legislature and judiciary acted to try to cut down on the merger objection litigation in the state’s courts. [read post]
22 Feb 2011, 2:31 pm
Texas imposes a tax on the value of all oil and gas produced in the state: 7.5% for gas and 4.6% for oil. [read post]
14 Oct 2013, 12:18 pm
Then state legislatures started getting in on the act too, with Texas becoming the first state to change its statute to require state and local police obtain a search warrant to access the contents of communications. [read post]
16 Jan 2019, 9:00 pm
Other states considering a 0.05 limit are Texas, with the most DUI deaths a year, Hawaii, New York and Delaware. [read post]
10 Jan 2021, 9:34 am
The Texas Legislature has elected time and time again to avoid the issue. [read post]
20 Dec 2021, 9:01 pm
Because Republicans had quite explicitly done so to punish what we now call blue states. [read post]
21 May 2007, 11:37 am
Despite DA's opposition, the bill passed both chambers of the Legislature and is already headed to the Governor. [read post]
6 Oct 2023, 7:00 am
Department of Justice Antitrust Division, state attorneys general and state legislatures that have passed laws requiring pre-close review of healthcare transactions not subject to the HSR Act. [read post]
14 Oct 2010, 2:19 pm
So in California, the Legislature tries to maximize Democratic districts, in the same way that Texas, another large state but which is Republican, tries to maximize seats for the GOP. [read post]
22 Sep 2015, 8:29 pm
In some areas, a previous Texas Legislature has created waivers of sovereign immunity -- such as through the Whistleblower Act and the Texas Tort Claims Act, thereby allowing injured and aggrieved persons to sue the State, but the Texas Supreme Court has done its "best" to dismantle these statutes and render them impotent. [read post]
18 Jun 2012, 8:24 am
North Carolina’s Legislature is moving shamefully to gut the state’s 2009 Racial Justice Act. [read post]
