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4 Jun 2013, 8:00 am by Karl Bayer
Jefferson presented his State of the Judiciary speech before the 83rd Texas Legislature in Austin. [read post]
4 Jun 2013, 8:00 am by Karl Bayer
Jefferson presented his State of the Judiciary speech before the 83rd Texas Legislature in Austin. [read post]
4 Jun 2013, 2:34 am by Robert Kraft
According to the National Conferences of State Legislatures, every state has a law in regard to identity theft or impersonation. [read post]
3 Jun 2013, 7:52 am
The session is over, and the Texas legislature has failed once again to pass sunset legislation for the Texas Railroad Commission. [read post]
3 Jun 2013, 6:00 am by LTA-Editor
By Chelsey Heindel This week, the Texas legislature passed the “Texas Privacy Act,” a bill that would prohibit private drone usage within the state. [read post]
31 May 2013, 1:48 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
RT.com: Texas could set new standard on email privacy laws Fierce Homeland Security: Texas legislature passes bill requiring warrants for email searchesMashable: Texas police may soon need warrants to read emailsJonathon Tilove at the Austin Statesman linked to the Ars and National Journal stories but besides that, surprisingly the Austin Business Journal is the only Texas media outlet to cover the bill's passage, much less mention that Texas… [read post]
31 May 2013, 1:47 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Texaslegislature passed SB 1003, which would require the state to closely examine its use of solitary confinement. [read post]
31 May 2013, 7:16 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Right now it seems law enforcement is making one argument at the Legislature and quite different ones in court.Which two prison units will Texas close? [read post]
31 May 2013, 5:24 am by David DePaolo
Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, had little trouble moving Senate Bill 1322 through the state Legislature during the legislative session that ended on Monday. [read post]
29 May 2013, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
There, the Court held that opening prayers in a state legislature were constitutional, largely because of the long history of opening legislative sessions with prayer. [read post]
29 May 2013, 4:15 pm
Finally some good news from our state legislature: the amount of money that health insurance companies can be reimbursed from third party recoveries will be limited. [read post]
29 May 2013, 10:00 am by Joe Mullin
Texas appears to be the first such state to take legal action against the private use of drones. [read post]
28 May 2013, 5:54 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
“It is the first state legislature I'm aware of to change the law this way,” he also told Ars. [read post]
28 May 2013, 4:45 pm by Cyrus Farivar
The bill passed both houses of the state legislature earlier this year without a single "nay" vote. [read post]
27 May 2013, 6:02 am by Kit Case
”     So we would encourage you to join us in educating yourselves about how workers’ compensation “reform” can lead to stories like NPR’s cautionary tales about the construction industry in Texas and to explore what’s going on in your state legislature. [read post]
26 May 2013, 7:47 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Given this nascent national debate, Grits is pleased to report that the Texas Legislature has sent a bill to Governor Rick Perry, HB 2268, that in its amended form requires a warrant for law enforcement to access old emails, closing the loophole at least for state and local law enforcement in Texas. [read post]
25 May 2013, 11:01 am by LindaMBeale
   As the HuffPost article notes, [T]he 14 largest counties in Poe's state of Texas received more than $14 billion in federal funding in 2008 based on ACS data, according to a recent Brookings Institution study. [read post]
23 May 2013, 10:51 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But the two states are united in a desire by their legislatures to limit prison spending growth, which is why the DAs Association made these concessions.We've seen Texas judges plead with the Legislature to reduce sentencing categories for low-level drug possession but it's hard to imagine our current crop of DAs doing so. [read post]