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22 May 2013, 1:21 pm by Jay Stanley
Texas is known as an outsized state with an ego that rivals its land mass. [read post]
22 May 2013, 3:00 am by Colin Lachance
State Department asked that he remove them from his site. [read post]
20 May 2013, 8:34 am by Gritsforbreakfast
  Lowry has attempted to address with the legislature the increasing staffing shortages which plague Texas prisons. [read post]
20 May 2013, 6:35 am by Breakstone, White & Gluck
There is a bill proposed in the Legislature to make Maryland the first state to require cyclists of all ages to wear helmets.In Washington State, more than two dozen communities have laws or ordinances requiring helmets to be worn by all ages, but there is no statewide law. [read post]
16 May 2013, 6:19 am by David Clark
Massachusetts has a head start: on January 2, 2013, Bill H. 27 was introduced in the state legislature to enact the UTSA in Massachusetts, and that bill remains pending in the legislature. [read post]
16 May 2013, 5:44 am by Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D.
The changes implement SB 41, 82nd Legislature, Regular Session, 2011, which prescribe limits for the use of restraints on an individual residing in a state supported living center or the Rio Grande State Center. [read post]
16 May 2013, 5:30 am by Kenneth J. Vanko
So far, 2013 has been active for proposed non-compete legislation.At the beginning of any calendar year, it's not surprising to see a number of bills introduced in state assemblies or legislatures - many of which have no chance of becoming law. [read post]
16 May 2013, 5:19 am by David J. Clark
Massachusetts has a head start: on January 2, 2013, Bill H. 27 was introduced in the state legislature to enact the UTSA in Massachusetts, and that bill remains pending in the legislature. [read post]
15 May 2013, 8:43 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The 83rd Texas Legislature is winding down and there are a handful good criminal justice bills that still have potential to pass this session. [read post]
14 May 2013, 2:34 pm by Michael Markarian
It’s a radical federal overreach that would undermine the longstanding Constitutional rights of states to protect the health, safety, and welfare of their citizens and local businesses.The amendment takes aim at state laws such as California’s Proposition 2, approved overwhelmingly by voters across the state in 2008—to ban extreme confinement of egg-laying hens, breeding pigs, and veal calves in small crates and cages—and a law passed subsequently… [read post]
14 May 2013, 4:11 am by Charles Sartain
Mills, other bills in the California legislature propose regulation of fracking. [read post]
13 May 2013, 11:10 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Few other state programs get so much bang for the buck, but in the end fewer bucks still means less bang. [read post]
12 May 2013, 6:33 am by Gritsforbreakfast
HB 3164 by Stickland, which was attached to another piece of legislation recently approved by the Texas House, aims to close this same loophole for state and local law enforcement in Texas. [read post]
11 May 2013, 9:10 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Taking stock now that the Texas House has finished considering bills originating in the lower chamber and the 83rd Texas Legislature is winding to a close, a few big-picture observations jump out.First, the Senate has been much more effective than the House at passing bills and tackling major issues, both on criminal-justice matters and generally. [read post]
11 May 2013, 6:31 am by Gritsforbreakfast
His story opened:Senate and House negotiators have tentatively agreed on a plan to close two privately run state prisons, potentially resolving a political feud that threatened to derail the reauthorization of the state’s criminal justice agency.Officials confirmed Friday that instead of specifying which two prisons should be shuttered, at a time when the state has more than 12,000 empty prison beds, lawmakers will let the prison system’s governing board… [read post]
10 May 2013, 4:56 pm by Cicely Wilson
Texas, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (5/8/13)Constitutional Law, Criminal LawAppellant Gregg Baird hired Dawn Killian to stay at his home and care for his dog while he was away on vacation. [read post]
10 May 2013, 1:22 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
You can review recent activity in state legislatures to reduce prison populations, with contextual information about each state, on our new map. [read post]