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23 May 2021, 9:38 pm
Texas's fair-notice privilege is a creature of statute, however, and the legislature has not seen fit to extend it to an attorney's statements to the media. [read post]
1 Mar 2007, 9:48 am
None have passed as yet, though, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 10:00 am
And it's not surprising that the states' argument warns ominously that dozens of legislatures could have to take action if the Supreme Court decides that the current three-drug method is invalid. [read post]
14 Mar 2024, 5:05 pm
Tom Oliverson, M.D.: Texas State Representative, Chair of the Insurance Committee, Texas House of Representatives. [read post]
24 Oct 2016, 9:46 am
But creating a new government agency during a budget-starved session with a 2-1 Republican majority at the Legislature seems like a heavy lift. [read post]
7 Mar 2015, 5:32 am
He had spoken over the summer to former state Rep. [read post]
18 Jun 2013, 5:13 am
Readers will recall the legislatures in Missouri and Maine passed similar legislation, but Montana's governor beat them to the punch in signing it, making them the first state to finally pass such a law. [read post]
21 Feb 2018, 3:47 pm
Yet, identical situations exist everywhere around the state. [read post]
27 Jun 2023, 7:07 am
University of Texas, discussed a race-neutral admissions method that was enacted by the Texas legislature: the top ten per cent of students in every high school in the state were automatically guaranteed admission to any of the state’s public colleges or universities.... [read post]
11 Mar 2015, 12:26 pm
Texas To Execute Gang Enforcer: Convicted murderer Manuel Vasquez is scheduled for execution today in Texas for the 1998 killing of 51-year-old Juanita Ybarra. [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 9:18 am
"Absent the Legislature's direction, we have no plans to move this jail. [read post]
14 Jan 2017, 6:25 am
"The original intent of state jails fell apart," according to the section of the Texas House Corrections Committee's interim report (pp 43-61 of pdf) on nonviolent drug offenses, because the Legislature prioritized incarceration for addicts over treatment.Who is nonviolent? [read post]
26 Mar 2011, 8:02 am
The Austin Statesman today editorialized against providing post-secondary vocational courses to Texas prison inmates, and made this flawed argument (rebutted over the last few days in the comments to this Grits post):So far, the state has spent $26.9 million on the program, which is based on the proven notion that recidivism rates can be lowered if inmates leave prison with more education than they had when they arrived.The cost of the program was to have been borne by the … [read post]
12 Jan 2008, 10:36 pm
Perry and the Legislature have been warned of this growing dilemma for several years, but in 2007 preferred to construct new prisons (that we probably can't staff) instead of addressing the lack of guards at current ones.On Thursday at the Texas Public Policy Foundation's legislative issues seminar, I asked House Corrections Chair Jerry Madden in the public Q&A how they planned to staff new prisons when they're so short on guards now. [read post]
11 Aug 2008, 7:07 am
But if Texas is going to operate them that way, school districts should pay the full freight, not just dump their costs and problem kids on the juvenile justice system. [read post]
21 Sep 2017, 7:04 am
That yielded some uncertainty in non-presidential years and might confuse voters or cause irregularities by having primaries back in June for those off-cycle years, so the legislature then chose to put all primaries in March.Just a handful of states in 2016 had congressional primaries in March: as far as I could discern, Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Mississippi, Ohio, and Texas were the only states that hold congressional primaries that early. [read post]
22 Aug 2022, 5:07 am
The abstract: This year (2022), the Supreme Court agreed to review wide-ranging constitutional challenges to the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) brought by the State of Texas and three non-Indian foster families in the October 2022 Term. [read post]
25 Aug 2008, 10:36 pm
The DPS needs to either provide an adequate alternative hearing procedure or ask the state legislature to bring § 481.063(e)(2)(A) back within the purview of the APA. [read post]
6 Jan 2016, 8:54 am
In Wisconsin, Texas, and several other states around the country, legislatures required that all abortion doctors have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, in order to ensure that abortion doctors are well qualified and to promote continuity of care. [read post]
14 Mar 2019, 7:30 pm
The Kentucky Legislature passed two bills on this week, and unless a court blocks them, abortion will effectively be banned in the state. [read post]
