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18 Jul 2017, 6:04 am
Thanks to new money and oversight from the Texas Legislature, the state can now pursue workers’ compensation fraud cases without relying on an unusual and much-criticized funding deal between a private insurance company and the Travis County district attorney’s office. [read post]
26 Dec 2013, 10:30 am
Steve McCraw announced the agency would cease using the controversial tactic unless the Texas Legislature explicitly approved it.9. [read post]
26 Feb 2009, 11:53 am
In addition to S.B. 222 discussed here, the 81st Texas Legislature is considering H.B. 1083. [read post]
31 Jul 2019, 12:55 pm
Greg Abbott vetoed a bill passed by the Texas Legislature in 2015 to allow people to call 911 in the event of an overdose without being charged with drug possession. [read post]
11 Jul 2016, 10:01 pm
Flynn, R-Van, has for the past decade been one of raw milk’s biggest advocates in the Texas Legislature. [read post]
31 May 2011, 7:01 am
In a bill passed by the Texas Legislature, the climate just got friendlier. [read post]
30 Mar 2009, 4:59 pm
On March 20, 2009 I posted an entry about several leave of absence bills pending in the Texas Legislature. [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 7:50 am
The Texas court adopted the interim map while the state and civil-rights groups continued their legal battle over new congressional maps adopted by the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature. [read post]
5 Sep 2011, 2:23 pm
The staff of the Texas Railroad Commission has proposed to the Commision rules to implement House Bill 3328, passed by the last Legislature, requiring the disclosure of chemicals used in frac fluids. [read post]
19 Sep 2014, 5:27 am
“So I would expect the Legislature to try to address that in some way. [read post]
25 Jun 2011, 4:38 am
As stated by the Texas Supreme Court in 1994, in Light v. [read post]
25 Jan 2017, 5:15 am
The Dallas Morning News reports that top legislatures in the state a supporting an expansive new voucher program or what they call an education savings account: Parents would get money to pull their kids from Texas public schools and educate them elsewhere, under divisive proposals that two of the state’s... [read post]
11 Dec 2020, 10:40 am
State legislatures play a profound and vital role in our constitutional structure. [read post]
18 Jun 2019, 12:17 pm
Wendy Davis – revealed there were at least 18,000 untested rape kits in the state of Texas at the time. [read post]
14 May 2021, 12:58 pm
Today the Texas legislature sent to Governor Greg Abbott for his signature SB8 (full text), the state's version of a "heartbeat" abortion law. [read post]
28 Aug 2012, 12:39 pm
Counties that want to expand Medicaid on their own face at least two hurdles: the president and the state legislature. [read post]
9 May 2019, 8:52 am
Cross-Posted from The Global Privacy Watch Blog Last month, Texas saw the introduction of not one, but TWO privacy bills in the Texas state legislature: The Texas Consumer Privacy Act (TXCPA) and the Texas Privacy Protection Act (TXPPA). [read post]
27 Mar 2007, 9:15 am
Supreme Court of Texas refuses to extend that State's grandparent visitation law to step-grandparents: Last Friday, the highest court of Texas in civil cases issued a unanimous per curiam opinion that begins:In 2005, the Legislature substantially amended the grandparent access statute, codified at Family Code sections 153.432-34. [read post]
28 Mar 2024, 4:53 am
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has blocked border enforcement by the state under Texas’s SB 4. [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 8:12 am
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote separately to state that he would accept the Texas legislature's maps even though they have not been precleared, because he views the preclearance process as unconstitutional. [read post]
