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18 Aug 2012, 7:09 am
Yet every time one of these proposals comes to the Texas Legislature, the lobbyists claim this will be good for all Texas citizens. [read post]
19 Nov 2009, 4:38 pm
Also, how are there still states that allow texting and driving? [read post]
25 Oct 2021, 6:38 am
Legislatures know this because they have data that proves the effectiveness of helmets and helmet laws. [read post]
21 Sep 2018, 10:36 am
Court of Appeals of Texas, San Antonio. [read post]
21 Jul 2011, 12:23 pm
That would require another Texas Register notice, but since they were ordered to enact the rules by the Legislature, the process shouldn't be controversial. [read post]
6 Oct 2011, 12:56 pm
In May, the Texas legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill guaranteeing the right to post-conviction DNA testing, and in June Gov. [read post]
18 May 2017, 4:26 am
With the new $750 insurance fee and the $20 increase in the state traffic fine, debt will accumulate quickly for low-income Texans. [read post]
22 Apr 2024, 2:10 pm
South Dakota Governor Caves on Attempted Efforts to Silence Pipeline Protesters The state's quick retreat should serve as a lesson for other legislatures: if you criminalize protest, we will sue. [read post]
14 Jul 2020, 8:43 am
The 1777 New York state constitution, for example, allowed the governor only to suspend the execution of a sentence and left it up to the legislature to make a final determination of whether to issue a pardon. [read post]
26 Apr 2010, 6:49 am
Senate Committee Hearing Room E1.028, and Room E1.016 for overflow State Capitol Extension Bldg. [read post]
28 Nov 2017, 6:47 am
For example, in Texas, 70 businesses, along with several Texas Chambers of Commerce, signed a letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Lt. [read post]
28 May 2009, 12:00 am
That bill has already been approved by both chambers and sent to the Governor.So all in all, the 81st Legislature leaves a lot of work undone if they hope to reduce the number of innocent people convicted and sent to prison in this state. [read post]
25 Oct 2022, 10:46 am
In 2017, the New Jersey Legislature passed, and then-Governor Chris Christie was signed, legislation directing the State’s executive officials to effect New Jersey’s unilateral withdrawal from the Waterfront Compact and providing for the Commission’s subsequent dissolution. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 4:22 am
" See related Grits posts:Draft budgets reduce prison healthcare reimbursements to match Medicaid ratesTexas' 'Secret Death Penalty': Inadequate prison healthcareAudit: UTMB overcharged state while claiming massive deficitWhither Texas prison healthcare with 24% budget cuts? [read post]
7 Feb 2019, 11:40 am
Olive claims this taking violated the Texas Constitution, Article 1, Section 17, which states: No person’s property shall be taken, damaged or destroyed for or applied to public use without adequate compensation being made, unless by the consent of such person; and, when taken, except for the use of the State, such compensation shall be first made, or secured by a deposit of money; and no irrevocable or uncontrollable grant of special privileges or immunities,… [read post]
4 Jun 2008, 11:30 am
Five years ago the Legislature changed state jail felony sentences so that that drug defendants convicted of possessing less than a gram of a controlled substance (besides pot) would receive probation and treatment instead of prison term. [read post]
21 Oct 2010, 2:20 pm
" To give credit where it's due, I've rarely seen a state agency governing body as engaged on an issue as were the five commissioners at the Texas Department of Public Safety. [read post]
23 Jul 2018, 3:06 pm
One would expect the state to win a disproportionate number of these appeals. [read post]
17 Jan 2012, 5:29 am
• An eight-day trial over the Republican-controlled Texas legislature’s proposed map of congressional districts is slated to begin on Tuesday in federal court in Washington, D.C. [read post]
2 May 2014, 5:56 am
Texas – Nonprofit Groups Using Law to Anonymously Back Candidates Houston Chronicle – David Saleh Rauff | Published: 4/27/2014 Dark money has been injected into a broad mix of state and local elections in Texas. [read post]
