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14 Jun 2011, 6:10 pm
The answer is that a legislator’s vote is the commitment of his apportioned share of the legislature’s power to the passage or defeat of a particular proposal. [read post]
14 Jun 2011, 4:55 pm
There were no witnesses besides Brown herself at the hearing, and one of her aides told me (and Harper-Brown herself said in the committee hearing) that the bill originated when she was driving home from Austin during the 81st Texas Legislature and saw a Statewide Patrol vehicle at a construction site. [read post]
14 Jun 2011, 2:11 pm
Shannon Edmonds of the Texas District and County Attorneys Association estimates that the Texas Legislature created 50 new crimes in their 82nd session, including expanding life without parole to non-capital crimes and even criminalizing lies about fishing (which I always thought was part of fishing). [read post]
14 Jun 2011, 10:41 am
Texas has increased the use of treatment and rehabilitation and now has its lowest crime rate since 1973. [read post]
14 Jun 2011, 9:11 am
The Texas legislature has the most lawyers and North Dakota has the lowest percentage of lawyers. [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 9:42 am
Shannon Edmonds at the Texas District and County Attorneys Association boasts that most legislation aimed at reducing Texas' prison population was defeated in the 82nd Legislature "thanks to the opposition of prosecutors. [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 6:32 am
As of May 1st, according to the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, a whopping 66% of Potter County Jail inmates were incarcerated awaiting trial, compared to 53% statewide. [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 5:37 am
The Texas Legislature completed its regular session and is now in special session to address school financing legislation. [read post]
9 Jun 2011, 3:31 pm
(The Texas state senate passed this May 23, 2011 and it is now on its way to the Governor's desk. [read post]
9 Jun 2011, 3:41 am
The regular session, which concluded at the end of May, did not take a huge bite out of nursing home reimbursement, but we are now in a Special Session, and Texas consumers are never safe when the legislature is in session. [read post]
9 Jun 2011, 3:41 am
The regular session, which concluded at the end of May, did not take a huge bite out of nursing home reimbursement, but we are now in a Special Session, and Texas consumers are never safe when the legislature is in session. [read post]
8 Jun 2011, 12:30 pm
Coincidentally, or not, not too long ago the feds sent some agents to the Texas legislature to pressure it to drop a bill intended to limit intrusive TSA searches. [read post]
7 Jun 2011, 4:16 pm
Virtually everyone involved in the Texas horse industry is hoping that a bill will finally pass in the 82nd Texas Legislature legalizing Video Lottery Terminals (VLTs) at Texas race tracks. [read post]
7 Jun 2011, 10:27 am
At least one court in Texas has said no; that it’s powerless to grant a divorce to a same-sex couple. [read post]
7 Jun 2011, 5:01 am
Also in Montana the state legislature has granted a supplemental budget item, approximately $1 million from the 2011 Montana Legislature specifically to defend death penalty cases. [read post]
6 Jun 2011, 11:52 am
Texas, 10-8317). [read post]
6 Jun 2011, 7:57 am
HB 1199 passed both houses of the Texas Legislature and was sent to the Governor. [read post]
5 Jun 2011, 9:48 pm
When I left Texas the legislature was still in session, although I thought all the economic problems would keep them from doing too much mischief potentially harmful to employers.But I was as wrong about that, as I was right about how great Kauai would be.While I was playing, Russell Cawyer at Texas Employment Law Update was posting on the passage of S.B. 321, which puts Texas in company with those states which prohibit employers from barring employees… [read post]
5 Jun 2011, 12:33 pm
State Farm Lloyds. [read post]
3 Jun 2011, 3:30 pm
New Post: Weekly Twitter Cache http://goo.gl/fb/HF5RF # Texas legislature stiffens penalties for human trafficking, http://ow.ly/55tjI # Combatting sex trafficking in Oakland, clinics as first responders; redefining law enforcement response http://ow.ly/1tkzKL # Louis Menand ponders whether we're actually learning anything in college, http://ow.ly/1tkJAL # "ubiquitous, relied on, and headed off a cliff" – a profile of the U.S. [read post]
