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15 Apr 2011, 5:30 am
The GA legislature approved the sale of non-compliant health insurance, an incredibly stupid idea. [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 4:59 am
Following on the heels of the Texas legislature's proposed bill that makes it unlawful to refuse to identify yourself to a peace officer who has lawfully arrested or detained you, the Georgia... [read post]
14 Apr 2011, 9:54 am
Forget that more preventable errors occur in an ER than in any other place in a hospital, or that in states like Texas where a similar immunity law was passed, ER’s have now become even more dangerous. [read post]
12 Apr 2011, 10:01 am
We now release more people from Texas prisons and state jails every year than were incarcerated en toto in 1990 when Governor Ann Richards was elected.Such numbers reduce anxiety at the rather modest suggestions now being discussed by the Legislature. [read post]
12 Apr 2011, 9:30 am
While a student, she became an intern at the Legislature under a program by state Sen. [read post]
12 Apr 2011, 6:46 am
Robert Duncan, R-Lubbock, has proposed a bill in the Texas legislature that would allow civil lawsuits against persons (ie, lawyers) who commit the offense of barratry. [read post]
11 Apr 2011, 12:00 pm
Additionally, hearings were conducted in Texas and Missouri. [read post]
11 Apr 2011, 9:56 am
Nearly one-third of Texas' workforce is in a licensed or regulated industry, but increasingly state laws and/or agency regulations don't allow ex-felons to seek employment in those fields, reports Eric Dexheimer at the Austin Statesman ("Texas ex-offenders denied job licenses," April 11). [read post]
8 Apr 2011, 2:56 pm
As our state legislature meets to consider stricter controls of our insurance companies, data just released show that Texas home insurers racked up some of the biggest profits ever last year. [read post]
IS IT TIME FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION? “It would take 34 states to approve such a convention, …
7 Apr 2011, 8:14 pm
Yet at least 30 state legislatures, including Texas, Missouri and Virginia, are mulling over resolutions either calling for a national Article V convention or urging Congress to propose changes to the Constitution. [read post]
7 Apr 2011, 10:15 am
Fourteen jurisdictions in the United States already prohibit the sentencing of youth to life without parole or do not have any youth offenders serving the sentence: Alaska, Colorado, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Vermont, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. [read post]
7 Apr 2011, 8:43 am
But the Texas House passed yet another graffiti "enhancement" bill this week, making it a state jail felony to apply graffiti to historic structures. [read post]
6 Apr 2011, 4:31 pm
Even though Republicans now control the state Legislature, Hurst could not say if the bill would pass. [read post]
6 Apr 2011, 9:11 am
The State of Texas has thirty (30) days to respond to the arguments addressed in Foster's petition for rehearing. [read post]
6 Apr 2011, 5:04 am
From KRGV-TV in the Rio Grande Valley: "A bill is pending right now in the state legislature that would ban double dipping in Texas. [read post]
5 Apr 2011, 3:17 pm
The Texas Legislature this year has an opportunity to start correcting this clear flaw in the criminal justice system.The state Senate on March 16 approved SB121, which would require police departments to develop written policies for handling photo and live lineups. [read post]
5 Apr 2011, 12:18 pm
Rick Perry and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles should stay the remaining pending executions until the legislature enacts measures that provide the same comprehensive regulations for the taking of human life as those provided to animals. [read post]
5 Apr 2011, 9:09 am
The Texas legislature has given the director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice the absolute power to decide on the drugs used and how they will be administered. [read post]
4 Apr 2011, 2:57 pm
The Texas Board of Pardons and Parole and Texas Governor Rick Perry should stay all pending executions, including tomorrow’s scheduled execution of Cleve Foster, until the Texas legislature enacts measures that provide, at a minimum, the same protections to human beings condemned to die as those provided to a lizard. [read post]
4 Apr 2011, 8:04 am
But the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, the state law governing most justice procedures in Texas, simply states that executions shall be carried out “by intravenous injection of a substance or substances in a lethal quantity sufficient to cause death. [read post]
