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9 Feb 2011, 6:47 am
Regular readers know that the Texas House and Senate have already released draft budgets that suggested massive cuts to state agencies across the board, including at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 7:49 pm
Texas State Senator Kirk Watson introduced a bill today that would give a judge the option of punishing the parents of kids who “sext” by sending the parents to an education class. [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 2:39 pm
The measure, introduced by State Sen. [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 1:51 pm
"This is clearly someone's legal effort to prevent the commission from doing what the Legislature had intended for it to do," said Stephen Saloom, policy director for the Innocence Project in New York. [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 1:45 pm
A measure which would allow a judge to punish the parents of teenagers who engage in the risky practice known as 'sexting,' was introduced today in the Texas Legislature, and immediately received the support of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, 1200 WOAI news reports. [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 7:45 am
The Texas Legislature later reformed the law to conform with the Court's ruling, but the damage had been done. [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 3:00 am
Co. of Texas in 1993, after the Texas Legislature enacted Article 21.58 (later § 554.002) in 1991. [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 2:17 am
The Texas Legislature is facing a huge budget deficit and must either cut expenses or raise taxes. [read post]
7 Feb 2011, 7:05 pm
During the same legislative session some years, the Texas legislature amended that state's Uniform Commercial Code to permit the assignment of lottery payments, and a few days later amended the Texas Lottery Act in a bill that contained restrictions on the assignment of the last two years' of a lottery winners payments. [read post]
7 Feb 2011, 5:32 am
" Here's a little more background on the legislation authorizing the new rules from the agency's website:During the 79th Regular session of the Texas Legislature, two companion bills became law which potentially impact deregistration of some sex offenders in Texas. [read post]
7 Feb 2011, 4:00 am
State, a Texas Court of Criminal Appeals case released last week and designated for publication. [read post]
7 Feb 2011, 3:38 am
The proposed budget cuts put forward by the Texas Legislature could have a devastating effect on the nursing home industry and the patients who live in nursing homes. [read post]
7 Feb 2011, 2:36 am
The proposed budget cuts put forward by the Texas Legislature could have a devastating effect on the nursing home industry and the patients who live in nursing homes. [read post]
5 Feb 2011, 1:04 am
Roberts was elected in 1964 to the Oregon legislature; a decade later she ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. [read post]
4 Feb 2011, 9:35 am
In the decade since state lawmakers last addressed wrongful convictions, Texas has earned the distinction of having the highest number of exonerations based on DNA evidence in the nation.At least 42 men from a dozen Texas counties have leveled successful DNA challenges to their convictions, according to the Innocence Project of Texas.In light of that, Sen. [read post]
4 Feb 2011, 6:46 am
These States include: California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Virginia. [read post]
4 Feb 2011, 4:57 am
Leading the way out of this, of all places, is Texas; as this article details, the state began a “reinvestment” movement in 2007, putting money into drug, alcohol, and mental health programs to treat low-level offenders, rather than sending them to prison. [read post]
3 Feb 2011, 6:38 pm
I just noticed a document from the Legislative Budget Board's website titled "Texas At-Risk Youth Services Project," (pdf), a report to the 82nd Texas Legislature dated January 2011, the Introduction to which begins as follows:The Texas At-Risk Youth Services Project (ARYSP) is an interim research project directed by the Criminal Justice Data Analysis Team of the Legislative Budget Board (LBB). [read post]
3 Feb 2011, 2:58 pm
HB 882 creates a "Four Loco" crime.It's always something.See prior, related Grits posts:2,383 and counting: How many felonies from the 82nd Texas Legislature? [read post]
3 Feb 2011, 12:29 pm
Ten states—including Texas, Utah, California, Oklahoma and Maryland—already subsidize the college education of illegal immigrants who graduate from local high schools. [read post]
