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5 Jan 2011, 11:27 pm
The Texas Legislature commences its 82nd Legislative Session on January 11, 2011. [read post]
5 Jan 2011, 6:26 am
The associations are statutory entities created by state legislatures to provide protection for resident policyholders in the event that a member insurance company becomes insolvent. [read post]
5 Jan 2011, 5:54 am
State crime lab services should be on a fee recovery basis and legislature mandating such is supported. [read post]
4 Jan 2011, 7:13 am
The Texas Legislature came to the rescue with a one-time $20 million emergency allocation to fill the shortfall in 2009 and 2010, but the state now is dealing with its own budget crisis and legal aid advocates aren’t counting on another financial bailout for 2011 or an overnight recovery of the accounts, which go by the acronym IOLTA. [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 7:19 pm
For better or worse (more of the former), the Texas Legislature only meets every other year. [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 2:50 pm
– Article published on Texas GOP Vote which i [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 8:42 am
First, it was created with the support of the governor's office, the Court of Criminal Appeals, the State Bar of Texas and deep bipartisan backing. [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 3:59 am
Under the plan, measures approved by Washington could be repealed if both houses in two-thirds of the state legislatures vote to do so. [read post]
2 Jan 2011, 9:46 am
They fear that cuts by the Legislature to mental health services will further shift costs to Harris County (and by extension, all counties), citing a similar outcome after budget cuts in 2003:A prime example of cost shifting has occurred within the Harris County Jail, now the largest mental health facility in Texas. [read post]
2 Jan 2011, 8:32 am
The column opens: It is the job of the Texas Legislature to draft the laws of this state, not that of the courts. [read post]
1 Jan 2011, 7:44 am
(Pam Colloff's story on Graves in Texas Monthly was perhaps the state's journalistic event of the year.) [read post]
30 Dec 2010, 9:03 am
The death penalty is being considered by several states. [read post]
29 Dec 2010, 7:51 am
Texas Legislature May Change the Law for First Time DWI Offenders However, things may really be changing next year. [read post]
28 Dec 2010, 8:37 am
Around the state, reporters and local officials are waking up to a sleeper issue that this blog has been sounding the alarm about for years: The danger posed to county budgets, especially local jails, by cuts in the number of state mental hospital beds and mental health care generally - an issue likely to reach a critical stage if state hospitals are cut further next spring by the 82nd Texas Legislature. [read post]
28 Dec 2010, 6:00 am
For that reason, several state legislatures have have had to go back and change the laws of their states to allow their courts more latitude. legislatures in Oklahoma (HB 2253 of 2004), Iowa (HB 579 of 2009), and Michigan (SB 720 of 2010) all authorized all courts in their state to e-seal. [read post]
27 Dec 2010, 7:36 am
Coverage of criminal justice at the legislature adds additional institutional players - state agency PR staff, police chiefs and sheriffs associations, unions, single-issue groups like MADD, the occasional vendor - who mostly share an interest in the status quo. [read post]
26 Dec 2010, 12:33 pm
The general rule is that a policy of insurance issued in another state to one of its insured's immediately converts to the minimum of what Texas requires when the out of state driver enters Texas. [read post]
26 Dec 2010, 3:36 am
I guaran-damn-tee a moment will come during the 82nd Texas Legislature when legislators (or their staff) will tell TDCJ chief Brad Livingston exactly that: If you'd do it yourself, we wouldn't have to do it for you. [read post]
24 Dec 2010, 11:01 am
That seems as though it undercuts the idea that the GOP benefits from the new districts in the red state of Texas. [read post]
24 Dec 2010, 8:48 am
Meanwhile, the Texas Legislature starts its session in several weeks. [read post]
