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12 Jul 2009, 6:34 am
In the meantime, about 100 new people per month are being placed on Texas' sex offender registry, Molnar reported to the group.I enjoyed meeting quite a few readers and appreciated the invitation.For a variety of reasons, despite the fact that they theoretically represent a lot of folks, inmate family groups have enjoyed notoriously little success pushing their interests at the Texas state capitol, much less families of sex offenders. [read post]
10 Jul 2009, 6:34 pm
Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, and Texas all have their own state-OMIGs. [read post]
10 Jul 2009, 5:50 pm
SUPREME COURT CRACKS DOWN ON JUDGES WHO GRANT NEW TRIALS Under Texas law, the decision to grant a new trial has long been reserved to the discretion of the trial court judge, who may do so in the interest of justice. [read post]
10 Jul 2009, 11:56 am
North Texas physicians have reported that in many cases Medicaid, the government health plan for the poor, reimburses only 40 percent of what private insurers will pay.The state Legislature in May approved a $2.5 billion increase in general revenue funds to cover Medicaid's projected cost increases and caseload growth, but no money was allocated for payment rate increases for physicians or dentists.More work for less pay. [read post]
8 Jul 2009, 2:34 pm
Good for adults, bad for kids.And then there's Texas where the legislature just said no juvenile can get LWOP.When I moved to Ohio from Texas in 1989, I thought I was going to a more enlightened place. [read post]
8 Jul 2009, 8:31 am
I am not sure what is worse, trying to shoe horn existing law to fit perceptions of cyber-bullying or having many state legislatures, Texas included, create new overly broad online harassment laws. [read post]
7 Jul 2009, 10:18 pm
By Eric Goldman State Regulation of the Internet * iAWFUL, the Internet Advocates Watchlist for Ugly Laws * Texas HB 2003. [read post]
7 Jul 2009, 11:48 am
Yep, that is not a misprint or exaggeration.The Texas Legislature passed, without a single vote in opposition, a bill that would have allowed Texas citizens who were arrested and their case dismissed without conviction or any kind of probation, to have the record of their arrest expunged immediately. [read post]
3 Jul 2009, 6:38 am
One of the under-recognized achievements of the 81st Texas Legislature was the addition of two amendments by state Rep. [read post]
2 Jul 2009, 7:44 pm
He quotes Alan Abelson who, in turn, paraphrases the late Texas writer and liberal pundit Molly Ivins: " …She could always tell when the Texas legislature was in session because every village in the state reported its idiot missing. [read post]
1 Jul 2009, 5:13 am
Hey, don't take my word for it, here's a link to the bill analysis, and another link to the bill look up page on the Texas Legislature Online in case you want to look at all the different versions of the bill that passed and the corresponding bill analyses. [read post]
29 Jun 2009, 2:52 pm
Meanwhile, even the Texas Legislature appears to have jumped on the renewable energy bandwagon. [read post]
29 Jun 2009, 1:47 pm
(This website, using old 2006-07 data, shows U. of Texas being $18k for in-state, more than in-state tuition at Texas Tech, $12k, but less than Texas Wesleyan, $21k, and Southern Methodist, almost $39k). [read post]
29 Jun 2009, 7:05 am
Though much positive legislation died in the 81st Texas Legislature's closing days, I never went through the good criminal justice legislation that did finally pass and become law this year. [read post]
28 Jun 2009, 6:29 am
The Jeffersonians had the White House, the Jeffersonians had the legislature. [read post]
27 Jun 2009, 8:08 am
Texas is unusually dreadful in failing to have anything close to a professional legislature--it meets for 140 or so days ever two years, and legislators are paid $7200/year. [read post]
26 Jun 2009, 5:16 pm
So the obvious question is why is a sophisticated state like New York saddled with a legislature that would bring shame to most "third-world" countries? [read post]
26 Jun 2009, 1:33 am
"The Texas Legislature this year approved and the Governor signed into law an expanded compensation package for innocent people who've been falsely convicted (HB 1736 by Anchia/Ellis), a bill I lobbied for on behalf of the Innocence Project of Texas. [read post]
25 Jun 2009, 2:19 pm
Ohio, Massachusetts, Georgia and Texas. [read post]
25 Jun 2009, 1:30 pm
In another DNA revolution development, the Texas legislature recently passed a bill which allows un-prosecuted rape suspects DNA links to their criminal history. [read post]
