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23 Feb 2009, 4:19 am
The law allows a state legislature to overrule a governor’s decision not to take the money. [read post]
23 Feb 2009, 4:00 am
” It’s likely that some businesses will follow the Comptroller’s suggestion and hire lobbyists to try to persuade the Legislature to amend the Texas Tax Code. [read post]
22 Feb 2009, 11:36 pm
State law also prohibits Keller, who won't be up for reelection until 2012, from raising any political money before June 2011. [read post]
20 Feb 2009, 1:48 pm
We have an exciting update on HB 164, the medical marijuana bill currently working its way through the Texas Legislature! [read post]
19 Feb 2009, 9:04 am
But DPS wants to add this new offense to the list of those on which the state imposes misnamed "driver responsibility fee. [read post]
19 Feb 2009, 8:12 am
It's time for the Legislature to step in.Earlier coverage, here. [read post]
19 Feb 2009, 8:07 am
"We're not like Texas," Shellenberger told the Judicial Proceedings Committee. [read post]
19 Feb 2009, 7:23 am
" And:Impeaching a judge is not a step a legislature should take lightly. [read post]
18 Feb 2009, 9:31 pm
(b) Acceptance by State Legislature- If funds provided to any State in any division of this Act are not accepted for use by the Governor, then acceptance by the State legislature, by means of the adoption of a concurrent resolution, shall be sufficient to provide funding to such State. [read post]
17 Feb 2009, 9:47 pm
Use the comments to say what other Corrections (or other criminal justice) bills you'd like to see filed in the 81st Texas Legislature before the March 13 filing deadline:1. [read post]
17 Feb 2009, 5:30 pm
Sharon Keller, the highest ranking criminal judge in Texas, is facing a bid by the Texas state legislature to remove her from office. [read post]
17 Feb 2009, 5:06 am
How many sitting judges can say about 150 attorneys and a thousand other citizens have signed onto complaints against them with the state Commission on Judicial Conduct? [read post]
16 Feb 2009, 3:38 am
With the 81st Texas legislative session full upon us, I wanted to point readers (and especially, readers with blogs) to free online tools available for tracking bills at the Texas Legislature.Once the legislative session gets going, you can get most of the information you need to track what's happening (if not always as quickly as you'd like it) from the capitol website, including the House and Senate websites, which collectively are so robust and useful I consider them… [read post]
13 Feb 2009, 2:32 pm
To imprison someone in a single cell at the highest security level for 40 years costs about $750,000.If the Texas system sounds expensive, it's actually tightfisted compared with that of other states. [read post]
12 Feb 2009, 4:46 pm
Neither of those outcomes would save the Texas Legislature from making the hard choices that would be involved in fixing the Texas system. 1 And, in any event, I’d be surprised if the Massey decision is handed down before the Texas Legislature adjourns for the session. [read post]
12 Feb 2009, 1:19 pm
State. [read post]
12 Feb 2009, 5:22 am
The newspaper also contains an editorial entitled "Retooling Texas' judiciary: Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson of the Texas Supreme Court warned the legislature that the U.S. [read post]
12 Feb 2009, 5:13 am
Texas House committee assignments are (finally) out today - see here (pdf). [read post]
12 Feb 2009, 2:49 am
I don't know if it has been that there is so much going on in Washington or a feeling that it is unlikely that anything too severe to employers will actually come out of the Texas legislature, but for some reason I have basically ignored our state solons. [read post]
11 Feb 2009, 7:57 pm
Earlier today, I watched Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson’s “State of the Judiciary” address to the Texas Legislature (PDF).1 The address began by recounting the accomplishments of recent years. [read post]
