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10 Feb 2007, 10:07 am
Perry vetoed after the 79th Legislature. [read post]
8 Feb 2007, 11:12 pm
(Virginia is the only other state that does it that way.) [read post]
8 Feb 2007, 2:24 pm
Rick Perry recently used an executive order that bypassed the Legislature to make Texas the first state to mandate that schoolgirls get vaccinated against HPV. [read post]
8 Feb 2007, 2:10 pm
On the one hand, several states' legislatures are, it appears, expanding (slightly) the reach of their death-penalty laws (Texas and Tennessee, for example, are considering proposals to "include certain child molesters who did not murder their victims"). [read post]
8 Feb 2007, 1:26 pm
In Willingham, the state of Texas may well have executed an innocent man.His execution is exactly the kind of case the Texas Forensic Science Commission is supposed to investigate. [read post]
8 Feb 2007, 12:22 pm
Texas Governor Rick Perry last Friday signed an executive order making that state the first in the country to require schoolgirls to be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted virus causing cervical cancer, bypassing the legislature altogether. [read post]
8 Feb 2007, 11:36 am
This year, the bill -- or perhaps one even more comprehensive -- should not only make it to the Senate floor but should be passed by both chambers and signed into law.While they're at it, legislators should fund the state's share of the University of North Texas System Center for Human Identification in Fort Worth for work that the Legislature has ordered sent to it.Given that the majority of criminal cases don't involve DNA evidence, imagine how many other… [read post]
7 Feb 2007, 3:00 pm
").They made this vaccine mandatory in Texas (by executive order that might get reversed by the legislature) and it is the subject of HB 2035, which passed the House 80-17 and as amended includes an opt-out provision, and SB 1230, which passed the Senate 40-0.The language from the House amendment says: "After having reviewed materials describing the link between the human papillomavirus and cervical cancer approved for such use by the Board, a parent or guardian may… [read post]
6 Feb 2007, 5:47 pm
The Legislature cannot afford to do the same. [read post]
6 Feb 2007, 3:00 pm
While I continue to maintain that that the best thing ever to come out of Oklahoma is Interstate-35, I'm happy to see via Corrections Sentencing that Texas' neighbors to the north are reconsidering mass incarceration for low-level offenders along similar lines to recent Texas proposals. [read post]
6 Feb 2007, 7:14 am
Rick Perry will call for new prison building today in his State of the State address. [read post]
5 Feb 2007, 10:14 pm
Indeed it calls for making affidavits available online.Perry used the Executive Order route in order to bypass opposition in the state legislature by conservatives and parents' rights groups. [read post]
5 Feb 2007, 9:00 am
For contact information see: Texas Legislature Online Together we have and will continue to make a difference! [read post]
4 Feb 2007, 8:55 am
" Last week, Texas state Representative Debbie Riddle introduced HB 1034 into the Texas Legislature to add a reference to God in the pledge. [read post]
3 Feb 2007, 7:08 am
This news from the Associated Press: Republican Governor Rick Perry in Texas bypassed the legislature completely, and issued an executive order mandating vaccination against HPV of schoolgirls entering the sixth grade (girls usually aged 11 and 12) in September 2008. [read post]
3 Feb 2007, 6:13 am
While I'm more often focused on the adult prison system, it's become clear to me in the last year that if the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has its problems, the Texas Youth Commission is operating in a state of full-blown crisis.Things have gotten so bad it's hard to wrap your brain around the massive scope of this enormous mess. [read post]
2 Feb 2007, 1:35 pm
Some quotes:AUSTIN, Texas -- Bypassing the Legislature, Republican Gov. [read post]
2 Feb 2007, 7:14 am
State Rep. [read post]
1 Feb 2007, 6:31 am
Here is the set up:In a nutshell, the [Texas] legislature confronts the first major decision between building additional prison capacity and other alternatives, since the building boom of over 100,000 beds culminated in 1995 and the state began to accept all "state ready" inmates from counties within 45 days. [read post]
31 Jan 2007, 2:29 pm
Likewise, several grass-roots groups in Texas are battling that state's Republican governor, Rick Perry, and his plan to convert existing freeways to toll roads and build a new toll road, the Trans-Texas Corridor, that would stretch from the Mexican border to Oklahoma. [read post]
