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24 Jan 2008, 1:00 pm
Last year, the Texas Legislature promoted more efficient energy use and conservation by passing House Bill 3693 “relating to energy demand, energy load, energy efficiency incentives, energy programs, and energy performance measures. [read post]
8 Aug 2008, 9:05 pm
Pragmatically, if Texas judges spent all their time setting aside every dimwitted, backwards or just plain goofy law the Texas Legislature has ever passed, they'd never get any work done. [read post]
3 Dec 2011, 9:57 pm
Texas’s state legislature in Austin this year drew new election maps for both state legislative chambers, and for the 36 House seats. [read post]
4 Jul 2014, 8:50 am
So while the US Congress is reviled with a less than 10% approval rating, the Texas Legislature has a 53% approval rating and is trying to find viable solutions to these challenges, particularly in areas like education, water, and transportation. [read post]
13 Mar 2007, 7:30 am
This afternoon's agenda at the Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee hearing shows how that happens.While some in the Legislature recognize that it's time to shift gears away from mass incarceration, especially for low-level offenders, so far Criminal Jurisprudence isn't doing its part to reduce Texas prison and jail populations. [read post]
24 Nov 2010, 7:04 am
Perkinson noted that the Texas Legislature had increased penalties and created new crimes during every legislative session since the 1960s, ignoring the fact that "tough sentencing laws are appropriations," or "really entitlement programs," which is an interesting way to look at it. [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 9:01 pm
Hellerstedt, written by Justice Breyer, put an end not only to this specific law, but to an era in which state legislatures tried to undermine access to abortion without tackling it head on. [read post]
11 Jan 2008, 8:41 am
WFAA TV in Dallas reports that a Texas District Court judge has ruled that the state's largest workers' compensation insurance carrier committed fraud against an injured worker. [read post]
5 Oct 2023, 9:06 pm
This ability was developed by Doug Farquhar when he was working for the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL). [read post]
14 Sep 2018, 3:26 am
Texas Penal Code 21.15 The Texas Legislature’s response was swift. [read post]
26 Sep 2016, 5:59 am
Still, perhaps Texas may soon lose its (sometimes overstated) reputation as red-state criminal-justice reform leader if the Sooner state passes these measures on a ballot topped by Trump/Clinton and Gov. [read post]
6 Aug 2015, 6:55 am
The decision was quite complex, but one of the most significant new questions that will now follow the case as it returns to a trial courtroom in Corpus Christi is whether the Texas legislature will again be found to have passed the 2011 voter ID law with the specific purpose of discriminating against blacks, Latinos, and poor residents of the state. [read post]
10 Nov 2016, 3:09 pm
Since then, state legislatures have allowed employers to avoid much of their end of that social bargain. [read post]
10 Sep 2018, 9:01 pm
Wade gets overturned or gutted—judges around the country continue to sit in judgment of a seemingly endless barrage of abortion restrictions that state legislatures continue to pass.In Texas, the legislature can’t take “no” for an answer. [read post]
18 May 2007, 12:47 am
The Texas Observer has more. [read post]
5 Jan 2011, 11:27 pm
The Texas Legislature commences its 82nd Legislative Session on January 11, 2011. [read post]
31 Aug 2011, 1:57 pm
The council is required to establish a privacy advisory group, recommend best practices for fusion centers in Texas and annually submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature regarding the council's progress. [read post]
28 Sep 2007, 4:49 pm
This year's Texas legislature dramatically changed this law by establishing a system for post-mortem child support. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 7:31 am
“The State of Texas’s under-the-table method for dealing with a drug shortage is unacceptable and adds to the ongoing pattern of debacles the state has experienced since its first-ever lethal injection execution in 1982. [read post]
12 Apr 2012, 12:48 pm
Texas Rice, at *18. [read post]
