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4 Feb 2015, 1:42 pm
Texas Is Only One of Six States Without an Anti-Texting Law Texas lawmakers introduced a bill that would ban texting while driving throughout the state. [read post]
27 Oct 2014, 4:33 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Interesting to see that, while on the gubernatorial campaign trail this year, Greg Abbott pledged to seek diversion of state highway fund monies from the Department of Public Safety to road building. [read post]
Texas Governor Greg Abbot signed a “fetal heartbeat” abortion bill into law on Wednesday that bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected and allows citizens to sue doctors who perform abortions after the limit. [read post]
10 Mar 2022, 8:36 am by Howard Friedman
Building on this opinion, Governor Greg Abbott sent a letter to the head of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, instructing them to promptly investigate cases covered by the Attorney General's Opinion. [read post]
14 Oct 2021, 9:01 am by Stephen Fox and Jonathan Clark
In a move sure to generate controversy, confusion, and litigation, on October 11, 2021, Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an Executive Order effectively prohibiting all private businesses from requiring employees or customers be vaccinated against COVID-19. [read post]
Texas imposed the restrictions under Texas Senate Bill 1 (SB1), which Governor Greg Abbott signed into law in September. [read post]
In a unanimous ruling on Friday, a three-judge panel of the Texas Third Court of Appeals ruled against Governor Greg Abbott’s order limiting the number of ballot drop boxes to one per county. [read post]
25 Nov 2015, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
Greg Abbott to President Obama telling the President that Texas will not accept any Syrian refugees out of fear that they could be terrorists. [read post]
Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed SB4 into law on Monday as the latest escalation of confrontations between the state and the federal government over illegal entries. [read post]
6 Sep 2023, 3:44 pm by lennyesq
BY RAFAEL BERNAL AND REBECCA BEITSCH “Governor [Greg] Abbott [R] announced that he was not ‘asking for permission’ for Operation Lone Star, the anti-immigration program under which Texas constructed the floating barrier,” District Judge David Alan Ezra wrote. [read post]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Environment and Natural Resources Division sent a letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Texas Interim Attorney General Angela Colmenero on Thursday over the legality of Texas deploying floating barriers in the Rio Grande. [read post]
27 Feb 2017, 5:17 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Okay, we've heard a lot about federalism and states' rights from Governor Greg Abbott over the years. [read post]
20 May 2021, 8:22 am by Howard Wasserman
Texas Governor Greg Abbott yesterday signed SB 8, a "fetal heartbeat" law that bans abortions as early as six weeks. [read post]
23 Nov 2016, 2:29 am by cbroden
  Texas Governor Greg Abbott has reiterated his determination to make violence against police officers a hate crime after a law enforcement officer was shot dead in San Antonio. [read post]
23 Nov 2016, 2:29 am by cbroden
  Texas Governor Greg Abbott has reiterated his determination to make violence against police officers a hate crime after a law enforcement officer was shot dead in San Antonio. [read post]
23 Mar 2020, 12:41 pm by skelly
  The extension will assist carriers in responding to the Coronavirus pandemic and results from the combined operation of actions taken by Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Texas Insurance Commissioner Kent Sullivan. [read post]
14 Apr 2020, 12:28 am by Xi Lucy Shi
This case arises from a March 22 executive order by Texas Governor Greg Abbott that prohibits elective surgeries and medical procedures until April 21. [read post]
3 Jul 2019, 11:14 am by [email protected]
Initiatives intended to fight sex trafficking in Texas are high on the agenda of Governor Greg Abbott and the Office of the Attorney General. [read post]