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The proposed grant program would be administered by the Texas Attorney General’s Office.
The proposed grant program would be administered by the Texas Attorney General’s Office.
Delayed openings and voting site closures due to equipment malfunctions and a paper ballot shortage have prompted multiple requests for public records.
The City of Kemah faces lawsuits, allegations of selective code enforcement, and failure to produce requested documents to the courts, public, and media.
The Third Court of Appeals earlier upheld most of the contempt charges and allowed a district judge in Travis County to jail Paul.
The budget now moves to the Senate, where the upper chamber will make its changes before the legislation must be reconciled in conference committee.
In a bipartisan vote, the Texas Senate has approved removing the litigation exception for public information requests for election-related records.
"Budget night" in the House allows members to try and tack on hundreds of amendments, though most are summarily killed.
The federal appeals court threw out a 2018 ruling that has governed Harris County misdemeanor bail practices and mandated federal monitoring.
Paxton also accused his opponents of violating confidentiality by referencing “oral communications" during settlement talks.
A bill seeking to remove short-barrelled rifles from the list of prohibited weapons now heads to committee.
Attorneys for Paxton’s opponents say he is seeking “all the benefits of the settlement” without having to convince state lawmakers to pay it.
The lawsuit alleges the language in Texas pro-life law has created “uncertainty surrounding the meaning of the exception to Texas’s abortion bans.”