Today, at the Capitol ... - Most lawmakers have headed home already, but members of the House Appropriations Committee are meeting at 8 a.m. The topic of choice is agency funding - today's list focuses primarily on appellate courts...
Today, at the Capitol ... - The "Texas Innocence Commission" could take the first steps toward establishment this morning in a hearing of the House Criminal Procedure Sub-Committee, a subsidiary of the House Jurisprudence Committee. The commission, sponsored by...
Today, at the Capitol ... - It's Friday. That means two things. 1) That House Appropriations and Senate Finance are meeting, and 2) That everyone else, and their dog, is already at home. - Appropriations S/C's on Business and...
A discussion on the House floor today captured an emerging irony of the Legislature's stimulus money discussion: Texas, while currently in the black, faces a long-run "structural deficit" because it cut school property taxes by a good deal in 2006,...