Two bills passed the state Senate today that would change the way mentally and physically disabled people and children are restrained and cared for by law enforcement officers.
April 2011
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Health care
Update: Senate Approves Health Payment Reform
Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program could transition to a performance-based, rather than procedure-based, payment model, under bills the Senate unanimously passed today.
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State Government
On the Records: A GOP Map Protects the GOP
A proposed map for redrawing Texas House district boundaries could help fortify the Republicans’ majority in the lower chamber in 2012.
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Health care
Ogden Revives Key Piece of Federal Health Reform
Implementing a key piece of federal health care reform in Texas — something Gov. Rick Perry has expressed his firm opposition to — may be back on the table.
Posted inState Government
The Brief: April 19, 2011
Senate leaders on Monday delivered one of their strongest attacks yet on the House’s stark budget proposal.
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Economy
Senate Budget Takes Aim at Hospitals
It doesn’t include a “sick tax.” But the Senate version of the state’s 2012-13 budget still takes direct aim at hospitals, in an effort to find hundreds of millions of dollars in cost savings and narrow the state’s revenue gap.
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Criminal Justice
Comptroller Offers Help After Data Mishap
Frustrated state employees continue to search for help — and answers — after the comptroller’s office accidentally left sensitive personal data on an open server for anyone to see.
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Economy
Interactive: How Would You Close the State’s Budget Gap?
Solving the state’s 2012-13 budget woes is a hard job and perhaps the best way to show that is to let you decide for yourself how the $27 billion shortfall should be closed. Use our interactive budget shortfall app to see what you’re willing to give up to close the gap.
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Politics
Doggett Dismayed by Redistricting Plan
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, reacts to the proposed split of his current district.
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Congress
Ricardo Sanchez: The TM Interview
Three years ago I interviewed the apparent 2012 Democrat candidate for U.S. Senate — then a retired lieutenant general hawking a memoir — for Texas Monthly. You can read the nearly 2,700-word Q&A here.
