Lawmakers peppered policy experts with questions about whether state agencies who keep departing employees on the state payroll by placing them on “emergency leave” violated state law, during a hearing on Tuesday.
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Criminal Justice
Texas Loses Fight to Keep Syrian Refugees Out
Texas on Thursday lost its fight against the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the state, ending a monthslong battle during which refugees from the war-torn country continued to arrive.
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Texas Planning to Block Car Registration Renewal for Child Support Evaders
This fall, the Attorney General’s Office will be implementing a new enforcement measure for parents who are behind on child support payments: blocking them from renewing their vehicle registration.
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State Rep Asks Attorney General if Community Colleges May Ban Handguns
A year before Texas’ campus carry law takes effect at community colleges, state Rep. Abel Herrero has asked Attorney General Ken Paxton to determine whether such institutions that offer programs for minors may prohibit concealed weapons.
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Politics
Analysis: Paxton Effort to Silence Whistleblower Keeps Story Alive
“Shut up” is nearly always a terrible response. It escalates a disagreement. It’s obnoxious. It hardly ever works. It is a clear signal that someone is losing the argument, their patience — or both.
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Criminal Justice
Former Texas Official: Abbott Did Not Pull Strings In Trump U Probe
The former head of the Texas attorney general’s consumer protection division says it was he — not then-Attorney General Greg Abbott — who decided how the office should investigate Trump University.
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Criminal Justice
Cost of Texas Child Support Overhaul Doubles to $420 Million
The state’s sidelined child support overhaul is now back on track, but its cost has more than doubled to $420 million and it is now two years behind schedule.
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Analysis: An Expense to Texas Taxpayers That Carries No Explanation
Should taxpayers pay severance to state employees to take the sting out of unexpected job losses or to protect the uncovered tails of the elected officeholders who fire them?
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Politics
Texas AG Shopped Transgender Policy to Second School District
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton approached at least one other North Texas school district about adopting the transgender student bathroom policy that is now the center of his lawsuit against the Obama administration.
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Paxton Uses State Protection for Frequent North Texas Trips
For the past year, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has used taxpayer-funded security teams and drivers to travel at least twice and as many as four times a month to North Texas where he has a home and businesses, according to records obtained by The Texas Tribune.
