• The 5th Texas Legislature met from November 7, 1853, to February 13, 1854, in its regular session. All members of the House of Representatives and about...
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  • legislature of the U.S. state of Texas has convened many times since statehood became effective on December 29, 1845. List of speakers of the Texas House...
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    Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved July 9, 2023. Texas Legislature. Journal of the Senate. 5th Legislature, 78, accessed...
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    place on May 28, 2024. Seats up for election will be all seats of the Texas Legislature, all 38 seats in the United States House of Representatives, and the...
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    2024 Texas House of Representatives election will be held on November 5, 2024. The winners of this election will serve in the 89th Texas Legislature. It...
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  • The 71st Texas Legislature met from January 10, 1989, to May 29, 1989, and in six subsequent special called sessions (see below). All members present...
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    congressional redistricting process in Texas, as any new maps are drawn and passed by the Republican-held state legislature and signed into law by the Republican...
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    Secretary of State. The Texas Legislature is bicameral. The Texas House of Representatives has 150 members, while the Texas Senate has 31. The Speaker...
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  • unconstitutional and unenforceable." In 1973, the Texas Legislature passed Section 43.21 of the Texas Penal Code, which, in part, prohibited the sale or...
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    the Texas Constitution, redistricting in Texas follows the regular legislative process; it must be passed by both houses of the Texas Legislature and...
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    system of education when circumstances allowed. After Texas was annexed, the Seventh Texas Legislature passed O.B. 102 on February 11, 1858, allocating $100...
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    District 63 is a district in the Texas House of Representatives. It was created in the 5th legislature (1853–55). The district has been represented by...
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    The Fifth Oklahoma Legislature was a meeting of the legislative branch of the government of Oklahoma, composed of the Oklahoma Senate and the Oklahoma...
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    Treaty Oak after being deposed as Governor of Texas by the secessionist state legislature at the start of Texas's involvement in the American Civil War.[1]...
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    Democrat-dominated legislatures' disenfranchisement of blacks and many poor whites and Latinos. In Texas, the Democrat-dominated legislature excluded them...
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    Division "Sunset Advisory Commission Staff Report 2018-2019 8th Legislature" (PDF). Texas Military Department. Retrieved 31 August 2019. Brian Schenk, An...
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    The Texas Heartbeat Act, Senate Bill 8 (SB 8), is an act of the Texas Legislature that bans abortion after the detection of embryonic or fetal cardiac...
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    Texas, however, had already owned slaves and brought them to the new territory when they immigrated from the United States. In 1827, the legislature of...
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    On January 11, 2024, the Texas National Guard took control of Shelby Park, a 47-acre (19 ha) area of parkland in the town of Eagle Pass, along the Rio...
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    Reconstruction-era Texas Legislature. Classes began on October 4, 1876. Although Texas A&M was originally scheduled to be established under the Texas Constitution...
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  • The Texas Courts of Appeals are part of the Texas judicial system. In Texas, all cases appealed from district and county courts, criminal and civil, go...
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    original callsign NADV. The Texas Legislature designated the battleship Texas as the official "State Ship of Texas" in 1995. Texas has appeared in several...
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    High. Students in grades 9–12 attend Magnolia West High School. The Texas Legislature designates Magnolia ISD (and therefore all of Magnolia) as a part...
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    Rebecca. "5th Circuit blocks Texas social media law as parties turn to SCOTUS". POLITICO. Retrieved October 14, 2022. Texas Legislature Online Legiscan...
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  • regulations. The Constitution of Texas is the foremost source of state law. Legislation is enacted by the Texas Legislature, published in the General and...
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  • jurisdiction of the district and other inferior courts thereto. As such, the Texas Legislature has created additional courts to address caseload pressures driven...
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    here about 1843, and some settlers gathered around it. In 1846, the Texas Legislature created Palestine to serve as a seat for the newly established Anderson...
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    which drafted the Texas State Constitution, and served as Montgomery County's first representative in the Texas State Legislature* The climate in this...
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    represented Texas's 5th congressional district in the 98th to 104th U.S. Congress. Bryant was born in Lake Jackson, Brazoria County, Texas. Following a...
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    state legislature during his tenure as governor. Bush carried 230 of Texas's 254 counties. He racked up big margins in the Texas Panhandle, East Texas, the...
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