Greg
Abbott
January 01, 2014
Voice Over Internet Protocol services \\"VOIP\\" - No Texas statute or administrative rule expressly prohibits a county from offering inmates VOIP services; provision of VOIP services must comply with the Commission on Jail Standards requirements for inmate telephone services as well as any other applicable state and federal regulations|Voice Over Internet Protocol services \\"VOIP\\" - A county may only charge a fee for the service if the fee is designed to recover the costs directly and reasonably incurred in providing the service|Proceeds generated from an inmate telephone contract are coun
Opinion PDF
January 01, 2014
Tax Code subsection 6.06(j) requires that \\"payments made or due to be made by the taxing units\\" should be included in the excess-funds calculation and returned or credited back to the taxing units.|Tax Code section 6.06 permits amendments to the proposed budget of an appraisal district after the public hearing process and before final approval of the budget, and the fact that a particular line item is not \\"prepared in the proposed budget\\" by the deadline is not by itself fatal to the budget process.|Proposed salary increase that operates prospectively from the time of its proper autho
Opinion PDF
January 01, 2014
Pretrial intervention program funds collected pursuant to Code of Criminal Procedure article 102.0121 - expenditures must be made in accordance with a budget approved by the commissioners court and must relate to a defendant\\'s participation in or to administration of the program|County attorneys are authorized to collect a fee from any defendant participating in Code of Criminal Procedure article 102.0121 pretrial intervention program.
Opinion PDF
January 01, 2014
Local Government Records Act, model lesson plans maintained by regional education service centers are local government records subject to the Act|State Library and Archives Commission Local Schedule SD, retention of lesson plans maintained by regional education service centers must be maintained pursuant to
Opinion PDF
January 01, 2014
Councils of government as units of general local government for purpose of HUD\\'s HOME Program
Opinion PDF
January 01, 2014
Constable, Texas Constitution article XVI, section 40 prohibits county constable from simultaneously serving as commissioner of emergency services district|Texas Constitution article XVI, section 40 prohibits a person from simultaneously serving as a county constable and a commissioner of an emergency services district|Emergency services district, Texas Constitution article XVI, section 40 prohibits a person from simultaneously serving as commissioner of an emergency services district and a county constable
Opinion PDF
January 01, 2014
Confidentiality of records in juvenile misdemeanor cases and interpretation of the \\"confidentiality statutes\\": Texas Code of Criminal Procedure articles 44.2811 and 45.0217, and Family Code section 58.00711. Amendments of the Eighty-third Legislature do not render confidentiality statutes irreconcilable.
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January 01, 2014
Ex post facto prohibitions, Texas Government Code section 51.608 authorizes assessing nonpunitive court costs based on statutes existing on the date of conviction and therefore does not violate ex post facto prohibitions in the United States and Texas Constitutions
Opinion PDF
January 01, 2013
Chapter 2210, Insurance Code, no provision prohibits the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association from using current and future premiums to pay prior obligations under
Opinion PDF
January 01, 2013
Bailiff position, the Legislature has not authorized the creation of an additional bailiff position for the 105th District Court|Additional staff - if the 105th District Court determines that additional staff is needed to aid court in the exercise of its judicial functions, Court may rely on Government Code section 74.103 and inherent power to appoint necessary personnel other than a bailiff|Bailiff position, the Legislature has not authorized the creation of an additional bailiff position for the 105th District Court.|Additional staff - if the 105th District Court determines it needs addition