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Dozens of new crimes proposed at the Lege: Will LBB man up and assign them fiscal notes?

Our buddy Shannon Edmonds from the Texas District and County Attorneys Association checks in this afternoon via email with this news:As of the end of business on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 1,702 bills have been filed (or roughly 25% of the eventual total, based upon recent history).  Of those, the Legislature has so far proposed: creating at least 37 new felony crimes creating at least 47 new misdemeanor A/B crimes creating at least 28 new misdemeanor C crimes enhancing the current punishments of at least 36 existing crimes I say ?at least? because some bills propose to create/enhance multiple crimes, therefore, the actual number of crimes affected could be higher.  I only register a bill once for each of the above categories, so (for example) a bill that creates 1 felony and 1 misdemeanor-A crime only counts once for each of those two categories, as does a bill that creates 3 felonies and 2 misdemeanor-A crimes...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 03, 2011 (boomark / email).