Members of the Texas Senate's Criminal Justice Committee heard testimony Wednesday on five bail-related bills aimed at ...
The Texas Legislature was back in session Tuesday, taking up one of the emergency items Governor Greg Abbott identified in his recent State of the State ...
Texas lawmakers in the Senate Committee on Criminal Justice talked extensively on Wednesday morning about five proposed bail ...
Texas Senator Joan Huffman, who represents parts of the Houston region, said the bills will be known as "Jocelyn's law" and ...
A Texas Senate committee on Wednesday unanimously ... Activist judges have too much discretion to let repeat offenders out on bail, only to see them harm more Texans.” In a news conference ...
State lawmakers are moving forward on legislation to keep violent undocumented immigrants in jail. That's just one piece of the bail reform package, also known as Senate Bill 9.
A bill that would make judges remove the option of bail for certain felony offenders has now been passed to the Texas Senate.
An Austin man had his bond drastically reduced from $800,000 to just $100 with conditions on a first-degree murder charge. The Travis County DA is asking for a judge to increase it.