Abbott signs laws cracking down on illegal street racing
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The legislation enhances penalties for perpetrators of illegal street racing and provides law enforcement additional tools to address these crimes.
The legislation enhances penalties for perpetrators of illegal street racing and provides law enforcement additional tools to address these crimes.
House Bill 1442 (A. Johnson/Bettencourt) provides law enforcement and prosecutors additional tools to go after organized street racing and street takeovers in Texa
A House subcommittee this week considered the third attempt at a bill that would block future efforts to remove or rename Mount Rushmore, which Native Americans have long said is built on stolen, sacred Indigenous land. The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands hosted a legislative hearing Thursday to hear testimony on the Mount Rushmore Protection Act. The bill, H.R. 386, was introduced by U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) and is his third effort to pass the bill in the halls of Capitol Hill.