In 1963, the Texas Legislature directed the Texas Legislative Council to effect a permanent statutory revision of state law to “clarify and simplify the statutes and to make the statutes more accessible, understandable, and usable.” The Council was instructed not to “alter the sense, meaning, or effect of [a] statute.” In Fleming Foods v. Rylander, it was deemed that one of these non-substantive changes in fact did alter the intent of the statute. The Texas Supreme Court determined that in those instances, the newly re-written version of the statute controls.
Don’t Make Policy Based on Fear, ROC Director Says
In Louisiana, Right On Crime Director Scott Peyton recently joined talk show host Ian Hoch on WWL radio to discuss the hasty passage of bills in the recent special legislative session on crime, particularly the reversal of Louisiana’s 2017 Justice Reinvestment Initiative. Peyton praised Gov. Jeff Landry for focusing on crime but said the nine-day...