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Texas lawmakers passed a long-overdue update to alcohol laws, allowing restaurants to sell alcohol-to-go on Sunday. Now it’s time to scrap blue laws. On.
Texas must lead the future of carbon capture development
“Given Texas’ long experience with all aspects of oil and gas development, it would make sense for the state to have the primary authority of making sure that production and storage occur in a safe and environmentally responsible way,” says Josiah Neeley [2], Texas director of the R Street Institute. “While Texas, along with most other states, has been granted primacy over various well types, Class VI wells have remained under federal oversight.”
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“says Josiah Neeley”: https://www.rstreet.org/2019/11/29/texas-should-lead-in-promoting-carbon-capture-regulation-opinion/
Event: Shedding Light on the Legislative Response to the Texas Blackouts
The February blackouts in Texas left millions in the dark and the financial implications will continue to reverberate for years. Since that time, we have seen a flurry of resignations and of legislative proposals to deal with the fallout and prevent it from happening again.
Moderator: Josiah Neeley, Director, Texas; Resident Senior Fellow, R Street Institute
Panelists:
Beth Garza, Senior Fellow, R Street Institute
Katie Coleman, Texas Industrial Electric Consumers
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Apr 6, 2021
Testimony in support of HB 2684, relating to the expunction of arrest records and files and the issuance of orders of nondisclosure of criminal history record information for certain persons.
Chair Collier and members of the committee,
My name is Josiah Neeley. I am the Texas director of the R Street Institute, a center-right, free market think tank that supports limited effective government in many areas, including criminal justice reform. We support HB 2684.
This is a straightforward piece of legislation that fixes a hole left in current law regarding expungement or non-disclosure of prior criminal history. Texas allows an individual who has their conviction for a certain offense set aside after completing a period of community supervision to petition to have the court make their criminal record regarding that conviction non-disclosable. While still available to law enforcement, healthcare institutions and other selected entities, the order of non-disclosure makes t