Texas motorists are speaking out against a proposed bill that would protect trucking and insurance companies from the liability of trucking accidents in the state.
If passed, House Bill 19 would require the plaintiff to prove that the trucking company was “grossly negligent” in order to pursue a lawsuit. Otherwise, only the truck driver involved in the accident would be liable for damages. Critics of the bill claim that this change in the law would create a sort of free pass for trucking companies.
Because of this, motorists that have been previously involved in semi-truck accidents and benefited from large settlements after suing trucking companies are standing with truck drivers to oppose the bill that “helps the insurance companies and it helps the trucking companies, but it doesn’t help us.”
CROWN Act filed in every ArkLaTex state
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TEXAS (KSLA) Efforts to prevent discrimination based on hairstyle and texture are spreading across the nation and now has reached the ArkLaTex.
Texas state lawmakers are considering House Bill 392, also known as the CROWN Act. The Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act would ban educational, employment and housing discrimination on the basis of hair texture or hairstyle, including braids, locs and twists.
Advocates of the bill say Black men and women face discrimination, in some cases, because of natural and ethnic hairstyles.
Shontaria James, who owns Tia’s Braiding Culture in Marshall, Texas, believes the legislation is something that needs to be passed.
Texas bill aims to let families visit dying loved ones without any time limits
Texas bill aims to let families visit dying loved ones without any time limits
An Arlington family is advocating for a bill that would not allow any time limits with loved ones in their final moments. They were limited to just a few minutes with their dying father due to the facility’s COVID-19 safety protocols in place.
DALLAS - Families who lost loved ones during the COVID-19 pandemic are advocating for a bill that would not allow any time limits with loved ones in their final moments.
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Today marks one year since former Fort Hood soldier, Spc. Vanessa Guillen, was last seen alive.
On April 24, 2020, Fort Hood officials sent the initial news release of her disappearance, saying that she had last been seen around 1 p.m. April 22, 2020.
In the following days, weeks and months, details surrounding her disappearance, and subsequent grisly end, began to surface.
During a press conference on June 23, 2020, following a meeting with Fort Hood officials, U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston, said that Fort Hood officials told Guillenâs family that a supervisor who was conducting barracks checks that day submitted a report that all soldiers had been accounted for, but he had since admitted that he did not see Guillen.