Texas lawmakers consider limiting tenure after UT-Austin professor sued students over accusations of promoting pedophilia
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Texas lawmakers may limit tenure after UT-Austin professor sues students
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The Texas Senate on Wednesday approved the chamber’s priority bail legislation that aims to keep more people accused or previously convicted
of violent crimes in jail before trial unless they can post cash bonds.
Sen. Joan Huffman, R-Houston, previously said her Senate Bill 21 is meant to “address the appalling uptick in violent crimes by defendants out on multiple personal bonds,” which don’t require cash up front. The bill passed out of the Senate on a vote of 23-8 and will now head to the House.
Many bail reform advocates have criticized the bill, as well as the governor’s priority legislation in the House, for still relying on a money-based system. Texas’ systems for deciding how to release people from jail while awaiting trial have long been criticized for unfairly keeping poor people locked up simply because they don t have the cash to post bail.