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A Texas town has reached a settlement with three churches in which the local government agreed to modify its water rate system that previously charged houses of worship a higher rate than area businesses. ....
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Houston ISD trustees won a round in court Wednesday when in a 2-1 vote, the Third District Court of Appeals upheld a temporary injunction barring Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath from ousting the HISD board and replacing it with one of his own choosing. The justices voting to uphold the injunction Republican Chief Justice Jeff Rose and Democrat Grisela D. Triana who wrote the majority opinion said that Morath hadn t followed his agency s own rules before declaring he was ready to move in to wipe the slate clean with his own appointments. Republican Justice Thomas J. Baker disagreed and issued a dissenting opinion, saying he thought Morath was justified in his actions and working within the state regulations as written. ....
Texas State Appeals Court Rules Stop-Loss Insurance Premiums Cannot Be Taxed As Health Insurance Revenue December 14, 2020 On Friday, in the Third District of the Texas State Courts of Appeal, an appellate panel ruled that stop-loss insurance premiums could not be taxed like health insurance premiums in the State of Texas in an opinion authored by Chief Justice Jeff Rose. Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) paid over $3,000,000 in taxes to the State of Texas on premiums collected from stop-loss policies. BCBS subsequently sued the State for a refund, proffering that the taxes paid were a result of the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) misreading the state tax code to incorrectly label stop-loss insurance as health insurance. However, BCBS argued that while Texas tax statutes previously defined health insurance to include stop-loss policies, the legislature repealed that definition in 2003. ....