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Texas Tesla auto sales bill loses traction with Senate politicians
2015-05-04 20:07:49| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
In 2013, Dell World attendees in Austin crowded around a Tesla Motors car that was featured during a keynote address from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors. The company has been trying to get Texas to change its auto sales regulations to allow it to sell directly to consumers.
Legislative roundup: Bill aims to clear hurdle for executions
2015-05-04 06:25:08| Agriculture - Topix.net
A Gaston County killer's more than two-decade stay on death row demonstrates why North Carolina needs to resume executions, House Speaker Tim Moore told colleagues last week. House members were debating a plan to expand the list of medical professionals who could monitor a state execution when the Kings Mountain Republican told fellow House members about David Lynch's two 1991 murders in Gaston County.
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House Advances Bill to Speed Permits, Limit Protests
2015-05-01 08:28:51| Waste Management - Topix.net
Claiming that the state's bureaucracy is shooing away businesses, House lawmakers on Thursday night gave initial approval to a bill aiming to quicken regulators' pace of cranking out permits for major industrial projects by limiting public scrutiny. Over the objections of consumer groups and environmentalists, the chamber tentatively passed Senate Bill 709, which would scale back contested-case hearings , a process that allows the public to challenge industrial applications for permits at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality such as those allowing wastewater discharges or air pollution emissions.
Rep. Clark pushing bill to help treat opiate-exposed infants
2015-04-30 23:30:58| Biotech - Topix.net
U.S. Rep. Catherine Clark says a new report shows the need for a bill she's pushing to help hospitals diagnose and treat newborns suffering from opiate exposure. Clark said the study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health found that the number of infants born with drug withdrawal has increased from one birth per hour in 2009 to one birth every 25 minutes today.
Rand Paul's bill would overturn net neutrality rules
2015-04-30 18:55:01| Telecom - Topix.net
U.S. Senator Rand Paul, a Republican presidential candidate, has introduced legislation that would overturn the Federal Communications Commission's recent net neutrality rules. Paul on Wednesday introduced a resolution of disapproval , a move that allows Congress to review new federal regulations from government agencies, using an expedited legislative process.
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