Legislation and Statutory Interpretation
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This is a featured Texas title Budget 101 : A guide to the budget process in Texas
By Texas Senate Research Center. Texas Senate Research Center. 2021.
This publication explains how the state budget process works and what to expect in the upcoming Legislative session.
URL: https://senate.texas.gov/_assets/srcpub/87th_Budget_101.pdf
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This is a featured Texas title Open meetings handbook
Office of the Attorney General. Latest received: 2022 Edition.
The Texas Attorney General provides a comprehensive look at the Open Meetings Act.
Read online: https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/files/divisions/open-government/openmeetings_hb.pdf
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This is a featured Texas title Texas Legislative Council drafting manual
The Council.
This manual explains how the legislative process works and is a useful guide for legislative staff, lobbyists, and others with an interest in legislation and the legislative process.
Read online: https://www.tlc.texas.gov/docs/legref/draftingmanual-88.pdf
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By Bonfield, Lloyd. Thomson/West. c2006.
"This book, suitable as a primer for foreign LLMs — or as an introductory survey for American students of both procedural and substantive law — is a comprehensive, though concise, survey of the American legal system — its structure and its methodology." - publisher's description
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By Huefner, Steven F. West Academic Publishing. 2017.
"While traditional American legal education has focused primarily on the judicial branch of government, legislatures and regulatory agencies are responsible for the vast majority of today's law creation and law implementation, in fields from health insurance regulation, to motor vehicle operation, to environmental protection, to the mechanics of voting, to stimulating the economy, to the criminalization of internet piracy, to the distribution of tax burdens, to name only some...[This book is divided into two parts.] Part I describes the functioning of modern-day legislatures and administrative agencies, including not only their essential mechanics but also theories of democratic representation. Part II then builds on this foundation to develop the principal theories and doctrines of statutory and regulatory interpretation. It includes detailed discussions of the various 'intrinsic' and 'extrinsic' interpretive tools, as well as the competing interpretive approaches of Textualism and Pu…
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By Eskridge, William. Second edition. 2014.
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the legislative process and statutory interpretation areas.
Read online: https://lexisdl.com/library/txsll/title/2141374
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By Davies, Jack. Thomson/West. Third edition. c2007.
"Davies’ Legislative Law and Process in a Nutshell describes the process used by all legislative institutions to refine bills and examines the tactics of advocates that speed or impede legislation. The life of legislative law after enactment is detailed, including how agencies, local governments, and businesses use statutes and how citizens, career lobbyists, lawyers, and courts adjust legislative words to fit life’s realities. This edition retains the practical insights of the previous editions and describes the impact the Internet and cell phones have had on the daily work of the legislature for both outsiders and insiders. It also analyzes the influence of political partisanship of recent years." - publisher's description
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U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Legal Policy. [1989].
Avaiable via the Hathi Trust: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001299727
Avaiable via the Hathi Trust View details in library catalog