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Numerous political aspirants and officeholders in Texas have faced fines levied by the Texas Ethics Commission (TEC). [9] The heftiest of these was a $77,200 fine levied against Ron Reynolds, then a member of the Texas Legislature, for failing to file mandatory campaign finance reports during a two year period. [ 10 ]
Texas Proposition 8 may refer to various ballot measures in Texas, including: 1972 Texas Proposition 8, about changing the length of the terms of statewide elected offices in Texas; 2007 Texas Proposition 8, about home equity loans; 2021 Texas Proposition 8, about a homestead property tax exemption for the surviving spouse of a military member ...
The George W. Bush administration put the Continuity of Operations plan into effect for the first time directly following the September 11 attacks.Their implementation involved a rotating staff of 75 to 150 senior officials and other government workers from every federal executive department and other parts of the executive branch in two secure bunkers on the East Coast.
The Army of Republika Srpska (Serbian: Војска Републике Српске/Vojska Republike Srpske; ВРС/VRS), commonly referred to in English as the Bosnian Serb Army, [3] was the military of Republika Srpska, the self-proclaimed Serb secessionist republic, a territory within the newly independent Bosnia and Herzegovina (formerly part of Yugoslavia), which it defied and fought against.
One of the first Serb immigrants to the United States was the settler George Fisher, who arrived in Philadelphia in 1815, moved to Mexico, fought in the Texan Revolution, and became a judge in California. Another notable early Serb in America was Basil Rosevic, who founded a shipping company, the Trans-Oceanic Ship Lines, around the year 1800. [3]
In 1837, he became a commission agent in Houston, in the Republic of Texas, and served as justice of the peace in 1839. [2] Fisher was admitted to the bar in 1840 and was elected to the Houston city council. In 1843 he became a major in the Texas militia. [2] He traveled to Panama in 1850 and on to California in 1851.
Serbia’s populist president on Saturday called for peace and harmony in the Balkans even as he and the Bosnian Serb separatist leader organized a large nationalist gathering that featured calls ...
The Robin Hood Plan is a colloquialism given to a provision of Texas Senate Bill 7 (73rd Texas Legislature) (the provision is officially referred to as "recapture"), originally enacted by the U.S. state of Texas in 1993 (and revised frequently since then) to provide equity of school financing within all school districts in the state of Texas.