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Hundreds of new crimes, enhancements proposed at Texas Lege

On the Texas District and County Attorneys Association website, we find this unofficial statistical compilation of new crimes and penalty hikes proposed at the 81st Texas Legislature:The bill filing deadline is over and we've just about got all of the horses in the corral. A preliminary head count of the bills we are tracking yields the following unofficial information:Total number of bills tracked: 1, 445Number of bills in the following categories:New misdemeanors: 195New felonies: 71New enhancements: 109New civil duties: 77Sex offenders: 70DWI: 58Death penalty: 40Gang bills: 37(Percent of these bills suggested by prosecutors: about 3%!)More than 7,000 bills were filed overall this session. H/t Shannon Edmonds.

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 27, 2009 (boomark / email).