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Employee or Independent Contractor?There are benefits to classifying workers as independent contractors, the largest of which is cost savings.
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Texas Legislative Issues/News: Lawmakers to look at criminal prosecution of people in debt to rent to own companiesAn obscure law passed decades ago, rent-to-own companies in Texas are allowed to pursue felony theft charges against those who default on payments.
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Texas Legislative Issues/News: New Legislation Provides Consumer Protections Concerning Freestanding ERsLegislation recently passed into law in Austin will provide considerable protection for Texas health care consumers with regard to freestanding emergency rooms.
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Texas Legislative Issues/News: New law helps charter schools maintain facilitiesHouse Bill 21 provides for the allocation $60 million to Texas charter schools for leasing and maintaining buildings and other facilities
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The Student Privacy ActTexas Legislature passed House Bill 2087, the Student Privacy Act which protects data that students or the student’s parents provide
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Texas Legislative Issues/News: Texas Law Makers Mull Flood Control Projects for HoustonHouston's long-delayed flood projects that would have spared thousands of Houston homes from being flooded during the deluge brought on by Hurricane Harvey.
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Texas Legislative Issues/News: Medical Marijuana Law Goes into EffectRecent medical marijuana law passed by the Texas Legislature... pot is going to be grown in the state of Texas legally.
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Texas Legislative Issues/News: Texas voter ID law revived by appeals courtThe attempt by the Texas Legislature to enact a voter ID law has been tangled in the courts ever since the effort began.
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Texas Legislative News: Judge Rejects Voting Law ChangesA federal court judge has shot down changes to Texas voting laws for a second time.
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New credit card law pits Texas against merchants and financial companiesDuring the regular session, the Texas Legislature passed a law allowing merchants to ask to see a photo ID when processing a credit card