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The court held that "the University of Texas School of Law may not use race as a factor in deciding which applicants to admit in order to achieve a diverse student body, to combat the perceived effects of a hostile environment at the law school, to alleviate the law school's poor reputation in the minority community, or to eliminate any present ...
Texas – Racial and Ethnic Composition (NH = Non-Hispanic) Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity Pop 2000 [16] Pop 2010 [17] Pop 2020 [18] % 2000 % 2010 % 2020 White ...
Texas House Bill 3979 (HB 3979) is an act that relates to civics instruction and instruction policies in public schools in the state of Texas.A follow-up bill to HB 3079—TX Senate Bill 3 [1] —authored by Senator Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola) and others, which was filed on July 9, 2021, passed on July 16, 2021, and becomes law in December, limits the manner and extent to which students may learn ...
Since July 2022, Hispanics have composed 40.2% of Texas' population, compared with 39.8% made up of non-Hispanic white people.
In May 2024, by a unanimous voice vote within both houses of the New Hampshire General Court (Legislature) passed a bill prohibiting discrimination based upon hairstyle - the 25th/50 US state to do so. The Governor of New Hampshire signed the bill into law in July 2024 and goes into legal effect on September 1, 2024. [37] [38] [39]
In Texas, laws required separate water fountains, restrooms, and waiting rooms in railroad stations. [15] In Georgia, restaurants and taverns could not serve white and "colored" patrons in the same room; separate parks for each race were required, as were separate cemeteries. [16] These are just examples from a large number of similar laws.
Based on that data, the law mandated law enforcement agencies to submit a report to the law enforcement agencies' governing body beginning March 1, 2003, and each year thereafter no later than March 1. The law is found in the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure beginning with Article 2.131. [26]
In Texas, figuring out whether a private citizen can make an arrest is a complicated question. Generally, however, the answer is yes, but the law is very limited, according to Texas criminal ...