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In 1973, the Texas Family Code was amended by House Bill 103 to explicitly state that a marriage license may only be issued to a man and a woman. HB 103 became effective on January 1, 1974. [23] In 1997, Texas banned the issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), [1] was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protected the right to have an abortion prior to the point of fetal viability.
All policies must provide an annual maximum out-of-pocket (MOOP) payment cap for an individual's or family's medical expenses (excluding premiums). After the MOOP payment is reached, all remaining costs must be paid by the insurer. [39] Preventive care, vaccinations and medical screenings cannot be subject to co-payments, co-insurance or ...
Texas: $7.25 [305] $2.13 Applies to all workers in the state, excluding patients of the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation who have diminished production capacity and who work on behalf of the department; their salary is calculated at the minimum wage times a percentage of their diminished capacity.
Article I, Section 2, Clause 5 authorizes the House of Representatives to serve as a "grand jury" with the power to impeach said officials by a majority vote. [163] Article I, Section 3, Clause 6 authorizes the Senate to serve as a court with the power to remove impeached officials from office, by a two-thirds vote to convict. [164]
Capital punishment in Texas: Texas is the state with the highest number of cumulative executions since 1976. Black people make up about 45% of the current death row population in Texas, [202] though only make up about 13% of the state's general population. [203]
In the only state that tracks a person's immigration status, Texas, illegal immigrants were convicted of crimes 45% less than native-born Americans. [240] For men between the ages of 18 and 39, the demographic with the highest propensity for crime, the incarceration rate for immigrants is one-fourth that of native-born Americans.