The Governor was joined by Speaker Dustin Burrows, Chairman Charles Perry, Chairman Cody Harris, Representative Greg Bonnen, ...

Governor Greg Abbott appointed two people from Amarillo, one being a State Representative, to the Crime Victims' Institute ...

State Rep. John Smithee, R-Amarillo, joined Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday, June 3 to sign into law a sweeping package of bail reform measures aimed at keeping violent and repeat offenders in jail ...

Joined by dozens of bail reform advocates and family members of victims at Crime Stoppers of Houston, Abbott signed the package filed by state Sen. Joan Huffman, R-Houston, and state Rep. John ...

Supporters of the legislation, including House sponsor Rep. John Smithee, R-Amarillo, framed the bills as a matter of life and death, citing homicides allegedly committed by defendants who were ...

Senate Joint Resolutions 1 and 87 both failed to get the two-thirds majority support needed in the lower chamber and are effectively dead this legislative session.

“We try to be a very generous country,” Rep. John Smithee, R-Amarillo and chair of the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee, said last week.

State Rep. John Smithee (R-Amarillo) A trio of Texas Senate bail reform measures authored by state Sen. Joan Huffman (R-Houston) advanced in the House on Monday.

State Rep. John Smithee (R-Amarillo) State Rep. John Smithee (R-Amarillo) A trio of Texas Senate bail reform measures authored by state Sen. Joan Huffman (R-Houston) advanced in the House on Monday.

Rep. John Smithee, R-Amarillo, who helmed the bills in the House, said they might be the most important ones he has ever worked on.

Rep. John Smithee, R-Amarillo and chair of the House Criminal Jurisprudence committee, argued that stricter bail laws were necessary to protect the public from crime committed by dangerous ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas House on Monday advanced a sweeping package to crack down on bail laws, setting a longtime priority of Gov. Greg Abbott’s — to keep more dangerous people accused of ...