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- Focus Report: Volume 75, Number 2, January 1997
- This is a report to rewrite the 1993 and 1995 stalking laws. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals found the laws unconstitutionally vague requiring new legislation.
- Focus Report, Volume 75, Number 3, January 1997
- Periodical summarizing Texas annexation law and discussing the benefits and drawbacks of cities' having broad annexation authority.
- Focus Report, Volume 75, Number 4, January 1997
- Report on the legislative process as defined in the Texas Constitution.
- Focus Report, Volume 75, Number 5, February 1997
- Periodical discussing Texas House of Representatives committee procedures which reviews the rules and procedures used in house committees.
- Focus Report, Volume 75, Number 6, February 1997
- Report on revisions to mandatory supervision release law that requires some convicted criminals to be released from prison automatically without the approval of the Board of Pardons and Paroles and before their sentences are complete.
- Focus Report, Volume 75, Number 8, February 1997
- Periodical discussing issues related to recycling waste tires. It provides information on Texas's waste tire recycling program, existing problems with the program, and possible solutions to deal with waste tires.
- Focus Report: Volume 75, Number 9, March 1997
- This is a report on the judicial selection of state judges. The report addresses issues of partisan election practices and finance reform.
- Focus Report, Volume 75, Number 10, March 1997
- Report on professional sports facilities in Texas being built with local support.
- Focus Report: Volume 75, Number 11, March 1997
- This is a report on Governor George W. Bush's property tax relief proposal for home owners. It looks at the plan to use state revenue to cover a greater share of public education financing.
- Focus Report: Volume 75, Number 12, April 1997
- This is a report over the Safe Schools Act as part of the 1995 rewrite of the Education Code. The report looks at the two main objects of the Legislature attempts to give administrators authority to remove disruptive students and create a safety net so expelled students are not cast into the streets.
- Focus Report: Volume 75, Number 13, April 1997
- Periodical discussing the future water needs for the State of Texas. The Texas Water Development Board addresses the projected needs over the next 50 years.
- Focus Report, Volume 75, Number 14, April 1997
- Report on affirmative action in Texas after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Hopwood v. University of Texas School of Law.
- Focus Report, Volume 75, Number 10, July 1997
- This report addresses the 37 measures vetoed by Governor George W. Bush. The 75th Legislatures vetoed measures included 19 House bills, 17 Senate bills, and one Senate concurrent resolution.
- Focus Report, Volume 75, Number 19, October 1997
- Report on newly adopted State Board of Education (SBOE) course requirements for public schools in Texas.
- Focus Report, Volume 75, Number 20, November 1997
- Periodical discussing the capacity of the Texas prison system, presenting the current status of the prison system and possibly solutions to meet the demands on the system.