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  Texas AG opines that school districts can’t withhold student medical info from parents

  By From staff reports | Tuesday, May 17, 2022 @ 12:50pm

  AUSTIN - Texas school districts may not withhold medical or health information about a minor child from the child’s parent or legal guardian, according to an opinion released by Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday.

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  AG Paxton: Court likely to conclude Houston ISD’s paid leave for vaccinated employees violates Gov. Abbott’s executive order

  By Staff reports | Thursday, Apr 14, 2022 @ 12:38pm

  HOUSTON - Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an opinion today stating that a court would likely conclude that, by offering additional paid leave only to those employees showing proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a medical exemption, the Houston Independent School District’s COVID-19 paid leave policy violates Executive Order GA-39.

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  Texas AG can’t determine whether booze can be sold at a school banquet facility inside a football stadium

  By Staff reports | Wednesday, Jan 19, 2022 @ 10:57am

  AUSTIN - An attorney general opinion apparently can’t determine whether a banquet facility inside a stadium owned by the school district is a “building of a public school.”

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  Texans are free from local government mandates requiring face coverings, AG Paxton opines

  By Staff reports | Tuesday, Sep 21, 2021 @ 2:59pm

  AUSTIN – Texans are free from local government mandates requiring face coverings and any official denying that immunity may be in violation of the Penal Code, Attorney General Ken Paxton recently opined.

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