AUSTIN— For the second time in four years, the Legislature failed to pass a bill to establish basic standards of shelter and care for restrained dogs in Texas, the Texas Humane Legislation Network. Senate Bill 295 by Sen. Eddie Lucio of Brownsville would have improved basic standards for dogs and clarified the state’s current law, which law enforcement officers across the state have called unenforceable, said the organization’s executive director Laura Donahue. The bill was killed o ...