Developments from the Texas House of Representatives and a local snapshot: The 87th Legislature will begin this January. When bill filing began in Austin this week, within a few hours over 530 bills had already been filed. "By 5 p.m. Monday, senators and representatives had filed almost 550 potential laws, constitutional amendments and resolutions to hash out during the 140-day session, which begins as always at noon on the second Tuesday in January during odd-numbered years. Many, many more [thousands of bills and proposals in fact] will be drafted before the bill-filing deadline arrives March 12."It is worth asking ...
Legislative Update
May 2021
Magic Circle RWC Legislative Report
The House State Affairs committee began processing Senate bills May 3-7. As of May 12, the last House local and consent calendar with consent House Bills must be distributed.
On May 24, the last House local and consent calendar with Senate bills must be distributed.
The last day of regular session will be May 31, 2021.
HB1280 S - Assigned state affairs. Human life protection act
HB766 - Bail reform. July 13 hearing Senate Jurisprudence
SJR27 H - Sent to calendars
HB3979 - Passed third reading. No critical race theory
HB525 - Reported passed
Regrettably, many SREC Legislative priority bills are dead.
DEAD BILLS LIST:
HB329 - Election Integrity
HB335 - Election Integrity
HB1368 - Election Integrity
HB1458 - Religious Freedom (Save women’s sports)
HB1487 - Religious Freedom (Protection of religious organizations)
HB1569 - Religious Freedom (Regulation by a property owner's association of certain religious displays)
HB1579 & SB654 - Religious Freedom (Protection of the free exercise of religion rights of inmates & ensuring access to volunteer/faith-based chaplains/chaplaincy services)
HB1671 - Religious Freedom (Protection of religious freedoms & religious institutions during a declared state of disaster)
HB3596 & SB1681 - Religious Freedom (Protection of religious organizations)
SB738 - Religious Freedom (Right of recusal from the performance of certain marriage ceremonies)
HB68 - Gender & Children (Definition of abuse of a child)
HB3326 - Abolish Abortion (Prohibiting abortion & protecting the rights of an unborn child and to criminal liability for, justification for, and defenses to prohibited conduct)
HB3641 & SB1681 - Abolish Abortion (Declaring void certain federal court decisions related to abortion and prohibiting cooperation with the enforcement of those decisions; creating a private cause of action; creating a criminal offense)
HJR80 - Abolish Abortion (Constitutional amendment clarifying the Texas Constitution does not secure or protect the right to an abortion or require the expenditure of public money for an abortion)
HJR113 & SJR25 - Abolish Abortion (Constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to life of unborn children)
HB1238 & HB2900 - Constitutional Carry (Provisions governing the carrying of a firearm by a person who is not otherwise prohibited by state or federal law from possessing the firearm and to other provisions related to the carrying, possessing, transporting, or storing of a firearm)
HB446 - Monument Protection (Increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of criminal mischief involving the damage or destruction of a public monument)
HB2571 & SB1416 - Monument Protection (Relating to the removal, relocation, alteration, or construction of certain monuments or memorials located on public property)
HB749 & SB234 - Ban Tax Payer Funded Lobbying (By a political subdivision of public funds for lobbying activities)
HB2319 - Ban Taxpayer Funded Lobbying (Use of public money to compensate a person who lobbies the federal government)
Important Information:
Previous Legislative Updates
Times of pandemic and other crises have shown us who some of our elected officials really are, both good and bad. Elected officials have acted in ways that raised questions and left many of us scratching our heads. For instance, the dictatorial mandates from a county judge that gets reversed four days after implementation because of a mandate from the governor that wipes out the judge’s order. It has been said before and it needs to be said again: Elections have consequences. We must rededicate ourselves to electing good, qualified individuals to be those we choose to legislate on ...
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