For Dan Patrick, the priority list marks something of an end to a relatively quiet start to the 2021 legislative session for the typically outspoken lieutenant governor. Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Tuesday unveiled his top 31 priorities for the 2021 legislative session, a mix of newly urgent issues after last week s winter storm, familiar topics stemming from the coronavirus pandemic and a fresh injection of conservative red meat into a session that has been relatively bland so far.
Patrick said in a statement that he is confident these priorities address issues that are critical to Texans at this time and that some of them changed in recent days due to the storm, which left millions of Texans without power. After his top priority the must-pass budget Patrick listed his priorities as reforming the state s electrical grid operator, as well as power grid stability.
A state district judge in Travis County has temporarily stopped Texas from kicking Planned Parenthood out of its Medicaid program, after the health provider filed an emergency lawsuit in a bid to keep providing non-abortion services to thousands of low-income patients.
In a last-minute proceeding on Wednesday, Jud
A state district judge ruled Wednesday. That's the same day the state had given Planned Parenthood patients to find new doctors after the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Texas officials who have long sought to block the health provider from participating in Medicaid.
Judge temporarily blocks Texas from kicking Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid program
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Planned Parenthood of South Texas office manger, Twila Aguilera, looks at the number of patient intakes and services provided at the San Pedro clinic location on Thursday, Aug. 22nd, 2019.Carlos Javier Sanchez | Contributor
A Texas judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked Republican leaders from kicking Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid, as the nonprofit provider claims the effort did not follow procedure and could unjustly strip some 8,000 low-income women of critical care including birth control, STI treatments and cancer screenings.
State health officials had given women on Medicaid until Wednesday to find alternatives to Planned Parenthood for the non-abortion services. Planned Parenthood and other women’s health advocates have warned there are few other providers willing to provide the care, in part because the state’s reimbursement rate is among the lowest in the c
A Travis County district court temporarily blocked the state from kicking Planned Parenthood out of its Medicaid program on Wednesday.
Judge Maya Guerra Gamble wrote that immediate and irreparable harm will result to Planned Parenthood affiliates if they are stripped of Medicaid funding before they have time to make their case.
Earlier Wednesday, Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas filed an emergency lawsuit in an effort to stop the state from blocking 8,000 low-income Texans on Medicaid from receiving care at the chain of family-planning clinics.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled late last year that the state could kick Planned Parenthood out of the program. State officials last month gave Medicaid recipients 30 days to find a new provider. That meant Planned Parenthood would officially be out of the program starting Thursday.