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The Senate State Affairs Committee overwhelmingly approved the bills after a hearing on the measures ended after midnight Tuesday. Credit: Callie Richmond for The Texas Tribune
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Following through on a promise to prioritize anti-abortion legislation, a panel of Texas senators approved a slate of abortion restrictions
Tuesday and sent them to the full chamber for consideration.
Among those seven pieces of legislation was Senate Bill 8, which would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat has been detected, which is before many women know they are pregnant. The bill, one of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s priorities, has an exception for medical emergencies but not for rape or incest.
Slate of Texas legislation limiting abortion, including so-called “heartbeat bill,” heads to Senate
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Tuesday and sent them to the full chamber for consideration.
Among those seven pieces of legislation was Senate Bill 8, which would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat has been detected, which is before many women know they are pregnant. The bill, one of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s priorities, has an exception for medical emergencies but not for rape or incest.
Another Patrick priority is Senate Bill 9, which would bar nearly all abortions if the Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade decision or otherwise altered abortion laws. Other proposals would bar later-term abortions in the case of severe fetal abnormalities, and could force people to carry ill-fated or unviable pregnancies to term, according to experts and advocates.
Texas House Speaker Disagrees With Bill Senate Passed To Reverse ERCOT’s Overcharges Syndicated Local – CBS Dallas / Fort Worth
AUSTIN, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan disagreed with a bill passed quickly by the State Senate on Monday, to reverse billions of dollars in overcharges by ERCOT during last month’s widespread power outages.
The state says those outages are responsible for the deaths of 57 people across Texas.
In a statement Tuesday afternoon, March 16, Phelan expressed doubts about lawmakers changing ERCOT’s pricing during February’s winter storms.
“Repricing based on disagreement with PUC and ERCOT’s management decisions is an extraordinary government intervention into the free market, which may have major consequences for both residential and commercial consumers going forward.”
Investment expert: Undoing ERCOT overcharges would hurt Texas business reputation
Austin American-Statesman (TX)
Texas would damage its business-friendly reputation if state lawmakers retroactively lower prices for wholesale electricity to reverse billions of dollars in overcharges racked up during last month s weather emergency, a representative of an international investment exchange said Tuesday. Any such decision by this political process will forever define the open for business culture
Texas has worked diligently for decades to create, said
Chris Edmonds, global head of clearing and risk at
Intercontinental Exchange Inc.
Edmonds, speaking to the
House State Affairs committee, said the repercussions will go beyond the market for wholesale electricity by rattling investors in other