Wednesday, May 26, 2021 After three of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick's divisive bills die, he calls for a special session to keep them alive Posted By Sanford Nowlin on Wed, May 26, 2021 at 5:07 PM click to enlarge Wikimdia Commons / Gage Skidmore Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: Would you trust the judgement of a man who picked out this shirt? Three of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick's legislative priorities for the session sputtered out this week — divisive bills designed to punish transgender kids, Democrat-controlled big cities and social media companies — and now he wants a redo. The arch-conservative leader of the Texas Senate has asked Gov. Greg Abbott, a fellow Republican, to call a special session of the Texas Lege in June so he can advance the controversial measures, the Texas Tribune reports.