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COVID, abortion, voting access, permitless gun carry: Here's where Texas bills stand Fort Worth Star-Telegram 1 hr ago Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram May 14—About two weeks remain of the regular legislative session, leaving Texas lawmakers with limited time to pass laws. Lawmakers in the Texas House of Representatives faced a critical deadline Thursday night. They had until midnight to give initial approval to hundreds of House bills. Lawmakers made it to page 13 of a 25-page calendar, rendering many bills effectively dead. That comes with an asterisk: Similar p...

Et tu, Dutton? Days after the anti-trans student athlete bill Senate Bill 29 failed to pass out of the Texas House Public Education Committee on Tuesday, May 4, committee Chair Rep. Harold Dutton, D-Houston (yes, a Dem), moved to reconsider SB 29 on Friday, May 7, for no apparent reason other than personal spite, after an unrelated bill by Dutton was killed on the House floor the night before. Dutton admitted as much to the committee Friday morning, describing his move as a "consequence" because "the bill that was killed last night affected far more children than [SB 29] ever will." Chilli...

Et tu, Dutton? Days after the anti-trans student athlete bill Senate Bill 29 failed to pass out of the Texas House Public Education Committee on Tuesday, May 4, committee Chair Rep. Harold Dutton, D-Houston (yes, a Dem), moved to reconsider SB 29 on Friday, May 7, for no apparent reason other than personal spite, after an unrelated bill by Dutton was killed on the House floor the night before. Dutton admitted as much to the committee Friday morning, describing his move as a "consequence" because "the bill that was killed last night affected far more children than [SB 29] ever will." Chilli...

In the beginning of the 87th Texas Legislative Session, I felt hopeful. Hopeful for what I would learn, the ways I would grow, the people I would meet, the friends I would make, things I would learn about myself, and much more. Nearing the end of session, all of these things have come to fruition. What I have been able to learn and accomplish has shown me so much about myself. Myself and the other 12 University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work legislative interns are often asked the impossible, with impossible time limits. However, every time, we have

FacebookTwitterEmail Yi-Chin Lee, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer Thirteen bills before the Texas Legislature this session address the treatment of transgender children in the public and private sphere. As the session winds down, three are still in play. The Texas bills restricting athletic participation, medical care, changes to official IDs and parental rights for trans kids came amid a flood of more than 100 similar bills around the country. These measures were the brainchild of the conservative group Promise to America’s Children, a coalition of ultra-conservative and evangelical...