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Bonton Farms Act Signed Into Law


Bonton Farms Act Signed Into Law
Named for the South Dallas urban farm, the legislation will help formerly incarcerated people re-enter the wider world by removing onerous fines.
By
Alex Macon
Published in
FrontBurner
July 13, 2021
3:09 pm
I missed this amid all the other news that’s been coming out of the state’s special legislative session, but last week Gov. Greg Abbott signed the Bonton Farms Act into law. Named for the South Dallas urban farm, which feeds people in one of southern Dallas’ many food deserts and helps employ formerly incarcerated men and women, the act effectively wipes out many of the fines and fees that a person may have accrued before they were incarcerated. ....

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GOP legislative priority analysis


Jimmy TeelingMercury Staff
Texas GOP lawmakers passed most of the carryover priorities from the 2019 legislative session. However, it is disappointing that they could not finish passing the new priorities they set for this year and must save those leftovers for a special session.
In 2020, the Republican Party of Texas passed eight legislative priorities for the 2021 legislative session: election integrity, religious freedom, abolition of abortion, constitutional carry, monument protection, banning child gender modification, school choice for all, and banning taxpayer-funded lobbying. When the session ended in May, our lawmakers had only managed to pass bills relating to the first five of those priorities. ....

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