March 20, 2017      3:56 PM

House GOP Caucus Chair Parker says third-party groups spreading misinformation on minimum wage

“Allowing the legislation to be heard in committee did not put it on any type of fast track, nor did it change the likelihood that this legislation would become law.”

Saying “there have been third-party groups engaging in spreading false and misleading information” about the minimum wage bills being heard today in the Legislature, Texas House GOP Caucus Chairman Tan Parker on Monday said he’d like to “set the record straight.”

“Last week, the House voted on a procedural motion to suspend the House Rules and allow a bill to be heard in committee without the usual five-day posting period,” said Parker, R-Flower Mound. “This is a courtesy that legislators from both parties routinely extend to one another.”

In this instance, he said, a Republican presented the motion on behalf of his committee chairman as a courtesy so that bills addressing the minimum wage could be heard today in House Business and Industry. “Allowing the legislation to be heard in committee did not put it on any type of fast track, nor did it change the likelihood that this legislation would become law,” Parker said. “In short, the legislation is no more likely to pass than it was before the vote was taken.”

Parker’s full statement is here.

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