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May 21, 2025 4:00 PM
There were 10 PNVs including Alders, Cain, Holt, Money, Swanson, Tinderholt, Toth, Virdell, and Vasut
The House of Representatives gave initial approval to Senate Bill 31, the Life of the Mother Act, by an overwhelming 126-6 with 10 Republicans registering present not voting.
But not before some of the back microphone’s best friends lined up to grill Administration Chair Charlie Geren, the sponsor of the bill, about its intentions.
“We don't want women's lives to be destroyed because their bodies have been seriously impaired by medical emergencies during their pregnancies. We know women have died after care was delayed or denied. We know women have left Texas for life-saving care. We know women's bodies have been horribly injured because doctors and hospitals are afraid to provide abortions that could save their bodies. Doctors and hospitals need the clarity,” Geren said. “SB 31 will put into the law to be able to save women's lives and protect them from substantial impairments of their bodily functions.”
Careful of the circular firing squad waiting to shoot, he noted the bill “makes clear that doctors are not required to withhold or alter lifesaving treatment for cancer or other conditions if doing so will jeopardize the life or major bodily functions, including future fertility of a pregnant woman.”
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May 21, 2025 2:18 PM
Meantime Chairman Ken King has again postponed the THC legislation, seen by many House Republicans as the chamber’s last significant point of leverage. Also: “Why vote on Dan’s stuff and give him a list of members to target for retribution on their bills?” said one House Republican
After the Texas
House voted nearly unanimously to approve an $8 billion school finance package
praised by educators, that plan’s been taken apart by Texas Senate
leadership seemingly hellbent on writing the budgets of ISDs for them.
“Dan just
doesn’t trust the superintendents,” said one person familiar with the private discussions.
While this
may be one of the Texas Legislature’s least transparent
negotiations ever between the House and Senate – taking place before a
conference committee can even be appointed – various people with knowledge of
the talks are now starting to see some hard numbers on items in the proposal.
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Meanwhile, apparently negotiations on House Bill 2 on school finance are happening under the radar
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May 20, 2025 11:10 AM
The Austin area Democrat says it would be a "Good Win for Texas"
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May 19, 2025 3:19 PM
But SJR1 dealing with undocumented people fell far short of 100 votes on second reading
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May 19, 2025 12:48 PM
Paxton says he found no criminal wrongdoing after a seven-week investigation
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May 19, 2025 9:37 AM
Over the weekend, the Democratic Caucus posted on social media that the number one thing left to do this session is "reform bail, keep our communities safe"
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May 16, 2025 3:34 PM
Heavy hitters, leadership changes, new ventures, and more
That’s
certainly enough of this week. That Sine Die countdown clock is looking better
every minute, ain’t it?
Now that second reading deadline has passed in the House and the Lt. Gov. says
this has been a “boring session” – because he’s getting his way on almost
everything – it’s time to restart People on the Move. There are a few weeks during
session where we don’t hear from many of you making
any moves because you’re locked into what you’re doing. But as session draws to a close, many of you across the Texas
Capitol community will start looking for your next adventure if you haven’t
lined it up already.
For the uninitiated:
People on the Move is the most efficient way to let folks across the political
scene in Austin know about your career news. You can also brag on a friend or
tattle on an adversary. Send the info to ksbraddock@gmail.com
and use POTM in the subject line. Please and thank you.
Here’s the
latest edition.
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May 15, 2025 4:57 PM
Show Mr. Harrison voting aye
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May 15, 2025 4:05 PM
The Senate
hearing on House Bill 2, the overdue school finance bill lauded
yesterday by Governor Greg Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick
and Speaker of the House Dustin Burrows, got underway this morning with packed
room.
The 220-plus
page bill injects eight billion dollars into public education, but there’s consternation
over how it would be spent and how much latitude ISDs have in writing their own
budgets.
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During an afternoon news conference, Burrows pointed to other key components of the legislation and said it’s not wise to focus on “just one number”
Seemingly
very out of step with his membership on his top priority legislation of the session,
Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows on Wednesday afternoon praised
the Texas Senate’s version of school finance which drastically pulls
back on the proposed increase in the basic allotment.
As Quorum
Report first told you last night, the Senate’s plan would boost the
basic allotment by $55 – an amount that many districts won’t even see under the
proposal because of the way it’s structured, according to numbe
crunchers at ISDs around the state who have been studying the plan. It’s drastically
different from what the House passed on a vote of 142 to 5: An increase of
$395.
Lt. Gov. Dan
Patrick and Burrows, along with the state’s chief budget writers and the governor,
have worked to negotiate the details of the Senate plan scheduled for a hearing
in Chairman Brandon Creighton’s committee tomorrow morning.
In
response to a question from a journalist about the differences in the plans,
Burrows focused on the overall price tag of $8 billion and pointed to the other
key components of the legislation including special education funding, teacher pay,
full day funding for pre-k, and school safety.
“Looking
at just one number and not what the entire bill does, I don’t think is what we
need to be doing,” Burrows said. “When you look at the things it does, it’s the
things we identified are very important.”
Developing…
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