Texas Rep. Mary González (D) has prefiled a package of bills for next year’s session targeting minors’ access to artificial intelligence-generated sexually explicit images and videos. The state has already passed legislation dealing with nonconsensual pornographic deepfakes, but th...
Senator Gutierrez released a statement after the Allen shooting, saying in part, "Texas lawmakers need to have the political courage to get something done about gun violence. It is sad that this has become our everyday reality. Thanks to the Republican regime that has led Texas for the last ...
Texas Legislative Wrap-Up: A Summary of Electricity-Related Bills Passed by the 84th LegislatureMeghan E. Griffiths
Copycats of the Louisiana law have alsopassed in Virginia,Mississippi, andArkansasas well, but have yet to be signed. Such bills have been brought forward in other states too, like Texas and Arizona. The Free Speech Coalition, a porn industry lobby group, has compiled atracker of age-verific...
2024 anti-trans bills tracker. Explore data on U.S. anti-trans bills including passed bills and themes including sports, bathrooms, healthcare, pronouns, drag shows, and education.
"I support full comprehensive immigration reform," said Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar, whose district encompasses part of the U.S.-Mexico border. "But I know the reality is, to get 60 votes in the Senate is going to be very, very hard." ...
Texas Knife Bill Moves Forward While all of this was happening, a bill in Texas that would remove location-based restrictions on knives in the statemoved forwardafter it was passed out of the Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee. This bill — along with its companion House bill — are stil...
in different forms: Bills passed in Utah and South Dakota threaten to limittrans sports participation.A bill in Idaho could give doctorslife sentencesfor providing gender-affirming healthcare to trans youth, and aTexas bill, now law, treats the provision of gender-affirming healthcare as chi...
Tony Evers promised to sign bills banning chokeholds and making other policing changes passed by the state Assembly on Wednesday, while also calling on lawmakers to go farther to make law enforcement more accountable and transparent. Evers said he would sign four bills that passed with...
The measures, which passed the Republican-controlled state House and Senate, now head to the desk of GOP Gov. Greg Abbott. On Sunday, lawmakers passed legislation known as SB 1933 that would authorize the office of the Texas secretary of state – an Abbott appointee – to “order administrati...