HousePasses Bill To Create 100% Reserve Gold & Silver-Backed Transactional Currencies By Michael Maharrey via SchiffGold On May 2, a Texas House committee passed a bill to create 100% reserve gold and silver-backed transactional currencies.Enactment of this legislation would cre...
Phelan swiftly rejected SB 1 and a companion resolution when they arrived in the House, arguing the bills fell outside of Abbott's agenda for a special session and refused to let it move in the chamber. Instead, the House quickly passed its own proposal and adjourned. The current homestead ...
Where can I view other bills that passed? You can view all bills passed by the 88th Texas Legislature onTexas Legislature Online. To see the bills in the order they become law, visit theLegislative Reference Library of Texas (LRL)'s Bill Effective Dates page....
Governor Greg Abbott signed House Bill 1181 in June 2023. The law would ban minors from viewing explicit content online by requiring the website, such as Pornhub, to have users verify their age. In February, Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Aylo Global Entertainment, the pa...
On Monday, the House State Affairs Committee held hearings on two bills passed in the Texas Senate last week: SB 4 and SB 11. During the hearing, Republicans supported the bills and said they will deter illegal immigration, while Democratic lawmakers and other opponents said they ...
The Texas House LGBTQ Caucus is always committed to fighting for LGBTQIA+ Texans. SB 12, a bill that originally targeted drag performances in public places and in front of children was passed to third reading today with amended language. We acknowledge and approve the removal of the bill's la...
Among the most significant new laws that passed and took effect were measures related to sexual harassment, guns in the workplace, and, of course, COVID-19. Below are the five most important labor and employment law bills from this year’s session that all Texas employers need to know ...
Bills like House Bill 2127 “excuse the Texas Legislature from leading,” she added. “We are wasting our precious 140 days — when we could be doing statewide health, education, justice and prosperity policies — barging into bedrooms, locker rooms, boardrooms examining rooms and now city coun...
The GOP-led Texas state Senate passed sweeping elections legislation Tuesday that critics say will make it harder to vote, particularly for those of color, one day after Democratic lawmakers in the state House left Texas to thwart passage of the bill in the lower chamber. The uppe...
But as Sunday night wore on in the House, the GOP's chances wobbled. About two hours before the midnight deadline to pass the bill, Democrats began filing out of the chamber in greater and greater numbers, denying Republicans the quorum necessary to hold a final vote. The walkout handed...