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...
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 ...
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...
By Jack Fink October 16, 2023 / 5:34 PM CDT / CBS Texas AUSTIN (CBSNewsTexas.com) — Texas lawmakers are considering cracking down further on illegal immigration. On Monday, the House State Affairs Committee held hearings on two bills passed in the Texas Senate last week: S...
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...
In one of the first actions by the 118th Congress, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass two Pro-Life bills. The first, HCon.Res. 3, condemns the ...
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....
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 Texas House has long acted as a more moderate guardrail even as lawmakers under Phelan passed some of the nation's toughest restrictions overabortion,immigrationandvoting. But Paxton's impeachment last year in the House over corruption accusations angered conservatives ...
(House Bill 3651) In addition, also effective September 1, 2023, House Bill 3599 provides an exemption for gasoline or diesel fuel for use by a nonprofit foodbank’s trucks and exempts such trucks from motor vehicle registration fees. (House Bill 3599) We will continue to provide updates ...