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An Act Relating to censorship of or certain other interference with digital expression, including expression on social media platforms or through electronic mail messages, also known as Texas House Bill 20 (HB20), is a Texas anti- deplatforming law enacted on September 9, 2021. It prohibits large social media platforms from removing, moderating ...
In September 2021, the Texas state legislature passed Texas House Bill 20, a statute that would govern the operations, particularly with regard to content moderation, of social media companies with more than 50 million users. Among other provisions, the law forbade platforms from "censoring" (defined as essentially any mechanism by which ...
Texas House Bill 588, commonly referred to as the "Top 10% Rule", is a Texas law passed in 1997. It was signed into law by then governor George W. Bush on May 20, 1997. The law guarantees Texas students who graduated in the top ten percent of their high school class automatic admission to all state-funded universities.
A federal appeals court granted the state’s motion without comment, allowing the law known as House Bill 20 to take effect.
In September 2021, Texas passed House Bill 20, a measure to ban popular social media services from moderating content based on "viewpoint" and from adding addenda, like fact-checks, to their users’ posts, among other things. NetChoice and CCIA sued Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of Texas, in federal court to block the law's implementation ...
September 20, 2021 – October 19, 2021. The 87th Texas Legislature was a meeting of the legislative branch of the U.S. state of Texas, composed of the Texas Senate and the Texas House of Representatives. The Texas State Legislature met in Austin, Texas, from January 12, 2021, to May 31, 2021. [ 1] Governor Greg Abbott has announced three ...
A new rendering released Aug. 1, 2024, depicts the first two buildings of the Texas A&M Fort Worth campus with other downtown landmarks. Texas A&M will soon begin designing the second building.
The Texas Heartbeat Act, Senate Bill 8 (SB 8), is an act of the Texas Legislature that bans abortion after the detection of embryonic or fetal cardiac activity, which normally occurs after about six weeks of pregnancy. The law took effect on September 1, 2021, after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request for emergency relief from Texas ...