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Status: In force. 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 ...
By February 1, 2021, eight bills that would reduce voting access had been introduced, [217] including House Bill 25 and Senate Bill 208, which would limit who can send absentee ballot applications to voters without an affirmative request; [225] House Bill 1924 and House Bill 335, which would expedite removal of deceased persons, the mentally ...
The Texas Independence Referendum Act (HB 3596), commonly shortened to TEXIT, was a failed Texas state legislation which, if passed, would have called for a state referendum on the secession of Texas from the United States. While prior versions of the legislation have been introduced under similar titles, this most recent version was introduced ...
Texas House elections are held every two years on Election Day. For about a hundred years, from after Reconstruction until the 1990s, the Democratic Party dominated Texas politics, making part of the Solid South. In a reversal of alignments, since the late 1960s, the Republican Party has grown more prominent. By the 1990s, it became the state's ...
1868. Citizenship is guaranteed to all male persons born or naturalized in the United States by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, setting the stage for future expansions to voting rights. November 3: The right of African American men to vote in Iowa is approved through a voter referendum.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Biden-Harris administration's Department of Homeland Security and immigration officials for allegedly not verifying citizenship of 450,000 voters.
Status: In force. Texas Senate Bill 4 (or Texas SB 4) is a bill that effectively bans sanctuary cities in the state of Texas. It was filed on November 15, 2016, and discussed during the regular session of the eighty-fifth Texas Legislature. Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed the bill into law on May 7, 2017. The law was the subject of several ...
t. e. The 2020 United States presidential election in Texas was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. [3] Texas voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party ...