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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 ]
(The Center Square) – After Republicans swept many state legislative seats on Election Day, Gov. Greg Abbott said he had more than enough votes to pass school choice in the next legislative session.
Passed from the Senate on Friday, the funding bill from Sen. Joan Huffman, R-Houston, proposed to allocate half of the money to fund the school safety allotment with the other half going toward ...
The proposal would give families who exit the state’s public education system access to $8,000 of taxpayer money each year to pay for their children’s private schooling.
The 88th 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 its regular session in Austin, Texas , from January 10, 2023 to May 29, 2023, [ 1 ] followed by four consecutive special sessions.
The most recent of these attempts took place during a 2021 special session of the Legislature. On July 12, 2021, during a special session, at least 51 Democratic members of the House fled the state in two charter jets bound for Washington, D.C., in an effort to block Republican-backed election legislation from passing. The lawmakers planned to ...
The Texas Senate is the upper house of the Texas Legislature, with the Texas House of Representatives being the lower house. Together, they compose the state legislature of the state of Texas . There are 31 members of the Senate, representing single-member districts across the U.S. state of Texas , with populations of approximately 940,000 per ...
Rep. Chris Turner called Rep. David Spiller's belief that most arrests would occur within 50 miles of the Texas-Mexico border "speculative."