The Texas House is unanimously approving a measure to create an active shooter alert system in the state. The bill is known as the Leilah Hernandez Act, in honor of the youngest victim of the August 2019 Midland-Odessa shooting spree. It would launch a system like the AMBER Alert system for missing children, which would […]
Texas House panel meets to discuss Mass Violence Prevention
September 18, 2019 by Leave a Comment
A bipartisan Texas House panel is tackling the question of how to present mass shootings in the state like the two that happened last month. The new House Select Committee on Mass Violence Prevention and Community Safety, made up of seven Republicans and six Democrats, held its first meeting on Tuesday. The committee plans to […]
Texas House Delays Property Tax Debate
April 16, 2019 by Leave a Comment
The Texas House has delayed its property tax debate until a week from Wednesday, after initially slating it to be taken up Monday. Ways and Means committee chairman Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, moved to postpone the property tax bill, which he authored, until Wednesday, April 24. “Looks like we’re waiting on a Senate bill,” Burrows said. Lawmakers […]
Texas House Approves 2020-21 Budget Plan, Keeps Extra $9 Billion for School Finance, Property Tax Relief
March 28, 2019 by Leave a Comment
In Dennis Bonnen’s first major test as speaker of the Texas House, the chamber he oversees resoundingly passed a $251 billion budget Wednesday after a long but largely civil debate — a departure from the dramatics that have typically defined such an affair. Though lawmakers proposed more than 300 amendments to the spending plan, Bonnen, […]
New restrictions for minors getting abortions
May 14, 2015 by Leave a Comment
The Texas House is preliminarily signing off on new restrictions for minors wanting to get abortions without parental consent.
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