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May 22, 2019 9:26 PM
An amendment was added deleting agencies which have had their bills signed already by the governor
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May 22, 2019 9:13 PM
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May 22, 2019 6:18 PM
Keeping veterans out of House Bill 3703 appeared
to be the concession Sen. Donna Campbell,
R-New Braunfels, needed to pull unanimous support for this session’s medical
cannabis oil legislation.
Veterans dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder have
been some of the most compelling testimony during the hearings on the use of
medical cannabis. But Sen. Brian
Birdwell, R-Granbury, made it clear to the Senate this afternoon that
veterans would not be pawns.
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May 22, 2019 2:55 PM
After the House acted quickly to save an Abbott priority, this should be on your radar; it seemed to catch folks by surprise as Patrick’s legislative weapon of choice two years ago
As
the Texas
Senate goes through hundreds of bills this afternoon and presumably
into the late evening, one of the questions being asked by staffers, lobbyists,
and others revolves around whether the upper chamber today will put a bow on the
Sunset process regardless of whether any agencies see their individual legislation
fail.
The
Sunset “safety net” language, Quorum Report readers will recall,
was what Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick used to
force the special session in 2017.
Voters
may not remember that much about it, especially after the arrival of Hurricane
Harvey took precedent over the petty.
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May 21, 2019 11:20 PM
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May 21, 2019 9:29 PM
When
Rep. Jonathan Stickland, R-Bedford, called
a point of order on SB 10 early today it was not considered out of the ordinary.
What
did set members talking, however, was that the point of order sustained by Speaker
Dennis Bonnen was on a priority bill of Gov. Greg Abbott, his emergency item on mental health.
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May 21, 2019 9:18 PM
The changes would raise the current cap from 5 to 250, end the family ownership rules
In
a change to rules that haven’t been touched in decades, Texas lawmakers before
this session is over appear likely to boost the number of liquor
stores a person or company can own and do away with rules about family ownership.
The
last time ownership rules for liquor stores in Texas were changed was in the
1940s.
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May 21, 2019 3:54 PM
Lt. Gov. Patrick’s anger boils over, Gov. Abbott’s top staff avoid the House floor during debate, professional advocates stung from “being used as political props”
Freshman Rep. Mayes
Middleton’s effort to ban local officials from hiring lobbyists on tax
issues – and provide a red-meat win for Republicans – went down to defeat despite
efforts to massage, narrow and compromise on the bill.
After it failed on the floor, over in the other chamber Lt.
Gov. Dan Patrick threatened to kick
lobbyists out of the gallery. He said some of them had celebrated in the gallery
which he would not allow.
Senate Bill 29 appeared to morph
considerably – and possibly fatally – by the time it got to the House floor.
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May 20, 2019 8:50 PM
DCRP Executive Committee vote was Anderson 77, Lozano 54, Metzger 34
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May 20, 2019 5:49 PM
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May 20, 2019 9:27 AM
Plenty of moving parts, with HB1, SB2, and HB3 still in negotiations, but if SB 29 passes as now proposed the governor’s team and TPPF will have swept local governments out of the mix at the Capitol if a sales tax increase takes center stage in the 2021 session
Celebrations
broke out Sunday evening as various bills offensive to various groups seemed to
die their end-of-session deaths after the Texas House Calendars Committee set
the final floor debates ahead of Tuesday’s critical deadline for passing Senate
bills.
Earlier
in the session when SB2, the rollback rates bill, was about to be debated in the House
it was clear leadership had baited Democrats by placing many of their
priorities behind it on the calendar in order to speed them through that legislation
so that their bills could make it through the process.
Those
were carrots. They had to know the sticks would be broken out at some point.
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May 19, 2019 7:44 PM
Just after 7pm, an amendment was pre-filed by Rep. Middleton to bar those governments from hiring lobbyists, the amendment also includes increased reporting requirements
Here
is the amendment pre-filed by Rep. Mayes
Middleton, R-“Chambers County”, who’s sponsoring the bill.
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May 19, 2019 7:34 PM
Controversial bill assailed by critics as "voter suppression" not set for debate even after Abbott said it "should be supported"
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May 19, 2019 5:53 PM
So far, all Dems have been present and holding the line against Abbott priority while the governor leans on Patrick to get it done
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May 17, 2019 3:32 PM
Patrick said from the dais that his new policy will be for the Senate to stand at ease. Says he understands the House is going to chub for the next 4 or 5 hours. Sen. Whitmire thanks Patrick for his "leadership."
Developing...
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May 17, 2019 3:31 PM
"I believe my service in the Texas Legislature makes me uniquely qualified to lead the Republican Party of Dallas County into the 2020 elections," he said on Facebook today
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May 17, 2019 3:00 PM
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May 17, 2019 10:24 AM
The speaker's office says "We hope to move as quickly as possible"
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May 17, 2019 9:45 AM
Agency news, appointments, staffer moves, juicy chicken tenders and more puppies coming to the building
Good morning, y’all.
POTM is coming out a
little early because, well, it’s a busy day at the Texas Capitol with folks
freaked out, on guard, and working diligently to pass, kill, or “fix” proposals
that seem to have new life with final deadlines looming. Not sure about you,
but I love working until 1am or so every day.
Even though the Chik-fil-A franchises across the state
are under constant threat of closure, there is hope. Though, honestly, the
tenders at Lucy’s and Gus’s are crispier, juicer, and the
sauces are more creative. Don’t’ take my word for it. Go try ‘em so you know what some of your options are just in case Chik-fil-A goes out of business.
Saw Jim Arnold in the hallways yesterday and he promises there will be
more puppies on hand for the second puppy day next week. Those dogs are in
demand, Jim.
As we stare down the end
of the legislative session, be sure to let us know if you’re leaving your gig
and where you’re headed. It’s just not possible to keep track of it all without
your help. Send career news anytime to ksbraddock@gmail.com
and be sure to use POTM in the subject line. Thanks so much.
Here’s this week’s edition
of People
on the Move:
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May 17, 2019 9:13 AM
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May 16, 2019 12:28 PM
A meeting had been called for 9:45 this morning, a quorum was not present. Now we are told Rep. Swanson is out sick and Democrats are also on guard to deny permission for the committee to meet while the House is in session. If there's objection to that it takes 2/3rds support
In one of the more heated debates of the closing
weeks of the legislative session, a new version of SB 9 brought out hundreds
of witnesses to the House Elections Committee Wednesday as the chair cut short registration
for testimony and delayed a vote.
The vast majority of those who registered
before 8:30am, when registration ended at Chair Stephanie Klick’s direction, were in opposition to the bill which
has been labeled by Democrats as an attack on access to the polls and an
attempt to suppress voter turnout.
Conservative supporters like Sen. Bryan Hughes R-Mineola, say it’s aimed
at stopping those who cheat in elections by making it a state jail felony to forge
a ballot. Critics say that amounts to “criminalizing mistakes.”
The hearing started off confrontational as Chair
Klick laid out the bill while seeming to anticipate several lines of criticism.
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May 15, 2019 6:57 PM
Vote to set SB 29 was 6-2, 3 were absent
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May 15, 2019 5:57 PM
It appears Speaker Bonnen may have talked Leach out of a record vote on Moody amendment that Leach had argued would “gut” his legislation
After
an extended debate, Texas House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jeff Leach, R-Allen, retreated in a battle over a key change to
legislation dealing with how human trafficking cases are prosecuted in this state.
Rep.
Joe Moody, D-El Paso, called the bill
as proposed by Chair Leach as a “sea change” in the way human trafficking cases
are dealt with, shifting more power to the Office of the Attorney General, who
under the bill would have been able to prosecute those cases even when local district
attorneys decline to do so.
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May 15, 2019 5:04 PM
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May 15, 2019 10:28 AM
The
breaking news here
via KTRK television:
Houston's
Proposition B, the voter-approved pay parity plan for Houston firefighters, has
been ruled unconstitutional by a state district court judge. The decision came down Wednesday morning. It's
unclear what this means right now for firefighter raises or layoffs, but the
firefighters' union has vowed to appeal.
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