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Here is what is happening This Week in Texas in the #TXLege:
Numbers & Things
- Legislative Day:
- Monday 3/22 – Day 70/140
- Tuesday 3/23 – Day 71/140
- Wednesday 3/24 – Day 72/140
- Thursday 3/25 – Day 73/140
- Friday 3/26 – Day 74/140
- Number of Bills Filed: 6,717 Total
- House: 4,579 Bills
- Senate: 2,138 Bills
- Number of Bills Referred: 4,763 Total
- House: 3,324 Bills (73 percent of all bills)
- Senate: 1,439 Bills (67 percent of all bills)
House of Representatives (Convenes again on 3/22 at 4 p.m.)
- Monday, 3/22
- Tuesday, 3/23
- 8 a.m.: Human Services [POSTING]
- HB 1190 (Krause) – Change to the procedures required before an individual’s name is added to the central child abuse or neglect registry
- HB 2055 (Klick) – Change to the procedures required before an individual’s name is added to the central child abuse or neglect registry
- HB 2374 (Sanford) – Requiring efficiency audits of the Department of Family and Protective Services
- HB 2532 (Noble) – Change to the process by which the Health & Human Service Commission Inspector General investigates and responds to complaints filed with the Department of Family and Protective Services
- 8 a.m.: Business & Industry [POSTING]
- 8 a.m.: Public Education [POSTING]
- HB 2557 (Rogers) – School Security Volunteer Program
- 8 a.m.: Human Services [POSTING]
- Wednesday, 3/24
- Thursday, 3/25
- 8 a.m.: State Affairs [POSTING]
- HB 525 (Shaheen) – Protection of religious organizations (RPT Priority)
- HB 749 (Middleton) – Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying Ban (RPT Priority)
- HB 1239 (Sanford) – Prohibited suspension of laws protecting religious freedom and prohibited closure of places of worship (RPT Priority)
- HB 1487 (Dean) – Protection of religious organizations (RPT Priority)
- HB 1691 (Tinderholt) – Protection of religious freedoms and religious institutions during a declared state of disaster (RPT Priority)
- HB 1950 (Slawson) – Texas Public Safety Protection Act
- HCR 1 (Stephenson) – Prayer and use of the word God at public gatherings and 10 Commandments displays at schools and government buildings (RPT Priority)
- HB 2362 (Harris) – Defunding police penalty (Gov. Abbott Priority)
- HB 2483 (King, P.) – Utility facilities restoring service after a widespread outage
- HB 2667 (Smithee) – Definition of telecommunications providers and TX Universal Service Fund
- HB 3151 (Leman) – Defunding police penalty (Gov. Abbott Priority)
- 8 a.m.: Elections [POSTING]
- HB 6 (Cain) – Omnibus Election Integrity Bill
- 10:30 a.m.: Homeland Security & Public Safety [POSTING]
- 8 a.m.: State Affairs [POSTING]
Senate (Convenes again on 3/22 at 2 p.m.)
- Monday, 3/22
- 9 a.m.: State Affairs [POSTING]
- SB 7 (Hughes) – Omnibus Election Integrity Bill
- SB 1234 (Hughes) – Paper Record
- SB 1235 (Hughes) – Voter List Verification
- SB 1112 (Bettencourt) – Signature Verification on Ballot by Mail
- SB 1113 (Bettencourt) – Voter Registrar Role in Canceling Voter Registrations
- SB 1114 (Bettencourt) – Citizenship Verification
- SB 1116 (Bettencourt) – Website Election Results Posting
- 9 a.m.: State Affairs [POSTING]
- Tuesday, 3/23
- Wednesday, 3/24
- Thursday, 3/25