Texas House of Representatives
- The Texas House of Representatives obtained a quorum, ending 37 days of paralysis.
- The Legislature has a little less than two weeks to consider and pass out items on Gov. Greg Abbott’s special session agenda.
- House Select Committee on Constitutional Issues & Remedies considered the following bills over the weekend:
- SJR 3/SB 6 – State Sen. Joan Huffman (R–Houston) – Bail reform
- SB 13 – State Sen. Joan Huffman (R–Houston) – Potential delay in the candidate filing period, primary elections, and primary election runoffs
- House Select Committee on Constitutional Issues & Remedies meeting Monday at 8 a.m. on the following bills:
- SB 1 – State Sen. Bryan Hughes (R–Mineola) – Election integrity
- HB 20 – State Rep. Briscoe Cain (R–Deer Park) – Social media censorship
- House Environmental Regulation Committee meeting Monday at 1 p.m. on the following bills:
- HB 7 – State Rep. Brooks Landgraf (R–Odessa) – Radioactive waste
- House Ways & Means Committee meeting Monday at 1 p.m. on the following bills:
- SB 8 – State Sen. Paul Bettencourt (R–Houston) – Extending the homestead exemption for the first year of property acquisition
- SJR 2/SB 12 – State Sen. Paul Bettencourt (R–Houston) – Reduction in property taxes for elderly or disabled individuals
- House Appropriations Committee meeting Monday at 2 p.m. on the following bills:
- HB 1 – State Rep. Greg Bonnen (R–Friendswood) – Restoration of funding for the Legislature for the next biennium
- HB 5 – State Rep. Greg Bonnen (R–Friendswood) – Supplemental appropriations
- SB 7 – State Sen. Joan Huffman (R–Houston) – “13th check” for beneficiaries of the Teachers Retirement System of Texas
- House Public Education Committee meeting Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. or upon adjournment on the following bills:
- HB 28 – State Rep. Steve Toth (R–The Woodlands) – Improvements to the “ban” on critical race theory
- SB 3 – State Sen. Bryan Hughes (R–Mineola) – Improvements to the “ban” on critical race theory
- SB 2 – State Sen. Charles Perry (R–Lubbock) – Youth sports
- SB 9 – State Sen. Joan Huffman (R–Houston) – Family/dating violence
- SB 15 – State Sen. Larry Taylor (R–Friendswood) – Virtual education improvements
- It is uncertain whether compromise is what drove some of the previously absent Democrat lawmakers to return and whether anything will be done to compel/keep the attendance of the few who returned, making the situation in the House somewhat tenuous.
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