Texas’ larger cities would face financial penalties for cutting police budgets under bill House tentatively approves
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The Texas House on Thursday voted to financially penalize the state's largest cities if they cut their police budgets.
House Bill 1900 comes after a year of civil rights advocates calling on cities to reduce what they spend on policing and to reform police behavior. Those calls were spurred by high-profile deaths at the hands of police like George Floyd’s in Minneapolis and Mike Ramos’ in Austin.