Texas Senate advances bills limiting education about race, access to abortion-inducing medications. The House is still sidelined.
Texas Tribune
Published:
July 16, 2021 6:33 pm
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick presides over the Senate on July 14, 2021.
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Even though Texas Democrats have effectively sidelined the state House in hopes of blocking a voting restrictions bill, the Senate is nearing the end of its work on Republican priorities for the special legislative session. On Friday, Senators passed a bill that would strip requirements that students learn white supremacy is “morally wrong,” and another that would ban medically induced abortions after about seven weeks into a pregnancy.