Editor’s Note: This account is based on interviews with more than a dozen lawmakers of both parties who executed and experienced the walkout of Democrats.
The Texas Legislature on Thursday finished work on a $248.6 billion, two-year state budget that lawmakers say keeps their 2019 promises to better fund.
Texas House takes modest steps to avoid another winter blackout with weatherization and communication
Texas House takes modest steps to avoid another winter blackout with weatherization and communication
The bills advanced Sunday would revamp management of the state’s main electric grid and tackle weatherization and emergency communication.
The Texas House on Sunday advanced two bills that would take modest steps to prevent a repeat of the state s winter blackouts, by revamping the management of the electric grid and tackling weatherization and emergency communication. Feb. 15 file photo shows snow-covered Arboretum Village near White Rock Lake in Dallas.(Lola Gomez / Staff Photographer)
After week of contentious debates, Texas House lawmakers predict relatively quiet deadline day
But representatives also warn that as they rush to pass bills they’ve worked on for months, and sometimes years, tensions can always boil over.
The House Chamber at the Texas Capitol is pictured during the 87th Texas legislature on Friday, May 7, 2021, in Austin. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News)(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer)
8:17 PM on May 12, 2021 CDT
AUSTIN Hundreds of bills are on the chopping block in the Texas House ahead of a midnight deadline Thursday, including contentious proposals that would target health care for transgender youths and allow fetuses to have lawyers.