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As the Delta variant of COVID-19 continues to ravage Texas and the greater Houston area with the fall school year fast approaching, local education leaders in Houston and in some of Texas’ other largest school districts have chosen to push for sweeping new mask requirements for students and staff, despite Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive orders barring such mandates and recently issued guidance from the Texas Education Agency mirroring Abbott’s mask rule ban.
While the classic Schoolhouse Rock! song
“I’m Just A Bill” only touched on what happens to legislation that doesn’t make it past committee hearings, bills in the Texas Legislature often die throughout the session, barely even making their way to the chamber floors.
Before the session begins, lawmakers file bills that they want to become law. Once it’s filed, a bill is referred to a committee that will host debate and discussion on it.
Committees have a lot of bills to consider. To put that into perspective, this session,
committees in the state House of Representatives. With a legislative session that only lasts five months, some bills are bound to not even be discussed.