By Sabra Ayres Texas
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TEXAS The Texas Legislature wrapped up the third week of its 140-day session Friday with two of the most important items remaining at the forefront of its duties: Pass a budget and outline a redistricting plan.
While the focus was on those two big items, COVID-19 still loomed large over the session, with each chamber setting its own guidelines for masks and testing. In the Senate, lawmakers must test negative before entering the chamber. The House doesn’t require testing, but they may vote remotely using a laptop. Both chambers require masks on the floor, but lawmakers may remove them while speaking in a microphone.
Texas Lawmaker’s Proposal Would Let State Residents Vote on Secession
A lawmaker in Texas this week introduced a measure that would allow state residents to discuss, debate, and vote on independence from the United States.
State Rep. Kyle Biedermann, a Republican, filed House Bill 1359, also known as the Texas Independence Referendum Act.
Voters would choose in a referendum on Nov. 2, 2021, whether the state should leave the United States and “establish an independent republic,” the act states (pdf).
If voters say yes, a committee would be formed to study the matter and make recommendations regarding the best way to break away from the rest of the country, including advice on how to amend the state Constitution to accommodate the proposed nation and recommendations for issues that would have to be negotiated with the U.S. government such as a common travel agreement.
State Rep. Kyle Biedermann Files âTexas Independenceâ Bill By Craig Huber Austin
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AUSTIN, Texas â While it could be argued that Texas is better positioned than most states, the idea of it actually seceding and becoming an independent nation probably strikes most people as highly unlikely.
Still, itâs a drum some conservative Texas lawmakers have been beating for a long time, and no one louder than Republican state Rep. Kyle Biedermann.
On Tuesday he filed House Bill 1359, the âTexas Independence Referendum Act.
Announcing it on Twitter, Biedermann wrote, âToday, I filed HB 1359, the Texas Independence Referendum Act. For decades, the promises of America & our individual liberties have been eroding. Now is the time for the People of Texas to have the right to decide their own future.â
Renewed Calls for Texit Are Growing. Will They Go Anywhere? By Sabra Ayres Texas
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TEXAS Secessionist talk in Texas makes news about once a year, and each time it does, Daniel Miller, the president of the state’s loudest independence movement, is surprised by the media’s alarmist headlines.
“Folks kinda freak out when we pop up, and it s like. guys, we ve been at this a long time,” said Miller, the head of the Texas Nationalist Movement. “We ve been at this as an organization since 2005. We’re in it for the long haul.”
But this year’s calls for a “Texit,” a localized play on the term for Britain’s exit from the European Union, came with a bit more heft, thanks to some big state and national Republican figures weighing in on the idea on the heels of a presidential election that saw President Donald Trump refuse to concede to his Democratic challenger, J
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