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Maybe your job is like this, too: The Texas Legislature does most of its work on deadline.
And here we are, with two weeks to go in the regular legislative session, and many of the big things that appeared on the to-do list back in January remain unfinished.
The budget. New voting and election restrictions. Responses to the winter storm electric outages.
Analysis: Texas legislators have a long way to go and a short time to get there
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State Representitives work during session on the House floor at the state capitol on May 12, 2021. (Evan L Roy)
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Maybe your job is like this, too: The Texas Legislature does most of its work on deadline.
And here we are, with two weeks to go in the regular legislative session, and many of the big things that appeared on the to-do list back in January remain unfinished.
Texas license to carry a handgun could be free if Senate bill becomes law
The bill passed the Texas Senate and now goes to the House.
A general view of the Texas Capitol during the 87th Texas legislature on Friday, May 7, 2021, in Austin. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News)(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer)
AUSTIN The license to carry a handgun in Texas could soon become optional and free.
The Texas Senate voted Friday to eliminate the $40 license fee in the hopes that more people would sign up for the permit. In addition to the fee, the licensing process currently requires people pass a background check, take a safety class and show they can shoot.
Dallas woman advocates expanding fertility fraud law
Eve Wiley, 33, began lobbying lawmakers three years ago when she learned from personal genetic ID kits that her biological father was her mother’s fertility doctor Author: Charlotte Huffman, Mark Smith Published: 4:26 PM CDT May 14, 2021 Updated: 4:26 PM CDT May 14, 2021
DALLAS A Dallas woman, who advocated on behalf of making “fertility fraud” a felony, is now asking Texas lawmakers to expand the law to give more time to victims to file complaints with the Texas Medical Board.
Eve Wiley, 33, began lobbying lawmakers three years ago when she discovered from personal genetic ID kits that her biological father was her mother’s fertility doctor - not the donor her mother believes she had chosen.