Texas House of Representatives.
When the Census results are released next spring, Texas is expected to gain as many as three new congressional seats. Redrawing the district maps for the U.S. House of Representatives â as well as for the State Legislature and the State Board of Education â will be one of the major tasks Texas lawmakers face in the next session.
But how does that work?
To draw useful maps, legislators need to know who lives where information that s just being analyzed now by the U.S. Census Bureau. The deadline, the statutory deadline for release of the census is March 31, said Jeff Archer, executive director of the Texas Legislative Council, a non-partisan research agency that assists lawmakers in redistricting. For redistricting, you need two things: you need the census, and you need the system to use the census, to draw the districts.”
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Texas House of Representatives
When the Census results are released next spring, Texas is expected to gain as many as three new congressional seats. Redrawing the district maps for the U.S. House of Representatives – as well as for the State Legislature and the State Board of Education – will be one of the major tasks Texas lawmakers face in the next session.
But how does that work?
To draw useful maps, legislators need to know who lives where information that s just being analyzed now by the U.S. Census Bureau. The deadline, the statutory deadline for release of the census is March 31, said Jeff Archer, executive director of the Texas Legislative Council, a non-partisan research agency that assists lawmakers in redistricting. For redistricting, you need two things: you need the census, and you need the system to use the census, to draw the districts.”
Texas moves to stop defund the police initiative in Austin Print this article
In what could be a future model for other red states with deep-blue cities, Texas is prepared to change radically how the city of Austin conducts its law enforcement.
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is moving forward with a plan to wrestle control away of the Austin Police Department from local authorities. The move comes after the Austin City Council passed a resolution in August to cut the police department s budget by $150 million, citing the shootings of unarmed minorities and alleged brutality by the force.
The Austin bill constituted one of the most radical in the country, slashing law enforcement s budget by roughly a third. Much of that money was reallocated to civilian departments and the creation of the Reimagine Safety Fund, which is tasked with alternative forms of public safety and community support through the yearlong reimagining process.
In an ongoing fight over police funding, the Texas Legislative Council has submitted a draft proposal for a law that would land the Austin Police Department under state control, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said in a tweet Monday.
Earlier this month, Abbott touched on the possibility of transferring large swaths of the city, including the downtown area and the University of Texas campus, to state policing.
Abbott s spokesman said Monday he had not seen a copy of the proposal and did not know if it would give complete control of the police department to the state or limit the state to the areas of town Abbott had mentioned previously.