TPPF Applauds SB7 Reconciliation Effort
May 29, 2021
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The Texas Public Policy Foundation praised the passage of legislation to protect Texas elections and released the following statement from senior fellow
Chad Ennis:
The Texas Public Policy Foundation applauds the Conference Committee Committee Chairs Rep. Briscoe Cain and Sen. Bryan Hughes along with Members Rep. Travis Clardy, Sen. Paul Bettencourt, and Sen. Lois Kolkhorst of SB 7 for their release today of a strong report and legislative package that reconciles the House and Senate bills and includes several strong measures to restore Texan’s trust in their election.
Most importantly SB 7 now includes the vital protection of including an ID requirement for a ballot voted by mail. Along with strong language defining ballot harvesting, penalties for those who seek to game the system and ensuring the state will have accurate voter lists the policy package embodies much hard work and is to be commended. The House and
In the final 14 hours before the final midnight deadline for advancing Senate bills in the Texas House, Democrats pulled out all the stops Tuesday to keep the body from considering GOP-backed legislation they opposed, spelling death for some of the Senateâs priority bills.
The House had on its calendar several of the Senateâs priorities, including a bill banning social media companies from blocking users because of their viewpoint or their location within Texas, another that would ban local governments from using public funds to pay for lobbyists, and another that would force transgender student athletes to play on sports teams based on their sex assigned at birth instead of their gender identity.
The Democrats delayed and deflected as they tried to run out the clock on bills they oppose. Republicans strategized to push through bills they’d worked on all session.
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