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As 5 million Texans Lack Health Insurance, Lege Still Says No to Medicaid

The state s dismally large gaps in health care access have grown even wider during the COVID-19 disaster ....

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Texas Lege Sends Message to Schools: Take the Money, Don't Talk About Race

Rep. James Talarico on sine die at the 87th Texas Legislature (Photo by John Anderson)
After a contentious legislative session, public education ended up with a mixed bag of stable funding and conservative micromanagement. Bills awaiting Gov.
Greg Abbott s signature will severely curtail the ways teachers can discuss social issues, limit the reach of sexuality education, and enshrine the ability of affluent parent-teacher associations to pay for extra staff, reversing
Austin ISD s recent equity-driven ban on the practice. A bill that would have guaranteed that districts could offer virtual learning this fall didn t make it out of the Senate on the last day, collateral damage from the Democratic walkout. ....

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Lege's Assault on LGBTQIA Texans Fails

Despite Texas unwelcome distinction as the state with the most
anti-LGBTQIA bills filed this year, the rights of queer and trans Texans emerged relatively unscathed by the 87th Texas Legislature.
In a statehouse whose GOP leadership has situated itself in previous sessions at the vanguard of the evangelical right s moral panic over trans and nonbinary people, a win for LGBTQIA rights was among the few outright highlights for progressives under the pink dome. It s all the more remarkable considering the huge national wave of anti-LGBTQIA legislation, the right s most aggressive pushback in at least a decade.
Dependable theocrat Sen.
Charles Perry, R-Lubbock, carried the anti-trans student- ....

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Republicans Vow to "Re-Fund the Police" by Seizing Local Control: State grabs power to dictate local public safety budgets - News

Tarrant, and
Collin – and requires them to seek voter approval to reduce the budget of the county law enforcement agencies (i.e., sheriff s departments, constable s offices, etc.). The four largest of those counties are firmly under Democratic control, with the others becoming at least purple, but SB 23 allows any resident who feels law enforcement has been defunded without voter permission to make a complaint that, if sustained, would trigger restrictions to that county s property tax collections.
Sen. Joan Huffman on sine die at the 87th Texas Legislature (Photo by Jana Birchum)
HB 1900, introduced by Rep.
Craig Goldman, R-Benbrook, imposes a range of penalties on large cities (those with a population of more than 250,000) whose leaders reduce police spending compared to prior budgets – a comparison looking back two years, so Austin s already-adopted reductions to its police spending are not immune. Defunding municipalities would, until ....

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