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Texas Senate closes session with major grid reform


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The Senate approved legislation late Sunday that would require weatherization of critical energy facilities and completely overhaul the management and oversight structure of the organization that oversees the state electric grid. In a session that looked to be dominated by other concerns, the February winter storm put the Electric Reliability Council of Texas at the top of the agenda.
We thought it was going to be COVID, it was going to be a budget that didn t have enough money in it, and all these things, said Brenham Senator Lois Kolkhorst. Unbeknownst to us, in the middle of February we found ourselves in one of the greatest crises, I believe, that our state has ever seen. A grid that almost had a meltdown that could ve kept us in the dark for weeks and months. ....

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Texas nears passage of Constitutional Carry


 
Texans who can lawfully carry a handgun, concealed or openly, would be permitted to do so without a license from the state under a bill that the Senate sent to Governor Greg Abbott Monday. Abbott has said he will sign the bill, HB 1927, making Texas the 21st state to pass such a law. Senate sponsor and Georgetown Senator Charles Schwertner told his colleagues that the bill is the strongest Second Amendment bill he’s seen in his career as an elected official. “During the conference committee, we worked diligently with our House colleagues to ensure a final bill that restores a fundamental right of all law-abiding citizens in Texas to carry without a license: a right that was stripped away in 1871, a right already afforded to owners of long guns, a right to fulfil our constitutional right to keep and bear arms without the requirement of a license,” he said.  ....

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