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Texas House OKs Senate bill to require voter approval before cutting law enforcement funds — but only for large counties

Texas House OKs Senate bill to require voter approval before cutting law enforcement funds but only for large counties
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The Texas House on Monday advanced the Senate’s proposal to require voter approval before law enforcement budget cuts after having made a substantial change: Senate Bill 23 would only apply to counties with more than 1 million residents, not city governments or less populated jurisdictions.
The bill is part of a Republican-led effort to protect law enforcement funding after civil rights advocates last year called on local governments to reduce what they spend on policing and to reform police behavior, leading Austin to cut its police budget. The demand for systemic change came in the wake of repeated law enforcement kil ....

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Texas lawmakers create obstacles to cutting police funding

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The Texas House on Monday advanced the Senate’s proposal to require voter approval before law enforcement budget cuts after having made a substantial change: Senate Bill 23 would only apply to counties with more than 1 million residents, not city governments or less populated jurisdictions.
The bill is part of a Republican-led effort to protect law enforcement funding after civil rights advocates last year called on local governments to reduce what they spend on policing and to reform police behavior, leading Austin to cut its police budget. The demand for systemic change came in the wake of repeated law enforcement killings of Black and Hispanic people in Texas and around the country, including George Floyd s murder last May. ....

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Texas could neuter cities' powers to enact rules around hiring, benefits

Texas could neuter cities' powers to enact rules around hiring, benefits
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Texas's Oil and Gas Industry Is Defending Its Billions in Subsidies Against a Green Energy Push – Texas Monthly

Reasoning basically that if you can’t beat them you might as well join them, these executives want more support for cleaner alternatives, a category that includes not just renewables but also greener fossil fuels. “As Houston transitions, we have to think about what are the new drivers of the Houston economy,” said Brett Perlman, CEO of the business-friendly nonprofit Center for Houston’s Future.
The question of how governments subsidize energy and how that should change involves existential stakes for the Texas economy. Counting subsidies is more of a philosophical exercise than a mathematical one. The answer turns mostly on what’s included in the tally. ....

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Texas Legislature Passes Bill To Create Bone Marrow Donor Recruitment Program

Yusuf Khan and his mother Nadia Shaik.
The bill is designed to get more Texans especially people of color registered as potential donors. University of Houston senior Yusuf Khan testified in favor of the measure earlier this legislative session, detailing his mother s experience with the bone marrow registry.
The night before Yusuf Khan’s high school graduation, he overheard a phone call.
“I was up at night and was walking down my hallway and heard my stepdad on my phone and said out loud leukemia but he was whispering, I guess and they didn’t want to tell me, he said. The next day my mom wasn’t at my graduation. ....

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