The Texas Report

06/22/2023

What’s happening in today's Texas Report:

*Senate set to outline rules for the impeachment trial of Ken Paxton

*House Speaker announces new committee on property tax reform

*The Public Utility Commission calls for energy conservation amid extreme heat spike

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06/19/2023

What’s happening in today's Texas Report:

• Governor Abbott veto update
• State Republican Executive Committee votes to condemn impeachment proceedings against Attorney General Ken Paxton
• More than 100,000 homes and businesses in East Texas are without power after severe storms hit the region early Friday morning

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06/12/2023

What’s happening in today's Texas Report:

*Austin Real Estate Investor at center of Paxton Impeachment Arrested by the FBI and charged with 8 felony counts of lying to financial institutions
* Texas Legislative Update
* Thousands of dead Texas fish on gulf shore
* Hours long search for inmate ends 50 miles southeast of Abilene

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06/06/2023

What’s Happening in today's Texas Report:
• Florida flew asylum seekers from the Texas border to Sacramento
• Texas Legislative News
• Leaders of election integrity group accused of using donations for personal gain
• Texas Leads Nation with most Fortune 500 Headquarters
• Austin Police, Texas DPS partnership could come back soon

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05/31/2023

What’s Happening in today's Texas Report:
Special Session #1
Paxton impeachment update
Looking at the Texas Regular Session
DeSantis plans big Texas fundraising trip

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05/24/2023

Today in the Texas Report:

* Texas Attorney General vs. House Speaker Dade Phelan
* Last days of the Texas legislative session
* Today, is the one year anniversary of the shooting at Robb Elementary School
*Governor Abbott hosts other Governors on Texas’s border response

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05/22/2023

In today's issue of the Texas Report:

• Election Integrity Legislation
• Texas Economic Miracle
• Major business groups and environmental advocates team up on Legislative Grid Proposal
• Legislative Update

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05/12/2023

Check out today's Texas Report:
- Army Sergeant promised pardon by Governor Abbott gets 25 years
- Voucher Bills up for Committee Hearing
- House committee expels legislator

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05/09/2023

Check out today's Texas Report:

- Mass Shooting in Allen, TX mall
- Texas Legislative Update
- Texas House Investigatory Committee Recommends Expulsion of Legislator
- End of Title 42

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04/28/2023

Check out today's Texas Report.

- Texas Legislative Update

- Governor Abbott Announces Seizure of Over Half a Million Lethal Doses of Fentanyl in Austin.

- Texas Women denied emergency abortion blames Cruz, Cornyn in Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

- Texas House Advances Ma*****na Decriminalization Bill.

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03/22/2023

Governor Greg Abbott has paid to bus "school choice" advocates from across the state to the Texas Capitol. In messages posted by Texas Insider Scott Braddock, Abbott paid for buses to pick up the advocates and lodging expenses. These advocates participated in a rally outside the Capitol yesterday with the Governor and various other politicians. One observer estimated around 200 people in attendance at the rally.

Governor Greg Abbott today outlined his priority to secure education freedom for all Texans at Parent Empowerment Day at the Texas Capitol in Austin. Addressing a crowd of parents, teachers, students, legislators, and other parent empowerment advocates from the Capitol's north steps, the Governor en...

03/21/2023

This week the Senate Committee on Education will hear proposals on some of the most contentious issues of the legislative session. Senator Brandon Creighton (R-Conroe) will be introducing Senate Bill (S.B.) 8 to establish education savings account (E.S.A.s) programs (school vouchers). Certain public school advocates say if passed, this legislation would drain money from public schools and essentially create education coupons for wealthy families. On the other hand, supporters of the legislation, like the Texas Public Policy Foundation, say that E.S.A.s allow parents to meet their child's educational needs when the "education was not the quality they expected, or it wasn't aligned with their family values."https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/history.aspx?LegSess=88R&Bill=SB8