May 20, 2017      4:58 PM
HK: Claims that Patrick controlled the end of the session may have been...overstated
Conferees reportedly have a budget agreement -- Is the Senate prepared to vote for a penalty-free automatic 4.99% annual property tax increase?
Ultimatums
by the Lt. Governor notwithstanding, House leadership today executed two
maneuvers that went a long way toward undermining Dan Patrick’s effort to engineer a special session that could have
damaged both Governor Greg Abbott
and Speaker Joe Straus while hot
boxing the Freedom Caucus.
Earlier
this week Patrick had threatened to blow up the budget and kill the Sunset
Safety net bill thereby forcing a special session if the House did not pass his
pet bathroom and property tax legislation.
He did hold out a fig leaf on one when he said that he could accept Rep.
Simmon’s language for his “privacy bill”
By Harvey Kronberg
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