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December 9, 2024
State Representative Toni Rose (TX, D-110), was elected Secretary of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators (NBCSL) during their annual legislative conference held December 2nd through 7th in Washington, D.C.
From Texas House of Representatives By Representative Toni Rose - District 110
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December 9, 2024
From Harris County Precinct 2 By Adrian Garcia Commissioner
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December 10, 2024
(Houston, TX) - Today, Harris County District-attorney elect Sean Teare announced that his transition team will be engaging with key experts and community leaders from across Harris County to inform the policies of the incoming administration.
From Harris County
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December 7, 2024
AUSTIN - Today, State Representative Dustin Burrows (R-Lubbock) announced that he has secured the
support of a majority of members of the Texas House of Representatives to be the Speaker of the House
in the 89th Legislative Session, which convenes in Austin on January 14, 2024.
From Burrows for Speaker
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December 6, 2024
AUSTIN — State Representative Brooks Landgraf has introduced House Bill 221 ahead of the 2025
legislative session, proposing significant reforms to reduce standardized testing in Texas schools. The bill
aims to limit high-stakes testing to the minimum requirements mandated by federal law, reclaiming
valuable classroom time for teaching and learning.
From The State of Texas By Representative Brooks Landgraf
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December 6, 2024
Lubbock, TX - Senator Charles Perry joined Lt. Governor Dan Patrick in announcing his intent to pass legislation banning all consumable hemp products that contain THC in the State of Texas.
From Texas Senator Charles Perry - District 28
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December 4, 2024
AUSTIN - Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick issued this statement today announcing Senate Bill 3 will be legislation to ban all forms of consumable Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) from being sold in Texas:
From The State of Texas Lieutenant Governor By Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick
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December 4, 2024
AUSTIN, TX – On Wednesday, December 4, State Representative Gene Wu was elected to serve as Chair of the Texas House Democratic Caucus (HDC).
From Texas House of Representatives By Representative Gene Wu - District 137
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December 5, 2024
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton applauded a major victory for Texas small businesses as a federal judge granted a nationwide preliminary injunction against an unconstitutional federal law that would have imposed major costs on tens of millions of small businesses through illegal and burdensome regulations. Attorney General Paxton filed an amicus brief in the case in support of Texas businesses.
From The Attorney General of Texas By Ken Paxton - Attorney General of Texas
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December 4, 2024
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, filed an amicus brief in Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), James Risch (R-Idaho), Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) joined Sen. Cruz’s brief. Additionally, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.-48) led 22 House Members in joining Sen. Cruz’s brief.
From Senator Ted Cruz Press Office
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December 2, 2024
From Texas Legislative Progressive Council
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November 27, 2024
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton sued BlackRock, State Street Corporation, and Vanguard Group, three of the largest institutional investors in the world, for conspiring to artificially constrict the market for coal through anticompetitive trade practices.
From The Attorney General of Texas By Ken Paxton - Attorney General of Texas
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November 26, 2024
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Austin-based Sunrise Homeless Navigation Center for operating as a common nuisance in violation of Texas law. Activities permitted by the center are drastically harming quality of life in the area and endangering neighborhood residents, local businesses, and the students of a nearby elementary school.
From The Attorney General of Texas By Ken Paxton - Attorney General of Texas
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November 26, 2024
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a brief with the Supreme Court of the United States (“SCOTUS”), asking it to uphold House Bill 1181, a Texas law requiring pornography companies to institute reasonable age-verification measures to safeguard children from obscene online material. Texas will argue the case before SCOTUS on January 15, 2025.
From The Attorney General of Texas By Ken Paxton - Attorney General of Texas
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November 26, 2024
Austin, Texas—Today, a coalition of broadband stakeholders announced the creation of a new
association, the Texas Broadband Association, dedicated to bridging the digital divide in Texas via sound
policies. The Texas Broadband Association (TBBA)’s mission is to educate state leadership and the
general public on the importance of broadband legislation, deployment and adoption in the State of Texas.
From Texas Broadband Association
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November 26, 2024
Austin, TX – Senator Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston), pre-filed bills deemed the “Integrity 7,” ahead of the 89th Legislative Session which begins on January 14, 2025. These bills are aimed at improving election transparency, voter roll integrity, and provide penalties for non-performance in Texas.
From State of Texas - Texas Senate By Senator Paul Bettencourt - SD 7
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November 25, 2024
Austin, Texas --- Last week, Senator Carol Alvarado filed a package of bills to protect Texans during disasters. Hurricane Beryl left nearly three million homes without power, exposing critical gaps in Texas's disaster preparedness and leaving our most vulnerable residents in dire straits.
From The Senate of Texas By Senator Carol Alvarado
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November 25, 2024
AUSTIN — State Representative Brooks Landgraf (R-Odessa) has filed House Bill 268 to address the alarming rise in false emergency threats targeting schools and critical infrastructure. This legislation seeks to deter these dangerous hoaxes by increasing penalties and requiring offenders to reimburse the public for wasted emergency resources.
From The State of Texas By Representative Brooks Landgraf
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November 21, 2024
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a civil investigative demand to the World Federation of Advertisers (“WFA”) as part of an ongoing investigation into a potential anticompetitive scheme to withhold advertising dollars from certain social media platforms.
From The Attorney General of Texas By Ken Paxton - Attorney General of Texas
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November 21, 2024
AUSTIN, Texas - In recognition of National Rural Health Day on November 21, Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan today highlighted the recent legislative achievements that have provided rural Texans improved access to healthcare and sustained the viability of rural hospitals.
From The State of Texas Speaker By Speaker of the House Dade Phelan
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November 21, 2024
USTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the City of Dallas and local officials for adopting a city charter amendment that would illegally decriminalize marijuana-related offenses and prohibit police from enforcing Texas law.
From The Attorney General of Texas By Ken Paxton - Attorney General of Texas
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November 20, 2024
AUSTIN, Texas – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, celebrated the work of his Service Academy Nominations Board after it concluded its annual meeting. The Board recommended 40 of the most qualified Texas candidates for nomination to our nation’s distinguished military service academies.
From Senator Ted Cruz Press Office
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November 20, 2024
AUSTIN — State Representative Brooks Landgraf (R-Odessa) has introduced House Joint Resolution 47
and House Bill 188, collectively known as Texas STRONG, to be considered in the upcoming session of
the Texas Legislature. This initiative proposes the creation of the Texas Severance Tax Revenue and Oil
and Natural Gas (STRONG) Defense Fund, designed to modernize the distribution of severance tax
revenues to address critical infrastructure, education, healthcare, and public safety needs in major
energy-producing communities like those in the Permian Basin.
From The State of Texas By Representative Brooks Landgraf
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November 20, 2024
DALLAS – The Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, along with West Health and Northwestern Medicine, have announced the Northwestern Medicine West Health Accelerator, a groundbreaking collaboration that will greatly increase access to quality mental health care in a primary care setting.
From Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
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November 19, 2024
HOUSTON, TX – New investments in Texas’ water supply and infrastructure constitute
vital “growth insurance” needed to secure the continued dynamism of the state’s
economy even when faced with the multiple challenges presented by a multi-year
drought.
From Agility PR
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November 19, 2024
HOUSTON, TX – On Monday, Governor Greg Abbott issued Executive Order GA 47, which directs the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) to target and arrest individuals engaging in influence operations on behalf of the Chinese Community Party (CCP). This initiative, Operation Fox Hunt, first launched by the Chinese government in 2014, has been a global effort to intimidate, harass, and repatriate Chinese citizens living abroad.
From Texas House of Representatives By Representative Gene Wu - District 137
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November 19, 2024
Washington, D.C.—Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07), Congressman Troy Carter (LA-02), and Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia (TX-29) led their colleagues in sending a letter urging the Biden administration to ensure the Texas Gulf Coast hydrogen industry can benefit fully from the clean energy tax credit in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
From Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher
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November 18, 2024
AUSTIN—The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) today announced the publication of the 2024 Biennial Performance Report, which tracks state agencies’ technology progress in Fiscal Years 2023 and 2024.
From Texas Department of Information Resources
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November 18, 2024
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton blocked the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) from instituting a regulation that would have restructured overtime requirements in violation of federal law.
The Fair Labor Standards Act requires employers to pay overtime compensation, but the law exempts several categories of employees, including “any employee employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity.” In 2016, DOL promulgated a rule that conditioned the exemptions on an employee’s salary, not an employee’s duties, as the statute requires.
From The Attorney General of Texas By Ken Paxton - Attorney General of Texas
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November 18, 2024
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) announced today that China Spring Independent School District (ISD) was awarded a federal grant of $1,000,000 to improve security through crisis intervention programs, including violence prevention and crisis response training for law enforcement and school resource officers, firearm safety training for community members, and data collection, technology, and information-sharing to reduce violence.
From John Cornyn - United States Senator for Texas
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November 18, 2024
AUSTIN, Texas – AARP Texas Director Tina Tran released the following statement in response to today’s announcement by Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick of a new legislative initiative and state constitutional amendment proposal focused on dementia:
From AARP Texas
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November 18, 2024
DALLAS – Nov. 18, 2024 – Andy Keller, the president and CEO of the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, released this statement applauding Lt. Governor Dan Patrick’s announcement of the Dementia Prevention Research Institute of Texas (DPRIT) as a major legislative initiative for the Texas Senate:
From Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
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November 18, 2024
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton successfully stopped an attempt by activists and a handful of State legislators to create a precedent allowing for a legislative committee to delay an execution, settling a critical Constitutional question and ensuring justice for the two-year-old murder victim in the 2002 case.
From The Attorney General of Texas By Ken Paxton - Attorney General of Texas
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November 18, 2024
AUSTIN, TEXAS – True to her tradition, Dean Senator Judith Zaffirini today (Nov. 12) filed the first 34 Senate bills (SB) and 4 Senate Joint Resolutions (SJR) to be considered by the 89th Texas Legislature that will convene on Tuesday, Jan. 14.
From Dean Senator Judith Zaffirini
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November 18, 2024
AUSTIN - Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick issued this statement today announcing a new major legislative initiative for the Texas Senate, the Dementia Prevention Research Institute of Texas (DPRIT):
“One of the most successful existing health programs ever created in Texas is the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). CPRIT is a model of what a state can do in the area of medical research on a specific disease. CPRIT’s only focus is cancer.
From The State of Texas Lieutenant Governor By Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick
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November 14, 2024
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton and a multistate coalition of Attorneys General called on New York Attorney General Letitia James, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, and Special Prosecutor Jack Smith to end their unfounded prosecutions targeting President Donald Trump. The coalition of 23 states issued a cease-and-desist letter demanding an immediate end to these cases.
From The Attorney General of Texas By Ken Paxton - Attorney General of Texas
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November 14, 2024
AUSTIN, Texas – The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) today approved the first plan submitted by an electric utility to strengthen the resiliency of its electric systems and facilities and protect Texans against natural disasters and other threats.
From Public Utility Commission of Texas
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November 14, 2024
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton announced an $83 million statewide opioid settlement with Kroger to resolve claims by the State of Texas and its Political Subdivisions for practices that contributed to the opioid epidemic in Texas.
The settlement is the latest in a series of agreements Attorney General Paxton has negotiated to hold the pharmaceutical industry accountable for worsening the national trend of overdoses and deaths from prescription opioids. To date, Attorney General Paxton has obtained over $3 billion in legal settlements with drug manufacturers and other entities for their roles in the national opioid epidemic. Funds from statewide opioid settlements are dedicated to opioid abatement and overseen by the Texas Opioid Council.
From The Attorney General of Texas By Ken Paxton - Attorney General of Texas
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November 14, 2024
Washington, D.C. – Today, Federal Election Commission (FEC) Commissioner Trey Trainor welcomed the Commission's adoption of the Notice of Availability for a proposed rulemaking aimed at addressing the growing concerns surrounding untraceable electronic payment methods, particularly prepaid and gift cards, in the context of political contributions. This rulemaking is in response to a Petition for Rulemaking submitted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, calling for changes to current FEC regulations to prevent potential circumvention of federal campaign finance laws.
From Federal Election Commission
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November 12, 2024
AUSTIN — State Representative Brooks Landgraf (R-Odessa) has filed House Bill 219, known as the
“Verified Citizen Voting Act,” to require proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote in Texas. U.S.
citizenship has long been a requirement to vote in Texas, but voters have been on the honor system.
From Texas House of Representatives By Representative Brooks Landgraf
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November 12, 2024
From Texas House of Representatives By Representative Jared Patterson - District 106
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November 12, 2024
From The Senate of Texas By Senator Jose Menendez - District 26
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November 13, 2024
AUSTIN — State Representative David Spiller unveils legislation prohibiting foreign entities identified on the Annual Threat Assessment of the United States National Intelligence Community from purchasing or acquiring title to real property in Texas.
From Texas House of Representatives By Representative David Spiller - District 68
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November 11, 2024
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton sued U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) to prevent potential destruction of any records from Jack Smith’s corrupt investigation into President Donald Trump.
From The Attorney General of Texas By Ken Paxton - Attorney General of Texas
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November 11, 2024
AUSTIN – The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) is proud to celebrate Texas veterans for their service and dedication, especially on Veteran’s Day. TWC provides veterans with the tools for success through employment, education, and training opportunities.
From Texas Workforce Commission
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November 11, 2024
AUSTIN, Texas (November 11, 2024) – The Texas Nuclear Alliance (TNA) is proud to announce that NuScale Power, a leader in bringing small modular reactor (SMR) technology to the global energy market, has joined as a Founding Member.
From Texas Nuclear Alliance
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November 11, 2024
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton filed Texas’s 100th lawsuit against the Biden-Harris Administration, an historic milestone demonstrating the extent of the federal government’s abuses of power under the current leadership.
From The Attorney General of Texas By Ken Paxton - Attorney General of Texas
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