by Bee Moorhead | May 19, 2023 | Action Alerts, Latest Posts, Legislative
The Senate Health and Human Services Committee has approved HB12 , which would provide a full year of postpartum coverage under Medicaid. Yay! But we aren’t over the finish line yet, and there is a worrisome development: the bill author considered...
by Bee Moorhead | May 8, 2023 | Action Alerts, Latest Posts, Legislative
Download the PDF On May 9, the 88th Legislative Session will have 21 days remaining, and just 3 days for the Texas House to pass House bills. House Floor (3rd Readings Tues.) Support HB 381 by Thompson. HB 381 would prohibit the death penalty in cases...
by Bee Moorhead | May 7, 2023 | Action Alerts, Asylum, Asylum Ban, Climate Justice, Disaster Responses and Resilience, Global Climate Policy, Human Migration, Human Rights, Latest Posts, Legislative
If you have 60 seconds on Monday to call a legislative office, please call your state representative and urge them to remove the unregulated militia provisions from HB 20 when it comes to the House floor on Tuesday; urge them to oppose the bill if those provisions are...
by Bee Moorhead | May 1, 2023 | Action Alerts, Latest Posts, Legislative
Download the PDF On May 1, the 88th Legislative Session will have 29 days remaining, and just 11 days for the Texas House to pass House bills. The “potential” of March is long gone. The “set up” of April is over. In May, the “chess pieces” start to move as the “grand...
by Bee Moorhead | Apr 24, 2023 | Action Alerts, Latest Posts, Legislative
Download the PDF Green=Support • Red=Oppose • Tan=Monitor Closely “GET A FRIEND TO CALL” WEEK You’ve made your calls, and now you wonder if there’s any more you can do to advance (or stop) bills you care about…and the answer is, get some friends!...
by Bee Moorhead | Apr 20, 2023 | Action Alerts, Economic Justice, Health, Issue Briefs, Latest Posts, Legislative
Download the 1-Pager HB 1280, Texas’ abortion ban, which the Legislature passed in 2021 and went into effect in August 2022, creates an exception for cases when the pregnancy causes a “life threatening physical condition” that “places the female at...
