by Joshua Houston | Apr 6, 2021 | Action Alerts, Latest Posts
Week of April 5, 2021 Focus Area: Voting Rights Oppose These Bills in House Elections Committee: Criminalizing the Distribution of Applications for Ballot by Mail: HB 3080 by Oliverson HB 3080 would make it a criminal offense for any person to distribute an...
by Joshua Houston | Mar 29, 2021 | Action Alerts, Latest Posts
Week of March 29, 2021 Focus Area: Oppose Voter Suppression Omnibus Elections Bill: SB 7 by Hughes We expect SB 7 on the Senate floor very soon — possibly as soon as Tuesday. Many of the provisions do absolutely nothing for security, but simply make it harder to cast...
by Joshua Houston | Mar 22, 2021 | Latest Posts, Legislative
Last week, committees accelerated to full speed. With the bill filing deadline in the rearview mirror, committees met in-person all day with long agendas, and posted even fuller agendas for this week. Now that bill filing has ended, the final numbers are clear. The...
by Joshua Houston | Mar 22, 2021 | Action Alerts, Latest Posts
Focus Area: Racial Justice—Police Reform & Voting Rights Support Police Reform HB 54 by Talarico HB 54 would prohibit law enforcement from contracting with television crews to create reality TV shows after filming such a show led to the death of a man in...
by Joshua Houston | Mar 16, 2021 | Latest Posts, Legislative
Texas’s 140 day legislative session consists of three overlapping “seasons.” Bill filing season spans the first sixty days. Committee hearing season dominates March and early April. Finally, the season of floor action becomes the focus of the final days. This week,...
by Bee Moorhead | Mar 15, 2021 | Action Alerts, Latest Posts, Legislative
Week of March 15, 2021 Top Priority: Voting Rights Support Ballot Tracking: HB 1382 by Bucy A top priority issue for Texas Impact, HB1382 would create an electronic tracking system so a voter would be able to track the status of their application to vote by mail, as...
