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...
by Bee Moorhead | Apr 19, 2023 | Human Migration, Human Rights, Latest Posts, Legislative
Trying to get a handle on the wide range of “border security” bills in the Legislature? Fabi has created this helpful graphic that illustrates the big...
by Bee Moorhead | Apr 17, 2023 | Action Alerts, Latest Posts, Legislative
Download the PDF As of April 17, the Texas House will have 24 days before the deadline for HB’s to pass the House. Realistically, with the “traffic jam” that happens on the House Calendar, and the mysterious “trip wires” that can happen to a bill in the House...
by Katie Wang | Apr 14, 2023 | Blog, Civic Engagement, Congregation and Group Action, Get Involved, Latest Posts
People of Faith Are Preparing to Get Out the Vote As the 88th Texas Legislature marches on, a group of Texas Impact advocates in the Greater Houston area met this week to set their sights beyond the session and start considering how to focus their energy after sine...
by Fabiola Olvera Benitez | Apr 14, 2023 | Asylum, Human Migration, Human Rights, Latest Posts, Law Enforcement
On April 12th, 2023 the House committee for State Affairs laid out HB 20 and HB 7, Texas’s most recent attempt to criminalize migrants. Texas Impact joined dozens of other grassroots groups to protest the bills and testify against them in the hearing, which was...
