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OUR POLICY PRIORITIES

Texas Impact Legislative Priorities 2023-2024

Texas Impact’s legislative priorities are set by the Board of Directors in the summer before each legislative session. Read about the process here.

Economic Justice

Protect Maternal Health
  • Support increased funding for family planning
  • Oppose limits on access to birth control
  • Support Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act
  • Support 12 months postpartum coverage under Medicaid
  • Support establishing prenatal child support and prenatal medical support
  • Support limiting civil and criminal penalties for abortion by shielding medical providers’ actions from non-medical evaluation or intervention
Support Public Schools
  • Oppose vouchers and similar programs that use public education funds to subsidize private education
  • Oppose legislative micromanagement of the state board of education’s work in curriculum development
  • Support accountability for charter schools, including auditing the performance of existing charters and increasing the review and scrutiny of applicants for new charters
  • Oppose legislation allowing public education programming that advances or inhibits particular religious beliefs

Climate Justice

Support the Texas Electric Grid
    • Support renewable power and consumer-side energy efficiency
    • Support grid capacity solutions such as backup generation, battery storage, and increased transmission
Protect Texans’ Health from Climate Impacts
  • Support establishment of a Resilient Texas program modeled on Resilient Florida, to help the state and its local communities prepare for the impacts of climate change
  • Support new administrative structures at the Public Utility Commission that elevate public health and vulnerable consumers

Civic Engagement

Support Voting Rights
  • Support measures that increase voter participation, such as online voter registration, longer early voting periods, county-wide polling locations, or modernizing vote by mail 
  • Oppose legislation that imposes new restrictions or onerous administrative processes on county election administrators
  • Oppose any new requirements or restrictions for individual voters
Promote Good Governance
  • Support limits on executive authority to declare disasters under the Texas Disaster Act
  • Support establishing standards for responsible gun ownership, including licensing requirements
  • Support regulation of gun purchasing, including regulations related to age and regulations related to evidence that the purchaser poses a threat to themselves or others
  • Support elimination of provisions of SB8 establishing private causes of action that allow individuals to sue Texas individuals and groups for alleged activities related to abortion

Human Rights

Support Migrants
  • Support defunding Operation Lone Star
  • Support limits on executive actions related to federal immigration law enforcement
Protect Minority Communities
  • Support requiring enhanced monitoring and prosecution of hate crimes and domestic terrorism
  • Oppose limiting privacy, bodily autonomy, or family autonomy of any Texan, including women seeking reproductive healthcare or abortion; trans people seeking gender-affirming care; and LGBTQ+ people
  • Oppose civil or criminal penalties for individuals or groups who provide counseling, facilitate travel, or otherwise provide non-medical assistance to people seeking health care, including people seeking abortions or people seeking gender-affirming care