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Texas House preliminarily approves controversial school voucher plan, $7.7B school funding bill kut.org/politics/2025-…

The Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee just pulled Rep. Brent Money’s bill classifying abortion as murder, HB 2197, from its 8am hearing tomorrow #txlege

Just had a string of postponements of the previously postponed HJRs. #txlege

Just in: the Texas Senate votes 19-12 to concur with the House changes to SB 2, the bill creating an education savings account/school voucher program. The measure now heads to Greg Abbott’s desk. #txlege

Message in the meeting: Abbott relayed to the membership that Trump is endorsing everyone who voted for SB 2, including Burrows not just for re-election but also for speaker. #txlege

SB2188 died in House State Affairs this week. But the chairman, Ken King, a Republican, voted against it. That means, as part of the prevailing side, he can revive it in future. “We’re still working on it that’s all I can say at this moment,” he told Blaise Gainey. #txlege

Elon Musk wanted an election to create his own city in Texas. The vote happens tomorrow. We got the list of voters. 👀 kut.org/politics/2025-…

Little is publicly known about the three people poised to lead Texas’ next city, Starbase. The Tribune and Sunlight Research Center reviewed public records and social media sites to learn more about each candidate. Here's what we found. bit.ly/4iJL3NM

It has been a hard fought path to get ESAs to Abbott’s desk. But after millions of dollars spent on media campaigns and tough primary battles last year to oust rural Republicans, he’ll sign SB2 into law Saturday. kut.org/politics/2025-…

BREAKING NEWS: @ElonMusk wanted to turn his SpaceX launch site into a city. Voters in Texas just said 'yes.' With Berenice Garcia of the Texas Tribune. kut.org/politics/2025-…

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Here’s the crowd at 9:30 p.m. as the Texas House Public Education Committee resumes its hearing. Panel will consider SB 13, which would require school districts to establish parental library advisory committees to review purchases & weed out “indecent” material #txlege

House Public Education Committee Chair Brad Buckley just laid out SB 13, which he is sponsoring. It is 1:15 am; many of the 74 people who registered to testify on the bill this morning have left. #txlege

🚨🚨🚨 Education Update 🚨🚨🚨 Senate and House Education leaders are now in the sixth day of negotiations on HB 2, a bill that would deliver historic levels of funding for Texas public education and teachers. These discussions are fundamental to our commitment to ensuring Texas

Inter-chamber tension: #txlege House JCJ Chair Jeff Leach canceled tomorrow's hearing of several SBs on the grounds that the Senate may be looking to weaken "Trey's Law"/HB 748. Says he'll happily reschedule them if the Senate "quickly advances our bill w/o weakening it"