The Texas Legislature is drawing to a close and we are beginning
to get a clearer picture on wins and losses for this session.
Senate bills are the only bills left in play in the House, and
Wednesday is the deadline for the House to vote on Senate bills.
Wednesday is also the deadline for the Senate to vote on all
bills and joint resolutions.

Our losses are largely in Elections Integrity and Parental Rights
and Educational Freedom bills, as the House has not moved the
more significant bills out of committee in time to get them
passed. SB 1070, the ERIC bill, is back on the House calendar for
Monday after initially being delayed on a Democrat Point of
Order.

Overall, this legislative session is looking to be very good for
major legislation to protect children. SB 14, banning child
gender mutilation, has passed. SB 12, prohibiting sexually
explicit performances in front of children, has also passed. But
we still need your help on three other important bills in these
final hours.

We need your help to get our final major child protection bill,
HB 900, to the Governor's desk! This is the bill that would
remove sexually explicit and pornographic books from public
school libraries. We are urging passage of HB 900 in the Senate
with no amendments. The House passed this bill to the Senate on
April 20th, which left ample time to work out any changes. That
did not occur. So any changes or amendments at this time risks
killing the bill or passing one that is ineffective.

One other major item we need your help on is with HB 7, the sole
border security bill that has passed out of the House. The Senate
committee substitute fixes the issue with Democrat local
officials being able to veto border security in their counties,
but omitted the most important mission for the border unit, which
is to repel illegal aliens. The bill must be amended to give law
enforcement this authority.

The other amendment HB 7 must have is a legislative finding which
clarifies that Texas is acting in self-defense when we are
invaded, and that any actions we take to secure the border are
not immigration enforcement. Constitutional attorney Tom Glass
has worked on both of these amendments and states that without
these amendments we will not have a strong border security bill.

The final problematic bill we need help on is SB 17. While not an
official LP bill, it has implications for Texas children that are
far-reaching and in opposition to our other effective legislation
that is passing. Sen. Brandon Creighton, a champion for
conservatives this session, authored a bill that effectively
dismantles Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion departments in Texas
Universities. The House undid much of this work with an amendment
that includes a study requiring all students be asked about their
sexual orientation and gender identity. This is reprehensible, as
it furthers the myth that a young person can be something other
then his or her biological sex. Additionally, an amendment added
to the bill prohibits the college or university from firing any
DEI employee. So while DEI "offices" would be banned, every DEI
employees would be guaranteed a position in other departments
where they will continue propagating this harmful ideology.

At this point, if the bill cannot be restored to it's original
goal in conference, it is preferable for the bill author, Senator
Creighton, to kill his own bill rather than pass the substituted
bill. Not only does the House version of SB 17 now codify into
Texas law sexual orientation and gender identity, it also does
not implement the original intent.

Action Steps:

1. Call the Lt. Gov. and all
Republican Senators asking for HB 900 to be voted out of the
Senate with no amendments or changes.

2. Call the Senators and ask for
amendments to repel illegal aliens and legislative findings which
clarify that Texas is acting in self-defense when we are invaded
be added to HB 7.

3. Call the Senators and ask them
not to confer on the House substitute for SB 17, and instead
remove the issues in conference.

Dan Patrick (512) 463-0001 or
(512) 463-5342
Paul Bettencourt (512) 463-0107
Brian Birdwell (512) 463-0122
Donna Campbell (512) 463-0125
Brandon Creighton (512) 463-0104
Pete Flores (512) 463-0124
Bob Hall (512) 463-0102
Kelly Hancock (512) 463-0109
Joan Huffman (512) 463-0117
Bryan Hughes (512) 463-0101
Phil King (512) 463-0110
Lois Kolkhorst (512) 463-0118
Mayes Middleton (512) 463-0111
Robert Nichols (512) 463-0103
Tan Parker (512) 463-0112
Angela Paxton (512) 463-0108
Charles Perry (512) 463-0128
Charles Schwertner (512) 463-0105
Kevin Sparks (512) 463-0131
Drew Springer (512) 463-0130

Thank you so much for helping us with this final push on
important legislation. The Texas grassroots have made a major
difference this legislative session, and all wins are because of
you.

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For God and Texas,

Jill Glover
SREC, SD 12
Chair, SREC Legislative Priorities Committee

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