Legislative Priorities Report for 5.7.21

It's come down to this. We have spent our
time and treasure to coerce, cajole, and corral our Texas
Republican leadership to pass our eight Republican Party of Texas
Legislative Priorities, and out of 75 bills currently on their
way to the Governor's desk, none of them are our priority bills.
We thought we were getting close on Constitutional Carry, but
that bill seems to have been sabotaged.
The House did pass the Heartbeat Bill, which
we hope will save babies, but it is an imperfect bill for the
Abolition of Abortion and has not yet passed the Senate, which
has decided to take a vacation until Monday at 4:30pm.
Election Integrity is being debated on the
floor of the House today, but the Democrats appear to be running
the show, and the bills and amendments passing are weak.
Meanwhile, Speaker Phelan has yet to bid that
the chair of Calendars, Rep. Dustin Burrows, put HB 1399 -- our
bill for banning pediatric sex change -- on the floor calendar
for a vote. How is it that our Republican leadership will not
take a strong stand on protecting children from their bodies
being butchered and mutilated?
Chairman Paddie is still holding SB 10 -- a
ban on some forms of taxpayer-funded lobbying -- hostage in his
State Affairs Committee, along with other Priority bills.
We keep hearing that this will be our "most
conservative session" in a long time, but unless meaningful,
robust Republican bills are passed, the gains we have made thus
far will mean nothing. And, you, the Republican voters, know
this. That is what is different about now.
In this session, we have attempted to shine a
light on the processes that take place at the Capitol in Austin,
in your state government. That way, when your Representative or
Senator comes home and says, "we made great progress this
session, you just need to send me back next session to finish the
job," or, "people just don't understand the way the sausage is
made," you will not be intimidated into silence or compliance.
You will know that there is something wrong
when the Republicans control the majority, yet the Democrats seem
to come out ahead. Something's wrong when some of our Republican
representatives -- Reps. Oliverson, Jetton, and Hull -- manage to
get a bill to the Calendars Committee and on the floor for a vote
that creates a new Texas holiday. The cause for celebration?
Islam's first victory over non-Muslim forces.
In fact, this bill got to the Calendars
Committee three days after our Priority bill to protect children
from pediatric sex change did, yet our bill still sits in
Calendars and this new state holiday bill is being voted on today
in the House. We can protect puppies, create new holidays, and do
all sorts of other trivial things, yet we can't protect our
children from an exploding trend that literally destroys their
bodies and alters their brains.
So what now? Maybe we will get some crumbs.
In fact, I know we will because they will think we will be
satisfied with one or two bills. They will say what a great
effort we made, and they did the best they could. And, of course,
now, we have to get ready for the next election and that we have
to support them so the Democrats don't win.
But here's the thing: we, the conservative
citizens who love our children and grandchildren and love our
state, and know what is coming; we are just done with the games.
So, here is what we are going to do:
We on the Legislative Priorities Committee
are creating our own scorecard. We will be looking at Priority
bills filed, committee hearings, as well as the votes from this
session, and will let you know how every one of our Republican
Representatives and Senators performed. We will let you know how
many, if any, of our Republican Priority bills made it to the
Governor's desk. Then you get to decide what to do next.
In the meantime, let's appeal to the top.
This week, please call our Republican leadership and respectfully
ask that they pass our Priority legislation. Tell them that our
state depends on it and that we are looking to them for real
leadership.
All of our leaders below and many of our
Representatives and Senators have a robust social media presence.
Some are linked below. Other leaders have their accounts listed
in the directories for the House and Senate. Please use the power
of social media to openly and respectfully engage and let them
know how you feel about these issues.
Gov. Greg Abbott: (512) 463-2000; Facebook
(Governor's Office); Facebook (Fan Page) Twitter (Gov); Twitter
(personal)
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: (512) 463-0001;
Facebook (Fan Page) Twitter (Lt. Gov); Twitter (personal)
Speaker Phelan: (512) 463-1000; Facebook;
Twitter


Our Priorities and resources for this
legislative session can be found at the Republican Party of Texas
website, and you can sign up to receive your own copy of this
report weekly in your email inbox. Please continue to call and
email. We have the rest of the month to do all we can for this
legislative session. Let's leave it all on the table.
For God and Texas,






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



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