Legislative Priorities Report for 7.26.21








With the Democrat walkout, RPT LP Priorities Chair Jill
Glover brings us up-to-date on where we are in this critical
Special Session...
















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Legislative Priorities Report for
7.26.21



As we near the end of the Special
Session, enough Democrats remain in D.C.to prevent a quorum. In
fact, they are asking for "care packages" from home! They don't
need goodie boxes, they need to be punished for running out on
their jobs.
Again, we urge Speaker Phelan and
the Texas House to take action. The Democrats' bad behavior
simply cannot be rewarded by allowing them to return to their
committee chairmanships after thumbing their nose for a month at
the Governor, the Speaker, and the people of Texas who value free
and fair elections. Surely Republicans can band together, revoke
Democrat committee chairmanships, secure a quorum, and pass a
strong election integrity bill without Democrat input. With the
eyes of a nation on Governor Abbott and House Republicans, there
is simply too much at stake to fail.
Since the last regular
Legislative began, we have urged Speaker Phelan to only assign
members of the Republican majority as committee chairs, as is the
practice in Congress and virtually every other state. There are
34 standing committees in the House, and 15 in the Senate. The
chair of the committee has tremendous power, as he or she decides
what bills get heard on the committee, and how quickly they get
voted out.
While most Republican voters were
surprised that any Democrat would even be appointed to a
chairmanship, the House voted on the issue and all but 5
Republicans supported allowing Democrats to chair committees. All
but 11 Republicans voted to allow Democrats to chair the most
powerful committees that would likely be taking up our priority
legislation. They defended their perceived practice of "working
across the aisle," and made statements such as, "But we are not
like Washington, D.C."
Chairman Rinaldi has written an
excellent article on this outdated approach by our Republican
legislature. Please be sure to read it.
This Special Session, Election
Integrity was the only priority Governor Abbott put on the call,
though we appreciate that many of our Representatives did file
bills for RPT priorities in the hopes they would subsequently be
put on the call. One of these priorities was to ban child gender
modification, for which Rep. Matt Krause filed HB 166.
The Governor, during an
appearance on Mark Davis' radio show last week, stated that that
the House lacked the votes to pass a ban on child gender
modification. He further stated that he was going to announce
executive action soon on the issue. Representative Krause
disagreed with the Governor's vote count and stated he was
confident the House had the votes to pass HB 166. Rep. Krause
went on to note he has over 60 primary/joint/co-authors of HB
166, he has many supporters of the bill who have yet to sign on,
his support is bipartisan and he has over 76 votes. Given Rep.
Krause's assessment, there is simply no excuse for the Governor
not to place this issue on the call.
So, action items continue to be
the same:
1. Please call Speaker Phelan and
your House representative and ask that they remove the fleeing
Democrats as committee chairs.
2. Please call Governor Abbott
and ask that he pass Election Integrity without negotiating with
Democrats and put a gender modification ban and our other RPT
priorities on the call for this and future special sessions.
3. Please share these update
reports with others. We know we should not have to work so hard
to get these things done in our state. But for now, we do. The
future of our state and our country is on the line.
We thank each of you who
faithfully read these reports every week and make the calls and
emails. May God richly bless you for taking a stand and being a
good steward of the government of a country that is exceptional,
begun on a firm foundation, and while now in danger of falling,
may also have a chance of being saved by courageous citizens.
For God and Texas,

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







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