Legislative Priorities Report for 9.1.21








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Legislative Priorities Report for
9.1.21



Yesterday the House and Senate
passed the conference report of SB 1, the Election Integrity
omnibus bill. The next stop is Governor Abbott's desk for his
signature! While SB 1 passed both the House and the Senate last
week, because the House made changes to the bill, it went to
conference. The sole change made in conference was to remove
Amendment 58, which provided an "ignorance of the law" defense to
felony voter fraud. Overall, Representative Murr and Senator
Hughes have passed a bill that should improve integrity in Texas
election processes at the county level and adds civil penalties,
making it more certain that voting violations will be punished;
we are grateful for their hard work getting this bill across the
finish line.
Representative Slaton also passed
an amendment requiring an audit of certain counties. While the
final bill does not require an audit of every county, as many
would prefer, this is a start and requires auditing two large
counties and two small counties in every November general
election of the even numbered years.
Our other legislative priority
bill, SB 2, the bill to protect girls' sports, is apparently dead
in the Public Education Committee, which is chaired by Democrat
Representative Harold Dutton. This unfortunate predicament is
another consequence of important Committees being chaired by
Democrats. Compounding the problem is that Republican Rep. Dan
Huberty, who also serves on the committee, publicly opposed the
bill, depriving it of the needed votes for passage.
HB 5, which provides funding for
legislative staff, a 13th check for teachers, and other desired
items, has been postponed until Wednesday (today) and could
provide needed leverage for the passage of other priorities.
There is speculation that HB5 is being held up until two of
Governor Abbott's priority bills, SB2, protecting women's sports,
and SB 3, prohibiting Critical Race Theory in all Texas public
school curricula, are passed out of the Public Education
Committee.
The State Republican Executive
Committee held our quarterly meeting in Lubbock this past
weekend. We passed five resolutions, one of which was a
resolution demanding that all Democrats who broke quorum be
removed as House committee chairmen and vice-chairmen and
replaced with Republicans. This desire unifies all segments of
the Republican Party of Texas and passed the SREC unanimously.
Representative Vasut has authored
HR 72, a House Resolution providing a process for removal of
Democrats as Committee Chairs and automatically revoking the
seniority of members who evade a Call of the House. On Monday,
Chairman Matt Rinaldi held a press conference with the Texas
Freedom Caucus, Reps. Slaton, Tinderholt, Lozano, Biederman, and
Slawson, as well as SREC Members and grassroots leaders in
support of HR 72. You can view the press conference here.
We appreciate our many grassroots
and organization members who have made calls to the Speaker's
office on this issue and request that you continue. Democrats
must not be allowed to impede the passage of Republican priority
bills when Republicans hold a majority in the Legislature.
The SREC also passed a Medical
Freedom and Personal Responsibility resolution at their meeting
last week which states the Republican Party of Texas opposes all
public or private vaccine mandates. While this is not one of our
eight Legislative Priorities, one of the fundamental principles
of our party platform is the inalienable rights and sovereignty
of the individual. No one should be forced to take a vaccine, and
to do so puts us firmly down the road toward totalitarianism. We
applaud the Governor for banning public vaccine mandates and
those pertaining to customers of private businesses that receive
public money. We urge him to prohibit private entities from
requiring a vaccine of their employees.
Action Items:

Continue to ask that Democrat
committee chairs who broke quorum be removed, and HR 72 passed.
Contact Chairman Metcalf at (512-463-0726) and Speaker Phelan at
(512-463-1000)


Call Chairman Dutton
(512-463-0510) and Rep. Huberty (512-463-0520) and ask that SB 2,
the Save Girl's Sports bill be passed out of Public Education
Committee immediately.


Continue to ask Governor
Abbott to add banning gender modification and banning private
vaccine mandates for employees to the Special Session call.
(512-463-1782)

Thank you for standing for
liberty. We are certainly in difficult days, but Texans are
courageous and strong. May God bless each of you and your
families.
For God and Texas,

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







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