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Legislative Priorities Report Oct. 6, 2021

This week, Governor Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called on the
Legislature to restore penalties for election fraud to
second-degree felonies, that had been reduced to misdemeanors in
the SB1 Election Integrity bill passed during the second special
session. To this end, Senator Bryan Hughes filed SB 9, which
passed out of committee and should be on the Senate floor for a
vote soon.

Speaker Dade Phelan issued a response rebuking Gov. Abbott and
Lt. Gov. Patrick, refusing to reinstate the felony penalties for
voter fraud which a House amendment reduced to a misdemeanor.
Nevertheless, Rep. Mayes Middleton filed HB 136 to address the
penalty issue and that bill has been referred to Constitutional
Rights and Remedies Committee. Speaker Phelan simply must stop
pandering to the Democrats and restore real consequences for
cheating in our elections.

President Trump put out a statement calling for passage of Sen.
Paul Bettencourt's SB 47, authorizing a full Forensic Audit of
the 2020 Presidential election in Texas. President Trump praised
Lt. Gov. Patrick for sending the bill to the State Affairs
Committee. This bill has now passed out of the Senate. Rep.
Toth has filed a bill in the House, but Speaker Phelan has yet to
assign the bill to a committee, meaning it has gone nowhere.
Hopefully the Speaker will listen to the voices of Texas
Republicans who want a full forensic audit, not one done behind
the scenes by the staff of the Secretary of State's office in
targeted areas.

On Wednesday, the Constitutional Rights and Remedies Committee
will hear HB 25, by Rep. Swanson, which prohibits boys from
competing in girls' sports. We would prefer that girls' college
sports was included. But the bill is at least a start to restore
truthfulness that boys and girls are biologically different and
should not be competing against each other, for either
recreational or scholarship purposes, in Texas public schools.

Finally, because the Republican Party of Texas is greatly
dismayed and alarmed by the violation of our individual sovereign
rights by vaccine mandates, Chairman Matt Rinaldi has created a
special committee to advocate for legislation banning all public
and private vaccine mandates. He appointed SREC member Becky
Green (SD 17) to chair the committee, which will call on Governor
Abbott to add a comprehensive ban on vaccine mandates to the
current call. Gov. Abbott's current executive order bans only
vaccine mandates by public entities and customer vaccine mandates
by private entities receiving government funds. It does not ban
private employer mandates of any kind, including by companies
receiving government funds. We ask that private employers be
included within the scope of the order and legislation similar to
HB 14 by Rep. Toth be passed to protect citizens choosing to not
get vaccinated from discrimination.

The Special Committee on Vaccine Mandates also wants to encourage
Texans who may be facing job loss to tell their stories about
vaccine mandates to Governor Abbott. Please stay tuned for more
specific information on this coming soon from the RPT.

Action Items:

1. Call/email Speaker Phelan to assign HB 136 and stop blocking
the Election Integrity fix.

a. Speaker's phone number: 512-463-1000

b. Send an email here.

2. Call/email Speaker Phelan to move legislation for a forensic
audit of the 2020 Presidential Election in Texas.

3. Call/email the members of the Constitutional Rights
Committee and urge passage of HB 25.
a. Members can be found here. Click on each member to view
their contact information.

4. Call Governor Abbott and ask him to add a ban on Gender
Mutilation to the call. It is a travesty that we have not been
able to get a bill to protect minor children from these hideous
"sex change" practices.

a. Call 512-463-2000.
b. Send an email here.

5. Call Governor Abbott and ask him to protect citizens from
vaccine mandates. Texans should not have to lose their jobs over
a personal health decision.

Please share this report with like-minded conservatives. So much
is at stake right now in Texas and we need many people to help us
save our state. We are hard-pressed on every side, but will not
despair, we are Texans.


For God and Texas,


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






















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