The legislative session is moving rapidly, as bill filing ended
last Friday, March 10 with 9,114 bills filed in the House and
Senate. We are thrilled that the Senate has moved our first
Legislative Priority bill to its intent calendar, which means
that it will come to the Senate floor for a vote in the next few
days.

SB 2, filed by Senators Hughes, Bettencourt, and Springer is a
Protect Our Elections priority bill and restores the penalty for
voter fraud from a misdemeanor to a felony. We appreciate these
senators filing this bill. Representative Toth has filed a
companion bill in the House, HB 4198, and many other similar
bills have been filed as well.

The Senate has also scheduled SB 14, one of our approved bills
for Ban Gender Modification of Children, for a committee hearing
in State Affairs this Thursday, March 16 at 9:30 am. Senator
Campbell is bill author, and it has a companion bill in the House
by Representative Oliverson.

On March 3, the Legislative Priorities Committee met and approved
more bills, bringing our current total to 128. We are continuing
to discuss bills filed and will have more approved soon. This is
stunning number as it is more than double the number of approved
priority bills last session. We are very encouraged that more of
our legislators are listening to the voters that sent them to
Austin and filing bills on the priorities we requested.

In the last few days of bill filing, we have seen some very good
bills addressing not only Protect Our Elections, but also
Securing the Border, Banning Gender Modification of Children, and
Parental Rights and Education. We anticipate many more approved
bills.

Governor Abbott named two of our priorities, Educational Freedom
and Securing the Border, among his priorities for this session.
Lt. Gov. Patrick included many of our priorities on his list,
including items under Protect Our Elections, Ban Gender
Modification of Children, Stop Sexualizing of Texas Kids, and
Parental Rights and Educational Freedom. We appreciate the
support of these priorities.

We are also pleased that Speaker Phelan named Rep. Jared
Patterson's bill, HB 1655/HB 900 as a priority bill. This bill
is known as the READER act, and restricts sexually explicit books
in school libraries. Speaker Phelan has also designated Rep.
Schaefer's bill, HB 20, on Securing the Border, as priority
legislation. We look forward to working with these
representatives to getting these important bills passed.

ACTION STEPS:
1. Contact your representative and senator and ask that they sign
on as co-authors to our Legislative Priority bills. You can find
that bill list here: [link removed]. Send
them a copy of the list.

2. Please contact these members of Senate State Affairs committee
and urge them to pass SB 14 out of committee:
Morgan LaMantia D 512-463-0127
Jose Menendez D 512-463-0126
Judith Zaffirini D 512-463-0121

3. Please also thank Sens. Hughes, Paxton, Bettencourt, Birdwell,
Parker, Perry and Schwertner for their support of the bill.

4. Come to Austin on Monday, March 20 as several of our
grassroots groups are holding a rally at 12:45 at the Capitol to
support Ban Gender Modification of Children. They will meet in
the rotunda at 9 AM for office visits to legislators.


For God and Texas,

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

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