Today, the Texas House of Representatives will hear HB 15, the sonogram bill filed by Rep. Sid Miller, which was passed out of committee last week. The bill requires that a doctor perform a sonogram on women seeking an abortion and give the women a chance to hear the baby’s heartbeat. Liberty Institute strongly supports [...]
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
4:55 p.m. HB 15 passes 9-3, now headed to Calendars Committee. 4:45 p.m. Rep. Sid Miller is now discussion his sonogram bill, HB 15. 4:05 p.m. Rep. Geanie Morrison discussing her bill, HB 201. Rep. Menendez asking questions about the bill. Rep. Gallego has an issue with law giving a right to the woman to [...]
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Tomorrow, the Texas House State Affairs Committee will hear two versions of the sonogram bill (HB 15 and HB 201). Rep. Geanie Morrison filed HB 201, which is the companion to the sonogram bill that passed through the Senate last week (SB 16). Earlier this month, Republican State Representative Sid Miller, also filed a sonogram [...]
Thursday, June 4, 2009
From the front lines of the Texas Legislature: Despite a change in D.C. and a more liberal coup in the Texas House (which helped many dangerous bill have progress that would have previously never moved an inch), there is good news to report, but also some unfinished business. It must be noted that even though [...]
Thursday, May 21, 2009
1. Don McLeroy, State Board of Education member, needs your help to be CONFIRMED as chairman of the SBOE, which requires a 2/3rds of the 31 Texas State Senators to vote in favor of him. His nomination as chairman was approved yesterday bythe Senate Nominations committee. Don McLeroy has been unfairly attacked by some because [...]
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Last week, we reported that the life-saving ultrasound bill, which requires that an ultrasound be performed on a woman considering abortion and that the woman is offered an opportunity to view the ultrasound image and hear her baby’s heartbeat, could pass through the Senate. However, the vote was postponed to this week. We are at [...]
Monday, March 30, 2009
SB 182, by Sen. Patrick has been placed on the Senate Intent Calendar and could be voted on as early as Wednesday or possibly Thursday by the full Texas Senate. This bill requires that an ultrasound be performed on a woman considering abortion and that the woman is offered an opportunity to view the ultrasound image and [...]
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Watch the video of the Press Conference. Visit http://www.senate.state.tx.us/avarchive/ and click Feb. 24 — Press Conference – Senator Dan Patrick. Over 300 Pro-Life advocates descended on the Capitol. Gov. Perry, Lt. Gov. Dewhurst, Sen. Patrick, and Rep. Corte and many others gave comments to support pro-life lobby day. Poor John Kelso of the AAS gets heartburn [...]
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