Statement on passage of SB 7 and other efforts to cut funding to Planned Parenthood. LibertyInstituteStatmentSB7 Update: SB 7 passes Texas House 96-48. Now Senate needs to adopt the bill. Now Tx Senate has to vote on this today. Vote coming any minute. Follow quick updates at our FB page. http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/Liberty-Institute-Texas/188607107843102 Update: 11:15 a.m. [...]
Thursday, June 2, 2011
The Texas House and Senate are holding hearings today on budget, education, and healthcare issues, and congressional redistricting. SB 7 gives us another opportunity to finish the job of defunding Planned Parenthood from use of taxpayer dollars. Call your Texas State Senator and ask he/she to support SB 7 . Click here for your Senator’s contact information: http://www.fyi.legis.state.tx.us/. [...]
Saturday, May 21, 2011
The Texas Senate & House are here at the Texas Capitol working and so are we. The question is if and when SB 1581, the fiscal matters bill will come up in the Texas House. It has numerous amendments on it. Some we like, some we don’t like. HB 1201, repealing the authority to create the [...]
Monday, May 9, 2011
SB 723, by Sen. Tommy Williams (R-The Woodlands) ensures that Texas law is consistent with court precedent in our state and our state constitution, that gender for marriage purposes is determined by the gender on a person’s birth certificate, assigned at birth and that marriage is between one man and one woman. Last session an [...]
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Governor Perry issued a statement today on the Senate’s passage of Sonogram Legislation: “The Texas Senate has taken admirable action today by passing this significant sonogram legislation, and I want to thank Rep. Sid Miller and Sen. Dan Patrick for their work on this issue. Ensuring Texans have access to all the information when making [...]
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Vote once again was 21-10. If Texas House concurs with the Senate on this bill, it will be done and headed to Gov. Perry’s desk for his signature!
Monday, May 2, 2011
2:30 p.m. Texas Senate Passes Sonogram Bill, 21-10! Choose Life Bill not up yet in House Chamber. Please check back soon. 1:27 p.m. Amendment by Van de Putte. Amendment was tabled. 1:25 p.m, Vote: 21-10 to suspend rules to take up Sonogram bill. 12:34 p.m. Sen. Patrick announces Sonogram bill, discussing details of bill, opens [...]
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Texas State Board of Education in jeopardy. SB 1348, by Democrat Senator Leticia Van De Putte, is on the Senate Floor Calendar today and could be up for a vote. SB 1348 requires you to be a university faculty member and have a Ph.D. in education or a “terminal degree” to be on an expert [...]
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
The Texas Senate is expected to vote on the Sonogram Bill (CSHB 15) this week. Now is a critical time to contact your State Senator. Please call your State Senator today to ask them to support this life-saving legislation. Click here to find your elected officials, or you can download our Texas Legislative Guide with [...]
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
We supported this bill, HB 15, at the hearing on Monday.
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