by Joey Bennett | Apr 19, 2025 | News
Here’s a quick recap of what happened over the last week: Texas House Passes Vouchers, School Finance Bills The Texas House yesterday passed Senate Bill 2 (SB 2), a $1 billion school voucher investment that would create education savings accounts (ESAs) for families...
by Joey Bennett | Apr 11, 2025 | News
Here’s a quick recap of what happened over the last week: House Rejects Motion to Remove Speaker A very misguided and poorly strategized motion to remove Speaker Dustin Burrows was soundly defeated by a vote of 141-2 on Wednesday on the House floor. The effort was...
by Joey Bennett | Apr 4, 2025 | News
Here’s a quick recap of what happened over the last week: School Voucher Bill Passes Committee The Texas House Public Education Committee on Thursday advanced a bill that sets up education savings accounts (ESA) – vouchers — that will now head to the full House...
by Joey Bennett | Mar 28, 2025 | News
Here’s a quick recap of what happened over the last week: Senate Passes State Budget The Texas Senate passed their version of a $336 billion spending plan for the next two years that would boost teacher pay, establish a school voucher program, and cut property taxes,...
by Joey Bennett | Mar 21, 2025 | News
Here’s a quick recap of what happened over the last week: Bill Filing Deadline Last Friday – the 60th day of the session — was the last day members of the House and Senate could file bills for the session. Anything filed now would take a 4/5ths approval from...
by Joey Bennett | Mar 14, 2025 | News
Here’s a quick recap of what happened over the last week: Bill Filing Deadline Today is the 60th day of the regular session. 80 more to go. Today is the last day that members can file legislation in the House and Senate. As of now, there have been over 5,400 House...
