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Special Legislative Edition

Legislation Advocacy - The Week Ahead

Tomorrow, Memorial Day, is the last day of the regular session. At this writing it looks like the budget bills, SB-1 and HB-1025 in their current form, will fail to reach the Governor's desk. TPPF UPDATE If that happens and we hope it does, expect a special session where the Governor will have much more influence. SB-1 and HB-1026 increases spending 26% over the last budget and provides very little tax relief or rebates. We cannot support it as written nor do we believe the Governor will. More to come... 

 

SB 1406 Relating to State Board of Education oversight of regional education service center activities concerning certain curriculum management systems.

  • Status: On the Governor's desk waiting for his signature.
  • Recommendation: STRONGLY FOR
  • Research: CSCOPE or C-SCAM? 
  • Comment:  This legislation will shed the light of public scrutiny on the controversial CSCOPE curriculum.
  • Call to action: Contact the Senators and Representatives that made this happen and thank them for their support of this bill. A special thanks goes out to Senators Patrick, Campbell and Paxton along with Representative Toth for their leadership.

SB 2 Relating to charter schools and home-rule charter school districts.

  • Status:  Passed by the House and Senate, conference committee report distributed. 
  • Recommendation: FOR 
  • Comment: Will lift the cap on the creation of charter schools and create more choice.
  • Additional Research: Lifting the cap on charters 
  • Call to action: Contact the Senators and Representatives that voted for this bill. A special thanks goes out to Senators Patrick, Campbell their leadership.

The Patriot Briefing will be sent out once a week preparing you for legislative action in the week ahead. We do not want to over burden you with emails, so ALERTS on changes, new research, comments, opinion and new items during the week will go out through our TWITTER feed @NRNPAC and our FACEBOOK page. To follow and like, click the links on the right hand side tool bar. 

 

Sign up and use the tools at Texas Legislature Online so you can read and follow bills and get alerts for upcoming committee meetings. Also, we can't catch everything, so if you see something you think needs attention, please contact us.

 

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