Texas House of Representatives returned to session with a controversial resolution since Wednesday morning Congress maps After the Democrats, the state fled for one vote for one vote, which was to oppose the earlier attempt to bring the bill to the floor.
State rape. Todd Hunter, the proposed Texas Recovery Act, the lead author, said on the house floor on Wednesday that “the underlying target of the scheme is directly: Republican should improve political performance.”
Texas Republican captured the redistids of the Rare Mids decade after a push with President Trump and American House speaker Mike Johnson last month to maintain the GOP’s razor-thunder majority in the House. Under the proposed redistribution scheme, Republicans can lift many as five seats.
The Republican majority of the Texas Legislature has quickly worked to pursue measurements through the House, Democrats left the kingdom for two weeks after breaking the quorum, stopped all the action in the House and Early,
The village. Greg Abbott called a second special session after postponing the first one on Friday, and Democrats leaving the state House returned to chamber Noon on Monday. That evening, HB4 approved the House Committee on the redistribution of 12-8 votes with party lines.
The bill needs to pass two more votes from the entire House before proceeding. The final vote may also be held on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, Democratic State Rape. Chris Turner said that the proposed redistribution law on the house floor is illegal and racially discriminatory. Republican has denied the claim, arguing that the Supreme Court has found that biased gemanders are legal and this is the goal of redistribution.
The redistributed bill is also passed on a redistribution from the Texas Senate Committee, and is on the agenda for the full Senate on Thursday.
Texas Democrats protest police escorts
When the House was re -organized, most of the Democratic members were free from police escorts who have been with him since Monday afternoon.
In an attempt to ensure that the Democrats do not try to break the quorum again, the Republican House leaders will only allow members who left the state Get out of the house chamber If they agreed to a DPS escort.
While most of the Democrats agreed, the state Rape. Nicole colir Fort Worth refused. She was locked in the House Chamber for a time and eventually allowed to go to her capital office. On Monday, Coliere Asked a state court To allow him to leave, alleging that it is facing “illegal restraint by the government”. The court has not yet taken action on filing.
Some other Democrats joined the colir on Tuesday, ending their signed agreements for DPS escort and their signed agreements to stay at night.
It is not yet clear whether Speaker Dustin Buroz will put DPS escorts on Democrats at the end of Wednesday’s session.
What else is on Texas House Special Sessions Agenda
Republican state leaders are moving rapidly in a special session, aimed at passing all priority items of abs and postponing Labor Day before the weekend.
In view of the deadly last month, they leave only 10 days to pass a group of redistribution and other bills, including funding for disaster relief. Hill country floodsProperty tax relief and further ban on abortion.
Those measures are expected to pass due to the overshadow on Republican support. Some items will be bilateral.
An item in the list of abs may run in some difficulty: regulating cannabis products obtained from cannabis. During the regular session, the legislature passed a total ban on any product with THC.
Opponents argued that if the bill is made law, it would make thousands of people out of their jobs and cause billions of dollars in economic loss to the state. Growing industryThey also argue that it will harm giants and others who use THC instead of Opioid to treat chronic pain, forcing them to buy the same relief from drug dealers.
Abbat Total bannedInstead calling for strict regulation.
The Senate has already passed another version of its total ban of THC. House version, HB 6, ban on selling any consumable ganja-practical products to people under the age of only 21. HB6 has not been done through the committee yet.
