House passes trio of Senate’s priority bills as veto break looms

This drew a hostile response from his colleague, Joan Huffman, who said Hinojosa and the media have twisted the intent of the bill’s authors.

“I’ve been subjected to many jokes, everybody snickering and talking about the bathroom bill“.

“We like to think that our restrooms are kind of like the way they are at home”, John Dominguez, the owner of 350 baking company, said.

Other legislative activity has delayed a longstanding effort to remove state funding for Planned Parenthood, though Republicans say it remains a priority. They voted to increase the flow of money into political campaigns. Perry’s bill allows doctors to perform this type of procedure only when the women’s life is in danger.

Kentucky has been one of the hardest places to pass a charter law, but with the 2016 election, Republicans in the state took control of the legislature and the governorship, clearing the way for a charter bill to succeed.

The Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau estimates if the bill becomes law, the city will lose around $109 million tourism dollars through 2021.

Critics of a Texas bill that would crackdown on so-called “sanctuary cities” say Republican changes to soften the measure don’t go almost far enough.

During a meeting of the Green River Regional Educational Cooperative on Tuesday, Shelton told the group of regional superintendents that House Bill 520 would likely be heard by the Senate’s Standing Committee on Education on Wednesday.

The bill, he said, would address problems in some urban schools.

“We, as legislators, parents, and Oklahomans have a moral imperative to work towards providing a quality education for every child, regardless of where they live”.

Florida’s Legislature is now in session; during this legislative session four distracted driving bills have been filed, two in the House and two in the Senate.

Jonathan Saenz, President of Texas Values has a different take on the bill.

Republican Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, a Tea Party Christian who is a prominent backer of the Texas bill, has challenged the survey.

Morning news reports that the bill would impact transgender people using bathrooms, locker rooms and dressing rooms in public schools, universities and government buildings. While conservative lawmakers celebrate the Senate passage that is a foregone conclusion, the bill faces bipartisan opposition in the House where lawmakers are more anxious about the potential for business boycotts should the measure pass.

But by Wednesday, cooperation between Gov. Martinez and lawmakers had gone off the rails, and talk of bipartisan solutions seemed secondary to more contentious issues, such as the governor’s veto of several Democratic bills, the lack of agreement on new revenue for the 2018 budget and the Senate’s first override of a Martinez veto.