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86th #TxLege Report Card: Vaccinations
Vaccinations take a hit in filing but nothing gets much further than that with trouble brewing.
Background:
During the 86th session the growing rate of anti...
Texas vaccine exemption rates have reached an all-time high. Did Texas make it too...
As measles cases hit a 25-year high in the United States, Texas medical experts fear the state could see the next outbreak of a...
86th #TxLege Report Card: Sexual Assault
Texas legislators are commending themselves for passing a few long-overdue bills concerning sexual assault, but progress on sexual harassment and women’s safety proved deplorable...
Gov. Greg Abbott signs $11.6 billion school finance measure into law
Gov. Greg Abbott has signed into law one of lawmakers' biggest achievements this year, a massive overhaul of Texas' long-beleaguered school finance system.
Abbott put...
Texas Voters Need to Know Which Legislators Working For Them – We’ll Tell You...
Now that the 86th Texas Legislature has come to a close for the next two years, it’s time for a roll call- find out...
The Texas governor accused people of lying about Texas' maternal mortality rate. The critics...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott claimed in a tweet Sunday that "critics" of the state's maternal mortality rate had lied about it, citing a year-old article that...
Texas Law Raising Smoking Age to 21, Exempting Active Military, May be Difficult to...
Active U.S. military members are exempt from Texas’ new law that prohibits adults under the age of 21 from purchasing cigarettes.
But the new...
86th #TxLege Report Card: Maternal Mortality (D-)
Women's health for the most part received little support in Texas’ 86th Legislative Session.
At a time when 1-4 Texas women are uninsured, rural obstetrics...
86th #TxLege Report Card: Medical Marijuana
Though some progress toward medical marijuana access was made, many advocates for reform grow frustrated at the hurdles still present.
Background:
In the 2015 legislative session,...
86th #Txlege Report Card: Minimum Wage
Proposed minimum wage increases received minimal effort in Texas’ 86th Legislative Session.
For more than a decade, the Texas minimum wage hasn’t budged from the...
