After a historic common session, Texas state lawmakers handed lots of of latest legal guidelines on all the pieces from requiring a Ten Commandments show in public colleges to establishing authorized definitions for “man” and “lady.”
Whereas lawmakers are nonetheless in Austin for a particular session to vote on redistricting — which handed the Senate by a 19-2 vote Tuesday — flood aid, and different points, these efforts had been delayed after Home Democrats fled the state to stop the GOP from attaining the quorum essential to vote on the laws that might give Republicans 5 extra seats within the Home.
Texas’ Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has taken motion towards the Democrats who’ve fled the state by ordering the Texas Division of Public Security to arrest the Democratic lawmakers and submitting authorized proceedings to start the method of eradicating from workplace Democratic lawmakers who fled the state.
Listed below are 5 new legal guidelines set to enter impact Sept. 1.
