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Legislative Update

VP Legislation Julie Faubel
[email protected]

Legislative Day 2019

Welcome 2019 and the 86th Texas Legislature!

With the New Year, comes a new legislative session in Texas.
On Tuesday, January 8th, the Texas Senate, led by Lieutenant
To track what is happening in
Governor Dan Patrick gaveled in to session with 19 Republicans
this year’s legislature here are a and 12 Democrats. The House of Representatives elected
few websites to follow: Representative Dennis Bonnen of Angleton as its new Speaker.
He will lead the 83 Republicans and 67 Democrats during the term.
https://capitol.texas.gov/Home.aspx
The issues of the 140-day regular session are wide-ranging from
https://lrl.texas.gov/
financial and economic (budget, school finance, property taxes)
https://legiscan.com/TX to requiring the University of Texas and Texas A&M University
to play a regular-season football game against one another in
November each year.

Lawmakers have until Friday, March 8th to file bills to be considered during the regular session. During the
85th Regular Session a total of 10,672 bills were proposed with 4,960 being passed and 51 vetoed. As of this writing,
over 900 bills have been drafted with many more to come.

Please share this information across all media
platforms with your club members. Save the Date!

TFRW Legislative Day
Event and hotel reservations will open soon.

Volunteers are needed to help make Legislative Day April 25, 2019
successful. Contact me at [email protected] if

you can help out in Austin.

Much more information will be coming your way via
email. Make sure you are receiving TFRW emails, and
if not, contact your club president ASAP!

Presidents, Legislative Chairs, and all Club
Leaders, copy and share this page with all of your
club members ASAP!

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