Please join us at Let The People Vote! Texas Rally for Medicaid Expansion on Monday, March 4 at 10 a.m. at the Texas Capitol! Need a free ride from Houston, Katy, Dallas or San Antonio? Sign up here! Sign up to volunteer at the rally here. On Monday we’ll deliver a message that Texans are …
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Bills are being referred to committees, and hearings are getting underway, especially in the House. Here are some bills and hearings of interest this week. Be sure to jump down for our weekly feature on Public Education bills, too. There are also many lobby days and rallies over the next several weeks. You can view …
Contributed by Felicia Miyakawa, Special Education Advocate On Tuesday, Feb. 19, The House Public Education Committee will hear meet for the first time to discuss proposed bills hear public testimony about those bills. The hearing will start around 11:30 (or whenever the house adjourns) and it’s going to be LONG: there are 12 bills on …
Contributed by Felicia Miyakawa, Special Education Advocate For those of you trying to keep up with #txlege, here are some action items regarding special education and medically fragile kids/adults. This week there will be several hearings about funding and appropriations. For those of you who have less familiarity with these issues, please know that we …
On Thursday, January 24, we hosted a briefing with Laura Guerra-Cardus from Children’s Defense Fund-Texas and the Cover Texas Now coalition to hear about a host of healthcare issues at the #txlege. If you want to catch up on these issues, the slides and video of the presentation are available. We’re planning a mid-session catch-up …
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