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By The Texas TribuneSociety & Culture
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- Texas Education Agency would have new power to enforce school safety plans under Senate billThe bill, introduced months after the Uvalde school shooting, also allocates more funds to the state’s school safety allotment, which is money given to districts to improve campus security.4 min
- Lawmakers in Texas, facing criticism, soften proposed ban on Chinese purchases of landThe bill, introduced months after the Uvalde school shooting, also allocates more funds to the state’s school safety allotment, which is money given to districts to improve campus security.6 min
- Republican Texas lawmakers rally around bill restricting transgender athletes from joining certain college sports teamsSeventy-seven Republicans signed on as co-authors to Rep. Valoree Swanson’s bill extending restrictions on transgender athletes to college sports. Gov. Greg Abbott has expressed support for the legislation, which is also a priority of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.4 min
- Lawmakers take first step to restoring felony penalty for illegal votingRepublican lawmakers — backed by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick — are working to reverse a change to state law they approved two years ago as part of a sweeping overhaul to Texas election law that included downgrading illegal voting to a misdemeanor.4 min
- DPS sent at least 3,000 driver’s licenses to organized crime group targeting Asian TexansA Chinese crime operation bypassed the password clues of Texas.gov by using stolen identity information to fraudulently obtain replacement driver’s licenses.4 min
- Teachers in Texas need raises, more training and better working conditions to fix shortages, state task force findsThe yearlong review also recommends increasing the funds schools get per student, a measure already favored by lawmakers looking how to spend a historic state budget surplus.4 min
- Gov. Greg Abbott says most gun crimes involve illegally-owned weapons. That’s not true in mass shootings.Most of the state’s 19 mass shootings over the past six decades were carried out by men who legally possessed firearms, an investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found.6 min
- University of Texas System pauses new diversity, equity and inclusion policiesThe UT system leaders’ decision comes weeks after Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state agencies to stop considering diversity in hiring. Texas A&M University also recently changed its hiring practices.4 min
- Gov. Greg Abbott promises to be “heavily involved” in push for education savings accountsIn an interview with the Tribune, the governor also backed criminalizing some health care treatments for transgender kids and shrugged off the idea that he’s in a conservative policy rivalry with Ron DeSantis.4 min
- Republican accuses GOP of using immigration crisis for politicsU.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales said in an interview with the Washington Examiner that his fellow Republicans benefit politically from a sustained border crisis. The attack indirectly alluded to U.S. Rep. Chip Roy’s contentious border security bill.4 min
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