The law, which is one of the most restrictive in the country, will take effect Wednesday.

Lawmakers have less than a week remaining.

Democrats used every tool they had, fleeing the state en masse and forcing two special sessions, but a Republican bill to rewrite state election laws won initial approval in the House Thursday. Once the House and Senate work out some differences, it appears headed to the governor's desk.

The order comes two days after the FDA granted full approval to the Pfizer vaccine. That raised questions about the fate of a previous Abbott order that prohibited vaccine mandates, but only for vaccines with emergency authorization.

Navigating the quorum break, Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan said he was especially mindful of not doing “un-repairable harm” to the chamber, indicating that could have happened if members were physically detained and brought to the chamber.

With the U.S. Food and Drug administration’s full approval of the Pfizer vaccine, Texas is in uncharted territory when it comes to COVID-19 vaccinations.

Amid the heated rhetoric around an increase in migrants in the state, people on the Texas-Mexico border see the problems — and solutions — differently.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Gov. Greg Abbott wanted the high court to disallow mask mandates in Texas school districts. Justices dismissed their request on a technicality, without issuing a ruling on their legal arguments.

Biden said he will use the U.S. Department of Education’s civil rights enforcement authority to deter states from blocking mask mandates in classrooms.

The governor spoke Monday night at a GOP event in Collin County, later tweeting photos of him addressing a maskless crowd.