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Lege Roundup: Public Hearing Today on Guns in Schools, Dems Stall Voter ID [Politics]
The Criminal Justice Committee of the Texas Senate will hold a public hearing today on the bill that would allow handguns on some Texas college campuses. Students for Gun-Free Schools in Texas is calling the hearing, in room E1.016 of the Capitol from 1:30 to 6:30 pm, the "one final chance" for students, parents, faculty and staff to have an impact on this legislation. The Texas House held its own hearing during Spring Break.
The handgun bill is not one of Gov. Rick Perry's emergency items, but those bills—on voter ID, abortion, and other issues—are sailing through both chambers as well. Or maybe not sailing, exactly: Democratic members of the House are doing all they can to hold up Senate Bill 14, the mandatory voter identification law, on administrative grounds.
The handgun bill is not one of Gov. Rick Perry's emergency items, but those bills—on voter ID, abortion, and other issues—are sailing through both chambers as well. Or maybe not sailing, exactly: Democratic members of the House are doing all they can to hold up Senate Bill 14, the mandatory voter identification law, on administrative grounds.
Speaker Joe Straus yesterday sustained a point of order, brought forward by State Rep. Armando Martinez (D-Weslaco), that wording in the bill was misleading. A point of order halts the debate on a bill and sends it back to committee. The wording in question, which has already been corrected, concerned the distinction between the "six days" that voters have to legitimize their provisional vote, as written in the bill, and the "six business days" that were in the official analysis of the bill.
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