Calling on the need to pass his priority legislation, the governor of Texas said those issues will be discussed at a special session sometime this year.
“From Day One of this session, our priorities were centered around hardworking Texans and building a state that is safer, freer, healthier and more prosperous. We added to that the imperative that we secure the Texas power system to ensure it never fails again. We kept those promises while also delivering one of the most conservative legislative sessions our state has ever seen,” Gov. Gregg Abbott said in an email.
“We passed legislation to secure our border, support our police, expand second amendment rights, defend religious liberty, and protect the sanctity of life in Texas. We also enacted several key emergency items like reforming the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, weatherizing and stabilizing our power grid, ensuring COVID-19 liability protections, and expanding access to broadband and telemedicine.
“At the beginning of the legislative session, I declared election integrity and bail reform to be mustpass emergency items,” he said of items not passed before the May 31 closing.
Those items will be added to the special session agenda, but he did not say if it would be the one held in fall when election districts are redrawn based on the Census or at another time.
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