Texas Gov. Greg Abbott lays out items for a special session
School choice, abortion and bathroom access are among Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s agenda items for a special session of the Texas Legislature starting July 18.
Here’s the complete list:
– Sunset legislation
– Teacher pay increase of $1,000
– Administrative flexibility in teacher hiring and retention practices
– School finance reform commission
– School choice for special needs students
– Property tax reform
– Caps on state and local spending
– Preventing cities from regulating what property owners do with trees on private land
– Preventing local governments from changing rules midway through construction projects
– Speeding up local government permitting process
– Municipal annexation reform
– Texting while driving pre-emption
– Privacy
– Prohibition of taxpayer dollars to collect union dues
– Prohibition of taxpayer funding for abortion providers
– Pro-life insurance reform
– Strengthening abortion reporting requirements when health complications arise
– Strengthening patient protections relating to do-not-resuscitate orders
– Cracking down on mail-in ballot fraud
– Extending maternal mortality task force
