The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: House leadership engineers a bill massacre, including many conservative priority bills, by running out the clock at midnight this morning. First legislative deadline of Texas session slashes 80% of bills in House. Texas House deadline leaves hundreds of bills as casualties.

But, of course, the Burrows BurrowCrat leadership team found time to spend passing this law that has nothing but symbolic affect: Bill Decriminalizing Homosexual Conduct Passes Texas House.

Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.

Texas Senate Committee Passes New Version of Public School Funding, Teacher Pay Raise Bill. Winners and losers in the Texas Legislature’s school funding plan.

Other items from the 89th Legislature:

• Lawmakers want penalties for local governments’ campaign finance posting failures
• House bill requiring air conditioning in Texas prisons OK’d
• Senate advances ‘Trey’s Law’ to ban NDAs in sex abuse settlements

Texas Labor Market Achieves Five Consecutive Months of Record High Jobs with More Than 37,000 Added in April – click for local unemployment rates.

Baker Hughes’ North America Rig Count Report – Texas loses the two gained last week.

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