The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Report says a deal has been struck on the now $8.5 billion increase in funds for Texas public schools between the House and Senate.

On the get-high THC front, where Rep. Ken King and other House members are working hard to keep THC-infused drinks and edibles for sale in Texas (shameful!,) the bill was postponed again yesterday and the House adjourned without hearing it. You really should read:

• Fight heats up over hemp-based THC on eve of House vote as Lt. Gov. Patrick weighs in
• Veterans, Parents, Liquor, and Beer: The Complicated Lobby Fight Over Texas’ Proposed THC Ban

Other items covered from the Legislature include:

• Rep. Ken King is still blocking the Texas Women's Privacy Act - call his office at 512-463-0736 and ask for a hearing of SB 240.
• Effort To Remove the Marvin Nichols Reservoir Project From State Water Plan Dies in House
• Texas passes bill to protect utility workers from assault

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Number of 'Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn' Grows to 58; Big Sandy passes full ordinance.

As promised, this link: Northside ISD sued over teacher's alleged 'Go back to Africa' comment.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas House passes property tax relief package and we’re lucky they went mostly with the Senate’s version. Bail reform passes the House finally but not until Democrats significantly watered it down.

And today is set to be the big “Rope, not Dope” vote on THC and hemp. See these two stories to get an idea of what a mess Rep. Ken King has the House in:

• Fight heats up over hemp-based THC on eve of House vote as Lt. Gov. Patrick weighs in
• Veterans, Parents, Liquor, and Beer: The Complicated Lobby Fight Over Texas’ Proposed THC Ban

Other items from the 89th Legislature mentioned:

• Texas State Fair Legislation Protecting 2A Rights on Public Property Advances from House Committee – contact members of the Calendars Committee immediately and demand it be set for a vote on the House floor.
• Special Interests Pressuring Abbott to Veto Real Housing Reform: Why HB 21 Deserves to Become Law – correct
• Schools could only use B.C./A.D. date system under Texas bill – important and needs to pass.
• House bill orders Reese Technology Center to strengthen partnership with Texas Tech

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Double Anti-Wimp Update:

• Armed robbery fails due to armed victim
• One home invader killed, another arrested

Harris County DA dismisses charges against prominent Republican donor Dr. Steven Hotze previously charged by Kim Ogg

Hackers give Abilene, TX one week to pay ransom after cyber attack.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Lubbock native, Brownfield born, man to be the new chief of the George W. Bush Presidential Library as well as the overall Bush Center. Shilo Brooks was announced today as the new president and CEO of the Bush Center. The Lubbock High School graduate’s mother, Bettina, still lives in Lubbock.

“[His parents] named him Shilo, after a character in a novel by their favorite Western author, Louis L’Amour.
He narrowly escaped his father’s choice of Bocephus — Hank Williams Jr.’s nickname. “I’m the luckiest man in the world for not being named that,” Brooks said with a laugh.“

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Attorney General investigation finds insurance company did nothing illegal in compiling information on lawmakers and others but, legislators sailed through a bill to protect themselves from “spying” If anyone needs watching, it is elected officials!

Taiwanese silicon wafer-maker GlobalWafers opens $3.5 billion factory in Sherman.

Supreme Court lets Trump end Venezuelan migrants’ protected status for now. Plus much other border news including:

• Tom Homan: Biden-Released, Sex-Trafficked 14-Year-Old Migrant Child Rescued in Texas
• ICE: Guatemalan Illegal Alien Faked Family Photo to Sponsor 2 Unaccompanied Teens
• Three U.S. State Department Advisors Gunned Down at Taco Stand in Mexico
• U.S. DOJ Slaps Terrorism Charges on Woman Accused of Getting Grenades for Jalisco Cartel

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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.

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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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Our Lone Star story of the day: Today is the first kill-the-bills-day in the Texas House. I comment on the following:

• Governor Abbott Signs Pro-Growth Business Legislation Into Law
• House Speaker Agrees to Senate’s $8B School Funding Bill
• Texas bill passes to address ‘sexual abuse crisis’ in public schools, more
• Ban on loudspeakers, masks at campus protests passes Senate
• Bill imposing caps on out-of-state campaign contributions passes Texas House
• House bill on lawsuits shelved after critics label it harmful to free speech – great news, the anti-SLAPP protection bill gets slapped down
• Junk science law changes pass Texas House – bad bill, lowers the standard so low that half the prison population could conceivably qualify; and at your expense.
• Texas House Passes Two Landmark Measures for Parental Rights
• Transactional Gold Legislation Moves Forward in Senate, Faces Pushback From Banking Lobbyist

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Attorney General Ken Paxton Reaches Agreement Requiring Travis County to Abide by the Texas Open Meetings Act and Other Government Transparency Laws

Mexico pays some water owed to U.S., a very small amount, before the October deadline.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Once again the Texas House and its Speaker appointed committee chairman are killing important legislation – with the clock. Why do they not have the integrity, or guts, to just admit they oppose certain bills? Well, because they have neither integrity or guts.

But even with the sad reality of the same old bill killing going on, and much of it from Rep. Ken King, many good bills are making it through.

Items from the 89th Legislature mentioned:

• Prohibition on Local Taxpayer-Funded Gun ‘Buybacks’ Passes House
• TSRA calls for action today to support to important gun bills: SB 1362 and SB 1065.
• House Committee Kills Anti-ESG Effort in Late Vote
• Texas Values, National Groups Call for Texas House to Pass Texas Women’s Privacy Act on ‘Women’s Privacy Day of Action’
• Bill to protect parents against child abuse charges for refusing to go along with perversions of homosexuality and “trans” behavior passes House.
• House Passes Bipartisan Reform to Affordable Housing Tax Exemption Program
• House Transportation committee votes bill out that takes $25 million per year from Harris Co., gives it to City of Houston
• House panel debates proposal to penalize local governments any time a complaint is made that state law is being circumvented
• Details Emerge on Senate Remix of School Funding Bill

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San Antonio mother accused of aiding in son’s threats against local school.

Five Texas cities make national cheapests cities in which to retire list. Amarillo, Brownsville, El Paso, Corpus Christi, and Lubbock.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Illegal use of foreign drivers is killing small Texas trucking companies, others are using the drivers illegal to underpay for labor, and we’ve had two decades of national emergency on the border importing 10 to 20 million illegal aliens into the country. Yet with all of that, Dumb, Deaf, and Blind – Drew Darby, Stan Lambert, and Ken King – voted for a Democrat’s bill that has the State of Texas creating a guest worker program if the feds give permission. See: Texas House Rejects Mexican Guest Worker Program; 9 Republicans joined Democrats in an attempt to create the guest worker program.

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Items from the 89th Legislature mentioned:

• Detransition Coverage Bill Clears Texas House, Heads to Governor’s Desk
• Texas moves to restrict protests on college campuses
• Texas bill could eliminate Dallas’ equity and inclusion office
• 1st Major Voter Integrity Bill Clears Legislature
• House OKs bill to expand medical marijuana provisions
• Texas Lottery critic is now providing the embattled agency a lifeline
• Senators Approve Measure Strengthening Right to Self-Defense
• What Do Bar Signs Have to Do with Gun Safety?
• House votes to scrap STAAR exam in favor of shorter tests

U.S. Inflation Stays Cooler Than Expected, Prices Up 2.3%, Smallest Annual Increase Since February 2021. Oh, and: It Turns Out That Even More of Joe Biden’s Jobs Creation Numbers Were Fake.

Qatari 747 jumbo-jet Trump wants as Air Force One is in San Antonio.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A Texas Supreme Court ruling last week is important in reminding local governments that the Legislature is in control of what they can and cannot do. It is also an important private property rights ruling: Texas Supreme Court Overturns Rulings in College Station Extra Territorial Jurisdiction Case.

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From the 89th Texas Legislature:

• Will $2.5B in new film incentives make Texas a conservative Hollywood?
• Texas allows certain children to get married. Lawmakers may close that loophole. – Dems are leading this and it is an almost complete contradiction of most all their positions on teenagers on other issues – the non-contradiction is their long held dislike of the nuclear family.
• Restrictions on minors’ access to sexually explicit library books advances in Texas House.
• Texas House OKs excluding trans people from state records – the headline and parts of the story are blatant lies.
• Texas legislature passes bill addressing concrete batch plant regulation.
• Texas legislators target zoo trespassing with new bills – waste of time.

Senate Leaderhip Fund poll shows Cornyn getting creamed by Paxton – as all other polls has shown. And, a far-Left union Democrat says he is running in TX19 to ultimately challenge Rep. Jody Arrington.

Secretary Rollins Suspends Live Animal Imports Through Ports of Entry Along Southern Border, Effective Immediately. Sheinbaum calls US halt on Mexican cattle imports unfair.

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