The public comment submission period for proposed science standards is now open and will close on April 18. Texas science advocates can weigh-in with the State Board of Education by following the instructions below. How-To Guide: Click here to send an email to [email protected]. The subject of your email should be: “Proposed Amendments to 19 […]
Recent Actions
#StopSB6: Tuesday’s Public Hearing on the Anti-Transgender Discrimination Bill in the Texas Senate
The avalanche of anti-LGBT discrimination bills has begun to move in the Texas Legislature. The Senate State Affairs Committee has set a hearing at 8 a.m., Tuesday, March 7, for Senate Bill 6, a bill that specifically targets transgender Texans for discrimination. Here’s everything you need to know to prepare for the hearing. For SB6 […]
TAKE ACTION: Keep Discrimination Out of Child Protective Services
On Wednesday, the Texas House is debating bills — HB 4 and HB 5 — seeking to overhaul the state’s Child Protective Services. We understand there may be an effort to amend the bills to allow child welfare providers contracting with the state to use their religious beliefs to discriminate against LGBT families wishing to […]
URGENT: Tell Anti-Abortion Politicians to Stop Attacking Reproductive Rights
State lawmakers are advancing three anti-abortion bills pending at the Texas Legislature. According to medical experts, these bills do nothing to make women safer, and if passed, would actually harm Texas women. We need you to call senators on the committee that is hearing these three bills on Wednesday, and tell them you oppose SB […]
Join us on March 2
March 2 will be a historic day in the fight to ensure that Texans have full access to abortion care as protected by Roe v. Wade in 1973. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, the challenge to an extreme anti-abortion law in Texas, 2013’s House Bill 2, that […]
