FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 21, 2017 The Texas Senate tonight gave preliminary approval, 21-10, on second reading to HB3859, which would allow child welfare services providers that contract with the state to use religion to discriminate against qualified parents and children. Final passage on third reading is required. The House has already passed this bill. […]
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TFN President on House Passage of ‘Bathroom’ Amendment: There Is No Moral Middle Ground on Discrimination
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 21, 2017 The Texas House this evening amended (and then passed on second reading) SB2078, a bill that had been focused on school emergency and safety plans, to include a measure that would open the door to stigmatizing and shaming transgender students seeking access to public restrooms all other students use. […]
TFN Statement on Texas House’s Preliminary Approval of SB8: Putting Lies Ahead of Women’s Access to Reproductive Health Care
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 19, 2017 The Texas House just voted to approve on second reading SB8, which creates even more regulations designed to unnecessarily burden abortion providers and make women’s access to abortion even harder in Texas. The House must still pass the bill on third reading. Texas Freedom Network President Kathy Miller has […]
TFN Statement on Senate Passage of HB1291: Making the Textbook Wars Worse
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 19, 2017 The Texas Senate voted today to approve HB1291, which the Senate Education Committee revised to allow the State Board of Education by bypass legislative safeguards against textbook censorship. The House must now either approve the revised bill or send it to a conference committee. The Senate version of HB1291 […]
Texas GOPer, Hate Group Leader Prays for God to Destroy Lawmakers Who Support LGBT Equality, Women’s Reproductive Rights
Steven Hotze, the head of Conservative Republicans of Texas (which the Southern Poverty Law Center last year added to its list of hate groups), is asking supporters to pray for God to destroy lawmakers who support LGBT equality and women’s reproductive rights: […]
