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Texas, oversight and Senate Bill

Senate Bill 37 aims to curb faculty influence at Texas colleges and universities

A state senator from Conroe filed an expansive bill on Thursday to enforce stricter oversight of public higher education institutions – including by restructuring faculty senates and curbing their role in curriculum design.

El Paso Times on MSN · 2h

Texas bill would increase oversight of universities’ hiring, curriculum and compliance

Senate Bill 37 would create an office to investigate complaints against universities, ensure courses don’t endorse certain ideologies.

Dallas Morning News on MSN · 19h

Restricting Texas colleges with more oversight is focus of priority bill

Texas colleges and universities could face more oversight — including over who is hired, what is taught and how they are following the law — under a wide-ranging priority bill filed Thursday. The Senate proposal would give governor-appointed boards of regents more power to overturn decisions made by campus leaders and review curriculum.

Texas, House Bill and educators

Austin American-Statesman on M… · 1d

'Transformational': Texas Senate Bill 568 would overhaul special education funding

The bill "will lead to stunningly better outcomes for a number of our 775,000 school children with disabilities," the proposal's author said.

Houston Landing on MSN · 16h

House Republicans’ bill would let educators suspend Texas’ homeless students more often

House Republicans argue educators need more authority to suspend misbehaving students. Critics fear the bill could harm vulnerable children.

KXAN Austin on MSN · 1d

Texas House committee discusses education savings account bill for nearly 21 hours

The Texas House Committee on Public Education adjourned at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday after hearing over 300 testimonies on House Bill 3, establishing an education savings account to subsidize private educat

Texas, FURRIES

Chron on MSN · 8h

Texas politician introduces bill to ban 'non-human behavior' in schools

A new bill introduced in the Texas House of Representatives Thursday by state Rep. Stan Gerdes (R-Smithville)— which would be known as the FURRIES Act— seeks to ban "non-human behavior" in schools, including meowing or hissing,

KHOU 11 · 20h

FURRIES Act filed by Texas lawmakers targets non-human student behavior in schools

The bill aims to ban students from non-human behavior with exceptions for days designated for costumes like Halloween.

KVUE · 20h

Texas House files FURRIES Act to prohibit 'non-human behavior' in schools

Texas House bill aims to ban students from non-human behavior with exceptions for days designated for costumes like Halloween.

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Texas’ hemp producers and sellers say bill would cripple the industry

SB3 would ban the sale of consumable THC products, but cannabis reform advocates worry it would have far-reaching – and ...

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Texas Senate majority unveils bill requiring voters to prove their citizenship

All 20 GOP senators signed on to Senate Bill 16, which would apply to currently registered voters, and restrict some to only ...

House committee members clash over details of proposed Texas school voucher bill

Members of the House Committee on Public Education clashed over the details of a school voucher bill — a topic that for the ...

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Texas Legislature to weigh bill that could expedite evictions, limit tenant protections

As a committee of the Texas Legislature prepares to discuss a bill framed as a solution to squatting, housing advocates and ...

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Texas lawmakers will debate saving state’s water supply after key legislation introduced

The state House and Senate have similar proposals to solve the water crisis, but there are stark differences on how to invest billions of dollars.

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Bill proposed in Texas could charge transgender people with 'gender identity fraud'

A bill proposed in the Texas legislature could charge transgender Texans with a felony if they commit what proponents call ...

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Texas leaders want to crack down on squatters. Their bill would make it easier to evict any renter

Tenant advocates, judges and lawyers have raised the alarm about House Bill 32, calling it a Trojan Horse that would strip ...

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Texas bill would charge transgender people with ‘fraud’

Transgender Texans could be charged with fraud under state legislation filed this month that seeks to make publicly ...

Texas Republican introduces bill to make being transgender a felony

A Republican representative in Texas has introduced a bill that would make being transgender a felony in the state, ...

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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick lays out second round of Texas Senate priorities. Here's the list.

Ten of Patrick's 40 priorities have already passed out of the Senate, including three of the items on the new list released ...

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