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After years of little progress, Texas gun control and safety advocates see some small openings for dialogue at the Capitol

Many bills that would limit access to firearms or ammunition likely won’t become law anytime soon. But people who advocate at the Texas Capitol see emerging signs that there’s appetite for finding some middle ground.

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Senate passes critical race theory ban at Texas’ public universities

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Senate gave initial approval Tuesday to a bill that aims to ban teaching critical race theory from classrooms and lessons on public college campuses.

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Texas Senate passes expanded bills to restrict drag, sexual conduct in front of minors

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Senate on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to two bills that would restrict, and at times criminalize, drag shows and anything else deemed a “sexually oriented performance.”

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Texas Senate votes to defund libraries where drag queens read to kids as it tries to limit the performances kids can attend

The Senate expanded the bill targeting drag queen story hours to target all public funding for libraries. The upper chamber also approved a bill limiting other drag performances kids can see.

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Texan young adults can now get licensed to carry handguns at college campuses, businesses

AUSTIN, Texas — A new kind of student is showing up in handgun instructor Michael Cargill’s classroom: teenagers.

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Greg Abbott’s ‘State of the State’ Was a Weird, Alarming Infomercial

“I’m speaking to you from the manufacturing floor of Noveon,” announced Texas’ fearless leader to a limited audience before laying out yet another right-wing agenda.

Texas Observer

Uvalde’s state lawmakers face an uphill battle raising the age limit for semi-automatic guns. They’re trying anyway.

Many relatives of Uvalde victims back bills that state Rep. Tracy King and Sen. Roland Gutierrez are pushing in the Legislature. But limits on gun access don’t fare well at the Capitol.

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After botched response to Uvalde massacre, Texas senator wants better mass shooting training for public safety entities

State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, D-San Antonio, wants to prevent communication breakdowns like the ones that occurred in the botched response to the Uvalde school shooting.

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Ted Cruz, who’s running for a third term, again files bill to limit U.S. senators to two terms

Cruz announced in November that he is seeking a third term in the Senate in 2024.

The Texas Tribune

After fumbled Uvalde shooting response, Texas senator wants to make it easier to sue law enforcement officers

State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, a San Antonio Democrat, introduced a package of legislation that includes a bill that would end qualified immunity, which shields government officials from liability for constitutional violations.

The Texas Tribune

Texas Legislature will take up redistricting political boundaries for state offices again

AUSTIN, Texas — Legislators will take up redistricting this session, opening up the possibility for Republicans to further redraw districts in their favor.

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Texas Senate votes to take up redistricting again

The redistricting process this year is mostly procedural and is not expected to produce very different results from the most recent process completed in 2021.

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Farmers face a higher risk of suicide. The Texas Agriculture Department wants $500,000 a year to change that.

The department’s helpline is less than a year old. But advocates hope state lawmakers fully fund it as farmers and ranchers continue to face hard economic times and isolation.

The Texas Tribune

Texas House Democrats enter session with bipartisan hopes — and a new leader who’s prepared to fight

There are 64 Democrats in the 150-member House, one fewer than before the election. There is also one fewer Democrat in the Senate.

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Texas state senator blasts Uvalde police response in congressional hearing: “It was cowardice”

Roland Gutierrez made the remarks during a hearing of the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security that was focused on bipartisan legislative solutions to gun violence.

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What Greg Abbott’s decisive win over Beto O’Rourke portends for his future

After defeating O’Rourke — Texas’ most promising Democrat in recent history — Abbott begins his third term in a strong position, with a rising national profile and a governing mandate in the eyes of fellow Republicans.

The Independent UK

The murders of 21 children and teachers in Uvalde weren’t enough to bring down Greg Abbott

On the Texas ballot were the lives of the 19 young students and two heroic teachers killed during the 24 May mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, writes Rachel Sharp

Texas Observer

Roland Gutierrez Won’t Let Greg Abbott Forget Uvalde

While he's not a "singular-issue" politician, "for these parents … there’s no issue out there that matters if you don’t have your kid.”

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Uvalde’s state senator proposes lawmakers create a $300 million fund for victims’ families

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez is urging the Legislature to create a $300 million victims compensation fund for families of Robb Elementary School students and teachers killed and wounded in the May 24 massacre.

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Texas state police fire first officer involved in Uvalde shooting response

The Texas Department of Public Safety fired an officer Friday who was at the scene of the Uvalde school massacre in May

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Texas state police fire first officer over Uvalde school massacre response

The officer becomes the first member of the state police force to lose their job in the fallout over the hesitant response to the May school attack that killed 19 children and two teachers.

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Texas state police fire 1st officer over Uvalde response

The Texas Department of Public Safety fired an officer Friday who was at the scene of the Uvalde school massacre in May

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Uvalde school district suspends its entire Police Department; superintendent to retire

DALLAS — The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District announced Friday that it is suspending all activities of its Police Department, a move that comes a day after the district fired an officer who — then working as a state trooper — had been one of the first Department of Public…

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Uvalde school district suspends its entire Police Department

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After Uvalde CISD hires former trooper, lawmaker and parents call for DPS chief to resign

The Texas state senator who represents Uvalde, alongside the parents of the children killed in the state’s deadliest school shooting, are calling on the Texas Department of Public Safety’s director to resign following reports a former trooper who responded to the massacre was hired as a school district police officer.

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