The Conservative Reps assess the 84th #TXLEGE

"When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice;
But when a wicked man rules, the people groan."
Proverbs 29:2

Five conservative Reps recapped the session at the NE Tarrant Tea Party last week:



Highlights:

• Klick - Worked on advance directives bill.

• Krause - Floor amendment on judicial bypass.
• Decriminalization commission.

• Tinderholt - Human trafficking amendment on Border Security bill.
• Killed texting while driving ban!!!
• Senate pushed some of his stuff through.

• Rinaldi - Better than previous sessions, but that's not saying much.
• Conservative Senate and Lite Gov was key.
• Modest progress on border.
• Good budget.
• No raid on RDF.
• Modest progress on taxes.
• Decent progress on pro-life.
• Passed watered down campus carry bill.
• Stripped authority from Travis Cty. DA.
• Killed a lot of terrible legislation.

• Stickland - Knocked 48 bills off local and consent.
• "I never thought I would vote for a budget."
• HB 13 -- Joe Pickett killed his own bill to preserve Red-light cameras.
• "We didn't address illegal immigration at all."
• Byron Cook killed pro-life bill, hijacked ethics bill.
• Am. Laws for Am. Courts: "Should have been a slam dunk."
• Constitutional carry never got a hearing.
• "Every single inch we got we fought for tooth and nail."
• House leadership micromanaged process to run out of time.