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Austin's tax and spend policies are pricing families of school-age children out of the city.

Austin ISD tries to stabilize student enrollment As Austin’s population grows at a rapid rate, the Austin Independent School District isn’t keeping pace with its student enrollment.

Answering the important questions at Texas Monthly.

The Texanist: Why Do Texans Call a Pig in a Blanket a Kolache? A Lone Star State native living in Chicago insists that only small pastry squares filled with cooked fruit deserve that name.

Happy Independence Day, Y’all!

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." — Declaration of Independence

We have updated our House Floor Report to reflect today's supplemental calendar in its full 377 bill glory. To members of the ... ;-)

Floor Report for 2021-05-13 | Texas Action Texas Public Policy Action is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, principle-based organization founded on the idea that government should pursue policies that enhance liberty.

Congratulations to the Texas Senate on passing Constitutional Carry. We encourage the House to accept the bill as amended and send it to the Governor to be signed into law.

Texas Senate Approves Amended House Constitutional Carry Bill Now one step closer to becoming law, the Texas Senate approved a constitutional carry bill to allow the carry of handguns in public without a License to Carry.

Due to a glitch with Constant Contact our Floor Report email for tomorrow's House calendar is delayed. In the meantime, it is published to our website at the attached link.

Floor Report for 2021-04-27 | Texas Action Texas Public Policy Action is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, principle-based organization founded on the idea that government should pursue policies that enhance liberty.

SB 1761 on tomorrow's Senate Intent calendar would remove a provision in Election Code allowing certain required political contribution and expenditure reports to be filed by telegram.

"We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: none is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope! Rally to the standard, and be no longer the scoff of mercenary tongues! Be men, be free men, that your children may bless their father's name." -General Sam Houston before the Battle of San Jacinto

Texas House of Representatives To Consider Constitutional Carry:

HB 1927 is an excellent bill which would enact "constitutional carry" in Texas. This would allow anyone who is not legally prohibited from carrying a handgun to do so without first needing to obtain a license from the state. Requiring a license to carry is an infringement on the constitutional rights of Texans. Abolishing this impediment to the free exercise of rights protected by the Second Amendment would be a great victory for liberty in Texas. We support HB 1927.

HB 1927, session 87(R) - 2021 | Texas Action Relating to provisions governing the carrying of a firearm by a person who is 21 years of age or older and not otherwise prohibited by state or federal law from possessing the firearm and to other provisions related to the carrying, possessing, transporting, or storing of a firearm or other weapon;....

Dear , please don’t let Iowa out Liberty us.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signs law allowing permitless handgun carry, purchase The Iowa law allows people to purchase or carry concealed handguns without first obtaining a permit. The permit system remains, but is now optional.

More choice in education is a good thing for Liberty!

In a Rebuke to Teachers Unions, School Choice Is Going Gangbusters in the States School districts are slowly beginning to reopen in-person instruction after being closed for nearly a year—or, in many places, for over a year. While this is a wonderful development, it will never erase what parents experienced last year: uncertainty, inconsistency, and, in some cases, ineptitude ...

Dear , our state is increasingly being left in the dust on this issue. Please catch us up!

Legislators Override Kentucky Governor's Veto of School Choice Bill Kentucky is now the 28th state with some form of school choice.