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I'm not sure if that is public information able to be requested under FOIA. I'm also not an attorney so I don't know how that process looks like. The drafting process is pretty iterative, where you'll send in an idea or sentence that says: "I want Railroad Commission to be in charge of extraterrestrial activities", and then Texas Legislative Council keeps calling you to try to work out verbally what the hell you're on about
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^^ It would be TPIA for those requests which is a generally broader statute. The correspondence between the leg office and TLC can most likely be requested so long as the TLC does not claim to be the attorney of the state where the process is covered by the work product privilege. TropicalCoke posted:Or you can ask in this thread which is full of people who actually do keep an eye on these things. Most Bill's are under 5 pages. And it's legal style double spaced so it's a pretty short read. I will say, the captions for bills are easily confusing or deceiving. I had to review and summarize a 15 page bill today and it was excruciating and took forever.
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Badger of Basra posted:Doesn't TLC also write the actual bills? Like Rep. Dumbshit from Exurbia, TX calls them up and says "I want a bill that bans gay orgies in public schools" and they find the relevant part of the law where that would be put in and write a bill that references appropriate sections etc. Yeah. They work a little closer with staff and members than that but they employ like a million lawyers. Badger of Basra posted:I wonder if you could get the actual text of the request they received. Would those be public records? Dunno Also re: Wendy Davis https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/930173084199464960 God I hope this movie never gets made TropicalCoke posted:Is it every bill? I thought it was bills that get out of committee and back onto the floor. But I'm new to this process. Seriously. The people who actually draft the bills for legislative teams are the only people in the Capitol that do work outside the custodians and handymen. I dunno if it's every bill that gets referred but they definitely have BAs ready to go in committee. SB 10 passed out of Senate HHS today and I just looked and it's got one.
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Sab0921 posted:^^ Did a basic google and it turns out none of it is public! https://tlc.texas.gov/confidentiality TLC will not say what's been requested, who requested it, or what any of the drafts looked like. This whole process feels like cheating. Does Congress have something like this where other people write the laws and they just vote on them?
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Badger of Basra posted:Did a basic google and it turns out none of it is public! https://tlc.texas.gov/confidentiality Yeah the Office of Legislative Council. You think Louie Gohmert has the wherewithal to write even a post office naming bill?
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zoux posted:Yeah. They work a little closer with staff and members than that but they employ like a million lawyers. To add to how excruciatingly bad it looks (the Benghazi movie for libs), wasn't it actually Van de Putte who had the line about being recognized over her male colleagues?
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Ugh yes, that was such a cheap pop. If any woman in the Senate has a claim to not having her voice heard, Leticia Van de Putte ain't her Also VDP now runs a *bipartisan* political consulting firm with former Republican SoS Hope Andrade, if anyone was thinking about sticking up for her. zoux fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Feb 13, 2019 |
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I forgot there was an election tonight and hope that incompetence of the Texas Democratic Party does not lose us a seat in the house. Looks like the R will make the runoff https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1095489576146219013
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Glad there's a fellow nerd following this. Repeat of SD19 incoming?
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TropicalCoke posted:Glad there's a fellow nerd following this. Repeat of SD19 incoming? I hope not - the other specials since SD 19 (SD 6 and HD 145) have had better results. I also think this HD is the most D part of SD 19, they just didn't turn out in enough numbers for Gallego.
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Scott Braddock hears a lot of stuff. He heard that Empower Texas had their press creds revoked unanimously but they didn't. He said that Patrick was going to move the blocker bills to bring up SB2, but he can't do that because they aren't emergency issues. So Scott Braddock is on my grain of salt list. Lol I hadn't even heard about this. Carlos Uresti just got five more years for a bribery charge unrelated to the Four Winds poo poo. He bribed a county judge over a medical contract. This dude is a straight up crook. zoux fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Feb 13, 2019 |
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zoux posted:Also re: Wendy Davis Texas Politics: What? It's a Folksy Expression
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https://twitter.com/emmaplatoff/status/1095836535763685376 The chair of Agriculture and Livestock thinks he's writing the loving property tax relief bill. Also this proposal was included in the Texas School Finance Commission report but was explictly not in the "recommended" section. And that was on services like, legal, accounting and PR, poo poo that rich people use mostly. I remember a Senate Ed meeting last year where Don Huffines proposed expanding sales taxes to pay down property taxes and Larry Taylor was just like "we looked at it and, no". Huberty's gonna be even less receptive, as will Zerwas.
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Beto please we want you to be good again.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/amanbatheja/status/1095860007135035392?s=12 He's running for Pres, how will this overlap? If he doesn't jump in I hope someone handicaps Castro's odds. I dont know when TX Sen. goes purple, maybe 2024 w/ a Davis run?
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drawkcab si eman ym posted:I dont know when TX Sen. goes purple, maybe 2024 w/ a Davis run? Maybe. You’re talking about Jefferson Davis?
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General Dog posted:Maybe. You’re talking about Jefferson Davis? Former TX Gubernatorial candidate Wendy.
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drawkcab si eman ym posted:Former TX Gubernatorial candidate Wendy. I’m pretty sure she’s deceased
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drawkcab si eman ym posted:He's running for Pres Lol
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No Safe Word posted:Honestly, it's not that bad. Most bills are one or two-pagers at most. It gets really weird/hairy when they're replacing large blocks and adding stuff in the middle and ... it can be daunting, but a cursory look at things is pretty quick (I just searched "SB 476" on the state gov site and I assume zoux did too, e: oh yeah the link is right in the post). I don't know, man. My literal full-time job requires me to follow legislation around a specific issue area as part of advocacy, and with 100+ bills coming out a day some days it's really hard to track, and some of them are confusing as hell. You have to train your brain to read some of them and be patient. I've interned at the legislature though, and the process for submitting a draft request felt too easy during the interim. Like, you really could just send a sentence or a news article and expect them to figure it out (didn't do that myself). That said, you would still have a lot of questions, they might not capture what you're going for, and it will take them so much more time to get it back to you. As an advocate during session at this moment though, I pretty much have to show up with a draft of bill language already in hand for an office to even consider my idea. On that note, this Friday is the deadline to get anything submitted to that legislative council, so make your demands now.
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zoux posted:What specific issue is generating 100 bills per day I meant overall bills to filter through. We had 99 bills come out today, 182 yesterday.
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Sardonik posted:If Beto does run again for senate, a lot of people are going to feel pretty silly for having thrown out their signs. I had a baby born in July and we got 4 vote Beto onesies as gifts. What am I going to do when he is 2 for the 2020 election? How can I show the world that my kid will be the subject of future "my toddler asked me..." series of Facebook posts showing that I am actually woke as gently caress and so are my kids.
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https://twitter.com/keribla/status/1096043836785258496 The momentum in both houses right now is for significant reform of the cash bail system in the state, so I doubt this bill has much of a chance. Zedler is the VP of the House Freedom Caucus and a total nutjob. When the Medical Board was in front of Sunset a few years ago he brought in a ton of alt-medicine crackpots to testify it should be abolished. He also looks like if Dracula was a televangelist.
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Sab0921 posted:I had a baby born in July and we got 4 vote Beto onesies as gifts. What am I going to do when he is 2 for the 2020 election? I just hope my grandpa can live to see Texas elect a handsome man to the Senate.
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Mistaken Frisbee posted:I don't know, man. My literal full-time job requires me to follow legislation around a specific issue area as part of advocacy, and with 100+ bills coming out a day some days it's really hard to track, and some of them are confusing as hell. You have to train your brain to read some of them and be patient. Oh yeah, obviously nobody even your reps/senators can follow all bills. But once the #txlege people notify you of the interesting bills, you can inform yourself with not-too-onerous levels of effort by just reading the bills in a lot of cases. drawkcab si eman ym posted:He's running for Pres
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No Safe Word posted:Oh yeah, obviously nobody even your reps/senators can follow all bills. But once the #txlege people notify you of the interesting bills, you can inform yourself with not-too-onerous levels of effort by just reading the bills in a lot of cases. https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/5045/Will-Beto-O%27Rourke-file-to-run-for-president-by-10-31-19 Currently at 68% Yes B.O.R files to run for the Presidency.
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