Both houses in the Texas Legislature got back to work yesterday in the third special session this year.
The Senate, which already passed a school choice bill, also passed an expansion to the state ban on COVID vaccine mandates. The vote was along party lines, and expands the ban on mandates to private employers. That bill now goes to the House, which also now has the school voucher proposal.
The Governor rallied with parents at the Capitol yesterday, putting pressure on the Dade Phelan led House to pass that bill.
Elsewhere, State Attorney General Ken Paxton is calling for a criminal investigation of House impeachment managers, whom he says violated state law by making his personal information public.
In an interview with the Texas Scorecard, Paxton said:
" So it’s remarkable, these guys lost. They they ran a sham impeachment process, which was done secretly with the purpose of basically forcing me out without letting the public know what their actual charges were or who their witnesses work. And then after having to go through the process, because they thought I would quit, they had to actually present their evidence. And we all saw what happened there. And, and they’re they’re just really bad losers, and they’re continuing to attack me. So they decided to kind of release all this information, which serves no purpose, part of which was in personal information. I address my phone number. And just by the way, I get death threats on a regular basis. And so it concerns me that they released that information. And then their lawyer, Rusty Hardin, then it’s been threatens me with criminal action because I asked for an investigation. That’s all I ask for ask them to investigate whether the state law that they almost all voted for just in the last legislative session. I truly believe they should be held accountable just like any other citizen, and that they’ll just walk away. And it doesn’t apply to us."