With less than two weeks left in the legislative session, the Texas House has started moving on some of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick's more controversial priorities in the Senate, such as proposals targeting drag shows and college professor tenure.
But the lower chamber is putting its own tweaks on the bills, watering them down in some cases and leaving it unclear whether the powerful Patrick will go along — if the bills even make it out of the House. The situation is adding even more uncertainty to the home stretch of a regular session that has already been fraught with threats of overtime lawmaking.
The biggest example flared up over the weekend, when the House debuted its latest rewrite of the Senate’s priority bill on school choice — and Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to veto it. Patrick agreed with Abbott, who said the House’s latest stab at Senate Bill 8 “does little to provide meaningful school choice.”
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