The League has been active throughout the 89th Texas Legislative Session, researching and analyzing bills that relate to our adopted positions on several issues. Our own Lauren Bick chaired Child Welfare Issues at the state level and connected with legislators to communicate those positions, providing testimony on a number of bills. In this article, she notes that, with the help of hundreds of LWV members’ and supporters’ emails to Senate and House committee members, several bills we believe will benefit children and their families passed. If you were one of the hundreds, in some cases thousands, who responded to the League’s Action Alerts, Thank You!
Several bills, which promised help for vulnerable kids, did not pass. We hope to revisit these in the 90th session in 2027. Bills for which we raised concerns passed to the Governor and one bill with uncertain potential will be on the November ballot as a Constitutional Amendment. All these are explained in the full article.