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Every legislative session, the Texas Legislature considers a variety of topics. Over the next few months, I will break down the 87th Legislative Session into segments and provide a summary of each segment so you may get a better understanding of what we accomplished.
Read moreGovernor Greg Abbott today informed the U.S. Department of Labor that Texas will opt out of further federal unemployment compensation related to the COVID-19 pandemic, effective June 26, 2021. This includes the $300 weekly unemployment supplement from the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program.
Read moreAre you constantly on your phone? Do you bury your face in your Facebook feed? Do you find yourself all atwitter for Twitter? Do you constantly talk about TikTok? Personally, I’m tempted to spend every instant on Instagram. The studies and statistics I found are all over the place, but the average smartphone user spends over two hours per day using social media.
Read moreCongratulations once again on bringing home multiple TPA awards! It’s great to see our local paper and chamber member doing GREAT things!! Keep up the awesome work!
Read moreIt’s no secret people under a certain age (I’m going to put it as high as 50) throw around the word “like” as if they lived in mid-1980’s Beverly Hills. “Like” gets used as much as the word “the,” functioning as the filler word of many non-Californians’ daily lingo.
Read moreAUSTIN - Governor Greg Abbott today signed Senate Bills 2 and 3 into law to reform the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ER- COT) and weatherize and improve the reliability of the state’s power grid. Governor Abbott made ERCOT reform and weatherization of the power system emergency items this past session. The Governor was joined for the bill signing by Representative Chris Paddie and Senators Kelly Hancock and Charles Schwertner.
Read moreThe number of new COV- ID-19 cases in Texas continues to drop, with 9,534 reported as of Sunday for the previous week — a small fraction of mid- January’s record high of nearly 159,000.
Read moreAUSTIN - The COVID-19 pandemic brought to light various opportunities to improve the State’s preparedness to address a public health disaster. As Chair of the Senate Committee on Health & Human Services Committee, Senator Lois W. Kolkhorst (R-Brenham) authored and passed SB 968 to ensure that Texas is better prepared for a future pandemic. Thanks to the overwhelming bipartisan support SB 968 received in the Texas Legislature, the legislation took effect immediately following the Governor’s signature today.
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