Michael Minasi | Kut News
Monday scored the last day For Texas House’s bills to go from the committee to obtain a vote on the room of the Chamber. These invoices that have not done so are now effectively dead.
Cal Jillson, professor of political science at the Southern Methodist University, said that it is much more likely that a bill would die in the Texas Legislative Assembly than to become right.
“The fundamental fact is that around 7,000 bills are presented at each legislative session in Texas. Only around 1,200 of them will really adopt and be signed by the governor,” said Jillson. “So this means that some 5,800 tickets will fall on the edge of the way at a given time in the legislative process.”
A bill of the chamber which failed to leave the committee, HB 5177would have The surplus funds transferred from the Harris County Toll Road Authority (HCTRA) to the city of Houston. Political consultant Bill Miller said that the city of Houston had pushed hard for this legislation, with the aim of obtaining $ 80 million in HCTRA funds each year to cover various budgetary gaps.
“There was a strong decline in the Harris County Lobby group,” said Miller.
HB 5177 did not obtain a vote from the House’s transport committee by the end of the day on Monday.
“There was a Senate bill that came (SB 2722), but it was referred to a sub-comity … and this bill is also dead,” said Miller. “The HCTRA bill is dead, and the members of the Legislative Assembly have chosen to say, not passing the bill, negotiating – the affairs of the county and the city, negotiate between you. Do not bring it back to Austin to settle your differences.”
SB 2722, however, left the committee Tuesday evening. The Chamber’s calendar committee has until Saturday May 25 to declare the Senate bills for a floor vote by the full room.
This highlights one point: no bill is really dead until the end of the legislative session. Bills that died on a committee can still be rekindled as changes to invoices that go to the ground. But Jillson noted that the room was also missing time for this option.
“Resurrection is possible, but increasingly difficult as the session,” said Jillson. “Usually, a bill that does not receive consideration is not drawn by the chairman of the committee and the president of Texas House … and unless they are interested, it will be very difficult to resuscitate a bill.”
Note: This story was revised following the passage of SB 2722 on Tuesday, May 13.