Weekly Roundup - April 28, 2023

Get a FREE “Fake News Stops Here” mug when you buy an annual subscription to The Texan: https://go.thetexan.news/mug-fake-news-stops-here-2022/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=weekly_roundup The Texan’s Weekly Roundup brings you the latest news in Texas politics, breaking down the top stories of the week with our team of reporters who give you the facts so you can form your own opinion. Enjoy what you hear? Be sure to subscribe and leave a review! Got questions for the reporting team? Email [email protected] — they just might be answered on a future podcast. This week on The Texan’s Weekly Roundup, the team discusses: The beginning of early voting in the May elections for local officials and bondsThe $26.6 billion in local bonds on the May ballot, over 90 percent of which are from school districtsThe U.S. Supreme Court temporarily allowing an abortion drug to remain on the market amid its legal caseA House committee considering eliminating franchise and business personal property taxesBorder numbers from March as Title 42 is still in effectThe Senate creating a new Office of School Safety and Security in response to school shootingsThe House passing a bill to to require armed guards on school campusesThe House formalizing the legislative redistricting maps drawn in 2021The Senate sending the House its plan for reforming the state’s ERCOT energy market in the wake of the 2021 blackoutsThe Senate passing priority legislation to end professor tenure at public universitiesA bill to increase online protections for children regarding content and user agreementsFree speech advocates accusing certain legal reforms of weakening free speech protectionsThe Senate passing a bill to make doctors who provide gender modification treatment liable for the lifetime health of their patients