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How did the 81st Session go?  After all the planning, meetings, hearings, email, office visits, phone calls, amendments, amendments to the amendment, how did things go for the ACT agenda this session? The bottomline: we didn’t make the kind of progress on clean energy and clean air issues we had hoped to make. ACT bills [...]

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Thirteen Days – May 19

On May 19, 2009 By Lize Burr

With the deadline for House bills to pass third reading last Friday at midnight, the 81st Session entered its final phase. The good news is that seven of ACT’s high priority bills have made it to the last two weeks of the session. Here’s a run-down of the bills’ current status: SB 545 Fraser Passed [...]

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Yesterday, HB 1553 passed out of the House Committee on Environmental Regulation. Rep. Burnam’s bill calls for the development of a climate adaptation plan by state agencies whose services and programs will be affected by changes in the Texas climate that are projected to occur. One thing to note: the vote to pass this bill [...]

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