As we reach the halfway point in the 82nd Texas Legislature, the pace is picking up. This week, ACT has recommendations about five bills scheduled to be heard in committee meetings. ACT supports SB 449 (Watson | Estes) in Senate Finance, SB 1125 (Carona) in Senate Business & Commerce, HB 821 (Farrar) and HB 1966 [...]
Continue Reading →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 [...]
Continue Reading →Great news! Two of ACT’s high priority bills have received favorable votes today. HB 821 – Rep Leibowitz’s television producer takeback recycling bill – has been passed by the Senate! This legislation comes at a crucial time for television recycling; with the digital switch on June 12, thousands of Texans are expected to replace their [...]
Continue Reading →2011 ACT Legislative Agenda
ACT's 2011 Legislative Agenda is now available online. In 2011, ACT calls on the Texas Legislature to safeguard our health and our environment by adopting key recommendations in air, clean energy, land, waste & recycling, water and reform of our state government.
