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 →With only ten days left in the session, things are beginning to feel a little tight. The good news is that SB16 – Sen Averitt’s omnibus clean air and energy efficiency bill – has been put on the House Major State Calendar for tomorrow, May 23. (That’s right – Saturday. The House is expected to [...]
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.
