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Austin, TX – The Texas Senate passes Senate Bill 1616 in a Bipartisan vote of 19-11, authored by Senator Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston), to make substantial changes to decriminalize violations of local pandemic orders and replaces them with civil penalties. In addition, …

Austin, TX - Senator Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston) has passed SB 1879 unanimously to increase transparency on lobbying that is funded using taxpayer money. Currently, political subdivisions are not required to report expenditures paid to hire lobbyists or contributions of dues to …

Houston, TX – Senator Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston), Chair of the Local Government Committee, along with 9 joint-authors, including Senator Brian Birdwell (R-Granbury), Donna Campbell (R-New Braunfels), Brandon Creighton (R-Conroe), Bob Hall (R-Edgewood), Kelly Hancock (R-North Richland Hills), Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola), Angela …

Dear Editor Riley, Another shrill editorial about voting integrity by the Chronicle Editorial Board which ignores the facts and avoids a public policy debate based on merits. Instead the Editorial Board "labels" rather than "explains", and portrays any "Republican" rational …

Houston, TX – Senator Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston), Chair of the Local Government Committee, along with 9 joint- authors, including Senator Birdwell, Campbell, Creighton, Hall, Hancock, Hughes, Paxton, Perry, and Springer file Senate Bill 10, to stop the practice of taxpayer funded …

Austin, Texas – Senator Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston), passed two major voter integrity bills, SB 1111 to stop the use of private P.O box as a registration address and SB 1589 to create educated DPS Election Marshalls for election disputes. These bills …

Austin, Texas - Senator Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston) passed SB1449 unanimously, a refile from pervious session, to the House to bring property tax relief to small businesses around the state, an important piece of the Texas Economy. This bill increases the exemption …

Austin, Texas – Senator Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston), along with 6 co/joint-authors, Senators Brian Birdwell (R- Granbury), Senator Brandon Creighton (R-Conroe), Senator Lois Kolkhorst (R-Brenham), Senator Bob Hall (R-Rockwall), Senator Larry Taylor (R-Friendswood) and Senator Charles Schwertner (R-Georgetown), have signed onto some …

Austin, TX – Senator Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston) & joint author Senator Jose Menendez (D- San Antonio) filed SJR 68 that would let the people vote on the elimination of Daylight-Saving Time. If the voters approve, this will group Texas in with …

AUSTIN – Senator Paul Bettencourt (R-Houston) and Chairman Harold Dutton (D-Houston) file The Charter School Equity Act, which levels the playing field for successful public charter schools that are prepared to meet the needs of more Texas families. This bipartisan …