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87th Legislature Statistics

The following bill statistics were calculated on June 15 at 9:10 a.m.
House Bills (HBs) & Senate Bills (SBs)
Filed 6,927
Sent to the Governor 1,073
Signed by the Governor 589
Filed without the Governor's signature 34
Vetoed by the Governor 1
House Joint Resolutions (HJRs) & Senate Joint Resolutions (SJRs)
Filed 221
Filed with the Secretary of State 8
House Concurrent Resolutions (HCRs) & Senate Concurrent Resolutions (SCRs)
Filed 179
Filed with the Secretary of State 14
Sent to the Governor 86
Signed by the Governor 64
Vetoed by the Governor 0

https://lrl.texas.gov/whatsNew/client/i ... ie-June-15

Dunno. The Governor's website lists all the bills he has so far filed without signature, all the bills he has vetoed (just one, so far), and all the bills he has signed. HB1927 is not on any of those lists, so I assume it is still in the in-basket awaiting signature and a ceremony.

The Governor has 20 days after the end of the legislative session to veto or sign any bill that was passed in the last 10 days of the session (not counting Sundays during the session). So as I think already mentioned above in the thread, Gov Abbott has until the end of the day on Sunday, 20 June 2021, to act on HB 1927. And hold a signing event, which I suspect is invitation-only and the press will get a notice about it just in time to show up.

GOA's summary of bill: https://texas.gunowners.org/hb-1927-fin ... es-it-say/

The Activities for HB 1927 say the Senate has adopted the conference committee report and a record vote was held. It doesn't give the numbers of yeas and nays, but it looks like the same version of 1927 has been passed by both chambers.
https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/Hi ... 7#vote1105

Flightmare wrote: ↑Mon May 24, 2021 9:42 am Senate starts listening to bills on the floor at 10am today.
HB 1927 is on the notice for intent.

https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/c ... 210524.htm

I'll keep checking back to see when they start talking about it on the floor.

I don't see it on any calendar for today? The link goes to the status of bills referred to conference, but I don't see 1927 on either the Intent nor the Regular Order of Business calendar.

Lt Gov Patrick's announcement:

https://www.ltgov.texas.gov/2021/05/21/ ... agreement/

Woohoo!

I still don't know why Republicans have to take slam dunks and turn them into highwire acts, but there you go.

AF-Odin wrote: ↑Fri May 07, 2021 11:36 am ... I believe if it goes to a conference committee, it will die.

If it doesn't go to a conference committee it will die. The House and the Senate voted on different versions, so it has to be reconciled in committee (and then voted on again) or it's dead.

Papa_Tiger wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 4:11 pm ...

Long and short:
House concurs with Senate changes, on to the governor.
House doesn't concur, conference committee hashes out differences. BOTH chambers must approve conference committee changes for it to go on to the governor, if not bill is dead.

Aw, I couldn't find that in a hurry, thanks for the link. Hopefully the RINOs will still vote for whatever comes out and they can still hide behind the committee.

Rafe wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 10:54 am
...

... Schwertner describes himself as a physician, family man, business owner, and a life-long conservative. Admittedly his amendments weren't off-the-wall goofy like some of the failed Dems' offerings, but I can't say that "life-long conservative" would be the first thing that comes to mind with all of the seven amendments he pushed and got adopted.

I do not know Schwertner, didn't know his name before this bill, and I'm not happy with the amendments, but let me offer a possible mitigating circumstance for his actions:

Keep in mind this post from above and take note of the parts I underlined:

jerry_r60 wrote: ↑Wed May 05, 2021 6:47 pm ...
"Patrick told Dana Loesch, a radio host and former spokeswoman for the National Rifle Association, that he needs the support of all 18 Senate Republicans to allow a vote on the bill.

When the legislation came over from the House last week, "I had maybe six in favor, about six against and six unsure," Patrick said. "We're now up to 12 votes, maybe 13. I'm still a few short, but I'm going to bring it to the floor. It's rare I do this. Usually when you don't have the votes, you don't bring a bill up that's going to lose, but this is an important issue.

"I'm optimistic and working to be sure we get those votes to be able to pass it out," he said."

I suspect those amendments were the price that Patrick had to pay to get the votes from the RINO senators who were not supporting the bill earlier (and there may be support for other bills in play as well). He had Schwertner, as the bill's sponsor in the Senate, propose the amendments because a) it provided cover for the RINOs by having a known conservative propose them, and b) I believe it is a legislative tradition that the sponsor gets the amendments he proposes to his own bill, even if others are opposed to them...because they want the same courtesy when they are ramrodding their bills. So Schwertner may have had to swallow his distaste and run the amendments through. This is part of the sausage making.

Now what is important is who the Senate sends to the joint conference committee with the House to sort out the differences. If five staunch bill supporters from each chamber are appointed, then they can clip out the less desirable parts, put more desirable parts back in, and come up with, we hope, a better bill. IIRC that bill does not go back to either chamber to be voted on, it becomes the final bill that goes to the Governor. The RINO senators can quietly tell their supporters "Hey, I tried, but the committee cut out it out."

I don't know that this is the case, but I think it is at least plausible, and to be hoped for.

powerboatr wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 3:08 pm not to wrinkle the fritos, but
i was reading all the adopted, withdrawn and failed amendments , referenced by our great folks here
THANK YOU VERY MUCH

but i saw this and thought, how did miss this and Super happy it died. it has lawsuit all over it and then lets make up a new law based on race ??

It was Senate Amendment F9 by Zafferini ("my" Senator ) and it failed. Not part of the bill. There were 27 amendments proposed in the Senate and only 8 were adopted.

Papa_Tiger wrote: ↑Wed May 05, 2021 4:55 pm Amendment #18 by Schwertner
Removes the expungement provision and the Dutton Amendment added in the House.

Adopted

I'm glad the bill is through its second reading, but Amendment 18 doesn't seem like a positive step.

jerry_r60 wrote: ↑Wed May 05, 2021 12:23 pm ...

I'm not so sure he doesn't understand exactly how the law works. I suspect he does but he phrases his points and comments to get across what he wants regardless of what is actually in the law.

This. Anti-2A forces are going for emotional response, don't care if what they say is true or not (and it's generally "not").