Chris Hilton with the @TXAG is demanding to be heard but they are not taking testimony. They went into executive session. #txlege
“We’ve never been invited to participate,” @TXAG Chris Hilton says outside the general investigating committee.
He claims official can only impeach an official for conduct he’s committed since the last election. #txlege
@TXAG After we began questioning Hilton about whether he was officially sent by the AG and to explain his legal interpretation that the AG cannot be impeached for this conduct, he said he had to go.
With him was Suzanna Hupp and what appeared to be a plainsclothed officer. #txlege
Up now in Texas Senate: #SB1029 which would prohibit public $ for "provision or administration" of gender-affirming care for all ages of patients.
Would also make insurers "strictly liable" to pay for detransitions, and make it easier to sue doctors for malpractice. #txlege
Sen @NathanForTexas asks: "If a patient comes in and requests a procedure, and the physician provides the procedure and does so competently, that physician is nevertheless liable to that patient for anything that follows that procedure?"
@NathanForTexas@SenBobHall Sen @sarah_eckhardt asks if an adult gets gender modification surgery then can tell the doctor who provided it: "Now you must pay for all of my subsequent treatment for the rest of my life?"
2/ The lawyers identified 4 areas of concern: The bill includes vague descriptions of new crimes, specifically targets people “exhibiting” as the opposite sex, is overly broad in its definitions of “sexually oriented” and lacks discussion of an alleged scofflaw's intent. #txlege
3/ How could this suss out in the real world?
The bill criminalizes "real or simulated" groping of the butt, which the lawyers said could land performers and venues in hot water if dancing crosses is "prurient" content and is in front of a minor. dallasnews.com/news/politics/…#txlege
The News obtained the indoor temperature logs at all Texas prisons, which the state only recently required them to begin keeping, through a public info request and analyzed them.
The data show indoor temperatures in 15 state-run lockups exceeded 100 degrees last summer. #txlege
3/ The temperature topped 99.4 degrees where inmates are housed inside the state-run jail in Dallas County, the data show.
The Stevenson Unit near Cuero was the hottest; temperatures there exceeded 95 degrees two out of three days last summer. dallasnews.com/news/politics/…#txlege
Senate Bill 12 gets FINAL PASSAGE in the Texas Senate by vote of 20-11. It would criminalize drag shows or any other performances deemed overtly sexual if they're in front of or may be in front of minors.