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Governor’s Office
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Beermakers’ efforts to get Abbott’s veto go flat
House Bill 3287, which Gov. Greg Abbott didn’t veto, will force larger breweries to pay a distributor to deliver their beer — even if they’re delivering it to on-site taprooms just yards away from where it’s produced.
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State Government
Abbott vetoes 50 bills passed by Legislature
Gov. Greg Abbott has vetoed 50 bills that were passed during the regular legislative session, his office announced Thursday.
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State Government
Abbott OKs religious refusal of adoptions in Texas
Child welfare providers can use their “sincerely held religious beliefs” to decide what homes and services foster and adoptive children should receive.
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Criminal Justice
Abbott proposal would nullify city rules on distracted driving
Texas recently became the 47th state to pass a statewide texting-while-driving ban. The governor’s proposal to pre-empt local ordinances on drivers’ mobile phone use could weaken stricter city ordinances that have been in place for years.
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Energy
Will Texas lawmakers ax tree ordinances in more than 50 cities?
Dozens of cities and towns in Texas have ordinances aimed at protecting trees. During the special legislative session, Gov. Greg Abbott wants to change that.
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State Government
Analysis: Texas leaders couldn’t agree during the regular session. What’s changed?
Texas lawmakers will return to Austin in a month to take another swing at more than a dozen issues they couldn’t resolve during the regular legislative session. So what has changed?
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Environment
Abbott grappled with local tree regulations targeted in special session
Before he became governor, Greg Abbott was asked to replant trees on his Austin property — a regulation he has set out to axe during the upcoming special session of the Texas Legislature.
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State Government
Analysis: Raising money while making laws in Texas special session
A special session of the Texas Legislature reveals a hole in the state’s ethics laws, allowing elected officials in Austin to make laws at the same time they’re raising campaign funds — from the people most interested in those new laws.
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Here’s what Gov. Greg Abbott has said — or not said — about special session items
Some of the 20 topics Gov. Greg Abbott is asking the Texas Legislature to consider during a special session have been his priorities since his State of the State Address in January. On some of the other topics, though, he’s been relatively quiet.
