Texas Republicans want taxpayers to pay for a special session to ban trans athletes from sport
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metroweekly.comHouston Chronicle.Lawmakers could also bring up a ban in the fall, when the legislature is already scheduled to meet to carry out the decennial redistricting process — even though the ban would have no relation to redistricting.
Or, they could pressure Abbott, who supports a ban in order to “protect” women’s sports, into calling a special session in June — at taxpayer expense, of course — to push through the ban and several other pieces of controversial legislation that failed to pass both chambers in time to be sent to Abbott’s desk to be signed into law.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R), who successfully shepherded the bill through the much more reactionary GOP-led Senate, has already demanded that Abbott call a June session, waiting barely nine.
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