Texas Scorecard by Erin Anderson March 27, 2021
After hours of public testimony, committee members voted to send SB 7 to the full Senate, along with six other election integrity bills.After Democrats used a procedural move Monday to delay a scheduled Texas Senate committee hearing on key election integrity legislation, the panel met again Friday to take public testimony on a dozen Republican-priority election bills, drawing scores of citizens back to the Capitol to testify on the measures.
“This conversation is going to take place,†State Sen. Bryan Hughes (R–Mineola) said at the opening of Friday’s Senate State Affairs Committee hearing.
But conservative advocates for the election reforms had to wait hours to participate in that conversation, after Hughes relegated election-bill witnesses to the end of the 13-hour hearing.
Hughes chairs the committee and authored the Senate’s top-tier election integrity legislation Senate Bill 7, the highest-profile of the 12 election bills on Friday’s agenda.
Election integrity is a top legislative priority of the Texas GOP and the only one also declared an emergency item by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who said earlier this month he is ready to sign “robust†election reform bills sent to his desk by the Republican-controlled Legislature.
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