STATE LEGISLATURE

Gov. Greg Abbott didn’t get everything he wanted in the special session. Will he call lawmakers back for more?

The latest special session ended without lawmakers passing two of Abbott’s priorities — legislation to increase an illegal-voting penalty and to ban vaccine mandates by any entity in Texas.

By Patrick Svitek, The Texas Tribune
Posted 10/19/21

After nine months of the most conservative lawmaking Texas has seen in recent memory, legislators were confronting a daunting question Tuesday: Will Gov. Greg Abbott push them to go even further …

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