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Hundreds of Bills/Resolutions “Prefiled”
  • Setting it straight: The printed version of this article misstated the number of bills and resolutions that had been prefiled as of press time. This online version of the article contains the corrected info.
As of 8 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, Texas House and Senate members who will be returning to the Legislature when the next session begins in January had “prefiled” hundreds of bills and resolutions. Monday, Nov. 9, was the first day that bills could be prefiled.

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The session starts on Jan. 8 and concludes on May 27 with (as a result of the Nov. 3 elections) the House and Senate retaining Republican majorities.

SBOE Gets Slightly Less Republican
Texas voters on Nov. 3 elected four new SBOE members and re-elected four incumbents, as reflected below:
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Mixed Results for School Bond Elections
Preliminary data posted by the Texas Bond Review Board (BRB) of 36 ISDs — a list that was still being added to and updated as of press time — reflects that many ISDs holding bond elections had difficulty in passing bond proposals containing athletic and extracurricular related items.
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Education Chiefs Present Budget Requests
Staff of the Legislative Budget Board (LBB) and the governor’s office held hearings (Nov. 5) to allow the respective heads of education agencies to present their budget requests for the upcoming biennium (roughly School Years 2021-22 and 2022-23).
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