What an incredible turnaround on Texas debtors-prison reform laws, SB 1913 , which this afternoon first failed on a 64-77 vote, then prevail...
What an incredible turnaround on Texas debtors-prison reform laws, SB 1913, which this afternoon first failed on a 64-77 vote, then prevailed a few hours afterward a movement to rethink by a whopping 100-31 margin.
The turnaround was an enormous parliamentary feather within the cap of Home invoice sponsor Senfronia Thompson, who mockingly along with her victory saved the signature laws of the session proposed by Texas Supreme Courtroom Chief Justice Nathan Hecht and the Texas Judicial Council, a minimum of now that the bail-reform invoice is useless.
Congrats to everybody concerned within the livid behind the scenes effort to whip votes, and because of the Home members who modified theirs. Particular kudos to our buddies on the Texas Fair Defense Project who spearheaded the vote counting and office-by-office advocacy in the course of the tense stretch between the invoice's premature demise and its miraculous resurrection.
This laws is basically much like HB 351, discussed on Grits here, with a couple of further bells and whistles thrown in. Given what number of good reform payments have died this session, pulling this one out of the hat was a significant victory.
UPDATE: This invoice lastly handed on a 75-70 vote. They misplaced 25 votes on third studying as a result of the creator accepted amendments weakening the invoice and grassroots Republicans rebelled, preferring new debtors jail protections not be weakened. Judging from the ground debates and the tenor of the vote, the invoice would have handed by a larger margin with out the amendments.
The turnaround was an enormous parliamentary feather within the cap of Home invoice sponsor Senfronia Thompson, who mockingly along with her victory saved the signature laws of the session proposed by Texas Supreme Courtroom Chief Justice Nathan Hecht and the Texas Judicial Council, a minimum of now that the bail-reform invoice is useless.
Congrats to everybody concerned within the livid behind the scenes effort to whip votes, and because of the Home members who modified theirs. Particular kudos to our buddies on the Texas Fair Defense Project who spearheaded the vote counting and office-by-office advocacy in the course of the tense stretch between the invoice's premature demise and its miraculous resurrection.
This laws is basically much like HB 351, discussed on Grits here, with a couple of further bells and whistles thrown in. Given what number of good reform payments have died this session, pulling this one out of the hat was a significant victory.
UPDATE: This invoice lastly handed on a 75-70 vote. They misplaced 25 votes on third studying as a result of the creator accepted amendments weakening the invoice and grassroots Republicans rebelled, preferring new debtors jail protections not be weakened. Judging from the ground debates and the tenor of the vote, the invoice would have handed by a larger margin with out the amendments.
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