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86 th Session of the Texas Legislature: Navigate. Communicate. Educate.

Learn how to navigate, communicate, and educate in the 86th session of the Texas Legislature. Understand bill mortality, governor's role, floor debates, committee meetings, and more. Discover ways to communicate your position effectively and utilize procedural advantages.

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86 th Session of the Texas Legislature: Navigate. Communicate. Educate.

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  1. 86th Session of the Texas Legislature: Navigate. Communicate. Educate.

  2. Navigate.

  3. Bill Mortality

  4. Governor Identical or Conference Floor Debate Floor Debate Committee Committee Chamber 1 Chamber 2

  5. Committees • Posting schedules change. • Testimony: For, Against, On • Pending versus terminally pending • Substitutes and amendments • Formal meetings • Conference committees

  6. Calendars : House • Local and Consent: • No opposing testimony. • No floor debate. No individual vote. • Speed versus vulnerability (self-policing) • 10 signatures or 10 minutes • General Calendars: • Major State and General State, Constitutional amendments, Resolutions • Debate and vote • 2nd Reading (majority) vs 3rd Reading (2/3rd)

  7. Bill Progress

  8. Communicate.

  9. Tools YOU Can Use • Establish your credibility • Recognize your relative power • Broaden your coalitions • Messages and Messengers • Utilize personal relationships • Use procedure advantageously

  10. Communicate • Your Position: For. Against. Neutral. • With changes? • Unless changes? • Priority: On a scale from artillery to thermonuclear? (Thanks Mark Sloan!) • Show Impact: • If passes we can’t__. If doesn’t pass we can’t__. • Would cost us __. Would save us ___. • In most counties ok, but in my county ___.

  11. Hot Topics • Property tax: SB 2 / HB 2 • Harvey: • Rebuild Texas / TDEM recommendations • Recovery grants • Recovery loans • Public mtgs and info • State Flood Plan • TDEM organization (DPS Sunset) • Environmental notifications and streamlined permitting • Urban/rural recovery structure • Defense: State vs Local authority (infectious disease, etc.)

  12. Educate.

  13. NIMS

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