Today, State Representative Phil King (R-Weatherford) successfully passed H.B 2767, a bill that removes impediments of water recycling in oil and gas production.
Today, State Representative Phil King (R-Weatherford) successfully amended H.B. 7, a bill dealing with certain revenues and accounts, to put in place a more stringent spending cap for the legislature. The amendment states that the legislature may not spend more than the rate of growth in population of the state plus the rate of growth of inflation.
Today, State Representative Phil King (R – Weatherford) renewed his call for the head of the Travis County Public Integrity Unit to resign. Rosemary Lehmberg, the Travis County District Attorney, is currently serving a jail sentence for a DWI conviction in which she was three times over the legal limit. She has refused to resign from office. Ms. Lehmberg heads the Public Integrity Unit, the only law enforcement organization in Texas whose sole responsibility is to ensure the integrity of public officials.
As this legislative session moves along I wanted to update you on some of the important pro-family legislation my colleagues and I are working on to help strengthen religious liberty and protect the unborn.
State Representative Phil King (R-Weatherford) today expressed his frustration with high stakes testing and the public education system’s test-driven accountability system. As former Commissioner Robert Scott has stated, testing has become “a perversion of its original intent.” The heavy emphasis on testing as a measure of success in Texas public schools is failing our students.
Texas faces its third year of a drought and our reservoirs are only 65 percent full, the lowest levels since 1990. The need for water is one of the highest concerns of the Legislature as our state is on track to experience the second worst drought on record. To illustrate the problem, Texas’s population is projected to jump from 25 million to 46 million by 2060. Within that time water supplies are estimated to decline while the needs of our residential, industrial, and agricultural communities substantially increase.
State Representative Phil King joined other elected officials in this open letter to the Boy Scouts of America.
“Today I received two new committee assignments, the House Committee on Energy Resources and the House Committee on Pensions. I am exceptionally pleased with these two opportunities.”
Texas lawmakers have a lot they hope to accomplish over the course of their 140-day legislative session that began Tuesday.
The 83rd Texas Legislature opens Tuesday, and the contrast between this session and the last one could not be more clear. A contentious redistricting battle, spawned by the 2010 census, is history.
