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Lara Keel Texas Lobbyist Update: SB 1

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Lara Keel Texas Lobbyist Update: SB 1 Senate Bill No. 1 is a redistricting plan that is aiming to redraft Texas’s current district map. There are some concerns that the most recent Legislative maps, drawn in 2011, are not entirely politically fair and/or unbiased. Although this is uncertain and widely debated, it is a problem […]

Lara Keel 83rd Legislative Session Update: HB 897

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Lara Keel 83rd Legislative Session Update: HB 897 http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/83R/billtext/html/HB00897F.htm House Bill No. 897 was passed on May 20th 2013. When enacted, the bill will require that all students in grades 7 through 12 be instructed in cardiopulmonary resuscitation. This instruction may be implemented into any course. Schools are required to use evidence based, nationally recognized […]

Lara Keel Texas 83rd Legislative Session Lobbyist Report: HB 178

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Lara Keel Texas 83rd Legislative Session Lobbyist Report: HB 178 http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/83R/analysis/html/HB00178H.htm House Bill 178 was filed in November of 2012, and it currently pending in committee. The bill is about the importance of water conservation. If passed, it would amend the Tax Code and provide a sales tax exemption to the sale of a specified […]

Texas Tribune Launches Public School Database

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Lara Keel Texas Lobbyist News: Texas Tribune Launches Public School Database The following story is a digest of information found at the Texas Tribune online. The Texas Lobby Group is making this feature of their website known as a public service for Texas educators, Texas politicians, Texas school boards, Texas lobbyists, and other interested parties. Texas […]

Texas State Agencies Interim Hearings

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Lara Keel Texas Lobbyist News: Texas State Agencies Interim Hearings The following information is public and is available at the state of Texas websites. Texas lobbyist Mike Toomey is making this information public on his website as a service for all Texas Lobbyists, Texas Political Activists, Government Consultants, and other interested political parties. Texas Groundwater Protection […]