REPORT CRITICIZES LEGISLATORS OVER ‘BATHROOM BILL’

  

Texas legislators are being criticized in a new Texas House report for—in their words “unnecessarily diverted attention from topics like education and taxes to concentrate on the failed ‘bathroom bill.’”

Findings from the report, from the House Select Committee on Economic Competitiveness, were based on public hearings and testimony from witnesses in business, law enforcement, education and local communities.

The bathroom bill introduced by local state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst would have barred transgender people from using public bathrooms of their choice.

Some business leaders said the bill could cost Texas billions in boycotts and lost jobs.

The panel’s chairman, GOP Rep. Byron Cook of Corsicana, said the bathroom bill was “ineffectual” and “dangerous” to the Texas economy.

Kolkhorst’s office, however, said the “bathroom bill” was among the statewide propositions on the Republican ballot in last Tuesday’s primaries, and was passed overwhelmingly.