‘BATHROOM BILL’ DIES AS SPECIAL SESSION ENDS
A Texas "bathroom bill" died again late Tuesday along with several of Gov. Greg Abbott's summer demands.
It is the second time that bathroom restrictions have failed to pass in Texas, and Abbott gave no indication he would order lawmakers to stay in Austin and try again.
Corporate heavyweights from Amazon to Exxon Mobil lined up against the measure, as did numerous law enforcement agencies, and opponents celebrated the latest failure despite the support from the governor and influential social conservatives.
The 30-day special session ended on day 29, as the chambers left early, unable to agree on an Abbott-backed property tax bill.
Abbott's office did not directly address questions about whether he would call another special session.
Without another special session, Texas lawmakers won't return to work again until 2019.
Our state constitution only allows them to meet in regular session every other year for 140 days. It has been that way since Democrats wrote this constitution in 1876.
Men do not belong in female locker rooms, showers and restrooms, especially in our schools, and no amount of monetary threats, corporate logos, New Yorker articles or Hollywood hypocrisy will ever change that fact. The Texas Legislature may have adjourned but many Texans remain alarmed by the desire of some to erase all gender barriers and privacy protections in our schools and public spaces. At the end of the day, there will be future legislative sessions and elections to continue the conversation.
If this is such an important issue to you, why not pass a law making the act of using the wrong bathroom a crime? Why put the burden on our schools and colleges to implement and enforce such a policy? And pray tell, how are they to enforce such a policy? Please be specific with your answer, and I will consider supporting such silly legislation.
THANK YOU Senator Kolkhorst for ALL of your efforts. Once we get new leadership in the House next year we’ll have success with the bathroom bill and other conservative efforts and further rid ourselves of liberal/leftist hypocrisy.
KEEP UP THE FIGHT!!! Don’t listen to the mainstream press or the social justice “activists”, all they really have is an enormous mouth that vomits inflammatory lies and socialist propaganda. Your base is much stronger than the media would ever want you to know.
She’s grateful for the support, I’m sure. Since she won’t do it, why don’t you tell us how you would enforce this policy?
In answer to your question. If I were the AG a/o school district responsible for enforcement, I’d give a warning the first time, suspend the second time, expel the third time, issue a restraining order as applicable and you know what happens when a restraining order is violated.
As far as enforcement by the state, if the district fails to comply it would result in new leadership for the school board and administrative positions.
Er, perhaps I wasn’t clear enough; more specifically, how would you expect the responsible parties to “catch” someone using the wrong bathroom?
I have yet to see a single advocate for this legislation describe how enforcement might work. What’s the point of passing laws that can’t be enforced???
You ask how a transsexual or transvestite will be caught using the wrong bathroom in a school.
I can’t believe that’s actually a question, but they’ll be caught the same way some writing on the walls or doing drugs in the bathroom is caught. I have no doubt that many will not be caught. But I also have no doubt that most of the individuals in question will already be known, or already be seen as out of place and will be caught.
Fortunately, many kids have parents that explain the fallacy of social justice (vs individual) to counter those ideas taught by liberal teachers and ignorant peers.
Reporting violations by one of those kids is a high reward action.
Is that clear enough for you?
I’ll try this a second time since KWHI didn’t post my comment the first time, like so many times before.
Perhaps this will be clear enough. Do you know how students teachers and administrators find out, report, and enforce rules for trashing or doing drugs in the bathroom? Having a male/female transsexual/transvestite in ones bathroom will be done the same way.
2019?? They are taking all of 2018 off??
I believe the state legislature meets in session every other year.
Hopefully no more taxpayer dollars will be spent on this pandering again. This state has bigger fish to fry and needs better public servants to get the job done. Maybe they should use the time to fairly redraw the gerrymandered voting districts correctly. It would make sense to just place a computer generated grid over the entire state and let the lines fall where they may.