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But business groups and Texas's tourism industry opposed that, saying it would bring negative attention to the state and cost billions of dollars in lost revenue.
But when push comes to shove, Henson said, "nobody's going to scuttle the budget over the Texas Enterprise Fund or economic incentives". 2078 that bars transgender students from using bathrooms consistent with their gender identity.
"If businesses saw that as vital to their interests, how much did the business lobby do to get fundamentally involved and communicate to elected officials that this is something that they absolutely had to have go their way?" he said. Republican State Rep. Chris Paddie states that the amendment preserves the "privacy, dignity and safety" of Texas students.
"We have been clear that discriminatory legislation would have a chilling effect on economic development, make recruitment and retention more hard and stifle investment in Texas", Chris Wallace, president of the Texas Association of Business, said in a statement.
The Texas Senate already passed a measure that would mean all transgender people would have to use public restrooms that coincide with the gender on their birth certificate.
But according to Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, who has advocated for Senate Bill 6, media misinformation about the measure sparked public outcry and successfully halted the bill in its tracks. "We want all fans to feel welcomed at our events and National Football League policies prohibit discrimination based on age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other improper standard", McCarthy said.
The Texas Senate voted Monday to attach a modest voucher plan to a sweeping, bipartisan school finance bill that already cleared the House - potentially dooming an effort to pump an extra $1.6 billion into classrooms and begin overhauling the troubled way the state pays for public education.
"The bill as filed is about disasters, and terror attacks and emergencies".
The panel's chairman, Dan Huberty, R-Humble, said he was "very disappointed" the Senate stripped much of the House's version of the bill originally meant to begin changing a school funding formula the Texas Supreme Court ruled was constitutional, though Byzantine and in need of fix.
The latest property tax legislation passed in the house Saturday does not include a roll back provision. The bill shields providers that decline to assist any potential foster or adoptive parent whose lifestyle might conflict with the groups' religious beliefs, meaning unmarried or divorced people could be refused services as well. Today, a staggering 77 percent of respondents who are out or perceived to be transgender report being harassed, discriminated against, or even assaulted in school.
"Members of the House wanted to act on this issue, and my philosophy as speaker has never been to force my will on the body", Straus said. "It's won't", Huberty said, adding he plans to announce the House's response to the Senate changes Tuesday.
North Carolina eventually repealed much of its 2016 bathroom law after great political pressure and boycotts.
And still, despite the Texas amendment's limited scope, not everyone is happy with the compromise.
The state attorney general would be responsible for enforcing the bathroom law by filing lawsuits seeking a court order or injunctions against schools or school districts that do not comply.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) criticized lawmakers' priorities. "We are getting rolled by the Senate, and transgender children are a part of that bargain". She plans to pull him out of school if the bill becomes law. That directive has since been rescinded by the Trump administration.
