Hope you've been keeping with the Legislature in Austin. Not an easy thing to do. But as you know the House passed the Committee Substitute to HB 1 which cuts billions from education and would force many nursing homes to shut down and leave grandma without a home. Some who voted for it seemed to say that this was not the real budget and that it would get better.
Well the bill went to the Senate and they came up with their own version of HB 1. The Senate Finance committee bill is on the calendar in the Senate and they must have 21 votes to bring it up for debate. At this point they are having difficulty doing that. Both progressives and conservatives are telling Senators to vote no on bringing up the bill. The conservatives do not like the idea that there is Rainy Day money in the bill and the other side thinks that there are still too many cuts and not enough Rainy Day money or new revenue in the bill. Seems some senators want to move it on saying that it can be changed/fixed in conference committee. But the buck will stop somewhere. We can't keep passing it on and hoping that someone else will fix it.
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