Now more than ever, city officials need to reach out to their House members to voice their opposition to S.B. The House Committee on Ways and Means will likely hold a hearing on S.B. The bill now moves on to the Texas House. Senator Kirk Watson (D – Austin) gave a particularly strong speech about how the bill will harm public safety without providing any significant tax relief.
Senators on both sides of the aisle voiced their concerns with S.B. 2, passed the Senate by a vote of 18 to 12. On Tuesday, March 22, the Texas Senate approved a five percent revenue cap bill that would restrict the ability of cities to fund police and fire protection, road construction, and economic development incentives, among other things. They’ve decide that destroying neighborhoods one step at-a-time will take too long, and want to gut your city in one fell swoop. Some state officials place a higher priority on what’s convenient for big businesses than on the desire of Texans to have a voice in what happens in their communities. The Capitol seems now little more than a place where companies and industries, upset by local laws, go to get their way. The voters overwhelmingly confirmed that they agreed with the regulations enacted by their local lawmakers, but now lawmakers want to override the voters. The best illustration of this? When ride sharing companies didn’t like the regulations passed by councilmembers in Austin, they asked the voters. The needs of residents in Austin may not be the same as the needs of residents in El Paso or Dallas. Texans want their property values, health, and safety protected. Instead of cities being run by responsive, non-partisan, locally-elected officials, it looks like the plan is to prioritize corporate well being from Austin.Ĭity regulations are enacted to fit the core values in the citizens’ specific community. The quotes above make it appear that some state leaders are intent on centralizing big government in Austin so that individual Texans have no say about what happens in their community. Such an approach, Abbott added, “makes it more simple, more elegant, but more importantly, provides greater advance notice to businesses and to individuals that you’re going to have the certainty to run your lives.” “As opposed to the state having to take multiple rifle-shot approaches at overriding local regulations, I think a broad-based law by the state of Texas that says across the board, the state is going to pre-empt local regulations, is a superior approach,” Abbott said The following quotes appeared in an article in the Texas Tribune last Tuesday: No longer content with making derogatory statements about city officials, some state officials have apparently decided that they’d rather eliminate cities altogether. Some State Leaders Plan to Ruin Your City
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