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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTexas House approves sweeping limits on local regulations in GOP's latest jab at blue cities
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/18/texas-house-local-control/In a major escalation of Republicans efforts to weaken the states bluer cities and counties, lawmakers in the Texas Legislature are advancing a pair of bills that would seize control of local regulations that could range from worker protections to water restrictions during droughts.
A bill backed by Gov. Greg Abbott and business lobbying groups, House Bill 2127, would bar cities and counties from passing regulations and overturn existing ones that go further than state law in a broad swath of areas including labor, agriculture, natural resources and finance. It received initial approval Tuesday in the Texas House by a 92-55 vote but must come back before the chamber for a final vote.
The bills backers argue its needed to combat what they call a growing patchwork of local regulations that make it difficult for business owners to operate and harm the states economy. Texas economic growth and jobs are overwhelmingly concentrated in the states urban areas.
We want those small-business owners creating new jobs and providing for their families, not trying to navigate a byzantine array of local regulations that twist and turn every time they cross city limits, said state Rep. Dustin Burrows, the Lubbock Republican carrying the bill in the House.
HB 2127 is one of several bills that Republicans filed this session to prevent cities and counties from enacting new progressive policies. For example, the bill would block local ordinances designed to provide more benefits to workers such as mandatory paid sick leave though the states courts have already halted such city rules and eliminate mandated water breaks for construction workers in Austin and Dallas.
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Texas House approves sweeping limits on local regulations in GOP's latest jab at blue cities (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Apr 2023
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bullimiami
(13,100 posts)1. Local control and let the states decide. A huge Republican lie.
dalton99a
(81,543 posts)2. The party of Local Control and Small Government.