With clock ticking on legislative session, Texas Democrats delay debate on university tenure bill
Texas House Democrats successfully delayed debate on the House’s version of a bill meant to put guardrails on faculty tenure at public universities Thursday, kicking the legislation back to the House Higher Education Committee.
Just as Rep. John Kuempel, R-Seguin, started to lay out his version of the legislation, Rep. Ron Reynolds, D-Missouri City, raised a point of order, a parliamentary procedure used to delay or kill legislation on a technicality, arguing the analysis of the legislation was misleading.
The House Higher Education committee is expected to meet late Thursday to vote the bill out of committee again.
If the legislation comes back to the House floor and is voted out by the full chamber, the House and Senate would have to agree on the version that emerges from the closed door meetings before sending the bill to Gov. Greg Abbott. The two chambers have until May 26 to come to agreement.
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