That means that the governor would have to call another special session. He may decide to do so anyway since a $2 billion transportation infrastructure bill and a bill allowing 17-year-olds to be subjected to the death penalty also died this session because of this crappy bill.
I doubt that the death penalty bill would have risen to the point of requiring a special session, but the transportation bill has popular support by both parties. The governor could add abortion legislation to another special session and two other abortion-related bills that died due to calendar considerations could also be resurrected. However, the question in the mind of most voters is whether abortion related bills rise to the emergency status needed to be handled in special session. Texas taxpayers may not look favorably on spending another $1.2 million to hold another special session after how this session concluded.
The bills would have to be reintroduced and I'm sure that the rallying from both sides would gain further attention on both a state and national stage. This may also interfere with Governor Perry's plan to announce his decision as to whether he would run again for governor and/or president which he promised to reveal by July 1. It also effects all of the other candidates down the ballot as they jockey for new jobs.
I believe that if the governor decides to call another special session he would wait until after July 4 and it would begin in the July 8-10 range. Heated discussions in the heat of a Texas summer are things that most Texans try to avoid, although I doubt that Perry is intelligent enough to realize that since he relies on special sessions to get the state's business accomplished each term.
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