The Texas legislature plans to consider whether to restrict public bathroom usage for transgender people at a special legislative session beginning July 18. He described 20 items he’ll allow lawmakers to consider, including the contentious bathroom issue. In a special session, it would be harder for Straus and other moderate Republicans to find procedural tools to kill bills they oppose. “I don’t think it’s a question of whether or not a bathroom bill is going to pass,” Jones told HuffPost. “It’s a question of whether it passes in its more expansive format.”Democrats, who control too few seats in either chamber to block legislation, criticized the call for a special session.

Source: Huffington Post June 06, 2017 23:48 UTC