

TRADITIONAL VALUES

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House Bill 229 (Troxclair, et al. | SP: Middleton) codifies biologically grounded definitions for “male,” “female,” and related terms in the Government Code. The bill helps uphold public policy that was instituted in order to reflect objective biological reality when enforcing antidiscrimination laws, public health reporting, criminal justice statistics, and the integrity of single-sex spaces.
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Senate Bill 8 (89(2), Middleton, et al. | SP: Orr, et al.) recognizes biological reality by requiring political subdivisions and state agencies to designate each multiple-occupancy private space within their buildings for use only by individuals of one sex. The bill would further require these entities to take every reasonable step to ensure an individual whose sex is opposite to the sex designated for that space does not enter that private space. Additionally, SB 8 requires correctional facilities to ensure inmates are housed according to biological sex.
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House Bill 3284 (Frank, et al. | SP: King) seeks to strengthen Texas families by creating the Texas Commission on Marriage and Family. The Commission would identify laws, rules, and policies that may encourage or discourage Texans from marrying and raising children. This commission would promote marriage and family formation by studying and reporting on the effectiveness of state-funded programs that are designed to promote marriage. Its findings would be presented to the legislature in the form of recommendations.
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Senate Bill 10 (King, et al. | SP: Noble, et al.) requires public elementary and secondary schools to display a copy of the Ten Commandments in a conspicuous place in each classroom.
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Senate Bill 11 (Middleton, et al. | SP: Spiller, et al.) authorizes public schools to offer students and employees a period of time set aside for prayer or reading of religious texts during the school day. It does not obligate prayer or group activity, and it does not discriminate among religions.
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Senate Bill 2972 (Creighton | SP: Leach) protects the rights of students and faculty to engage in lawful expressive activities on university campuses. The bill expands the restrictions that the governing bodies of institutions of higher education can place on expressive activities in a manner that promotes free speech while also protecting students and their learning environment.
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Senate Bill 33 (Campbell, et al. | SP: Noble, et al.) protects life by prohibiting taxpayer support for abortion services. It prohibits government contracts with entities that assist or provide support for those seeking to obtain an abortion. It further enhances these protections by empowering the attorney general to enforce this law.
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House Bill 7 (89(2), Leach, et al. | SP: Hughes) protects life by prohibiting individuals, with certain exceptions, from manufacturing or distributing an abortion-inducing drug in Texas or from mailing, transporting, delivering, prescribing, or providing an abortion-inducing drug in any manner to or from any person in Texas.
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Senate Bill 965 (Parker, et al. | SP: Leach) protects school employees’ First Amendment right to engage in religious speech or prayer while on duty.
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House Bill 1397 (Harris, et al. | SP: Middleton) transfers the custody of the original copies of the Texas Declaration of Independence, the Texas Constitution, and the famous ‘Victory or Death’ letter to the Texas Historical Commission. The bill requires the Commission to permanently display the Victory or Death letter at the Alamo Complex. The Texas Constitution and Texas Declaration of Independence will be permanently displayed at the Capitol complex.

