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    Texas Senate Bill 4 (or Texas SB 4) is a bill that effectively bans sanctuary cities in the state of Texas. It was filed on November 15, 2016, and discussed...
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  • Texas Senate Bill 4 (Texas S.B. 4) is a Texas state statute enacted by the Texas Legislature and signed into law by governor Greg Abbott on December 18...
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    United States v. Texas, et al. is a court case in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit regarding Texas Senate Bill 4, a statute allowing...
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    The Texas Senate is the upper house of the Texas Legislature, with the Texas House of Representatives being the lower house. Together, they compose the...
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  • bill was driven by the March 2010 murder of Arizona rancher Robert Krentz. Texas Senate Bill 4 was enacted in 2017 to block municipalities in Texas from...
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  • States v. Texas (2024), a case in which the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an administrative stay, allowing Texas Senate Bill 4 to take effect...
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    2018 United States Senate election in Texas was held on November 6, 2018, along with other elections to the United States Senate and elections to the...
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  • Missouri Senator Josh Hawley introduced a bill to ban the platform nationwide. It was later blocked in the Senate by a forced vote on 29 March 2023. In February...
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    1, 1845, 5 Stat. 797). Senate and House legislators who had favored Benton's renegotiated version of the Texas annexation bill had been assured that President...
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    Multiple jurisdictions and cities in Texas were considered sanctuary cities before being banned by Texas Senate Bill 4. President Trump established tent...
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  • implemented de facto sanctuary city policy. In May 2017, Abbott signed Texas Senate Bill 4 into law, effectively banning sanctuary cities by charging county...
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    Elections to the Texas Senate will be held on November 5, 2024, for 15 of the 31 Senate districts across the state of Texas. Numerous other federal, state...
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  • Texas Senate Bill 5 (SB 5) is a bill that implements a form of voter identification law in the state of Texas. It is a revamped version of a previous...
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    to Travis County, Texas, due to its recently implemented sanctuary city policy. On May 7, 2017, he signed into law Texas Senate Bill 4, targeting sanctuary...
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  • served as a member of the Texas Senate from 1988 to 2004. Between 2000 and 2003 he served as the 40th lieutenant governor of Texas, after previous Lieutenant...
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    2012 United States Senate election in Texas was held on November 6, 2012, along with other elections to the United States Senate the United States House...
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    Greg Casar (category Catholic politicians from Texas)
    first city to ban the box in the Southern United States. Because of Texas Senate Bill 4's limitations on sanctuary cities, and in an effort to reduce the...
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    Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (introduced as Arizona Senate Bill 1070 and commonly referred to as Arizona SB 1070) is a 2010 legislative...
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    The Texas Heartbeat Act, Senate Bill 8 (SB 8), is an act of the Texas Legislature that bans abortion after the detection of embryonic or fetal cardiac...
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    The Texas Senate passes a bill that would require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every classroom of every public school in Texas. The bill would...
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  • Texas Legislature convenes. December 18 – Abbott signs Texas Senate Bill 4 into law. The bill allows state officials to arrest and deport migrants who...
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    The 1978 United States Senate election in Texas was held on November 7, 1978. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator John Tower narrowly won re-election to...
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  • Texas House Bill 2 (HB2) is a bill within the Eighty-third Texas Legislature, first introduced into the Texas Senate as Texas Senate Bill 5 (SB5) on June...
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  • Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick and members of the Texas Senate. The AHA's letter raised concerns that both HB 3979 and its companion billSenate Bill...
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    Wendy Davis (politician) (category Texas Christian University alumni)
    to block Senate Bill 5, a measure which included more restrictive abortion regulations for Texas. The filibuster played a major role in Senate Democrats'...
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  • Ramon Romero Jr. (category Democratic Party members of the Texas House of Representatives)
    Burnam. Romero fasted for three days in April 2017 in opposition to Texas Senate Bill 4. In 2021, he tested positive for COVID-19 with mild symptoms. Fernandez...
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  • Bryan Hughes of Mineola, Texas, introduced a fetal heartbeat bill entitled the Texas Heartbeat Bill (SB8) into the Texas Senate and state representative...
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    Thorp V; Sahil Kapur (August 4, 2022). "Sen. Kyrsten Sinema signs off on Democrats' big agenda bill, paving the way for Senate passage". CNBC. Retrieved...
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    commentator. From 2007 to 2015, Patrick was a Republican member of the Texas Senate for the 7th District, which included a small portion of the city of Houston...
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    The 1957 United States Senate special election in Texas was held on April 2, 1957, to complete the unexpired term of Senator Price Daniel, who resigned...
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