While the Texas House takes a four-day weekend break, the Texas Senate plans a flurry of committee hearings on Governor Greg Abbott’s special session agenda. Sunday will not be a day of rest for this session.
The Texas Senate has set 13 committee meetings to hear public testimony on 31 bills as of now. Some committee hearings have been announced but without any bill numbers attached. A calendar has been listed below with the date, time, committee, and location. Click on the time to see bills on the committee’s docket and click on the committee to see which senators are on the committee.
| Friday July 21, 2017 |
8:00 AM | Senate Committee on Health & Human Services | Capitol Extension, Room E1.016 |
| Friday July 21, 2017 |
9:00 AM | Senate Committee on State Affairs | Capitol Extension, Room E1.036 |
| Friday July 21, 2017 |
10:00 AM | Senate Committee on Education | Capitol Extension, Room E1.012 |
| Saturday July 22, 2017 |
8:00 AM | Senate Committee on Health & Human Services | Betty King Committee Room, 2E.20 |
| Saturday July 22, 2017 |
9:00 AM | Senate Committee on Business & Commerce | Capitol Extension, Room E1.016 |
| Saturday July 22, 2017 |
11:00 AM | Senate Select Committee on Government Reform | Capitol Extension Auditorium, E1.004 |
| Saturday July 22, 2017 |
1:00 PM | Senate Committee on Finance | Capitol Extension, Room E1.036 |
| Saturday July 22, 2017 |
1:00 PM | Senate Committee on Finance | Capitol Extension, Room E1.036 |
| Sunday July 23, 2017 |
1:00 PM | Senate Select Committee on Government Reform | Capitol Extension Auditorium, E1.004 |
| Sunday July 23, 2017 |
1:00 PM | Senate Committee on State Affairs | Senate Chamber, 2E.8 |
| Sunday July 23, 2017 |
1:30 PM | Senate Committee on Finance | Capitol Extension, Room E1.036 |
| Sunday July 23, 2017 |
2:00 PM | Senate Committee on Business & Commerce | Capitol Extension, Room E1.016 |
| Sunday July 23, 2017 |
4:00 PM | Senate Committee on Education | Capitol Extension, Room E1.028 |
The committees with the most hotly contested bills will be heard are the Senate Committee on State Affairs which will hear the Privacy Act/ “bathroom bill” legislation; the Education Committee which will discuss school finance and school choice; and Health & Human Services Committee which will hear many of the pro-life bills related to abortion.
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If all bills can be heard then they will likely all be passed early next week. Those bills will then be sent to the Texas House of Representatives. The Texas House has held the public hearing on HB 1 which is the Texas Medical Board sunset bill and passed it out of committee favorably without amendment, but so far no other hearings have been set.
The Texas House is adjourned until 2:00 P.M. Monday
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