• The 9th Texas Legislature met from November 4, 1861 to March 7, 1863 in its regular session and one called session. All members of the House of Representatives...
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  • legislature of the U.S. state of Texas has convened many times since statehood became effective on December 29, 1845. List of speakers of the Texas House...
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    Governors Association. Retrieved July 5, 2023. Texas Legislature. Journal of the Senate. 9th Legislature, 14, accessed July 9, 2023 Sobel 1978, p. 1521...
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    four-year terms covering the 89th Texas Legislature and the 90th Texas Legislature. Republicans have held a majority in the Texas Senate since January 14, 1997...
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    2024 Texas House of Representatives election was held on November 5, 2024. The winners of this election will serve in the 89th Texas Legislature. It was...
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  • pregnancies resulting from rape or incest. In May 2021, the Texas legislature passed the Texas Heartbeat Act (SB 8) that banned abortion after the detection...
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    congressional redistricting process in Texas, as any new maps are drawn and passed by the Republican-held state legislature and signed into law by the Republican...
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    provide for state troops as replacements for the National Guard. The Texas Legislature passed the Defense Act, HB 45, and the Governor signed the bill on...
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    place on May 28, 2024. Seats up for election were all seats of the Texas Legislature, all 38 seats in the United States House of Representatives, and the...
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    Texas (/ˈtɛksəs/ TEK-səss, locally also /ˈtɛksɪz/ TEK-siz; Spanish: Texas or Tejas, pronounced [ˈtexas]) is the most populous state in the South Central...
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    2024 United States state legislative elections (category 2024 state legislature elections in the United States)
    Minnesota, New Jersey, and Texas use a 2-4-4 term length system. These figures represent the seats of Nebraska's unicameral legislature. Sabato's Crystal Ball...
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    taking a majority of Texas's federal House seats for the first time since Reconstruction. Democrats in both houses of the Texas Legislature staged walkouts...
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    the initiative in secessionist efforts, Houston refused to call the Texas Legislature into special session to consider the question, relenting only when...
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    Democrat-dominated legislatures' disenfranchisement of blacks and many poor whites and Latinos. In Texas, the Democrat-dominated legislature excluded them...
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    the Texas Constitution, redistricting in Texas follows the regular legislative process; it must be passed by both houses of the Texas Legislature and...
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    system of education when circumstances allowed. After Texas was annexed, the Seventh Texas Legislature passed O.B. 102 on February 11, 1858, allocating $100...
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    Texas's 8th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives includes all of Polk and San Jacinto counties, and parts of Harris, Walker...
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    protect surrounding Republican incumbents, the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature redrew the 7th into a heavily Democratic district connecting northern...
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  • Institute (NCI)-designated cancer centers in the state of Texas. The liver transplant program is ranked 9th largest and most successful in the nation. Named a...
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    Lou Leon Guerrero (category Members of the Legislature of Guam)
    to become senator in the Guam Legislature in 1994. Leon Guerrero advanced to the general election after having placed 9th, with 10,611 votes, in a field...
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    remained at Austin, while 9th and 10th graders were immediately rezoned; the Travis zoning was phased in each year. The Texas Legislature designated Wharton...
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    seats, all statewide offices, both houses of the Texas Legislature, and a large majority in Texas's U.S. House congressional delegation. Cruz was first...
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    Senate confirms Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe as director of national intelligence". May 22, 2020. "2020 Election Districts". Texas Legislature Online. Retrieved...
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    The Minnesota Legislature is the bicameral legislature of the U.S. state of Minnesota consisting of two houses: the Senate and the House of Representatives...
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    and retired politician who served as the U.S. representative for Georgia's 9th congressional district from 2013 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party...
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    which drafted the Texas State Constitution, and served as Montgomery County's first representative in the Texas State Legislature* The climate in this...
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    state legislature during his tenure as governor. Bush carried 230 of Texas's 254 counties. He racked up big margins in the Texas Panhandle, East Texas, the...
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    The Legislature of Guam (Chamorro: Lehislaturan Guåhan) is the law-making body for the United States territory of Guam. The unicameral legislative branch...
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    The Ninth Oklahoma Legislature was a meeting of the legislative branch of the government of Oklahoma, composed of the Oklahoma Senate and the Oklahoma...
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    held in March 2020. The winners of this election served in the 87th Texas Legislature. Two seats changed hands, both in Harris County, one Democratic flip...
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