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Texas Complete Streets Bill dies without a vote in House and Senate
Runs out of time
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The Texas Legislative session ended with many bills left waiting for a spot on the calendars for the House and Senate to take a vote, including the Texas Complete Streets Bill (pdf).
The bill passed through the Senate Transportation and Homeland Security Committee, and it also passed through the House of Representatives’ Transportation Committee, but did not pass through the House or Senate before the session ended, according to Bike Texas, who are beginning work now on passing the bill in the 2013 legislative session and working with cities to implement Complete Streets policies locally.
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Now that complete streets has died for “lack of time,” one thing really needs to be pointed out to all of its supporters; there was plenty of time, but several legislators introduced time-wasting resolutions that caused this and many other bills to be left to die. They need to be called on the carpet for this and reminded that the Legislature’s job is to pass laws, not be a stage for them to give “shout-outs” to their buddies.
A few examples: (There are a lot more; check your Rep’s introduced bills and start writing today.)
HR 1366 Introduced: Congratulating Norris and Peggy Barron of Lamesa on their 60th wedding anniversary. (Introduced by Tom Craddick)
HR 28 Introduced: Recognizing the 24th annual Grand Prairie Cinco de Mayo celebration. (Introduced by Roberto Alonzo)
HR 26 Introduced: Honoring the life of Cesar Chavez and commemorating the 84th anniversary of his birth on March 31, 2011. (Also by Alonzo)
HR 30 Introduced: Commemorating the 108th anniversary of Oak Cliff’s annexation to Dallas. (Another one from Alonzo. This guy needs to resign and get a radio show where he can recognize whoever and whatever he wants.)
HR 32 Introduced: Commemorating the 25th anniversary of Mount St. Michael Catholic School in Dallas. (Alonzo again. I’d like to see some numbers on how much time each Rep wasted on these bills while important legislation waited and died.)
HR 33 Introduced: Congratulating members of the Texas Agricultural Lifetime Leadership XII class on their selection for participation in the program. (Fred Brown this time)
Posted on Jul 01, 11 at 6:07 pm