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"Bathroom Bill" Apparently Stalled Before Texas House Committee

Courtesy: Texas Public Media

TEXAS BATHROOM BILL –  With a week left in the Texas Legislative Special Session…it seems “The Texas Privacy Act”, more commonly known as the transgender bathroom bill appears to have stalled before the State House of Representatives.  The bill sailed through the Texas Senate but now sits before the House Committee on State Affairs and the Committee’s chairman, Corsicana Republican Byron Cook and he tells Texas Public Media he will not give the bill another hearing.  

Credit Courtesy: Texas Chronicle
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Courtesy: Texas Chronicle
Byron Cook (R) Corsicana, TX is the Chairman of the Texas House Committee on State Affairs.

Chuck Smith brings more than 30 years' broadcast and media experience to Red River Radio. He began his career as a radio news reporter and transitioned to television journalism and newsmagazine production. Chuck studied mass communications at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia and motion picture / television production at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has also taught writing for television at York Technical College in Rock Hill, South Carolina and video / film production at Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport.