“Viewpoint discrimination should not be allowed by any business and Senate Bill 12 will make sure it is not tolerated on social media platforms”   AUSTIN – Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick issued this statement today following the passage of Senate Bill 12, the Protecting Free Speech on Social Media bill, by Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola:… Read more »

AUSTIN – Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick issued this statement today following the passage of Senate Bill 7, the Election & Ballot Security bill, by Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola: “Maintaining the integrity of our elections is vital to preserving public trust so our democracy can flourish, and that’s why I have made election security a top… Read more »

AUSTIN – Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick issued this statement today following the unanimous passage of Senate Bill 30, to Remove Racist Restrictions on Real Estate Deeds, by Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas: “I want to congratulate Senator West on the unanimous passage of SB 30, one of my top priority bills. Removing the racist language found… Read more »

AUSTIN – Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick issued this statement today following the passage of Senate Bill 24, the Law Enforcement Transparency Act, by Sen. Joan Huffman, R-Houston: “I congratulate Sen. Huffman on passing this important legislation. SB 24 will ensure that police departments in Texas have complete information about the law enforcement officers who join… Read more »

AUSTIN – Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick issued this statement today following the passage of Senate Bill 5, Statewide Broadband Access, by Senators Robert Nichols, R-Jacksonville, Kelly Hancock, R-North Richland Hills, Charles Perry, R-Lubbock and Royce West, D-Dallas: “Expanding broadband across Texas has long been my goal and the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic made… Read more »

“Texas is a pro-life state and these bills reflect our commitment to protecting innocent life”   AUSTIN – Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick issued this statement today following the passage of Senate Bill 8, the Heartbeat Bill, and Senate Bill 9, the Abortion Ban Trigger: “When I served in the Texas Senate, protecting life was one… Read more »

“This bill includes substantive reforms of the electric grid that will revolutionize Texas’ prevention and preparation strategies for any energy emergencies we encounter going forward” AUSTIN – Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick issued this statement today following the unanimous passage of Senate Bill 3, by Sen. Charles Schwertner, R-Georgetown: “Following the winter storm in February, I… Read more »

AUSTIN – Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick issued this statement today following Attorney General Ken Paxton’s legal opinion on correcting the Electric Reliability Council of Texas’ (ERCOT) pricing errors during last month’s winter storm: “I had no doubt that asking the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to direct ERCOT to correct their pricing errors was not in… Read more »

Findings of Senate Jurisprudence Committee Investigation are Clear AUSTIN – Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick issued the following statement today in response to the Senate Jurisprudence Committee hearing on Thursday: “Gov. Abbott made correcting the Electric Reliability Council of Texas’ (ERCOT) pricing errors an emergency item and asked us to move quickly. We did. “Senate Jurisprudence… Read more »

AUSTIN – Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick issued this statement tonight following Gov. Abbott naming the correction of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas’ (ERCOT) errors in pricing an emergency item: “I am glad Gov. Abbott has made correcting ERCOT’s two pricing errors an emergency item for this session. Yesterday I called on the Texas Public… Read more »