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Luke Mousias is our guest to discuss the end of the legislative session.

This was, I think, the 87th.

It's every other years.

Our Constitution calls for a biennial 150-day session,

unless, of course, the governor calls a special session.

Luke, do you see a special session in the offing? Michael? Yeah, do you see a special session. Luke, do you see a special session in the offing?

Michael? Yeah, do you see a special session in the offing?

I do. The anticipation is that they might come together in August or September, definitely not July. The Trump administration, this is now kind of gotten out there, but the Trump administration has asked

Governor Abbott to bring a special session together to give Texas two more Republican congressional seats.

We have room to do that. And as you can imagine, with the national battle going on, it would be very helpful to have one or two more Republicans

from the state of Texas. Almost all of our Republican seats are 60, 70, 80% Republican seats

that are. And so we have room to squeeze in a couple more congressional seats and flip one or two.

So the Trump administration has pushed for that. And then Governor Abbott, when he was at the Harris County Republican Party Gala, said that, it mentioned that a ban on taxpayer-funded lobbying might be part of his agenda.

That was another major bill that got killed in the Texas House, never even got a hearing in the State Affairs Committee.

But the Texas Senate did pass about an 80%

ban is what they passed. And so they got watered down by a number of moderate senators who teamed up

with Democrats to shave a portion of that out. So I do anticipate at this point, we are more likely

to end up in a special session than not.

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