Doing business in the Texas legislature means operating under constraints.

For one thing, state representatives, they only meet every other year.

When they do get together, politicians can't even consider passing bills for the first

couple of months they're in the capital.

They're supposed to be in committee meetings.

Alexa woulda from the Texas Tribune, she says all this creates a log jam.

All these things sort of come to a head in the last few weeks of the session.

There are all these deadlines to pass bills, otherwise they have to come back as sort of what

we describe as zombie bills attached to something else.

I love that there's like this forced pressure where like half the session is just like getting

to know you time.

And then it's like, let's pass a million things right away.

I mean, I think that the legislative session in Texas, like the process is meant to kill

bills, right?

It's not meant to result in sort of a raft of new legislation.

In fact, the only thing they're actually required to do is to pass the budget for the next

two years.

And so things get pretty crazy at the end when folks are really hankering to get their

priorities through.

This year, one of the priorities Republicans were hankering to get through was an election

law.

The GOP was trying to limit how, when, and where Texans can vote.

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