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The Released-Time Hall Pass
Dan Patrick's Capitol passed SB 1049 on excused absences for released-time courses, because school policy is now apparently a church-bell scheduling app.
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The Handgun Passport
Dan Patrick's Capitol passed SB 706 to recognize another state's handgun license, because apparently Texas needed one more permission slip for more guns.
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The Misconduct Report Maze
Dan Patrick's Capitol passed SB 571 on misconduct, child abuse, and neglect reporting, but the receipt proves the bill category - not the outcome.
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The Special Ed Spreadsheet Shuffle
Dan Patrick's Capitol passed SB 568 on special education and Foundation School Program funding, but Texas families deserve more than a spreadsheet victory lap.
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The Grocery Cart Morality Meter
Dan Patrick's Capitol passed SB 379, a SNAP bill aimed at sweetened drinks and candy, because apparently the checkout lane needed a lecture hall.
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The Obscenity Defense Trapdoor
Dan Patrick's Capitol passed SB 412, an obscenity-and-harmful-to-children bill, and the receipt is another reminder that culture-war lawmaking loves a trapdoor.
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The Lunch Tray Additive Ban
Dan Patrick's Capitol passed SB 314, banning certain food additives from free and reduced-price school meals, because even lunch trays now get the culture-war clipboard.
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The Judicial Discipline Ledger
Dan Patrick's Capitol passed SB 293, a judge-discipline transparency bill, because apparently even the referees now need a receipt printer.
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The Conduct Code Culture-War Switch
Dan Patrick's Capitol passed SB 326, a school and higher-ed conduct-code bill tied to antisemitism, and the receipts show another serious issue routed through the Capitol switchboard.
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The Vaccine Adverse Event Paper Trail
Dan Patrick's Capitol passed a vaccine- and drug-event reporting bill, because nothing says trust the science like turning public health into another political receipt printer.
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The School Safety Allotment Receipt
Dan Patrick's Capitol passed a school safety allotment bill, which sounds sturdy until you remember Texas families need actual safety, not another headline with a hard hat.
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The Lab-Grown Meat Panic Button
Dan Patrick's Capitol banned the sale of cell-cultured protein, because apparently the free market is sacred right up until a chicken nugget needs a permission slip.
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The Solicitation Fine Print Machine
Dan Patrick's Capitol tinkered with solicitation-related communications and private rights of action, because nothing says freedom like another definition stack from Austin.
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The Grid Resilience Victory Lap
Dan Patrick's Capitol passed a bill about grid resilience and certain municipalities, which is nice, because Texans usually prefer electricity without a legislative pep rally attached.
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The Child Abuse Reporting Stopwatch
Dan Patrick's Capitol changed the failure-to-report child abuse offense clock for certain professionals, then Texans still have to ask whether stopwatch politics is the same thing as child protection.
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The School Drill Clipboard Bill
Dan Patrick's Capitol can require a plan for students with disabilities during school drills, but Texans should still ask why every school fix has to arrive as another clipboard from Austin.
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The Junior College Library Purge
Dan Patrick's Capitol found time to tell public junior college libraries what to do with materials, because apparently even campus shelves need a state hall monitor.
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The Budget Boss Costume
Dan Patrick loves the freedom costume, but SB 1 is the reminder that the Capitol's biggest power move is deciding where Texas money actually goes.
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The Mental Health Mailbox Bill
Dan Patrick's Capitol can move paperwork around people in crisis, but Texans still need leaders who treat mental health as more than a court notice problem.
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The Hollywood Handout Hotline
Dan Patrick's small-government machine found a new favorite prop: a state moving-image incentive fund with its own velvet rope.
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The Elder Tax Switcheroo
Dan Patrick's property-tax victory lap comes with a classic Austin trick: promise relief, then keep the school-finance levers in the Capitol.
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The Water Board Gets A Bigger Clipboard
SB 7 is about oversight and financing of water infrastructure matters under the Texas Water Development Board; Patrick's answer to local needs is another Austin clipboard.
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The Power Grid Gets Another Permission Slip
SB 6 deals with planning, interconnection, operation, and costs for certain electrical loads; Patrick's small-government act keeps finding new forms to fill out.
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The Dementia Institute Gets a Parade Float
SB 5 creates a Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas; the Patrick routine is treating every serious problem like it needs a new spotlight with a ribbon on it.
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The Squatter Panic Gets Its Own Eviction Script
SB 38 is framed around removing certain people from real property; the Patrick pattern is turning every headline panic into another Austin-branded procedure.
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The Tax-Cut Parade Float Has Fine Print
Dan Patrick's Senate sent voters another school-tax homestead exemption while calling it relief; the receipt says Austin is still picking the knobs.
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The AI Panic Button Comes With a Penal Code
SB 20 targets obscene visual material appearing to depict a child; Patrick-world still loves solving complicated tech problems with another criminal offense.
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The Anti-Communism Curriculum Committee
SB 24 orders communism lessons into the state curriculum, because nothing says limited government like Austin assigning ideology homework.
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The Bail Review Bureaucracy
SB 9 turns pretrial release into another Austin-controlled rulebook while Dan Patrick still calls it freedom.
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The Abortion Exception Script
SB 31 rewrites abortion-exception language around a physician's reasonable medical judgment, while Patrick's state still keeps the clipboard.
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Wildfire Help With A Side Of Austin Steering
SB 34 funds volunteer-fire and wildfire work, then reminds Texans that even emergency prep travels through the Capitol funnel.
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No Mask Mandates, Plenty Of State Mandates
SB 29 banned local COVID-era mandates while proving Dan Patrick's favorite mandate is the one Austin writes.
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Abortion Errand Ban, Austin Edition
SB 33 turns abortion-related logistics into another state-policed transaction list, because small government apparently needed a clipboard.
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The Sports Police Found Campus
SB 15 made Texas public college athletes compete based on biological sex, another culture-war rulebook sent straight into campus operations.
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Bail Bond Policing From Austin
SB 40 blocks local governments from using public funds to pay bail bonds, because apparently even city budgets need a hall monitor.
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The Abortion Blacklist Bureau
SB 22 barred certain government transactions with abortion providers or affiliates, turning local contracting into another Patrick loyalty test.
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Homeland Security, Now With Extra Austin
Dan Patrick's Senate pushed SB 36, creating a new Homeland Security Division inside DPS - because apparently Texas needed one more command center.
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He Put a Hall Monitor Over Texas Universities
SB 37 rewrote higher-ed governance and created a new ombudsman office - another Austin leash for campus decisions.
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The Food Label Police Got a Badge
SB 25 turned health-and-nutrition policy into another statewide mandate, complete with labeling rules and a civil penalty.
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He Put Professors on a Shorter Leash
Dan Patrick's allies passed SB 18, a higher-ed tenure law that turned campus governance into another Austin control panel.
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The Voucher Machine Finally Got Its Golden Ticket
Dan Patrick helped turn public-school money into an education savings account program - because nothing says local control like Austin shopping for private tuition.
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The Drag Show Panic Got Its Own Penal Code
Dan Patrick's Senate helped turn a culture-war headline into a statewide restriction on performances, civil penalties, and a criminal offense.
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Chaplains In Schools, Counselors Optional
Dan Patrick's 2023 Senate helped pass SB 763, letting public schools employ or accept volunteer chaplains - another church-state wedge dropped into local school boards.
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He Turned Sheriffs Into ICE Contractors
Dan Patrick's Senate helped force county jails into federal immigration enforcement agreements while calling it local control with a badge on it.
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He Put Regulators On A Shorter Leash
Dan Patrick backed SB 14, a 2025 law that makes state rulemaking easier to challenge and tells courts not to defer to agency interpretations.
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Dan Patrick Put Government in Your Kid's Classroom
His Senate forced every Texas public school to post a state-approved religious display. Whatever happened to limited government?
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Dan Patrick Wants the State Scripting Prayer in Your School
His Senate passed a law putting a government-run religious period in public schools. Real faith doesn't need a bureaucrat's permission slip.
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Dan Patrick Discovered "Local Control" Is Optional When It's Your Backyard
SB 15 overrides city rules on lot sizes and density — the same Lt. Gov. who preaches local control just told your city how to zone.
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The Library Police Came From Austin
SB 13 lets the state reach into local school libraries and dress it up as parental rights.
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Dan Patrick Made Buying a House a Crime (If You're the Wrong Kind of Buyer)
SB 17 turns a real-estate transaction into a criminal offense based on who you are. Big-government overreach with a "tough" sticker on it.
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Dan Patrick's Government Knows Best (About Your Kid's Classroom)
SB 12 lets the state micromanage what teachers can say and what clubs kids can join. So much for "parents' rights" and small government.
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Dan Patrick Voted to Gut Your Town's Right to Govern Itself
The "Death Star" bill let Austin overrule your city and county. So much for local control.
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Dan Patrick Found a New Piggy Bank for Crypto
SB 21 created a Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserve while ordinary Texans still need boring things like schools, roads, and lower bills.
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He Tried to Kill 50,000 Texas Jobs
Dan Patrick made banning legal hemp his personal crusade. It took a Republican governor's veto to stop him.
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Rules for Thee, Exemptions for Dan
Dan Patrick spent 2025 trying to ban the products that licensed Texas businesses legally sell — the same rules he insists everyone else live by.
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Your Tax Dollars. Private Schools.
Dan Patrick spent years forcing through a voucher scheme that routes public money to private tuition — and drains the rural schools that have no private option for miles.
Read the receipts →Meet the alternative: Vikki Goodwin
Texas has a choice. State Rep. Vikki Goodwin is running for Lieutenant Governor on a platform of fully funding public schools, protecting the grid, and keeping government out of small businesses it doesn't understand. If you're tired of Dan Patrick's priorities, there's somewhere else to put your vote.