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Children’s Issues Dominate Texas’s Legislative Docket

R.G. Ratcliffe | Texas Monthly

The Texas Legislature will convene in regular session on Tuesday for the 85th time since 1846, and, for better or worse, we should call this the Legislature of the Child. However, with available state revenues down $2.8 billion, they may find themselves, like Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist, pleading for more.

Governor Greg Abbot wants to save children from abusive by abuse or neglect.

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