Texas lawmakers returning Monday, July 21, to Austin may reconsider a failed bill from the last legislative session that would have helped local governments acquire emergency communications equipment.
“It’s going to be something that will be looked at,” Gov. Greg Abbott said in a July 6 news conference following catastrophic flooding of the Guadalupe River.
“(It’s) the way to respond to what happened in Kerrville,” Abbott said after viewing the devastation in the Hill Country.
Abbott scheduled a special session after the June 30 adjournment of the regular 140-day session held every two years.
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