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VAN BANNER, Thursday, July 4, 2013 — Page 3A
State Capitol
HIGHLIGHTS
By Ed Sterling
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
AUSTIN —Gov. Rick
Perry on June 26 sum-
moned lawmakers back
to Austin for a second
special session of the
Texas Legislature to be-
gin July 1. Perry or-
dered lawmakers to
write and pass legisla-
tion to do three things:
• Regulate abortion pro-
cedures, providers and
facilities. • Fund trans-
portation infrastructure
projects. • Establish a
mandatory sentence of
life with parole for a
capital felony commit-
ted by a 17-year-old of-
fender. Perry’s first
called session ended on
June 25 with Sen.
Wendy Davis, D-Fort
Worth, talking to death
SB 5, legislation to in-
crease state regulation
of women’s health care
and access to abortion
services in particular.
Davis’s 11-hour filibus-
ter was augmented by
motions and questions
of parliamentary proce-
dure by Sens. Leticia
Van de Putte of San
Antonio, Judith affirini
of Laredo, Kirk Watson
of Austin, John
Whitmire of Houston
and other Democrats.
A crowd filled the gal-
lery and corridors in
support of Sen. Davis’s
filibuster, chanting
loudly enough to create
confusion on the Senate
floor as midnight ap-
proached. Lt. Gov.
David Dewhurst, who
presides over the Sen-
ate, called SB 5 to a vote
just before midnight,
but the 19-10 vote was
not finalized until 12:03
a.m. on June 26. The
filibuster —nonstop
talking with no breaks
— and the slowed-
down vote had eaten up
the clock, causing
other legislation on the
brink of final passage to
die at midnight along
with SB 5.
Davis’s success in
temporarily stopping
SB 5 drew national and
world attention, but
Perry, determined to
push through his agenda
with the long-held ad-
vantage of a Republi-
can-controlled Legisla-
ture, reissued his call for
lawmakers to take up to
another 30 days to pass
the same set of bills that
had just withered.
Voter ID law to take
effect On June 27, the
U.S. Supreme Court re-
leased its ruling in
Shelby County, Ala-
bama v. Holder, Attor-
ney General et al., a case
calling into question
the constitutionality of
Section 4 of the federal
Voting Rights Act of
1965, a formula for de-
termining which states
or jurisdictions are held
to a higher degree of
scrutiny because of
their history of racial
discrimination. Texas
and other covered juris-
dictions, as a result of
the ruling, are no
longer required to obtain
federal judicial
preclearance” of elec-
tion laws. Attorney Gen-
eral Greg Abbott hailed
the ruling, saying the
Texas voter ID law and
the redistricting maps
passed by the Texas leg-
islature during the first
special session and
signed into law by the
governor on June 26 im-
mediately go into ef-
fect.
“Today’s ruling does
not abolish the Voting
Rights Act,” Abbott
commented. “All states,
including Texas, con-
tinue to be subject to
Section 2 of the
Voting Rights Act and
the U.S. Constitution,
which prohibit racial
discrimination nation-
wide,” he added.
Meanwhile, Texas’
chief elections officer,
Secretary of State John
Steen, said photo iden-
tification will now be re-
quired when voting in
Texas elections. A voter
must show one of the
following forms of
photo identification at
the polling location be-
fore being permitted to
cast a vote: a Texas
driver license issued by
the Texas Department
of Public Safety, a
Texas Election Identifi-
cation Certificate issued
by DPS, a Texas per-
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card issued by DPS, a
Texas concealed hand-
gun license issued by
DPS, a U.S. military
identification card con-
taining the person’s
photograph, a U.S. citi-
zenship certificate con-
taining the person’s
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With the exception of
the U.S. citizenship cer-
tificate, the identifica-
tion must be current or
have expired no more
than 60 days before be-
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polling place, Steen
added.
SCOTUS remands
UT case
The U.S. Supreme
Court, in a 7-1 decision
published June 24 sent
the civil rights case
Fisher v. University of
Texas at Austin back to
the Fifth Circuit Court
of Appeals in New Or-
leans for reconsidera-
tion. The high court
ruled the Fifth Circuit
erred in granting sum-
mary judgment to the
university, and, attor-
neys for the plaintiff ar-
gued that the
university’s use of race
in its student admissions
policy violated the
“equal protection”
clause of the Fourteenth
Amendment.
Crime rate drops in
2012
Texas Department of
Public Safety on June
26 announced that the
overall major crime rate
in Texas has dropped,
while the actual number
of violent crimes com-
mitted in Texas in-
creased. Statistics in the
agency’s 2012 uniform
crime rate report show
the number of crimes
per 100,000 people in
Texas decreased by 3
percent in 2012 com-
pared to 2011 but the
actual number of crimes
compared from one
year to the next reflect
a 1.2 percent increase in
violent crimes over the
same period.
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