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Fleeing Democrats

Needs something about the fleeing Democrats.

Added Link

Added a link to the Sunset Advisory Commission. Legislative groupie (talk) 18:58, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Partisan standings

There should be something about who controls what in here. Anyone know where to find it?Keeperoftheseal 02:56, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of members

I'd like to remove this and make it into a separate article. --Bulawdude 16:59, 7 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

History

The first Texas Legislature consisted of how many members of the House of Representatives? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.190.69.187 (talk) 22:37, 19 February 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Redirect

Senate of Texas redirects to this article, rather than the Texas Senate article. I can't figure out the logic in this. Perhaps the redirect should be changed? Quacks Like a Duck (talk) 01:32, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

At one time it was a double redirect; that later got "fixed". Now Texas Senate is a separate article. I've fixed it. Deh (talk) 03:12, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Salary

How much are [Texas] state senators and representatives paid? -Jayavarman1 (talk) 19:30, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Texas Legislators are paid about $7,000 a year in salary, and about that much in per diem expenses. 207.238.52.162 (talk) 15:02, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Texas Legislators are paid $7,200 per year, plus a per diem while the legislature is in session. The per diem personal allowance of $128 for every day the legislature is in session (both regular and special session) adds up to $17,920 for the regular 140-day session.^[1] GregE625 (talk) 14:03, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ http://texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu/2_2_5.html.

Disputed Neutrality

The "Scandals" section of the article appears to be very slanted, and could use rewriting. As a result, the POV tag has been added pending cleanup. Cheers, Freebirds ^Howdy! 20:28, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The "Scandals" section is also a stub. The KEYE report was a minor matter (voting for neighbors has been going on since the the installation of the electronic voting system and still happens today). There have been several major scandals in the Texas Legislature, including the Sharpstown Bank Scandal that led to the defeat of nearly one-third of the legislators, the Governor and the Attorney General. See the Wiki article here: ^[1] GregE625 (talk) 14:12, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The scandals section is not a stub, and the KEYE report was a significant incident. The brief description is written in a neutral voice. I reverted the change. (Aerst2 (talk) 19:20, 10 October 2013 (UTC))[reply]

The description of the events of June 25, 2013 in the Texas legislature as a scandal appears designed to make a partisan political argument rather than to describe an actual scandal. I edited that section of the article to render it less argumentative, more neutral and in line with its cited source. My view is that the section should e removed, as other scandals such as the Sharpstown stock scandal fit the criterion of "scandal" better than a parliamentary issue about one failed bill. The POV tag should remain until this section is either re-written or cleaned up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gurdonark (talk • contribs) 14:17, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I would argue the controversy about SB 5 doesn't belong in this article at all. It belongs at Eighty-third Texas Legislature. If it does merit inclusion here, it should be proportional with other legislation over 160-some-odd years.

As it stands, this article is a bit of a joke. I would be interested in improving this and articles related to other Texasbiennial gatherings, if we thought neutral, comprehensive sources were available. Woodshed (talk) 00:29, 14 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpstown_scandal#Outcome

Senate Image

The image illustrating the party divisions of the Senate is inaccurate--it reflects a 19-12 split, rather than 20-11.

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Texas state legislative terms from 1846 through 2021 are in Wikidata. -- M2545 (talk) 10:34, 10 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Edits to infobox on 17 December 2024 by User:Therequiembellishere

What follows below is adapted from Talk:State legislature (United States). I am merely raising this issue on this talk page and not fixing it at this time. This article is not a priority for me. Therefore, I am not going to waste my time cleaning up User:Therequiembellishere's mistakes.

User:Therequiembellishere made a massive number of edits to state legislature infoboxes on 17 December 2024: namely, changing "president of the Senate" to "Senate president" and "speaker of the Assembly" to "Assembly speaker".

A native American English speaker actually familiar with domestic press coverage of state legislatures or who studied political science at the postsecondary level would not make such edits. (I was not a poli sci major, but because I was thinking about pursuing a legal career at the time, I did take introductory courses in political science and political philosophy with a lecturer who earned his doctorate in political science from Stanford University.) It is true that "Assembly speaker" is becoming a bit more common (though still rather informal), but Senate president is definitely not in common use. Overall, the longer phrasings of both terms are still the more common usages, especially in formal written English.

Here is what I already posted to that user's talk page:

"Unfortunately, it looks like your massive number of edits on 17 December 2024 are going to require a mass revert. The fact that all those infoboxes are using (and have always used) the longer titles should have been a clue that your proposed shorter titles are not the prevailing forms in formal written English. Google Ngram Viewer shows that "president of the Senate" is more common than "Senate president" and "speaker of the Assembly" is more common than "Assembly speaker"."

I have already reverted the relevant edits to the infoboxes for the legislatures in California, Nevada, New York, and Pennsylvania. However, as a working attorney, I have better things to do with my time than fix such poorly thought-out edits. But I am raising the issue here and now so that anyone else interested in state legislatures can either manually fix those edits or take them to the administrators' noticeboard for a mass revert. --Coolcaesar (talk) 01:07, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttp://texaspolitics.laits.utexas.edu/2_2_5.html.

[2] ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpstown_scandal#Outcome

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