Longbow Partners Legislative Update – 8.10.2017
The House and Senate were both back in Austin last week and with only 10 days left; a lot will have to happen on Governor Abbott’s initial pledge of 20 for 20 – referring to [...]
85th Legislative Update #24
SPECIAL SESSION 1 As previously reported, in June, Governor Greg Abbott announced his intentions to call the legislature back into Special Session. This morning, at 10:00 a.m., both chambers gaveled and got the Special Session [...]
85th Session Legislative Update #23
As the legislative session ended, the 2018 election cycle began. While legislators will turn their attention soon enough on the upcoming Special Session, which starts July 18, 2017, there will be 222 federal and state [...]
Longbow Partners’ Legislative Highlights – 8.10.2016
While many legislators are participating in their annual National Conference of State Legislators (NCSL), a lot can happen whether you're distracted by travel, the Summer Olympics or the tabloidesque media coverage of presidential politics. The [...]
Longbow Partners’ Legislative Highlights – 8.1.2016
The hot summer months, particularly July and August are typically a slower period politically, due to family travel, state legislative conferences, and many members focusing on their re-election. Further contributing to the lack of any [...]
Longbow Partners’ March Legislative Update
With the primaries behind us (and run-offs quickly approaching), legislative activity has increased over the last two weeks, with several committees holding hearings to address their interim charges, covering quite a few significant issues, including [...]
Longbow Partners’ Supplemental Elections Update
We’ve been asked to provide some additional information and insight for a broader view of the primary elections beyond those that we had identified as the most likely to influence or shape the tone and [...]
Longbow Partners’ Texas Elections Update
PRESIDENTIAL OVERVIEW Despite the rapid escalation of anti-Trump campaign expenditures in various states, yesterday’s primary election results, certainly brought into focus the identify crisis gripping the GOP, sending a real signal to the so-called establishment, [...]
Longbow Partners’ Legislative Highlights -1.29.2016
Presidential campaign headlines and some heated state contests are dominating media coverage cycles leading up to the primary election date, March 1. Campaign fundraising sources, endorsements, and expenditures are being scrutinized, while questions about primary [...]
Longbow Partners’ Legislative Highlights 1.9.2016
Protested Big Bend Pipeline Now Closer to Approval A coalition of ranchers, environmentalists and disgruntled landowners has suffered a major setback in its battle to block a proposed pipeline that would carry natural gas beneath [...]
Longbow Partners’ Legislative Highlights 12.18.2015
Horse Racetrack Shutdowns Loom Across Texas After a tense meeting and a deadlocked vote, the Texas Racing Commission declined Tuesday to repeal its earlier authorization of historical racing, a move that could mean a statewide [...]
Longbow Partners’ Legislative Highlights 12.11.2015
House lawmakers taken aback by catastrophic failures in upgrading child support system Earlier this month, the federal government temporarily cut off funding for a high-profile upgrade of the state's child-support data system (known as the [...]
Longbow Partners’ Legislative Update
Comptroller Glenn Hegar Announces Transfer of $2.27 Billion Into State Highway and Rainy Day Funds Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced today the transfer of $2.27 billion into the State Highway Fund and the Economic Stabilization [...]
Longbow Legislative Update
What’s happening in and around the Capitol… House Interim Charges Last week, Speaker Straus released the interim charges assigned to each House Committee. These charges set forth the priorities and preparations for the next legislative [...]
Longbow Partners named Southern Political Report’s Top Government Affairs Firms and Lobbyists
In Southern Political Report's Summer 2015 issue, the South's top government affairs firms and lobbyists were named. Longbow Partners was named one of the top 5 Small Firms in Texas. Click the following to view [...]
Longbow Partners Legislative Outcomes Report – 84th Legislative Session
REGULAR SESSION It was clear after the 2014 elections that Texas voters were sending a markedly more conservative political cohort to Austin for the start of the 84th Regular Session on January 13, 2015. Despite [...]
Legislative Update: Senate/House Legislative Agreements, Final Days of the 84th Lege Session
This week it became clearer that the light at the end of the tunnel might in fact be the end of the 84th Legislative Session, and not a special session headed directly at our summer [...]
Legislative Update: Tax Relief, Emergency Items, and Final Days of Session
This week we passed the first set of end of session legislative deadlines. Thursday marked the 122nd day of the 84th Regular Legislative Session, which is the deadline for House Bills to be considered on [...]
Legislative Update: Countdown to Session Deadlines, Pre-K Legislation, Tax Relief, and Secret Tapings of Legislators
With just three weeks left in the 84th regular session, we are now headed into the final week for House bills to be passed out of committee. Monday, May 11th marks the final day for [...]
Legislative Update: Ethics Reform, House Tax Relief Package, and Final Month of the 84th Lege
With just four weeks left in the 84th regular legislative session, bills that members want passed need to be headed across the rotunda. This time of session always inspires lively debate, as priority legislation hits [...]
Legislative Update: Senate and House Battle over Key Legislation
With only five weeks left in the 84th Regular Legislative Session, we heard the first series of cannon fodder between the two chambers of what had been a relatively harmonious session - both bodies pointing [...]