This is the first entry in a beat this site is starting: reading a state legislature's session, bill by bill, for what it actually means for social liberty, rather than waiting for the national platform fights that get all the […]
[What Sacramento Is Deciding](/posts/what-sacramento-is-deciding) and [Austin's Long Recess](/posts/austin-s-long-recess) gave this beat two structural patterns already: a legislature in continuous annual session against a hard floor deadline, and a legislature that meets once every two years and spends the other nineteen […]
[What Sacramento Is Deciding](/posts/what-sacramento-is-deciding) opened this site's legislature beat with California, mid-session, bills moving through committee on a clock. Texas is the second region on that beat, and it immediately breaks the format that piece assumed: there is no Texas […]
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