Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan said the state Legislature will not pass meaningful gun safety legislation during its next session but signaled an openness to creating limited exceptions to the state’s abortion ban.
,” pointing to a federal judge’s ruling that struck down a Texas law limited adults under 21 from carrying handguns. U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, the GOP former governor of Florida, raised the legal purchasing age in his state after the Parkland school shooting.
Phelan supports reducing taxes in the next session, but he said Texas has been hit by inflation and that the cost of doing business in the state will increase. He opposesAt the Friday panel, the House speaker reflected on the last legislative session. Phelan said passing a balanced budget that prioritized education was one of his biggest wins.