{"id":1019332,"date":"2021-05-26T14:56:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T19:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1019332"},"modified":"2021-05-27T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T19:56:00","slug":"east-texas-senators-in-god-we-trust-bill-headed-to-texas-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1019332","title":{"rendered":"East Texas Senator&#8217;s &#8216;In God We Trust&#8217; bill moves closer to passage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1019334\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/05\/BryanHughes1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>AUSTIN &#8212; The Legislature is close to passing a bill that would require new signage in some public buildings. Under Senate Bill 797 some public schools and universities would be required to display the phrase &#8220;In God We Trust&#8221; in prominent places inside all campus buildings. The bill, authored by Republican Senator Bryan Hughes of Mineola, would require that any school that had a poster or framed copy of the phrase donated to it would be required to hang it in a conspicuous place in each building of the school. A spokesman for Senator Hughes said Wednesday afternoon that the bill has gone back to the Senate for further review after receiving preliminary passage in both legislative chambers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN &#8212; The Legislature is close to passing a bill that would require new signage in some public buildings. Under Senate Bill 797 some public schools and universities would be required to display the phrase &#8220;In God We Trust&#8221; in prominent places inside all campus buildings. The bill, authored by Republican Senator Bryan Hughes of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1019332\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Texas Senator&#8217;s &#8216;In God We Trust&#8217; bill moves closer to passage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1019336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/05\/BryanHughes1-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"East Texas Senator\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcIn God We Trust\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 bill headed to Texas House","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 05:19:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/05\/BryanHughes1-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"East Texas Senator\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcIn God We Trust\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 bill headed to Texas House","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1019332"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019798,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019332\/revisions\/1019798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1019336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1019332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1019332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1019332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}