{"id":600845,"date":"2017-03-28T14:12:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T19:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=600845"},"modified":"2017-03-29T14:12:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T19:12:00","slug":"house-speaker-blocks-bathroom-bill-from-unrelated-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=600845","title":{"rendered":"House Speaker Blocks &#8220;Bathroom Bill&#8221; from Unrelated Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/06\/matt-schaeffer-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/06\/matt-schaeffer-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-506683\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Representative Matt Schafer of Tyler sought to ban transgender Texans from using public restrooms of their choice as part of a sweeping Railroad Commission bill. His action was thwarted by the house speaker.  House Speaker Joe Straus ruled Tuesday that the rule wasn&#8217;t relevant. Schafer and other conservative Republicans challenged Straus with pointed questions, but couldn&#8217;t force a floor vote. The Texas Senate already has approved a separate, full bill requiring transgender people to use public bathrooms based on their birth-certificate gender. That proposal hasn&#8217;t yet reached the House floor, but may not pass given the uproar and costly boycotts that followed North Carolina approving a similar law last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Representative Matt Schafer of Tyler sought to ban transgender Texans from using public restrooms of their choice as part of a sweeping Railroad Commission bill. His action was thwarted by the house speaker. House Speaker Joe Straus ruled Tuesday that the rule wasn&#8217;t relevant. Schafer and other conservative Republicans challenged Straus with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=600845\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">House Speaker Blocks &#8220;Bathroom Bill&#8221; from Unrelated Proposal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":506683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-16 03:53:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600845","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=600845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600907,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600845\/revisions\/600907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/506683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=600845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=600845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=600845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}