{"id":645916,"date":"2017-08-16T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=645916"},"modified":"2017-08-17T13:00:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T18:00:02","slug":"schaefer-special-session-a-mixed-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=645916","title":{"rendered":"Schaefer: Special Session a Mixed Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/08\/schaefermatt-84.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/08\/schaefermatt-84-125x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-643207\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; With the special legislative session now history, Tyler State Representative Matt Schaefer says, &#8220;We had some good, bad, and ugly.&#8221; Among the pluses, the District 6 Republican points to pro-life bills and health care funding for retired teachers.  But Schaefer says, &#8220;We failed on spending limits, and we had a really ugly end on property tax reform when the House quit before we were supposed to.&#8221;  As to where things go from here, Schaefer tells KTBB, &#8220;That&#8217;s up to the governor.  There&#8217;s a lot of unfinished business for some conservative priorities, so it&#8217;s gonna be up to Governor Abbott to determine whether we can accomplish more.&#8221;<!--more-->            <\/p>\n<p>Regarding the privacy act, or &#8220;bathroom bill,&#8221; which he supports, Schaefer says it &#8220;passed out of the Senate, and Byron Cook of Corsicana made sure the bill could not even get a hearing in the House, which was really unprecedented.  So that issue is not going away; it&#8217;s certainly still alive, and more to come on that.&#8221;       <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; With the special legislative session now history, Tyler State Representative Matt Schaefer says, &#8220;We had some good, bad, and ugly.&#8221; Among the pluses, the District 6 Republican points to pro-life bills and health care funding for retired teachers. But Schaefer says, &#8220;We failed on spending limits, and we had a really ugly end &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=645916\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Schaefer: Special Session a Mixed Bag<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":643207,"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-645916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 13:22:52","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\/645916","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=645916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646036,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645916\/revisions\/646036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/643207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=645916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=645916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=645916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}