Two Bills and a Court Ruling Pending in Texas
PlanetOut
News, January 30, 2001
Texas is among other states that will be considering sodomy repeal measures
this year, one introduced by Representative Debra Danburg (D-Houston) and one
by openly gay Representative Glen Maxey (D-Austin), HB 389. Danburg expects
the bill to make it out of the now-majority-Democrat House criminal
jurisprudence committee where it failed last year.
But the Republican Party of Texas’ platform included a public rebuke for
two Republican judges on a three-judge state appellate panel who found the law
unconstitutional; the full bench of the 14th Court of Appeals will be
reviewing their decision, after which an appeal to the Texas Court of Criminal
Appeals is expected.
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