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Texas Republican Party leaders want the state to adopt laws that would shorten the early voting period and no longer allow mail-in voting for anyone 65 and up.

Campuses won’t be warned ahead of time about the “random intruder detection audits.”

On Friday, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, abortions in Texas ceased despite the fact that the state’s trigger law banning the procedure has not yet gone into effect.

“It’s beyond infuriating,” said Republican state Sen. Paul Bettencourt, a member of the committee hearing public testimony this week.

As people in Texas and across the country wait to see if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns federal abortion protections, there are also a handful of other pending opinions from the high court with Texas implications, from immigration to gun control.

The governor has maintained that the information he initially shared with the public after the Uvalde shooting came from law enforcement officials and that he was “misled.”

Testimony has not been public because lawmakers say they’re taking a “quasi-judicial” approach to the hearings.

As a heatwave grips the middle third of the country, Texas residents have been dealing with triple-digit heat for nearly two weeks. That's unusual for June and forecasters say there's more to come.

“What would make educators feel safer is for our lawmakers to actually listen to what we have to say … so that I don’t have to go into school every single day and worry about ‘is today the day?'”

White is chair of a Texas House committee discussing legislative solutions to the problems that have plagued the mission, including suicide and issues with pay.