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Texas House of Representatives

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LEGISLATION/AMENDMENTS PASSED BY REP. DUKES IN 80th SESSION:

Dukes defeated Rep. Harper-Brown's amendment which would have eliminated 17,000 legal permanent resident immigrant children from the CHIP program on the appropriations bill. Harper-Brown's amendment failed 136-5.

Dukes lead the charge against the Laubenberg amendment to eliminate Perinatal CHIP program which ultimately would have removed 70,000 children per month from the CHIP rolls.

Dukes killed a bill which would have allowed protected Capitol View Corridors in East Austin to be eliminated. Not only did the bill perish but also within two hours of Dukes hearing that the Downtown Austin Alliance recommended eliminating the East Austin View Corridors in spite of objections from numerous East Austin Neighborhood Associations Dukes acquired 146 House member signatures including Speaker Tom Craddick to sign a letter from the Travis County Delegation to the Mayor of Austin indicating that the Texas House would protect East Austin's view corridors.

Dukes defeated a rider recommendation by Rep. Bettye Brown in the Appropriations committee which would have restricted funding for stem cell research, greatly hampering expanded Cancer research and hope for a cure.

Dukes exposed wasted tax payer money used for Crisis Pregnancy Center. (pull info from the Austin Chronicle story).

Dukes de-funded a program that would have allowed for privatization of the state Foster Care after hearing about the numerous children in private placement centers being injured. As a result the budget writing committee and the House Committee on Human Services followed Dukes' lead to eliminate the further privatization of State Foster Care.

Dukes worked to defeat SB 785 relating to information related to the performance of an abortion; creating an offense by providing Rep. Dutton with the prepared point of order on the measure and debating the measure with the Speaker to ensure the point of order was sustained.

last updated on 05/30/2007