re: Texas to vote on whether to force all other states to secede

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Let me ask you a question? Can the governor of Texas just say we're out, or does he have to go through the voters?

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Nah.
He can call for special elections (subsequent to the already scheduled general election), but the people of Texas will always get the final vote.


That said, he does play a role in the TEXIT referendum process:

1. Bill is filed by a member of the House or Senate, plus a sponsor in the chamber opposite from the member who initially filed it.

2. Bill gets its first reading on the floor and is assigned to a committee.

3. The committee chair schedules it for a hearing; sometimes they don’t if committee chair is opposed to the bill: at which point it dies when the session ends. But if the committee hears the bill and it is voted out of committee, it is scheduled to be heard on the floor, or it doesn’t.

3. The House and Senate each have their own rules for scheduling bills for the floor; as has been the case in the Texas House, the chair of the Calendars Committee can use his or her power to kill a bill by refusing to move it along (**FYI, this is who/where [Calendars Committee] our [Texas Nationalist Movement] efforts are currently focused**).

If the bill moves along, it gets debated on the floor and is then voted on. If it passes in one chamber, it moves to the other chamber and the process repeats until the bill is passed by both houses.

At the end of the day, what any bill needs to pass is the support of 76 members of the Texas House, 16 members of the Texas Senate, the lieutenant governor, and the governor. From there it moves to the governor’s desk for his signature or a veto.