Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced the first 25 of 40 Texas Senate priority bills, outlining several hot-topic issues he says will bolster Trump's agenda.

Patrick, a Republican who presides over the Texas Senate, holds enormous power in setting the Legislature’s agenda and deciding which bills get passed into law.

Outside of school choice, other priorities for Patrick include several rightwing culture war goals like “placing the ten commandments in school” and “stopping drag time story hour.”

The state budget, school vouchers and a THC ban topped Patrick’s list. His other top goals include raising the property tax exemption for homeowners, improving electric and water infrastructure, and aiding the federal government with the deportation of people who are in the U.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s top three priorities behind the budget are school couchers, a THC ban, and homestead exemptions.

Houston Public Media's Andrew Schneider reports. ANDREW SCHNEIDER, BYLINE: When Louisiana passed its Ten Commandments school display law last year, Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, a Republican, took to social media. He said Texas should have been ...

The leader of the Texas Senate revealed his top 25 priorities for the legislative session and said more will come.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick unveiled a list of his top 25 legislative priorities, including banning drag queens, THC and the spread of communism.

All school classrooms will be required to display the Ten Commandments if some Texas lawmakers have their way.

Louisiana’s hotly contested law requiring public schools to post the Ten Commandments returns to ... like “educating the kids." Email Patrick Wall at patrick[email protected].

Key Texas legislators say they intend to pass a law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms ... Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, a Republican, signaled the move last ...

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R), who serves as president of the Texas Senate, announced 25 of his top 40 priority bills for the 89th legislative session on Wednesday.