For the Second Consecutive Day, Governor Rick Perry Expands Call for Special Session

Texas Legislators will have more work to do during the First Called Session of the 83rd Legislature. For the second consecutive day, Governor Rick Perry expanded the call for the special session.

Yesterday, Governor Perry allowed transportation funding bills to be considered by the legislature.

Today, the governor added two more items for the special session:

• Legislation relating to the regulation of abortion procedures, providers and facilities.

• Legislation relating to establishing a mandatory sentence of life with parole for a capital felony committed by a 17-year-old offender.

“The horrors of the national late-term abortion industry are continuing to come to light, one atrocity at a time. Sadly, some of those same atrocities happen in our own state. In Texas, we value all life, and we’ve worked to cultivate a culture that supports the birth of every child,” Gov. Perry said. “We have an obligation to protect unborn children, and to hold those who peddle these abortions to standards that would minimize the death, disease and pain they cause.”

The special session will last through June 25. Governor Perry can call additional special sessions, if he wishes.