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The Voice of Seguin Today
Volume 56 • Number 6 830 • 379 • 2234
State lawmakers kick off new session on Tuesday
Kuempel says COVID-19 will bring challenges to the legislative process number of bills filed to how they will handle the swearing-in ceremonies to start the session.
By Darren Dunn (Seguin) -- The 87th Texas Legislative Session officially begins on Tuesday in Austin. A number of key legislative goals will be considered during this year’s session. State Representative John Kuempel will be among those participating this year. The Seguin Republican says COVID-19 will have a huge impact on everything during this session. He says it will impact everything from the
“We get sworn-in Tuesday, but leading up to that, since the pandemic broke out last March -- there was reservations of whether we’d be able to meet or not. We are constitutionally obligated to meet every other year for 140 days, and it was in the conversation of whether we were going to come back, (and) how we were going to come back. So with all that said, I think the safety protocols and what needs to happen and implemented, we will be sworn in next Tuesday with the very different feel. (My wife), Michelle, and I have to get COVID tested Tuesday morning at the capitol before we can go onto the House floor. We will be seated at different times on the House floor in different groups just to keep crowds and the number of people that are together down while we get up
there and get sworn in,” said Kuempel. COVID-19
was
already
placing some limitations on the opening of the session, but last week’s attack on the U.S. Capitol Building also
makes it a little bit harder for them to open things up this year. See LAWMAKERS, Page 2