Texas Conservative Coalition Research Institute

Senate Committee on State Affairs

February 26, 2020

Regarding the Committee’s Charge: 

Examine Second Amendment legislation passed since the 84th Legislative Session including open carry, campus carry, and lowering the license to carry fee. Determine the impact these laws have made on furthering and protectin...

By Russell Withers, General Counsel & Senior Policy Analyst.    1/7/2020

On the morning of Sunday, December 29, a man entered a church in White Settlement, Texas and attempted a mass killing inside the church. Tragically, he was able to kill two parishioners, but his larger plans were thwarted within six seconds when Jack Wilson, a member of the co...

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I. Free Speech on College Campus

A. Introduction

TCCRI has taken note of the increasing problem of suppressed speech on colleges campuses since atleast January 2017, in which a TCCRI white paper titled “Campus Free Speech Protection” explained that “the rights to speak freely and to freely associate on coll...

Introduction

The House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence has a great responsibility in researching legislative options under today’s charges. The Texas Conservative Coalition Research Institute (TCCRI) takes great interest in any efforts to discuss legislation touching on fundamental rights such as the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

In p...