By james art 
Governor Greg Abat will expose his latest Texas vision in a television speech on Sunday, including telling legislators what they expect to prioritize during the legislative session of the country that started this month.
“Texas is the plan for the future of America,” Abbot said in a statement declaring his condition at the state address. “This 89th legislative session has new opportunities for Texas legislation and leaders across the country to strengthen the national and global position as a beacon of economic opportunities, prosperity and individual freedom.”
The Abbott State of the State address is crucial because when it will declare its “emergency” for the legislative session in 2025, according to the Texas Constitution, the legislative positions of the Governor’s emergency positions are the only things that legislators can They passed during the first 60 days of the session. This means that what Abbot says on Sunday will have a great influence on what the Texas sees to leave the State House next month and a half.
While Abbott has not yet made its priorities for the session explicitly, it is expected to encourage state MPs to cross a school -like bill, as well as legislation over border security and reduction of ownership taxes of home and Texas business ownership.
The state of the state address will be broadcast live at 5:00 pm by Ostin’s Arnold Oil Company, marking the third consecutive session where Abbott did not take the speech from the Texas Capitol.
This is also the last state of the state address that Abbot will make before he is ready for re -election in 2026, so he is likely to use speech to announce his achievements in Texas in the decade leading to the state. “Since turning into the eighth largest economy in the world to protect the freedoms that make Texas great, we are working tirelessly to achieve what seems impossible,” Abbot said in a statement.
School vouchers are expected to take on a leading role
Everything, but it is not certain that one of ABBOTT’s emergency elements for this session will be known for anyone who handles state policy: creating a program similar to a Texas school voucher.
The question is one of the main priorities of the governor in recent years. The last session, in 2023, ABBOTT announced “creating freedom of education for all” emergency element with an emphasis on creating educational savings accounts (ESA) for Texas. This voucher -like program would allow the state to give tax dollars to private schools to help subsidize children’s education costs.
Despite the energy Abbot and some of its Republican allies, for which the ESA legislation is being laid last session, the proposal did not fall apart. This is mainly due to the opposition of rural Republicans and the Texas Democrats. Without the votes to clear the Texas House, a voucher -like plan failed to pass during the regular legislative session in 2023 and several special sessions.
But now Abbot has many more legislators behind the idea in Capitol. This is because the governor spent the primary primary first time aimed at members of his own party, who voted against vouchers. And she worked: 11 of the candidates of the Texas House, which Abbot approved, won her election in November, increasing the support of the Chamber for a voucher plan.
This year, the Texas Senate has already moved quickly according to its version of a voucher plan – Senate Bill 2 – exits the committee earlier this week.
If Abbott announced this as an emergency object on Sunday, as expected, lieutenant Dan Patrick said SB 2 could be voted on through his chamber, where he can easily pass, as early as next week.
How will the Texas border priorities change with President Trump?
Texas is a US state with the largest border with Mexico, and Abbot has long been focused on preventing unauthorized border crossing and other border issues such as human smuggling.
In fact, during the session in 2023, the governor made an emergency position for legislators, even called a special session in May, specifically focused on crossing the borderline proposals that did not go through the final line during the regular session of Texas.
During the Biden Texas administration, he spent billions of dollars on state security measures and border security implementation at ABBOTT Operation Operation Operation. (In fact, he recently asked the Federal Government to reinstate Texas for his efforts of $ 11 billion.) Now with President Donald Trump – a friend of Abbott and a fellow Republican – in the White House Texas is embarking on a step with the president’s plans to be plans to break up the border crossings and apply the laws of immigration. Abbot has already sent 400 soldiers to the border of Texas-Mexiko to help border patrol agents apply immigration laws and propose over a thousand decares to the federal government to build arrest.
Given that recent history will be interesting to see how Abbot directs the legislature around this topic on Sunday. What he says in his state of the country could give an overview of how much Texas will rely on federal performance efforts, which will continue to continue and how aggressive it will continue to be its state efforts.
Other things to observe in state of abbott of the state
Although it is not clear what else can focus on the governor, it will probably include some of the legislative priorities of the Texas Senate that Lieutenant Dan Patrick has exposed earlier this week. The best 25 Patrick priority bills for this legislative session include a ban on THC, an increase in the release from the Housing owners in Texas and the improvement of the electrical and water infrastructure of the state.
There is a “very good chance of hearing a lot of conservative priorities,” said Joshua Blank, a Texas Policy Scientific Director at UT Austin.
Blank, whose group is conducting regular studies on Texas, told The Texas Newsroom this week: “Texas constantly tell us that they are worried about living costs, worrying about housing costs, they are worried about healthcare costs. ”
Blank said he did not expect these problems to be a major focus in Abbot’s address. But again he also said that the greater part of the texas he explores does not pay much attention to the Texas legislative power.
“While this attention will increase from February to June, it [only] It increases from about 12 to 15% of voters who say they pay a lot of attention to about 18 to 20% of the voters to the end, “Blank said.
Blank added that if Abbot hoped to attract a broader audience to his television speech, what was being held on Sunday nights does not help.
The Texas Standard will broadcast the state to the government’s government address and the democratic reaction of NPR stations throughout the country, followed by an analysis of reporters in Texas. You can listen from 5:00 pm on Sunday at the local public radio station.
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