Key Dates for 2023 Legislative Session

The 88th Texas legislative session is upon us! Members of our Capitol Brigade will aim to be in Austin every week, so reach out and connect with them for guidance when visiting the capitol. You can let them know you are coming here.

Our main priority is to remove the Sunset clause from our petition. This is in the top 15 legislative priorities for the RPT, and Rep Cody Vasut has introduced HJR 35 to remove the Sunset clause.

Here are some key dates to visit the Capitol in Austin:

👉 Jan 10: Unveil Draft Rules/Training for new members

👉 Jan 11: Speaker of House Elected/Set Resolutions/Training

👉 Jan 12: Rules are likely to be be voted, for example who can be appointed to a Committee Chair. Grass-roots activists across the state will be in Austin to observe the rules being debated and voted on.

👉 Jan 16/17: 2023 Texas Inauguration for Governor Gregg Abbott and Lt. Governor Dan Patrick. Sign up here.

1/16 - 04:30PM - Inauguration Mass - Saint Mary Cathedral
1/17 - 09:00AM - Inauguration Prayer University Ave Church of Christ
1/17 - 11:00AM - Oath of Office Ceremony - North steps of Capitol
1/17 - 12:15PM - "A Taste of Texas" Luncheon - Capitol S lawn
1/17 - 06:00PM - Texas Inaugural Celebration

👉 Jan 24: Election Integrity Day. Bob Hall is leading an all day event covering election integrity issues and legislative solutions. 10am-5pm in Committee Room E1.016

👉 Jan 24: The 88th Session Kickoff Event. Join The Texan reporters in Austin on Jan. 24, 2023 as they moderate panels of lawmakers discussing the issues and priorities of the 88th Legislative Session!

👉 Jan 25: 10:30AM Fredericksberg Tea Party in the Rotunda
1:00 to 3:00 pm South Steps: Texans for Vaccine Choice will hold their Freedom Fight event with amazing speakers

👉 Jan 28: Texas Rally for Life. Join thousands of Texans from across the state at the 2023 Texas Rally for Life. Show our elected officials, the media, and the Supreme Court that Texas is pro-life! Visit our COS booth.

👉 Jan 31: 10:30AM Frederickberg Tea Party in the Rotunda

👉 Feb 2/3: TFRW Legislative Days.

👉 Feb 16th: Governor Abbott's "State of the State" address at 7pm livestream on any Nexstar television station.

👉 March 27: COS LEGISLATIVE DAY. We want all Convention of States supporters state-wide to come to the Capitol to support the removal of the Sunset clause, HJR 35, from our COS petition. We will hear from supportive legislators, learn the legislative process, and receive packets to take to our legislators. For more information on COS Legislative Day, go here.

Return to TX-Capitol home page.

Physicians for COS

The diagnosis is clear.

We have a growing cancer today known as the Obamacare.

As a result physicians are no longer free to practice medicine.

No profession feels the full force of the federal government more than physicians. The medical profession is the most highly regulated profession in the United States. The practice of medicine is controlled, taxed, and regulated to the point of being destroyed by the heavy hand of the federal government.

Physicians are told how to bill, how much to charge, and how to treat patients. They are mandated to use expensive electronic medical records. The federally enacted HIPPA (Health Information Privacy and Portability Act) makes the communication between physicians and atients burdensome, inefficient,and expensive. Every physician is required by federal mandate to register with the government to obtain an NPI (national provider identifier.) We are required by federal law to obtain and pay for a license to prescribe medication through the DEA, which is separate from our state licensure.

This heavy hand of government not only oversees the largest federal health bureaucracy ever created, but by extension reaches into every state, every city, and every small town to regulate how every licensed physician practices the art of medicine and how citizens obtain care.

The treatment is also clear.

The prescription for a cure was written into our constitution by our founders. Article V of our constitution allows for the states to call for a convention of states to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government through the proposal of constitutional amendments. Physicians should be the strongest supporters of this brilliantly-crafted states’ rights tool placed into our constitution by our founders.

I urge my fellow American physicians to join with me in supporting an Article V Convention of States to take back control of the practice of medicine. It’s the only way that we can return the practice of medicine back to the intimate relationship between a doctor and patient without interference by the heavy hand of a distant, national government.

Jeffrey I. Barke, M.D.

Family Physician Newport Beach, CA

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Physicians for COS

The diagnosis is clear.

The treatment is also clear.