Paul Bettencourt speaks in the Texas Senate chamber State Senator Paul Bettencourt is asking Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to rule Harris County’s pilot guaranteed income program unconstitutional. The move comes as the program, Uplift Harris , has already been inundated with applications for all available slots.
Senator Bettencourt sent a letter to Attorney General Paxton on Friday, January 12, the day Uplift Harris began taking applications. He asked for legal opinions opinions on two questions: First, do counties have the authority to enact a guaranteed income program?
"The county in Texas is an extension of the state," Bettencourt said, explaining […]
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